Over the past few months, developer.* Books has run two contests related to our most recently published book, Software Creativity 2.0 [1], by software veteran (and prolific author, editor, and publisher through four decades), Robert L. Glass.

We started the first Software Creativity contest [2] a few months before publication, with the goal of finding the hidden book collectors and long-time readers who remember, or own, the now rare first edition of Software Creativity, which was first published in 1995. We got word of this search out as far and wide as we could, though I don't think far enough, and we managed to find two enthusiastic readers (the low number attesting, I think, that the first edition is indeed scarce), Ben from San Franscisco, CA and Scott, from Austin, TX. You can read Ben and Scott's stories of their experiences with and feelings about the first edition on this page [3]. Ben and Scott will be receiving copies of both Software Creativity 2.0 [4] and Software Conflict 2.0 [5] signed by Robert L. Glass as well as a one year subscription to Glass's perennial newsletter, The Software Practitioner [6].

Our second contest [7] gave early buyers of Software Creativity 2.0 a chance to win a pair of free copies of Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams [8] and Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects [9], both written by Tom DeMarco and frequent collaborator Timothy Lister, and both published by our friends at Dorset House Books [10]. This was our way of showing a little appreciation to Mr. DeMarco, who was kind enough to honor us by writing a new Foreword for Software Creativity 2.0. I'm happy to announce that Jim from New Jersey is the winner of the Tom DeMarco books. Jim will receive the books in the mail very soon. (The winner of this contest was chosen by random drawing, using the random number generator at random.org [11] to pick the winner.)

Thank you to everyone who participated in, spread the word about, or paid attention to our Software Creativity contests. :-) And congratulations to the winners!

All the best,
Dan Read
DeveloperDotStar Books