--- title: "T- (11+30) + explanation + apology" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/21/t-1130-explanation-apology.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/21/t-1130-explanation-apology.html" published: "2004-05-21T19:30:00" updated: "2004-05-21T19:30:00" tags: ["Addin Contest", "Blogging"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "First, I apologize for any problem my little contest scheduling conflict caused. Before I explain exactly what happened, I'll just say that the contest will close at June 30th (end of next month) and not the end of this…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # T- (11+30) + explanation + apology By Roy Osherove May 21, 2004 In [Addin Contest](https://osherove.com/blog/category/addin-contest), [Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging) **Historical article** · Originally published May 21, 2004; technical details may be outdated. First, I apologize for any [problem](http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/jkimble/archive/2004/05/21/14176.aspx) my little [contest](http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/archive/2004/04/21/117663.aspx) scheduling conflict caused. Before I explain exactly what happened, I'll just say that the contest **will** close at June 30th (end of next month) and **not** the end of this month. Now for what happened: there is one very good reason for my annoying actions regarding the contest end date: I am somewhat stupid. That is, my brain sometimes fools me into thinking I've done stuff while in reality I've done different stuff. Take the code contest for example. When I decided to lengthen the contest, I wanted to lengthen the submission time by one extra month. not two, but one. That means I wanted to extend it until the end of May (this month). Somehow my fingers and brain told me to write “June“ instead and I happily went on my way with the fact that the contest ends this month planted firmly in my brain all the while telling the outside world that it is ending one month later. SO yesterday I put in a friendly [reminder](http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/archive/2004/05/20/135933.aspx#FeedBack) that only 11 days left for submissions and I get a friendly question saying that it actually says “June“ in the contest page. Again, stupid me, I just went into the page and “fixed“ the date to show what I had always thought was the real date. Since I was in a hurry to get out for the weekend dinner I didn't even stop to consider the consequences this has on people that rely the later date. Sorry again. my bad, totally. So, the date moves up by a month and hopefully everyone is happy again. I hope to see some cool add-ins coming up. Sorry for any misunderstanding this may have caused. ## More in Addin Contest [All posts in Addin Contest](https://osherove.com/blog/category/addin-contest) - Jul 2, 2004 ### [Add-in contest submission phase is now officially over](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/2/add-in-contest-submission-phase-is-now-officially-over.html) - Jun 17, 2004 ### [Add-in contest ends this month!](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/6/17/add-in-contest-ends-this-month.html) - May 9, 2004 ### [Add-in Contest news and updates](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/9/add-in-contest-news-and-updates.html) - May 7, 2004 ### [Another book added to Add-in contest prizes](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/7/another-book-added-to-add-in-contest-prizes.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). 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