[Expired] We Have a Susbscription to PacktLib (worth $190) to Giveaway – Access to over 450 Books

February 13, 2011 - 98 CommentsWritten by
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Today we have a truly amazing competition for you from Packt Publishing – we have one annual subscription to the entire PacktLib digital library of 457 books (worth $190) to giveaway to one lucky reader!
We also have a digital copy of Yahoo! User Interface Library 2.x Cookbook to giveaway to the runner-up.
All you have to do for the chance of winning is leave a comment below telling us why you would love to win.

This competition has now expired, here are the winners:

In First Place and winning the subscription to the entire PacktLib digital library (457 books) is…

Winner Name: Keith
Winning Comment: “This is an outstanding book library and would be a great learning experience.”

… and in second place, winning a digital copy of the Yahoo! User Interface Library 2.x Cookbook is…

Winner Name: Philip Toews
Winning Comment: “I want to win so I can read all the books and approach the singularity.“

About PacktLib

PacktLib
The PacktLib allows you to access and search across Packt’s entire library of books, finding practical solutions to your searches at the click of a button. That is almost 100,000 pages from over 400 books in one fully searchable companion. If you would like to view the entire list of books available with PacktLib, click here: A to Z list of all Packt Books and eBooks.

Normally subscription is available as a 12 month option with access to all of the books in the library, costing $190 (£120) per year. (You can also signup to PacktLib for a free no obligation trial).

About the Yahoo! User Interface Library 2.x Cookbook

Yahoo! User Interface Library 2.x CookbookThis book will help you learn how to use YUI 2.x to build richer, more interactive web applications that impress clients and wow your friends. It has recipes explaining over twenty-five YUI components, showing how to use them, and how to configure them to meet your needs. Each covered component will have extractable code samples that showcase the common ways that the component is used.

You can also download a sample chapter, by clicking here: Chapter No. 3 “Using Event Component”.

How to enter this amazing competition

This competition will run for the next 7 days ending Sunday the 20th of February, and all you will have to do for a chance to win is leave a comment below telling us why you would love to win. Winners will be selected at random and will be informed directly via email after the competition ends.

Good luck to everyone :)

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Comments and Reactions

  • http://www.twitter.com/TheHumanBot TheHumanBot

    Thanks for this opportunity to win.
    i would like to win because i like to WIN (:

  • http://www.prince.gr/ Panayiotis «thePrince» Velisarakos

    I’ve already got a dozen of Packt books or so but I’d like to start building a digital library!

  • http://aphichat.com Aphichat

    why you would love to win: because i should read a lot more in 2011. That’s all! :)

  • http://www.newbie.ir Mohsen Ghiasi

    woooooooooow booky giveaway!!!

  • Alberto

    I love books!

  • zj

    because I didn’t read enough books when I should have. Now it’s time for me to make myself more competitive and make the web a better place!

  • http://www.noeltock.com Noel Tock

    Awesome competition! As designer, I’m trying to further develop my coding skills, so this is exactly the sort of resource I’m looking for. Thanks!

  • Ray

    Would love to win and have access to all those amazing books!

  • http://blamb.net Brett Lamb

    I want a PacktLib subscription because there is so fricking much there to learn and do.

  • Mike Smith

    Why I would like to win, well I live in Southern Thailand and the only access I have to English language books is via the web.
    I just good quality technical books, so please pick me.
    Keep up the great work Speckyboy.

  • http://www.prince.gr/ Panayiotis «thePrince» Velisarakos

    I’d love to start my digital library with Packt Publishing!

  • Omer Again

    It costs a lot buying textbooks and also we have limited textbooks in Turkey for my major (I am a master degree student).
    I have to search different sources to read and research and I would love to win to access all of those books.

  • kelly

    I would like to participate in the giveaway. Hope to improve my design knowledge and skills with these amazing books. Thanks.

  • http://warstwy.com dumazz

    I love to read books. New items are quite expensive.

