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The Swag Gets Better

At the end of the Ajax Experience conference, they were giving away prizes to people or groups of people who could correctly answer trivia questions. These weren’t cheap prizes either — we’re talking iPod nanos, iPod videos, XBox 360s and Mac Minis.

For correctly identifying Rasmus Lerdorf as the creator of the PHP programming language, Brent Ashley won a Core Duo Mac mini:

For knowing that the “guy with the camera in the front row” was James Duncan Davidson and that he created the Ant build utility and Tomcat server, I won an XBox 360 core system:

Joey deVilla

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