For the past week I’ve had a nasty sinus infection I couldn’t shake, so today I finally got the doctor to give me some antibiotics. Hopefully they will bring me back to life soon.
Anyway, since lack of energy kept me from posting anything interesting lately, I decided to do something easy. :) Today I decided to offer thru the end of May 2004 a FREE Xtras.Net Developer Network (XDN) Professional membership to anyone who normally blogs about .NET on a frequent basis. Xtras.Net sells XDN Professional memberships for $99/year, but what the heck, my sinus infection has me feeling a little delirious so I though “Why not give away a few?“
If you are a .NET blogger, do the following and I’ll sign you up for a free XDN Professional membership:
- Post a blog entry something like the following telling others about the offer (actually I’d prefer in your own words, but verbatim is fine of you aren’t feeling creative):
FREE XDN Professional for .NET Bloggers during May 2004
Mike Schinkel, president of Xtras.Net, made an offer on his personal blog of a free XDN Professional membership (http://www.xtras.net/xdn) during the month of May 2004 for anyone that blogs about .NET frequently. If you are a .NET blogger, see Mike’s post for how to get your free XDN membership. - Post a comment on this page with your name, email address (you can “no-spam” encode it if you like), and a permalink to your blog entry about the offer so I can add your blog to my blog reader, and maybe my blogroll. :)
That’s it. I’ll give a free XDN Professional membership to anyone who normally blogs about .NET even a reasonable percentage of posts, and the offer’s good through end of May 2004. However, I do reserve the right to deny the offer to anyone, or to withdraw the offer for any reason (though I doubt I would. The little lawyer in my head told me to say that! :-)
P.S. Truth be told, it was actually Roy Osherove’s blog post, not just my sinus infection delerium, that inspired me to make this offer. :)
I added a post about your offer to CSharpener’s Weblog:
http://weblogs.asp.net/jtobler/archive/2004/04/29/123320.aspx
Thanks!
CSharpener
That’s very generous of you Mike. I’ve added a post to my blog at the following URL:
http://jason-row.blogdns.com/blog/archive/2004/04/29/XDN_Professional_Offer.aspx
Thanks
Thanks Mike!
Here’s my post.
http://weblogs.asp.net/bhouse/archive/2004/04/29/123476.aspx
Thanks. I appreciate the offer very much!
Here’s my post:
http://www.microapplications.com/blog/archive/2004/04/30/176.aspx
Thanks Mike!
http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/andrewwhitten/archive/2004/04/30/12443.aspx
Link is at http://blogs.geekdojo.net/pdbartlett/archive/2004/04/30/1817.aspx.
TIA,
Paul.
hi! i’ve linked to you at http://www.brock.ac.uk/blogs/jon/PermaLink,guid,19270961-c5d3-462b-8b37-e3c846f9b741.aspx
I’d like to give XDN a try so I posted about it at http://www.publicvoid.dk/PermaLink,guid,8a4a4407-b1ec-4d9a-8665-94d982e5cf79.aspx
Thanks.
Linked @ http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/simplespirit/
Man, you rock! I totally understand sinus infections. Thanks!
http://jemos.com/blog/archive/2004/04/30/209.aspx
Thanks Mike! This will be a wonderful addition here at work! Great idea too!
Permalink: http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/he3/archive/2004/04/30/12463.aspx
Thanks, Mike!
Jay Kimble
Permalink: http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/jkimble/archive/2004/04/30/12464.aspx
Thanks Mike, I look forward to checking it out.
http://weblogs.asp.net/jgonzalez/archive/2004/04/30/123879.aspx
I wasn’t very creative in my post. :(
Looking forward to checking out your stuff.
Thanks Mike!
Posted Here: http://www.chrisfrazier.net/blog/posts/307.aspx
and There: http://weblogs.asp.net/cfrazier/archive/2004/04/30/124048.aspx
Thanks!
asp-NoSpam@christoc.com
http://weblogs.asp.net/christoc/archive/2004/04/30/124075.aspx
Thank you, Mike.
http://davidhayden.com/blog/dave/archive/2004/04/30/225.aspx
Thanks!
http://www.vasanthdharmaraj.com/PermaLink.aspx?guid=dc531c91-7be6-4328-bb8c-fad5bee52fee
I’ve made a post regarding this generous offer:
http://blog.bartholomew.id.au/archive/2004/05/02/296.aspx
Got your message Mike thanks, forgot to this bit. I think I got carried away in the moment!
http://weblogs.asp.net/garethbrown/archive/2004/04/30/124068.aspx
Thanks Mike – awesome offer, i can’t wait to dig in!
http://dotnet.org.za/kevint/archive/2004/05/03/1246.aspx
Regards
KevinT
Posted your link, as suggested:
http://dotnet.org.za/ernst/archive/2004/05/03/1249.aspx
-Ernst
Thanks for the offer Mike..
http://www.dotnetindia.com/2004/05/free_xdn_member.html
Sign me up! I like free ;-)
http://addressof.com/blog/archive/2004/05/03/657.aspx
Good stuff!
http://cale.typepad.com/titwillow/2004/05/free_xdn_profes.html
Great offer!
Thank you very much.
Great, I added your link. I just started my blog.
I wrote a widely used C# wrapper for msi.dll. I plan on writng about accessing msi.dll from .NET as well.Among other .NET topics. I also about to release a beta of an managed SDK for Windows Installer as well
Thanx! I have posted your link here: http://weblogs.kodecentralen.dk/thomasm/archive/2004/05/04/307.aspx
Cheers, that will be cool.
http://www.brokenkeyboards.com/brokenkeyboards/blogs.aspx?blogid=121
Heres the link. Thanks for the great promotion!
http://blog.iceglue.com/archive/2004/05/04/163.aspx
Thanks for the offer!
