The winner(s) are….

Posted by Filip Ekberg on August 26 2012 1 Comment

Congratulations to the winners!

It was so hard to decide just one winner, so I decided that I will give away 5 books to those that gave me the best reason to!

Here are the lucky winners:

Iris Classon (@IrisClasson)

I should be the lucky winner because I will use the book to spread your knowledge to other developers that really need it.

You know I love questions, and I have many,- and I often look to good books for answers. I hope, and believe, that this book will do just that.

So send me a book, and let me spread some answers! I’ll make sure of course that when the book is used for answers I will provide a link to the book for purchase.

So it’s a win for you, for me, and even more important, for the developers that we can reach :)

Peter (@clanstyles)

I always love different perspectives on programming and do own quite a lot of books on C# already. I would love to add your book to the list and it received fantastic reviews!

I’m a young student just looking to learn more and if you did happen to choose me as a winner this book wouldn’t go to waste. It’d go right on my desk with the rest of my references after I’ve polished through every page.

Also sharing on Twitter and FB!

Dmitry (@0x49d1)

The book is among not many ones that can show how can i use the primary programming language in a more effective way. From the “about book” section i guess that the book is a mix of Skeet’s “C# in depth” and Wagner’s “Effective C#”. Im willing to constantly improve skills in all and im not going to save money on this book, because using advices from it i will make much more money from work(im sure :) ) But why not try to win a free copy of the book from its author?..So im in, participating! By the way, thank you for the work. I know that its really difficult to write reasonable tech book.

Kirin Yao (@kirinboy)

After reading the content of this book, I think it’s a great book of C#. I can’t wait to reading it.
I’m a tech book translator from China. I translated several C# books into Chinese, including Jon Skeet’s C# in Depth and Andrew Troelsen’s Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform. If the publishing house would introducing this book, I will be happy to be the translator.
Hoping to be the lucky one.:)

Dominic (@nazgjunk)

While I’m going into embedded systems next semester, the introduction courses used C# and I’d like to keep using it for desktop-ish things. Lacking the courses a good book like this – especially when it covers more general subjects as well – would be wonderful :)

Again, Congratulations!

All the comments have been published, thank you all for participating!

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Win a copy of C# Smorgasbord!

Posted by Filip Ekberg on August 14 2012 35 Comments

C# Smorgasbord is getting great reviews, specially on Amazon UK and to celebrate this I want to give a away a free copy of C# Smorgasbord!

Best of all, it’s the printed copy (which also includes the ebook bundle)!

What you need to do to participate:

  1. Leave a comment down below with the reason as to why you should be the lucky winner
  2. Share this post with your friends on twitter:

The best motivation wins and the winner will be notified via e-mail, so be sure to leave your e-mail address when you’re commenting below.

That’s it! Good Luck to you all!

The draw ends September 20 August 26 (6pm CEST) and all comments will be published after that.

The winners have been announced!

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C# Smorgasbord

Posted by Filip Ekberg on August 10 2012 1 Comment

As mentioned in my previous post “C# Smorgasbord will soon be available!” I have been working on a C# programming book.

I am now happy to announce that this book is published and available on CreateSpace and Amazon.com!

Grab a copy and let me know what you think!

It is also available on the following other Amazon sites:

Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.de
Amazon.fr
Amazon.it
Amazon.es

James Sugrue from DZone was able to get early access to C# Smorgasbord and has written an article about it. He also had the opportunity to do an interview with me.

I have gotten a lot of questions regarding the digital copy/ebook, I’m happy to share that the PDF, epub and mobi versions of the book are free if you purchase a printed copy!

If you’ve purchased C# Smorgasbord and are looking to retreive the digital copies, just fill out this form.

The Foreword to the book is written by Kevin Pilch-Bisson who works as a Development — Visual Studio IDE Services for C# and VB.Net. The Foreword is available online and can be read here.

C# Smorgasbord covers a vast variety of different technologies, patterns and best practices that any C# developer should master.

Looking at everything from testing strategies to compilation as a service and how to do really advance things in runtime; you get a great sense of what you as a developer can do. By taking his personal views and his personal experience, Filip digs into each subject with a personal touch and by having real world problems at hand; we can look at how these problems could be tackled.

No matter if you are an experienced .NET developer, or a beginner, you will most certainly find a lot of interesting things in this book. The book covers important patterns and technologies that any developer would benefit from mastering.

Explore your possibilities
Improve your skills
Be Inspired to challenge yourself

Enjoy the read!

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