---
title: "Nice PDC Contest Entry from Steve Hebert"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/7/1/nice-pdc-contest-entry-from-steve-hebert.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/7/1/nice-pdc-contest-entry-from-steve-hebert.html"
published: "2005-07-01T10:05:00"
updated: "2005-07-01T10:05:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Steve Hebert has a very nice contest entry about why he should go to the PDC. Why didn't *I* think of a poem?? :) Update : OK, I just found out that Brenden has a pretty darn innovative PDC post as well. Guess I should…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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# Nice PDC Contest Entry from Steve Hebert

By Roy Osherove July 1, 2005 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published July 1, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

[Steve Hebert has a very nice contest entry](http://codebetter.com/blogs/steve.hebert/archive/2005/06/30/send_steve_hebert_to_pdc.aspx) about why he should go to the PDC. Why didn't \*I\* think of a poem??

:)

**Update**:

OK, I just found out that [Brenden has a pretty darn innovative PDC post](http://codebetter.com/blogs/brendan.tompkins/archive/2005/06/30/128695.aspx) as well. Guess I should have waited a bit!

_"I wish I could just connect to a service, tell it a bit about me, and it would do all the work for me,”  I thought “but who would waste an entire evening writing such a service?”_  

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