    A little time is also passing before the part from them appears in my native language. Therefore I more and more often reach for positions first-hand, mainly in the English. Thanks to that I have the instant access to the new knowledge. More it is paying me to buy books in the English, because before a counterpart of textbooks turns up about the software at Polish, it on the market is already a latest version of the given program.

    I want to study all the time. Therefore I want to win.

  • Sebastian Wasser

    I’d like to win, because the internet is changing so fast and it’s really necessary to know (almost) everything new, which is way easier to learn with books.

  • Sebastian Wasser

    I’d like to win, because the internet is changing so fast and it’s really necessary to know everything new which is way easier to learn with books.

  • Sebastian D. Wasser

    I’d like to win, because the internet is changing so fast and it is really necessary to know everything new which is way easier to learn with books.

  • Liat

    Would love to win this, good luck everyone!

  • http://www.beyta.net Beyta

    i am a university student, and i am a president of student club… If i won this subscription, it can be our club revision to discuss in our forum… :D

  • vinit

    Speckyboy saved lots of time in my life . So waiting for anothr lifesaver :)

  • Jeffrey Taylor

    I would love to build my digital library with the help of PackT.

  • Ayman

    I would like to win because I hate loosing :(

  • http://rjdesignz.com Rahul Joshi

    I generally refer e-books while working on my Flash Flex projects. Winning a license from PactLib will help be gain access to their extensive library of such books.

  • Itay

    well I have to get those books because I love reading and learning cool stuff about web development and I would like to create my own collection of books so I could show off to my friends
    so pls pls pls let me win this one!!
    thanks Speckyboy

  • ad2joe

    nice, didn’t know about their lib; looks like a productive way to find/bookmark whatever I’ll be looking for, I want it!

  • http://lazaac.com/blog lazaac

    i would like to learn more about coding website using various type of web language.

  • http://demedes.com Vadim Demedes

    I would love to win this giveaway, because I LOVE reading tech books and it is always time to learn something new and exciting! Especially, from the quality resource, like PacktPub.

  • http://mjablog.wordpress.com/ Janis

    I would like to win because I currently have no good books to read and it would be simply amazing to win something like this

  • http://www.mirana.net Willie Meier

    In winning, I am able to spend less time searching for the information that I need and thereby less time in-front of a PC.

    I can then also take a book to read anywhere that I go.

    I live in a foreign country and often to obtain English books one has to obtain them from North America paying a high premium for them.

  • http://natselection.com Matt

    I’d love to win so I can further my edjumication :-D

  • Keith

    This is an outstanding book library and would be a great learning experience.

  • Edward

    There are planty of books concerning open source technologies on PacktLib. I own a few but I’d like to read some other, which I don’t plan to buy at the moment.

  • http://www.cerltt.com Tasha Roachford

    Cool.I love PacktLib collection of digital books. It has help me greatly. As for the yahoo Cookbook I will love to add it to my existing digital library collection.

  • Pablo

    Hi, i would like to win because PACKT has an amazing collection of Python books, and I want to learn this language.
    Thanks!

  • http://www.philiptoews.com Philip Toews

    I want to win so I can read all the books and approach the singularity.

  • e.

    I’d love to get my hands on those drupal books ;)

  • Roger

    I have been trying to learn more about Drupal, and Packt has loads of book on this subject. It would be great to save some money acquiring some of these books

  • Jon

    I would love to win so that I have an endless amount of books to read during summer!

    Nerd 4 life!

  • http://boxed.hu edi

    I would like to win because I would like to be even better and this collection is one of the ways to accomplish that.

  • Lesley Cunningham

    Oh man, this would be an incredible library to win. I couldn’t afford to buy half of these and I really appreciate the chance to learn from resources available on the internet. Thanks for the great site. I use it all the time.

  • http://www.fodydesign.com Deborah Foley

    That I have already purchased many wonderful books and ebooks from Packt, this could save me a lot of money.

  • http://fearlessflyer.com Michael Soriano

    I want the books because I like em!

