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18 Jan 2010

Last week SnackTools provided a chance to win 1000 points to their suite of design tools to five Six Revisions readers. There were a little over 80 participants vying for a chance to win a thousand points by sharing how they’d use the points if they’d won. In this post, we announce the five Six Revisions readers who’ve won.

The Winners

Congratulations to all of the winners! You should have received an email regarding how to claim your prize.

Random Selection Method

Below, you’ll see the MySQL query used to randomly select the winners from the giveaway post from last week.

SELECT comment_ID, comment_author, comment_author_email,  comment_author_url
FROM comments
WHERE comment_post_ID = 2356
ORDER BY RAND()
LIMIT 5

Random Selection Method

Thank you SnackTools and Participants

Thank you to SnackTools for providing these points! As well, thank you to the participants for joining the giveaway.

A quick note to everyone: please stay tuned for more giveaways here on Six Revisions. If you are a company or organization wishing to give away prizes that will be of value to web developers and designers, please contact me.

About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

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Announcement: Kentico CMS License Winner

In: web resources

18 Jan 2010

Last week we hosted a giveaway by Kentico for a full license of Kentico CMS (valued at $1,999). There were over 80 participants eager to win this awesome prize by citing what feature of Kentico they were most interested in. Today we announce the Six Revisions reader that won this giveaway.

The Winner

KAL

Join me in congratulating KAL! KAL will receive the license key via email along with instructions on how to obtain the giveaway prize.

Random Selection Method

For those interested in running similar giveaways on WordPress, this is the MySQL query used to select the winner.

SELECT comment_ID, comment_author, comment_author_email, comment_author_url
FROM comments
WHERE comment_post_ID = 2324
ORDER BY RAND()
LIMIT 1

Random Selection Method

Thank You’s

Thank you to Kentico for furnishing this wonderful prize. Thank you as well to the readers that participated in this giveaway. There are more giveaways for designers and developers coming up, so stay tuned!