Carl Franklin

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.NET Rocks! Tablet PC Listener Giveaway

http://www.franklins.net/dnrforms/tabletcontest.aspx

Posted: Jul 28 2004, 02:45 AM by Carl Franklin | with 18 comment(s)
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Ken Park said:

Dude, I'm getting an error when submitting the second part of the survey.
# July 28, 2004 7:43 AM

ItDoesNotWork said:

Same here (Server Error in '/dnrforms' Application.)
# July 28, 2004 9:41 AM

Str@fe said:

It seemed to work for me - Yahoo! I'm the only one who can enter! I told you I was gonna win!
# July 28, 2004 9:47 AM

Carl said:

Ken, email me your selections and I'll see if I can duplicate the error. Right now I can't.
# July 28, 2004 10:09 AM

myeager@siriusware.com (Mike Yeager) said:

I got redirected back to the second page, but it then told me "good luck". Also, when I selected "Professional" level developer, the drop-down list of industries was disabled, so I'm in the "Communication Carrier" business!
# July 28, 2004 12:27 PM

Carl Franklin said:

To anyone who had problems, try it again. I was using session state with cookies. If you had cookies turned off all sorts of weird stuff will happen.

Anyway, we're cookieless now. :-)
# July 28, 2004 12:50 PM

Andrew Baum said:

Company type combo is still disabled when selecting Professional Developer.
# July 28, 2004 12:57 PM

Peter Stathakos said:

Done and done.

Come to papa baby. BTW, Carl, there's some 25 year old scotch in it for you. And for Rory um, how about some cold hard cash?
# July 28, 2004 5:27 PM

Paul S. said:

Sorry Peter, this one is mine!! I must have entered at least 10 times. I didn't read anywhere that you could only enter once!! :)
# July 28, 2004 8:42 PM

Carl said:

Duplicates will be rejected, of course. :)
# July 28, 2004 9:58 PM

Paul S. said:

I figured as much. :)
# July 29, 2004 8:13 AM

James D. Beine said:

Oohhhh!!! how I would love to win a Tablet PC! I guess sucking-up isn't going to do any good. Is this a completely random selection or is there a definite and meaningful selection process? If this contest's rules are posted somewhere, and I just overlooked them; please direct me. Kudos to DNR for the .NET Rocks! Tablet PC Listener Giveaway. PS: Carl, if sucking-up will indeed help my chances, I am there! - JB.
# July 31, 2004 10:25 AM

Carl said:

Well, James, sucking up is always appreciated, but in this case it won't help. My computer is going to pick one lucky entry at random.
# July 31, 2004 10:28 AM

James D. Beine said:

That's cool. Pleease forward this to your computer just-in-case: Carl's computer is the best computer on the net! -JB.
# July 31, 2004 11:07 AM

Ian Blackburn said:

About your computer picking the lucky entry at random, will you be using System.Random? And if so what will be your seed value? I don't know how I could use this information but it gives me hope...
# August 6, 2004 7:01 AM

Carl said:

Yes, I'm going to use System.Random, seeded with Now.Ticks.

There are currently about 2500 entries.

Do you feel lucky now?
# August 6, 2004 7:40 AM

Ian Blackburn said:

hmmm, could you tell me *exactly* when you plan on running that bit of code, how many times you will run it, and precisely how many entries you currently have, and if new entries are added sequentially with duplicates deleted from the start. Please?

Ian
# August 6, 2004 12:01 PM

Carl said:

Sure. Would you like me to ship it to you by UPS or FedEx?
# August 6, 2004 1:05 PM
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