Here’s the link!
http://dotnet.org.za/armand/archive/2004/05/05/1302.aspx
Thanks for the generous offer Mike.
http://jnnovation.blogspot.com/2004_05_02_jnnovation_archive.html#108379895681568449
http://weblogs.asp.net/sbchatterjee/archive/2004/05/06/127561.aspx
Thanks for the generous offer!!!
http://dotnet.org.za/thea/archive/2004/05/07/1403.aspx
Great! I like free things! http://weblogs.asp.net/tiernanotoole/archive/2004/05/07/127732.aspx
Sweet offer. now if only Microsoft did something like this for the MSDN…
Hi Mike Great offer :-)
http://weblogs.asp.net/pleloup/archive/2004/05/07/127738.aspx
Looks like a nice offer …
http://sastools.com/b2/post/79394242
I linked you at:
http://weblogs.asp.net/michu/archive/2004/05/18/133900.aspx
Thanks Mike..Great offer :)
I posted this on my Dev Notes @
http://weblogs.asp.net/ssadasivuni/archive/2004/05/18/133998.aspx
Great offer! Hope I can still get signed up.
http://ryangregg.com/archive/2004/05/18/834.aspx
(remove the X’s from my email if you want to send to me)
Great offer, Mike. Here’s the link to my blog at the InformIT Reference Guide:
http://www.informit.com/discussion/index.asp?postid=ed8b88cd-3c7e-4ceb-927e-97c34623df27&a=a#ed8b88cd-3c7e-4ceb-927e-97c34623df27
Mike, great offer man. Thanks!
Here is the permalink:
http://www.scottcreynolds.com/PermaLink.aspx?guid=d515f51a-ff27-4ed9-8170-4dae557c82e1
My blog is relatively new, but Tales From the SharpSide is definitely leaning toward being c#-centric.
permalink: http://weblogs.asp.net/grobinson/
Posted: http://www.mostlylucid.co.uk/posts/1029.aspx
Permalink away: http://bigeasy108.blogspot.com/2004/05/free-xdn-professional-for-net-bloggers.html
Count me if you’ll accept UK .NET bloggers.
Permalink: http://blog.salamandersoftware.biz/archives/000445.html
Great offer! Thanks!
http://markyologist.com/blog/archive/2004/05/20/179.aspx
Permalink: http://www.michaelfalconer.co.uk/archive/2004/05/21/157.aspx
This might be more effective i.e. further a field as not as well known as aspweblogs.net – Ecademy’s Microsoft and .NET club: http://ecademy.com/module.php?mod=club&op=forum&c=11&t=77186"
Thanks for supporting the community!
Thanks to all who have posted thus far! 49 "comments" is definitely a record for my blog.
HOWEVER, a quick note to anyone NEW that I’ll be in TechEd San Diego next week and not back in the office until May 31st. Anyone who hasn’t signed up yet will probably miss the May XDN Offers because I doubt I’ll return in time to process any more before the end of the month, since the offer requires I do some manual work for each request; work that our normal "sales" don’t require.
But the offer is definitely still good until the end of May 2004, just please understand I won’t get to you in time for this month’s offers.
Thanks for the offer. I’ve just started blogging this month (which is how I found this offer – looking at other blogs for blogging tips), so I guess it’s perfect timing.
Here’s my post referencing your offer:
http://blog.sagetechnology.com/techsage/archive/2004/05/24/159.aspx
read about your products in Coder To Developer. Very well-timed offer (I almost missed the end of the month!)
Mike: Very cool offer (and I’m really digging the xtras.net site!). My email is jeff – at – donnici.com — Thanks!
http://jeff.donnici.com/archive/2004/05/28/158.aspx
Thanks Mike For the Offer!
I just found out about your offer and added a post to my blog:
http://weblogs.asp.net/JMandia/archive/2004/05/29/144337.aspx
My e-mail is john_mandia – at – yahoo.com
Thanks again,
John
Hi, Mike,
Thank you for the free offer. My email address is alex – at – biblesforamerica.org.
My post about your offer is at:
http://weblogs.asp.net/achang/archive/2004/05/29/144339.aspx
Thanks!
Alex
Hi
The entry to details on your offer on my blog is at
http://martindolphin.co.uk/dotnetblog/archive/2004/05/29/892.aspx
Thanks!
My post: http://blogs.slashstar.com/tim/archive/2004/05/29/563.aspx
Again, thanks! Quite generous of you. Contact info: tmarmanNO@SPAMalumni.hamilton.edu.
Well, I know it’s a bit lite, but here goes nothing…
http://weblogs.dotnetforum.dk/kk/archive/2004/05/29/1449.aspx
Thanks!
Am I too late?
http://weblogs.asp.net/kdente/archive/2004/05/29/144453.aspx
http://www.milbertus.com/archives/2004/05/003230.php
That’s a great offer, Mike. Thanks a lot. :)
Thanks Mike.
http://tidbits.ashvil.net/index.php?p=87
Thanks for supporting the .NET ecosystem.
http://tidbits.ashvil.net/index.php?p=81
Warm Regards,
Ashvil
http://weblogs.asp.net/lbarbieri/archive/2004/05/31/144832.aspx
Thank you very much in advance!
If I’m too late, just let me know… I guess I’ll have to pay or something. ;-)
http://consultutah.com/weblog.aspx?id=19
Just found this wonderful oppurtunity. If your offer is still valid, please let me know.
http://www.code4ward.net
Thanks Mike For the Offer!
I just found out about your offer and added a post to my blog:
Great, I added your link. I just started my blog.
I wrote a widely used C# wrapper for msi.dll. I plan on writng about accessing msi.dll from .NET as well.Among other .NET topics. I also about to release a beta of an managed SDK for Windows Installer as well