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NewsForge: Open source holiday applications

Written By
SMK
Sean Michael Kerner
Dec 6, 2004

“Keeping track of what you want and what to get others is always
a chore at this time of year, but a pair of open source
applications can make your life easier: SecretSanta and PHP Gift
Registry.

“The typical Secret Santa experience usually involves picking a
name out of hat to determine which member of your group you’ll be
buying a gift for. I’ve never much liked the hat-picking approach
myself, being a technically inclined person. Apparently, neither
did the author of the aptly named SecretSanta program…”


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