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One week left until the PHP Unconference in Hamburg, and finally the goodies have arrived O'Reilly was kind enough to sponsor a care package with lots of cool PHP and MySQL related books, writing blocks, pens and key-holding band thingies (what are they called again?). Among the books are timeless classics like PHP in a Nutshell, PHP Design Patterns, PHP Hacks or MySQL Internals... really great stuff! Here's what I got from them: The books will be given away to the unconference attendees in a raffle on day two... now all I have to come up with is some fun way to raffle them out Thanks a lot to Darren Cooper for contacting O'Reilly and making it happen, and of course to O'Reilly for being a cool company and supporting the Open Source community so much. On a side note, I bought a book from Tim O'Reilly himself once, who was helping out at an O'Reilly booth at FOSDEM in Brussels a few years back. It was really cool to see a Multi-Gazillionaire selling books at a rather improvised table that had a bit of a flea-market vibe to it. One can only like the guy Too bad there isn't a PHP book in my current favourite series of O'Reilly books yet, the "Head First"-series. Kathy Sierra, if you ever read this: Hint, hint