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Yes, we have winners!

It's our pleasure to announce the winners of the Adobe AIR Cook-off contest:
Greg Jastrab, Jeff Tapper, and Jamie Kosoy. Well done, contestants!

Here's a rundown on who won what:

Grand Prize - "Migrating Serialization Changes in AIR" - Greg Jastrab
Community vote: - "Migrating Serialization Changes in AIR" - Greg Jastrab

The Grand Prize is one pass to Adobe's MAX 2008 conference, San Francisco,
November 16-19, 2008, valued at $1,695.00, and the winner's choice of
$500-worth of O'Reilly books listed at
http://www.oreilly.com/store/publisher/oreillycomplete.html

The Community Choice Prize is the winner's choice of $350-worth of O'Reilly
books listed at http://www.oreilly.com/store/publisher/oreillycomplete.html

Second prize goes to Jeff Tapper, for his recipe "Caching Images to disk
after first time they are loaded."

The Second Prize is one copy of every English-language Adobe Developer
Library book published by O'Reilly prior to September 1, 2008.

Third prize goes to Jamie Kosoy for his recipe "Are you sure you want to
quit?"

The Third Prize is the winner's choice of any 5 O'Reilly books listed at
listed at http://www.oreilly.com/store/publisher/oreillycomplete.html

You can check out the winning entries online at the Adobe AIR Cookbook site:
Greg's Grand prize/Community Vote prize entry:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/communityengine/index.cfm?event=showDetails&pos
tId=10743&productId=4&loc=en_US

Jeff's Second prize entry:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/communityengine/index.cfm?event=showDetails&pos
tId=10784&productId=4&loc=en_US

Jamie's Third prize entry:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/communityengine/index.cfm?event=showDetails&pos
tId=10364&productId=4&loc=en_US

And if you like these entries, you may be interested in checking out the
soon-to-be released *Adobe AIR Cookbook*, by
Published by O'Reilly Media.
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596522506/index.html
http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-AIR-Cookbook-Application-Developers/dp/059652250
9/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225300881&sr=1-1

The great news on top of this is that if you're going to be at the Adobe MAX
conference Nov 15-18, you can meet the winners and see them walk through
their winning entries in Wednesday afternoon's session:

Inside the Adobe AIR Cook-off: The Best Show Off Their Winning Chops
http://max.adobe.com/na/sessions/browser/#839

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