* Winners: Eclipse Plugins

First, a big thanks to Eric Clayberg & Dan Rubel for being here to promote the book Eclipse Plugins.

The winners are:

Sumeet Gupta
Mike Dean
Sagar Rohankar
Tim Holloway

Please send your snail mail address to bookpromotion AT javaranch DOT com. To ensure the quickest response, please provide the following:

Your name (first and last - preferably the one you use on Javaranch)
Address
Phone Number
Email

Also, please include the following as the subject of your Email.

Book Promo Winner - Eclipse Plugins - Tuesday, February 3rd 2009

As noted in the Book Promotion Eligibility Requirements and Legal type stuff, the winners have 8 days to submit their information.

Thanks and congrats to all the winners.

Congrats to all Winners !

Mourougan

Thanks a lot !!

I'm excited, Many thanks to Eric Clayberg & Dan Rubel and JavaRanch forum.

I`d congratulate winners but have also question to forum staff.
Does automated process qualifying messages for win work fine? I`ve noticed that 2 of 4 winners in this case have neither ask nor answer or comment question about the promoted book. So I doubt if this whole "book promotion competition" has any sense...

Thanks a lot guys!! It has always been a pleasure over here at ranch..!!

Marcin Skrzek wrote:Does automated process qualifying messages for win work fine?

Yes. In fact it's been heavily tested recently since we moved to new software.

Marcin Skrzek wrote: I`ve noticed that 2 of 4 winners in this case have neither ask nor answer or comment question about the promoted book.

The rules clearly state "Start a new topic or respond to a topic in the Forum where the promotion is running. Your post must be on topic for either the book or the forum to be eligible to win." The winning posts were on the topic of IDEs.

Marcin Skrzek wrote: So I doubt if this whole "book promotion competition" has any sense...

We're happy; the publishers are happy; the authors are happy. I think it makes sense. From the publisher/author's point of view the book was promoted - there was an e-mail, banner and plenty of visibility about the book in the forum. From our point of view, four of our members won a free book. See - no problem.

Jeanne Boyarsky wrote:We're happy; the publishers are happy; the authors are happy.

Also, many folks got to ask questions of highly experienced people, the answers of which are here for everybody to see. I think that may be the biggest benefit for the community. That a few people got to win books is -in my opinion- just the icing on the cake.