  • emv

    Access to to the Packt library would help fund my learning agenda for 2011.

  • http://muddypa.ws Nick Portelli

    Wow, I’d love that. A great deal since tech books cost so much,

  • eemee

    Cool. Packt library access would be a great learning resource for 2011.

  • http://www.raymueller.com Ray Mueller

    The selection of books from Packt Publishing is fantastic and a great tool. PacktLib subscription would be great for me to pick up on new skills and learn.

    Ray

  • Bruno

    I’d like to win because Packt’s books, for me, are like very long, detailed and very useful tutorials! :)

  • Dragos

    I love Packt books, count me in!

  • Waqas

    I love to win PacktLib because I don’t have any! :)

  • GRoc

    I work for a non-profit organization and finding myself on the web development side of things more and more often as we push to reach out to people, in a variety of ways.

    Web development isn’t my trade by profession, but demand has quickly turned a hobby into a career.

    I will admittedly say that I do not possess all the knowledge for all the projects that they would like to accomplish. I literally spend hours everyday after work searching, reading, and attempting to gain the needed information to do all the projects, but its challenging at best.

    To have a collection of resources like this to meet those needs would truly be invaluable.

  • http://pablolarah.cl/ Pablo Lara H

    Because I am a compulsive reader.

  • Garrett

    I work for a non-profit organization and finding myself on the web development side of things more and more often as we push to reach out to people, in a variety of ways.

    Web development isn’t my trade by profession, but demand has quickly turned a hobby into a career.

    I will admittedly say that I do not possess all the knowledge for all the projects that they would like to accomplish. I literally spend hours everyday after work searching, reading, and attempting to gain the needed information to complete all the projects, but its challenging at best.

    To have a collection of resources like this to meet those needs would be more valuable then you would believe.

    • Garrett

      Sorry about the double post. Please delete.

  • http://snipto.dk Søren Schrøder

    I want to win the PacktLib subscription, because I want to leeeeeaaaarn!

  • http://muddypa.ws nportelli

    Because computer books are expensive and this is a great deal and site for having such a contest.

  • http://blog.reybango.com Rey Bango

    Because I love having an online resource that can serve as my reference source and minimize my need to spend a ton of $$, dinero, moola, cash. :)

  • http://www.iSimplifyChurch.com David Ward

    I would love to win this competition for several reasons:
    -I am recently retooling my development skills from the past (assembler, C, SmallTalk, etc.) and this will be a great resource towards that
    -I’m creating a new site for a new venture/business I’m undertaking
    -I love to read and likely if I get going with it I’ll keep the subscription after the year

    Thanks for all the great resources on SpeckyBoy!

  • Dina Reyes

    I really really really would love to win because read is one of the things I love the most, so I think this giveaway is awesome. thanks speckyboy and migthy deals for doing these contests

  • Iván Flores

    I would like to win this subscription to have the right knowledge to develop and improve the experience of surfing the Internet.

  • http://rodneyweis.com Rodney

    I have already downloaded an e-book from them (on Inkscape), and am very impressed with their dedication to open-source references. I’d love the chance to explore the entire library.
    Thanks for the contest!

  • Adrian

    Because I need to feed my learning addiction.

  • Sam

    id love to win because i love to read books and winning this would mean i read hundreds more. books make me feel full :)

  • Benjamin Kroll

    would love to win to get to read more of Packt’s awesome collection of books.

  • Derek A Myers

    Digital Reference Libraries rock!

    The ability to search and discover information across an entire library of books makes research much easier.

    From my perspective, finding the particular information I’m looking for right at my fingertips would be a Godsend.

  • http://www.nxtwebsol.com Hastimal Shah

    I would love to win as i love to reads new things on internet..

  • http://www.avo-soft.com Oghenero

    wow such great collection of books. it will be useful to me as am a new developer. thanks for such offer

  • noeki

    Packt books are one of the best learning resources in many subjects. Period.

