Explicitly and without apology a marketing vehicle MaryMaryQuiteContrary

Friday Aug 20, 2004



It's Friday, people. And you know what that means...

This week's Friday Free Stuff* is:
  1. Dedicated to Pete, who paid it forward on the Free Stuff I offered him. Pete, may the good karma of the universe re-visit you ten fold.
  2. Sponsored by SDN and the lovely and talented Bao who can be seen here showcasing  *one of* today's prizesbeautiful Bao with the gumball machine
  3. In honor and celebration of the men and women in Sun's IT organization who serve what must be the world's most demanding client base (from techno celebs to clueless marketing people like me) yet push the envelope of innovation every day.
Did I mention that I am on the Sun Ray at Home pilot? Did I mention that I went from an unopened box the Fed Ex guy brought me to total, authenticated network connectivity and productivity in 13 mins 31 seconds?

Oh, and did I mention that I happen to be traveling for work next week -- headed out to the home office. Typically that means I have to pack up my laptop, power cord, mouse, ethernet cord (you never know if you're going to find one there)... stuff it all in my laptop bag and hope i didn't forget anything.

Not this time.  I'm a Sun Ray girl, now. And that means my life has changed forever.

Here's a picture of me ...

badge in wallet

... packing up my laptop for my trip next week.

Hmmmm..... I guess that means I no longer need my laptop bag....

laptop bag

Great minds think alike! We're giving away ....

better picture of bag

the laptop bag and ...


the gumball machine beautiful Bao with the gumball machineto the person who tells me what their favorite thing about the Sun Developer Network is in the comments section of this blog entry. All you gotta do for your chance* to win* is hit the Comments link immediately below and tell me what you like about SDN. I'll choose my favorite entry on Monday and the winner gets ths fabulous package of prizes shipped FOC to their doorstep. .

Of course, it would be really nice if you joined the Sun Developer Network (which is free). And maybe even subscribed to some of the awesome newsletters available to SDN members (which are also free). But we've got a privacy policy around here, people. So I can't make your joining a condition of winning* because I'd have no way to check. So we're going with the honor system here.

See, there's something for everybody at the MaryMaryQuiteContary blog. I get myself on the Sun Ray at Home pilot. And you are the beneficiary (no way i'd be giving away my laptop bag if my life hadn't changed forever with the delivery of a Sun Ray to my doorstep).

It's all because I love you so.

And because I'm in a terribly good mood, loving life on my Sun Ray.

Happy Friday to you too!!

mary

*Friday Free Stuff is not a contest. It's me giving away something that I personally own to somebody I choose. I pay for shipping with stamps that I buy at the post office. Sun employees can play but are not eligible to win* the prize*.

Comments:

About the sun developers site.... I like that it consolidates the Tutorials, along with the API docs together in one spot... kind of like a home google-ish page for the java stuff. The only thing that rivals the API search stuff is the following site: http://www.jdocs.com/ because it combines the other APIs like Hibernate, dom4j and Struts (among others) into a single spot... But the tutorials are usually quite helpful.

Posted by Sue Henshaw on August 20, 2004 at 09:19 AM PDT #

Hi. I'm a huge fan of the Sun Developer Network. I think the main reason I'm in love with the site is all the free information Sun makes available to developers. I'm also a huge fan of this blog as well!

Posted by Charles Snyder on August 20, 2004 at 09:47 AM PDT #

Charles, very good move to curry favor with the judge. you're definately in the lead. mary

Posted by mary on August 20, 2004 at 10:32 AM PDT #

Every sane Java-fan knows that the absolute best thing about SDN is James Gosling's picture next to the Java logo in the top left corner ;)

Posted by Lasse on August 20, 2004 at 10:52 AM PDT #

I Love it! I Love it! I Love it! I Love it! I Love it! I Love it! I Love it! BTW. I love it! I am college student. I need all the free stuff I can get. PS. I Love it!

Posted by Scott on August 20, 2004 at 11:18 AM PDT #

I love jdocs.com too but why did Sun decide to ask for the JDK API's to be removed from there? Great way to alienate the entire developer community. Sun, support your developers and stop playing these stupid lawyer tricks that are the specialty of Microsoft!!!

Posted by Anonymous on August 20, 2004 at 08:56 PM PDT #

Anonymous. I too find it disturbing that Sun asked for their API's to be removed from JDocs but also I see why they did so. I just hope that JDocs find another way to perhaps link to the API docs at sun and perhaps even index the API's. It should not be that hard to do either. So e.g. when searching for StringTokenizer you'd get some hits which just links to the java.sun.com site. One way to still allow users of JDocs to search the java API's. As for the SDN, I've been a member since 97-98 I think and I tend to check out a few sites in the morning before I start working. This blog, java.sun.com and www.java.net. Where else do you find all you need to know about java and the java community? Happy days!!

Posted by Lars Borup on August 21, 2004 at 02:30 AM PDT #

The forums are fantastic for getting help, or giving help. It's great to have a site that you can set as your homepage on your browser, and use the site every day [followed by this blog : ) ]. Access to the tutorials and code samples are also brilliant. In a business where developers need to keep up with the latest in Java, SDN is the key. There's no better way to start a week than by winning stuff ....

Posted by James on August 23, 2004 at 12:24 AM PDT #

The forums are fantastic for getting help, or giving help. It's great to have a site that you can set as your homepage on your browser, and use the site every day [followed by this blog : ) ]. Access to the tutorials and code samples are also brilliant. In a business where developers need to keep up with the latest in Java, SDN is the key. There's no better way to start a week than by winning stuff ....

Posted by James on August 23, 2004 at 01:41 AM PDT #

Wonders if I have a better chance at winning if I too post duplicates :-)
Wonders if I have a better chance at winning if I too post duplicates :-)

Posted by Lars Borup on August 23, 2004 at 05:40 AM PDT #

Friday Free Stuff is now officially closed. James is our winner! Thanks to all of you for playing! James gets the laptop bag and the gumball machine. Look, I'm going to try to score some free stuff to give everybody who "played" this week something... don't get your hopes up... the best we're looking at here is some pens or t-shirts or something... no promises, OK? i'll do my best. I'll keep you posted. mary

Posted by mary on August 23, 2004 at 09:24 AM PDT #

p.s. this is not a contest. it's me giving away something that i personally own to somebody i choose. i pay for shipping with stamps that i buy with my own money at the post office.

Posted by mary on August 23, 2004 at 09:25 AM PDT #

Brilliant - thanks a million. That's an excellent start to my week. Sorry for posting duplicates. (Clicked on refresh in the wrong page). Thanks again! James

Posted by James on August 24, 2004 at 12:03 AM PDT #

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