Well that’s it for the Boxcar app promo code giveaway! We had excellent participation in this contest, it kept me busy tracking all the comments. 🙂 That must mean that Twitter push notifications is a hot item for people. I’ll be announcing the 4 winners later today, before 7:00pm PT. How will we be choosing winners? Read on for details on the method I’ll be using.
To randomly choose the 4 winners from the comments left, I took each name and added it to an Excell spreadsheet, and assigned it a number, starting with 1. For each additional entry, the number increased consecutively (ie, second entry is number 2, third is number 3, etc.). I then use an Excel VB script that randomly chooses 4 of these numbers from an array, with built in logic to prevent any duplicates. Using Excel to choose these random numbers prevents any human preference towards a particular (maybe a favorite) number.
Why didn’t I just throw all the numbers into a hat and pick 4 out you ask? Well, because I’m a Technology Systems Admin and using paper and a hat is so old-school! 😛 I’m going completely paperless as much as I possibly can, so I created a digital way to randomly choose numbers out of a hat (an Excel spreadsheet)!
I’ll announce the winners here on the website later today, after I’ve contacted them by e-mail first. If a winner doesn’t respond to accept the promo code within 24 hours, I’ll use the method described above to choose a new winner for that particular code.
Thank you to all who participated in the this contest!
/Josh
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