  • http://www.leanneborrowman.co.uk Leannekera

    I would like to win because it would make my life complete…. that and this ice cream!

  • Shuaib

    I love to because All I do is win,win,win…. no matter what

  • Radim

    It’s easy… I want to win;)

  • gg

    I need expand my personal books library.

  • http://www.msdevstudio.com Mário Santos

    Great!

    I’m a “long-life-student” so learning is part of me! ;)

    Thanks for the fantastic giveaway and good luck everyone!

  • BenB

    Yes Please!

    I like books, even the ones without photos.

  • Amaiko

    I’m in

  • http://www.szek.net andi szekeres

    because i can`t stop to learn. :)

  • Jesika

    I love to read, and regularly make the rounds at our local libraries to pick up any sort of tech book I can. You’d be surprised what the local library has in limited quantities :)

    I’d like to win because I’m in the process of building a digital library, and would love to expand it as much as possible.

  • Rigoberto

    Excellent opportunity to have all the information contained in these great books. Thank you very much…

  • mastersson

    I have an urge to increase knowledge in the fields that packtlib specializes in.

  • http://www.eyeplaydesign.net Patrick

    I would love to access to such a great resources!
    It would be incredible! :)

  • Aaron

    As a student and woefully underpaid part-timer, free access to collection like Packtlib would be extremely beneficial and appreciated.

  • http://www.pctips3000.com KodrutZ

    I would like to win because… I may not be that much of a reader anymore, but my wife will surely love me twice as more after she sees all the reader’s goodies I get access to with this prize!

    P.S. Don’t get this wrong – my wife is as much into technical stuff as she’s into cook books – after all, she’s a spam analyst! ;)

  • http://www.malaysiadiscovery.co.uk Steven Wong

    I would love to win so I can expand my knowledge. I have just started out in programming would like to learn more. You should never stop learning.

  • http://www.briancalifano.com Brian Califano

    I need my co workers (internet marketers) to do some more research and these books would be perfect for boosting our overall internet marketing initiatives.. they need this!

  • http://ericmwelch.com Eric W.

    I love knowledge, what a great giveaway. Cheers :)

  • Aypnos

    I’m in too. Gimme books to eat!

  • Doc

    Hi :)
    Awsome website, awsome ressources, awsome giveawayn i hope i ll have awsome luck :)

    Doc, from France :)

  • http://digitivity.org Digitivity

    I need a PacktLib subscription because it’s cold, and I need to burn my paper books to stay warm! Brrr.

    Seriously, though, I’m building the next Google/Facebook/YouTube, so I need tech books.

    And you’re getting a free pro membership when it goes live.

  • Seth

    I am a budding programmer, and this prize would be a great resource. Naturally, I’d love to win it!

  • http://www.techpotchie.blogspot.com/ Yuni Ardita Sari Dewi

    Please do count me in.
    Would love to win this!
    I love books.
    Thanks.

  • Jake

    I do a lot of non-profit web work and am working on some other exciting (at least I think so) personal projects. This would be a great resource and reference point for all of those projects. Thanks for the opportunity!

  • WPMineworks

    Nothing more useful than having to win such a great resource from PacktLib. It would take luck and chance to be perhaps a worthwhile winner of this giveaway. Many thanks to SpeckyBoy and PacktLib.

  • Mase

    because.. just because :)

  • http://www.krop.com/ariarsyadi/ Ari Arsyadi

    I am always in search of high quality e books. As a freelancer, this will no doubt be highly useful for me.

  • http://laranzjoe.blogspot.com lawrence77

    why you would love to win becaz i like to learn

  • http://2helixtech.com Matthias

    I always have my head buried in a book. Winning would just bury me even deeper – and I think that’s a good thing.

  • http://www.ontariofishing.net TJ DueNorth

    As a developer, I think this would be a great resource to have!!

  • Kevin

    I think that it would help me learn more efficiently.

  • Michancio

    I want to win because i would love to get a job in Canada :) More books = more knowledge and chance.