Over at Global Nerdy, I’ve filed part two of my report on the dot-com-bubble-esque swag and prizes being given away by the vendors and organizers at the Ajax Experience conference. Check it out!
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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:
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A Very Unfortunate Juxtaposition
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
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The Swag Report, Part 1
The goodies that they’re giving away at the Ajax Experience conference are pretty sweet — they’re almost at dot-com bubble levels. I’ve got the first part of my swag report over at Global Nerdy.
Hello from the Ajax Experience conference in Boston!
Not too long ago, you probably couldn’t get a self-respecting software developer to wear an AOL t-shirt (I joked that once upon a time, they’d have been as popular as NAMBLA shirts). However, AOL seems to be embracing the mash-up scene and they’ve cranked out a series of shirts with some geek appeal. I’m modelling the most-requested one here:
…are over at Global Nerdy and the Tucows Blog. Go check them out!
(Well, the best one I’ve seen in a while, anyway.)
The swag that every attendee gets here at the Ajax Experience conference gets comes in a very nice custom knapsack, and it’s surprisingly heavy. I’ll post a video entry later, where I’ll go through what’s in the bag. We’re swagging like it’s 1999!
[Cross-posted to Global Nerdy.]