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The Big Noob T-shirt Giveaway

What’s better than getting a very big discount? A very small puppy. Winning free stuff is good too.

To celebrate the release of the iPhone, Twenty One Degrees is giving away free copies of Symphony! Incidentally, Chaotic Pattern is celebrating the release of the The Big Noob interview podcast by giving away 3 Noob T-shirts.

Free shirts? I’m sold!

To be in the chance to win a shirt, simply participate in any of the three events:

Endurance

Listen to the interview, Allen Chang v.s. Brad Smith and Ryan Sims and piece together the random phrases scattered across the podcast. Email the answer to gimme [at] chaoticpattern [dot] com with the subject: Event 1 Solution.

Creativity

Participate in a wordfest (any article, including this one). I will choose the winner based on creativity.

Problem Solving

In XSLT, write a template (<xsl:template name="gimme-shirt">) to produce: <p>I really want a noob shirt</p> 10 times recursively. Email the answer to gimme [at] chaoticpattern [dot] com with the subject: Event 3 Solution.

It’s a Triathlon

To increase your chance of winning, participate in more events. With up to 3 chances of winning, it’s practically guaranteed1!.

In Closing

As with all things great and fun, there must be an end. The event’s closing day is tentatively set the same day the T-shirts arrive at The Big Noob HQ.

Footnotes

  1. Guarantee not guaranteed ↩

Comment Details

  • 7 Comments
  • 2 wordfest participants

Almost-guaranteed discussion of intrigue

Stephen Bau 3 July 07Wordfest participantWordfest word awardWordfest Starting Phrase awardWordfest character limit award

That’s practically the best interview I have yet to listen to. I just wanted to be the first to put a smile on the face of my queen, hoping her Lipstick does not crack. For now, I regret that Excalibur will have to remain sheathed until I have my very own “I’m a noob” shirt.

As an aside, I’m not sure I understand the Endurance challenge. I hope it makes more sense as I listen.

Stephen Bau 3 July 07Wordfest participantWordfest word awardWordfest Starting Phrase awardWordfest character limit award

That’s practically the one most important thing that I have longed to do with Symphony: to build a financial application! And you’re releasing it to the world with Symphony 1.8. That saves me from building it myself. Is this the application you mentioned to me long ago, called Conductor? I can’t wait to use it! The wide smile across my face would be cracking my Lipstick, if I had been inclined to wear that sort of thing.

Will it replace what I had in mind for a design business administration system? Or will my idea integrate well with what you have built?

Jiri 3 July 07

Stephen, the extended approach to custom fields enables application building, I didn’t understand their examplary financial app. would be included in the release. I can imagine symphony (with CSes) beating (in integration) CRM/light-ledger apps like the slick http://www.phpbms.org/ and the very clean and modular coded French based http://www.dolibarr.org/en/index.php not shure about the heavyweights as sqlledger (double books)… And it can be extended to shoppingcarts like Karova or Shopify, add a saxon hosting and…$ :)

Allen 3 July 07

Jiri is right on the money. Although we do use the financial app in-house, it’s far from ready for prime time. However, what it represents is our fundamental goal of flexibility and power.

Stephen Bau 3 July 07

Thanks for setting me straight. Wishful thinking, I guess. I do admire your goal of flexibility and power, though. And whatever you have planned for the release, I know it’s going to be impressive.

Fazal 23 July 07

intruige is spelt intrigue. :-)

Allen 23 July 07

Thanks for catching that one! It’s all fixed.

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