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Adam Trachtenberg is the Director of Platform and Services at eBay. Before eBay, Adam co-founded and served as vice president for development at two companies, Student.Com and TVGrid.Com. Adam is the author of Upgrading to PHP 5 and coauthor of PHP Cookbook. He lives in San Francisco, California.

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Auctioning Autographed “Upgrading to PHP 5″ for the EFF

February 11th, 2006 • Related • Filed Under

Every since I started at eBay, I’ve been looking to sell more on the site. I’ve also been looking to donate more money to charity. So I decided to combine the two: I’m selling a copy of Upgrading to PHP 5 on eBay and donating everything to the EFF.

The EFF, short for Electronic Frontier Foundation, describes themselves as:

[A] group of passionate people — lawyers, technologists, volunteers, and visionaries — working in the trenches, battling to protect your rights and the rights of web surfers everywhere. The dedicated people of EFF challenge legislation that threatens to put a price on what is invaluable; to control what must remain boundless.

List priced at $29.99, the auction starts at $0.01, so you’re guaranteed to get a good value. As an extra special bonus, I will custom autograph the book to the winning bidder or a friend. Or, for an additional $5, I will not sully up your clean new book with my autograph. Your choice. Okay, just kidding about the $5.

If you’ve been looking to get up to speed on PHP 5, now’s the perfect chance to buy a book and give money to a great cause. Check out my listing and bid today.

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  1. Comment by Rod on 13 February 2006:

    Thanks for pointing it out. OK. I am the first/high bidder. Hope I get it. Looking forward to reading it. I was wondering what charity the money will be going to (which may be taken into account when others start to out bid me)?

    -Rod

  2. Comment by Adam Trachtenberg on 13 February 2006:

    Hello Rod. The charity is the EFF — or the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

    The EFF fights against online censorship, DRM, and other restrictions of Internet freedoms.

    I updated the blog post to include a link to their site and a blub describing what they do.

    Thanks for bidding and good luck!

    -adam

  3. Comment by Jeffrey McManus on 13 February 2006:

    I AER TEH HIGH BIDDAR!!!1!!!

  4. Comment by Adam Trachtenberg on 13 February 2006:

    YES! A++++

  5. Comment by Rod on 20 February 2006:

    I won … I won … !!! Yeeh, yah! I will pay my invoice now. Just wanted to say thanks!

    -Rod

  6. Comment by Rod on 2 March 2006:

    Hi, Adam:

    I just wanted to say thank you. I received my package today from you and was very, very surprised. Thank you for signing the book. I can’t wait to read it. AND, thank you very much for all of the additional *goodies* that you sent me. I was, and still am, thrilled, like a child on Christmas morning. You didn’t have to do that, but I am very grateful for your generosity….

    Take care!

    -Rod

  7. Comment by Adam Trachtenberg on 3 March 2006:

    Hi Rod –

    I thought about tipping you off in advance, but then I decided it was better just to let the package arrive in the mail. :)

    Thanks again and enjoy the books and shirts!

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