It’s finally the time to announce the winners of GWT Designer Contest #2. There were a total of 125 entries for the contest. Every email subscription got one entry and commentors received 2 or 4 entries for their comments as described in the contest rules.

As mentioned in the contest post, I selected the winners by entering all the email addresses at http://www.random.org/lists and selecting the top three emails as the winners.

Winners

• John Grantham
• Gopi Prathapineni
• Daniel Boromisa

Congratulations to the winners. I’m sending you guys emails and you’ll need to respond to claim your prize. Thanks to Instantiations for making these subscriptions available for me to give away. For those who didn’t win, try the 14 day free trial of GWT Designer and see if you like it. You’ll definitely learn to appreciate it when doing GWT development.

It’s time for another contest!

Recently, Instantiations released version 4.0 of their GWT Designer product. For those who don’t know, GWT Designer is an Eclipse based GUI creation tool for the Google Web Toolkit. It supports such snazzy features as drag-and-drop GUI building, bi-directional code generation, and several useful Wizards that help make GWT development easier. This latest version includes some exciting new features including basic integration with the MyGWT and GWT-Ext widget libraries.

For this contest, I have three, one-year subscriptions (a $39 value) of GWT Designer to give away. If you are already an existing GWT Designer subscriber, you will be able to get your subscription renewed for an extra year if you win.

How to Enter

You can gain entries into the contest in three ways.

1) Subscribe to my RSS feed via email. Existing email subscribers are automatically entered into this and every other future contest! (1 entry)

2) Leave a comment to this post, letting us know something about GWT that you’d like to see added or improved. (2 entries)

3) Download a copy of GWT Designer (if you don’t have it already) and leave a comment on this post, telling us your impressions of the product (good or bad). (2 entries)

If you perform all three tasks, you will give yourself 5 chances to win. Our first contest, had 50 contestants so your chances of winning are pretty good.

Deadline

Contest ends Monday, March 10th at Noon PST. The three winners will be picked by Random.org’s list randomizer. Please make sure to enter a valid email, or you won’t be able to win.

Thanks and good luck!

Thanks to the great folks at Instantiations, I am giving away a free one year subscription of GWT Designer ($39 value). GWT Designer is a really nice GUI builder for developing GWT applications in Eclipse. Instead of spending a lot of time coding your user interface by hand, you can use GWT Designer’s graphical design view to easily layout all your GWT widgets and panels using drag and drop.

GWT Designer using the GWT Kitchen Sink example

I have a copy myself and I like it a lot. I use the built in Wizards all the time to quickly create my GWT applications. If you’ve ever used Netbeans’ Matisse for building Swing GUIs, you’ll know how much time a good GUI builder can save you.

So, how do you win? It’s quite simple. Just leave a comment to this post, telling us what your favorite GWT third-party library is. That’s it! Check back in a week, and I will announce the winner from one of the commentors. Hopefully this will be the first of many giveaways so be sure to subscribe to my rss feed to keep yourself updated. Good luck!

Update (1/14/08)

Congratulations to the winner, Mark Chance. Thanks to everyone who participated. There should be chances to win some cool stuff in the future, so don’t miss out.