That was quick; after a mere 20 minutes,
both copies were gone. One went to Chris Shiflett, who invented a new principle: "security by clarity". By posting the
correct answer as a comment, he obviously wanted to
secure that no-one else dared to enter the competition. Several other people were brave enough however, Sam Stevens being the quickest of them.
The correct answer, of course, was Zak Greant who will co-author the upcoming
MySQL Phrasebook. The doppelganger trivia was inspired by
this blog entry and is documented
here.
Now some people have complained that the question was too hard (or too easy for insiders). Well, I have one more copy of the
Phrasebook to spare, so the first person who mails me at wenz at php dot net what the acronym PHP stands for nowadays gets the copy. I know, the question is lame, but some books still don't get this right. The same rules as with the
previous competition apply.
Update: Took a little longer this time, probably the question was too hard

The book is gone!
Update^2: The books are in the mail; the postage actually exceeds the cover price ...
sigh
The happy winners are Thanatip Sriviroonchai and Aaron Wormus. (Aaron came in second, but only a few seconds after Thanatip, so I decided to add one more copy to the lot.) The correct answer was of course
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, just have a look at the title bar of
the PHP homepage. Some websites and articles and books claim "Hypertext Preprocessor" or "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor", but this is obviously wrong. Congratulations to the winners!
The two Phrasebook competitions have been very successful, so that Sams Publishing's corporate machine has gotten wind of it and generously offered to reimburse me for the (private) copies of the book I gave away. They also asked me to consider avoiding t
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