Thank you to Elisabeth A. Freeman, Eric Freeman, Bert Bates and Kathy Sierra for hanging out with us, answering questions. Also, thank you to O'Reilly for donating four copies of Head First Design Patterns, to our winners.
Congratulations! Please send me your snail mail address and phone number by sending an email to bookpromotion AT javaranch DOT com with the subject "promotion winner - Head First Design Patterns" and I'll forward your information to the publisher.
Congrat to all the winners and thanks for all authors to share knowledge here
Gerald Davis
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Originally posted by Lasse Koskela:
I thought you didn't believe in OO?
I guess I am against OOP somewhat , but I am so by not being closed minded. I am not against acquiring knowledge of anything that is relevant for designing and implementing applications. This book could have explained OOP in a unique way that is easy to remember.
The book talked about design patterns not only OOP. My functional application only that way because I use load of fa�ades , factory methods and utility methods also my application implements observer out of necessity because I need to access an OOP GUI. I hope to eventually use MVC pattern in the form of Python-Cards so my application never needs to be dependent on a pacific GUI toolkit.
michael yeung
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Congratulations for the winners!!!
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Bert Bates
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Thanks guys -
It was a fun week - there was a TON of interest!
Congrats to the winners, and you know, we're not going anywhere
- Bert
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Ilja Preuss
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Originally posted by Gerald Davis: raaahhhhh not fear
Well, *somebody* has to buy the book, so that it won't be the last in the series...
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way. - Heraclitus
Vedhas Pitkar
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Hmmmmmmmmmmm What did I do wrong??
Lasse Koskela
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Originally posted by Vedhas Pitkar: Hmmmmmmmmmmm What did I do wrong??
I don't know. What did you do and why do you think that was somehow wrong?
Gerald Davis
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Nothing is wrong, I am just could not resist not posting that message
Vedhas Pitkar
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Originally posted by Lasse Koskela:
I don't know. What did you do and why do you think that was somehow wrong?
Congratulations to the winners, thanks to the authors for participating and the publishers for providing some copies for winners!
Thanks again to the authors for the book itself, I loved it. If you didn't win a copy please think seriously about buying yourself a copy. It's that good!
Axel Janssen
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Originally posted by David O'Meara: It's that good!
Indeed. I said something good about the book in some local forum and resulted that all java-smart people there allready own it.
Axel
Nicholas Cheung
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all java-smart people there allready own it
Totally agree with it.
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Lasse Koskela
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Originally posted by Vedhas Pitkar: Well not to find my name on the winners's list
Ok. In that case, you didn't do anything wrong. The computer program just didn't happen to pick your name.
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Thanks to everyone who participated! It was a lot of fun, lots of good questions.
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