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 Posted: July 16th 2008, 9:47 pm Post subject: phpBBHacks.com Idol: Vote For Your Favorites in Round 1! |
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phpBBHacks.com phpBB 3 Hacks and Styles Idol: Voting Round 1
With Big Prizes Sponsored By...
Chitika, W3 Markup, SitePoint and Others (See Below)
Important: If you voted in the first 24 hours, please vote again. I apologize, but we had some issues.
Thank you for visiting phpBBHacks.com.
We are now entering the voting stages of phpBBHacks.com Idol. It is through these stages that you, the members of phpBBHacks.com, will decide the two authors who we will present with the awesome prize packages described below.
Super Short Version: Vote for your favorites in the polls listed below. The winners will move on to the next round of voting. Voting for this round will be closed on July 22 at 8 PM ET. Please do not post your votes in this or any thread. Here are the polls:
Hacks Idol:
primehalo (Ken F. Innes IV) vs. ~HG~
Elglobo vs. Elglobo
lefty74 vs. Romain Kowalski
Martin "Kamahl" Litvaj vs. Elglobo
eviL3 vs. Chico Gois
lefty74 vs. lefty74
Romain Kowalski vs. eviL3
primehalo (Ken F. Innes IV) vs. Vladimir Sokolov
Styles Idol:
Daniel Exe vs. Abble CoSa NoStrA
Daniel Exe vs. Matti1991
Matti1991 vs. Abble CoSa NoStrA
Andrea Di Mchele vs. Jester
Mighty Gorgon vs. Christian Bullock
Morgyanne vs. Morgyanne
topdown vs. Mighty Gorgon
Raimon vs. Jonathan Dumaine
Longer Version: For the past few weeks, hack and style authors have submitted their new creations to the phpBBHacks.com database in order to be considered for inclusion in the phpBBHacks.com Idol competition. From those entries, we randomly selected the participants using the method described in the initial announcement. Those participants were randomly placed in a head to head format in poll threads here on the forums (listed above).
You are welcome to vote in as many or few polls as you would like, but we encourage you to vote in as many as you are comfortable. The more valid votes - the better. Who you vote for is up to you. You can vote for the download that you think is more useful, you can vote for who you want to win or you can vote based on some other metric of your choosing. In order to vote, you must have registered on our forums by July 16, 2008. Any votes made by those registered on July 17 or later will be deleted before the final results are revealed.
Voting for this round will be closed on July 21 at 8 PM ET. Please do not post your votes in this or any thread.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to PM me or reply to this thread. Please do not post a reply on the poll threads.
As a reminder for any authors who have been selected, please do not attempt to artificially inflate our vote totals in any way. This includes but is not limited to trading votes, encouraging people to vote indiscriminately (publicly or privately), mass mailing/posting and any other behavior that could lead to results being artificially skewed. You are welcome to mention on your own site or elsewhere that you are nominated, but please do not encourage anyone to engage in any devious practices or inflate our voting totals in an unnatural way. Individuals found to be participating in any of these activities will be disqualified from winning either prize and will be completely removed from the tournament.
You can see that some authors are facing off against themselves!  This is just how the random pairings worked out. However, there is a great advantage in this: no matter what happens, those authors are guaranteed a spot in the next round, when the field is cut from 16 to 8. Good luck to everyone.
For full rules, details on the tournament format and other information, please check out the initial announcement.
For fun, here are the current brackets for the tournament format:
Once again, here are the great prize packages that we will be giving to our two winners:
phpBBHacks.com phpBB 3 Hacks Idol Grand Prize Package
From Chitika:
Your Choice of One of the Following:
Xbox 360 with 20 GB Hard Drive ($349.99 on Amazon.com)
PlayStation 3 40 GB ($399.99)
Asus Eee PC 4G Surf (Pure White) (7" Screen, 800 MHz Intel Celeron Processor, 512 MB RAM, 4 GB Hard Drive, Linux Preloaded) ($344.99)
Archos 605 Wi-Fi Portable Media Player ($375.64)
Apple iPod Touch (16 GB) ($379.00)
Amazon Kindle ($359.99)
"The PHP Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks" (Second Edition) by Ben Balbo, Davey Shafik, Harry Fuecks, Ligaya Turmelle and Matthew Weier O'Phinney ($26.37)
"The Ultimate CSS Reference" by Tommy Olsson and Paul O’Brien ($29.67)
"The Art & Science of JavaScript: Inspirational, Cutting-Edge JavaScript From the World's Best" by Cameron Adams, James Edwards, Christian Heilmann, Michael Mahemoff, Ara Pehlivanian, Dan Webb and Simon Willison ($26.37)
"The ASP.NET 2.0 Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks" by Scott Allen, Jeff Atwood, Jon Galloway, Wyatt Barnett and Phil Haack ($26.37)
$100 Worth of Credits in the SitePoint Marketplace
2 eBooks of the Your Choice From the SitePoint Library ($59.90)
1 Full Access Pass to the Blog World & New Media Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 20 and 21 ($300.00)
This covers the conference pass, only. You will be responsible for travel and accommodations.
