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IBM is putting up a ThinkPad T42 as a prize for a coding contest at this year's ApacheCon. Not many details yet -- those to be announced at the con.

The contest involves developing code using the Apache Derby package (http://incubator.apache.org/derby/). There is documentation about the package on the project's Web site, and one of the ApacheCon tutorials the Sunday before the conference is a half-day devoted solely to the Derby software ? and to make it even more useful, that tutorial has been made free! So if you're interested in participating but aren't sure what Apache Derby is all about, there's still time and opportunity to learn from the documentation or in an intensive class given by one of the community developers.

Oh yeah, the Derby tutorial on Sunday is free now! I'm signed up =)