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Contest! Write a small piece of sample code, win a free copy of Zend Studio

July 18, 2007

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p. Let’s reach into the goodie bag and see what we can give a way today.

p. It’s a very poorly kept secret that Zend is working on an Eclipse based version of “Zend Studio”:http://www.zend.com/products/zend_studio. They must be getting down to the ‘fit and finish’ pieces of the project because my buddy Yossi wrote me and asked me to enlist the help of the PHP community at large. So here’s his request.
p. The Zend Studio team needs your help. They are looking for a code snippet to showcase the syntax highlighting and debugging capabilities of Zend Studio. Here are what they are looking for:

# The sample code should be at least 20 lines of code and no longer than 150 lines of code.
# Code indentation should follow Zend Studio standards.
# The script must include HTML, PHP and JavaScript code (CSS is optional).
# An iteration (for, while, etc) should be part of the code.
# A short function should be part of the code.
# A small class should be part of the code.
# The output of the code should have nice and intuitive design.

p. Email your entries to “contest@zend.com”:mailto:contest@zend.com. All entries must be submitted by midnight Pacific Time, July 26th, 2007. Once all entries are in, the judging will begin. Judging amongst the qualifying entries submitted will be on the wholly un-scientific basis of which entry “strikes Yossi’s fancy”.

p. Standard legal chaff applies. All entries become property of Zend. We can do with it as we please. By submitting, you are stating that you own the code and that it’s ok for us to use it.

p. So fire up those IDEs and show us your best sample code.

About Cal Evans

Many moons ago, at the tender age of 14, Cal touched his first computer. (We're using the term "computer" loosely here, it was a TRS-80 Model 1) Since then his life has never been the same. He graduated from TRS-80s to Commodores and eventually to IBM PC's. For the past 10 years Cal has worked with PHP and MySQL on Linux OSX, and when necessary, Windows. He has built on a variety of projects ranging in size from simple web pages to multi-million dollar web applications. When not banging his head on his monitor, attempting a blood sacrifice to get a particular piece of code working, he enjoys building and managing development teams using his widely imitated but never patented management style of "management by wandering around". Cal is currently based in Nashville, TN and is gainfully unemployed as the Chief Marketing Officer of Blue Parabola, LLC. Cal is happily married to wife 1.28, the lovely and talented Kathy. Together they have 2 kids who were both bright enough not to pursue a career in IT. Cal blogs at http://blog.calevans.com and is the founder and host of Day Camp 4 Developers

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2 Responses to “Contest! Write a small piece of sample code, win a free copy of Zend Studio”

  1. _____anonymous_____ Says:
    July 19, 2007 at 9:40 am

    Is the free copy only for the current version of Zend Studio (5.5), or for the upcoming release (5 or 6)?

  2. admin Says:
    July 19, 2007 at 2:03 pm

    The license will be a permanent license for 5.5 with 1 year of support upgrades. I do not know if that normally includes major upgrades.

    WAIT!

    This just in, I have received a ruling from the judges, the winner of this contest will receive a certificate for a copy of the new version of Zend Studio when it releases as well as an existing copy of 5.5. So there you have it, the best of both worlds.

    =C=