"Managing Online Forums: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Run Successful Community Discussion Boards" by Patrick O'Keefe ($16.32)
"Go Google: 20 Ways to Reach More Customers and Build Revenue with Google Business Tools" by Greg Holden ($12.19)
"Coolhunting: Chasing Down the Next Big Thing" by Peter Gloor and Scott Cooper ($16.47)
"MySQL in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference" (Second Edition) by Russell Dyer ($23.09)
"Ajax: The Definitive Guide" by Anthony T. Holdener III ($31.49)
"Essential SQLAlchemy: Mapping Python to Databases" by Rick Copeland ($23.09)
"Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress" by Robert T. Douglass, Mike Little and Jared W. Smith (Your Choice of Physical or eBook) ($31.49)
"Pro PHP: Patterns, Frameworks, Testing and More" by Kevin McArthur (Your Choice of Physical or eBook) ($31.49)
"Building Online Communities with phpBB: A Practical Guide to Creating and Maintaining Your Own Online Discussion Forums with the Free, Open Source phpBB Bulletin Board Package" by Stoyan Stefanov, Jeremy Rogers and Mike Lothar ($35.99)
"Mastering phpMyAdmin 2.11 for Effective MySQL Management: Increase Your MySQL Productivity and Control by Discovering the Real Power of phpMyAdmin 2.11" by Marc Delisle ($25.19)
Hacks Idol Grand Prize Total: Up to $1,215.48
phpBBHacks.com phpBB 3 Styles Idol Grand Prize Package
From W3 Markup:
Your Choice of One of the Following:
Xbox 360 with 20 GB Hard Drive ($349.99 on Amazon.com)
PlayStation 3 40 GB ($399.99)
Asus Eee PC 4G Surf (Pure White) (7" Screen, 800 MHz Intel Celeron Processor, 512 MB RAM, 4 GB Hard Drive, Linux Preloaded) ($344.99)
Archos 605 Wi-Fi Portable Media Player ($375.64)
Apple iPod Touch (16 GB) ($379.00)
Amazon Kindle ($359.99)
"The Ultimate CSS Reference" by Tommy Olsson and Paul O’Brien ($29.67)
"The Principles of Beautiful Web Design: Design Beautiful Web Sites Using This Simple Step-by-Step Guide" by Jason Beaird ($26.37)
"The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks" (Second Edition) by Rachel Andrew ($26.37)
"The Art & Science of CSS: Create Inspirational Standards-Based Web Designs" by Cameron Adams, Jina Bolton, David Johnson, Steve Smith and Jonathan Snook ($26.37)
$100 Worth of Credits in the SitePoint Marketplace
2 eBooks of the Your Choice From the SitePoint Library ($59.90)
1 Full Access Pass to the Blog World & New Media Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 20 and 21 ($300.00)
This covers the conference pass, only. You will be responsible for travel and accommodations.
"Managing Online Forums: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Run Successful Community Discussion Boards" by Patrick O'Keefe ($16.32)
"Go Google: 20 Ways to Reach More Customers and Build Revenue with Google Business Tools" by Greg Holden ($12.19)
"Managing Brand You: 7 Steps to Creating Your Most Successful Self" by Jerry S. Wilson and Ira Blumenthal ($14.93)
"Photoshop CS3 Accelerated" by Blues Kim ($16.49)
"Photoshop CS3 RAW: Transform Your RAW Images Into Works of Art" by Mikkel Aaland ($23.09)
"Google Apps: The Missing Manual" by Nancy Cooper ($26.39)
"Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress" by Robert T. Douglass, Mike Little and Jared W. Smith (Your Choice of Physical or eBook) ($31.49)
"Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional" by W. Jason Gilmore (Your Choice of Physical or eBook) ($31.01)
"Building Online Communities with phpBB: A Practical Guide to Creating and Maintaining Your Own Online Discussion Forums with the Free, Open Source phpBB Bulletin Board Package" by Stoyan Stefanov, Jeremy Rogers and Mike Lothar ($35.99)
"Mobile Web Development: Building Mobile Websites, SMS and MMS Messaging, Mobile Payments, and Automated Voice Call Systems with XHTML MP, WCSS, and Mobile AJAX" by Nirav Mehta ($44.99)
Styles Idol Grand Prize Total: Up to $1,221.56
Finally
I realize that this competition created some excitement as far as creating phpBB 3 hacks and styles and submitting them to our database and I'm very happy about that. But, most downloads in our database were submitted without their being any prizes at stake and that will continue to be the case, I'm sure. Though we are only able to reward two authors (and I am delighted to be able to do so), I greatly appreciate every author who has contributed to the phpBB community through phpBBHacks.com. Thank you.
Good luck to everyone who has been selected to participate in the tournament! I can't wait to award the prizes.
Thank you to Chitika, W3 Markup, SitePoint, Blog World & New Media Expo, AMACOM, O'Reilly, Apress and Packt for agreeing to sponsor this event.
Thank you for reading and for your interest in the competition. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
Sincerely,
Patrick
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