p. The entries are in. All have been carefully evaluated based on a laundry-list of criteria. As far as you know, we didn’t just dump all the names in a hat and draw one at random.

My therapist says that my deep seated need to give things away stems from me watching too many re-runs of “WKRP”. Honestly, what male child of the 70s didn’t stand in front of the mirror with a hairbrush and pretend to be “Dr. Johnny Fever”? So to scratch my itch, let’s give away a ticket to ZendCon ’07.

p. It’s a very poorly kept secret that Zend is working on an Eclipse based version of 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. There’s a new PHP contest and you know what that means, another chance for developers to get FREE STUFF. Nick Halstead is running a programming contest over at his blog and the grand prize is a free license of Zend Studio.

p. In this contest you have to use PHP (4 or 5) to solve a specific problem of Nick’s own choosing.

It’s high time we started giving some stuff away here on DevZone. What’s the point of having a web site if you can’t pretend it’s Mardi Gras once in a while and start flinging trinkets into the crowd?

p. Elizabeth Narimore, #phpc regular, founding member of phpwomen.org and all around nice person, has posted an update on the phpthrowdown programming contest. Come on in out of the cold and I’ll share what I know.

Armando Sosa, the designer behind the uber-retro CakePHP website, formally announced the First Annual Baking Day Competition for the CakePHP framework. (Hmmmm….could it be that the term “Bake-off” trademaked by someone?)