Okay, i've randomly picked out a winner and for the Drupal site Blueprints...

congratulations! pierrelbz was the chosen winner.

You will be contacted on Twitter, please reply to receive your free book.

How did i pick the winner:
To decide who gets the free book each new followers' names on my Twitter list was written on a piece of paper and folded up, then shuffled around in a box. Without looking into the box, I then proceeded to pick out a random name.

Thanks to all that followed me.

The lovely Packt Publishing has given me a free book to giveaway. The book is Drupal 6 Site Blueprints.

To enter all you need to do is follow me on Twitter. Simple as that and i'll randomly select a winner from the list.

This contest starts from today and will end on the 23rd Feb (next Tuesday), that's one week from today.

Good luck to everyone.

Note: Winners from the UK will receive a printed copy. All other countries will receive a downloadable PDF version.

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Ask around any Open Source community and you'll get a positive response that Drupal is a very flexible platform to build social networking sites. But with any powerful and highly configurable CMS there will inevitably be a steep learning curve.

This is where this book Drupal 6 Social Networking by Michael Peacock aims to compliment Drupal by lowering the barrier and learning curve so any one with very little programming knowledge can build their own social network site. So does this book really live up to its expectations and teach many site builders the easy way of setting up a social network?  read more »

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