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[Apress User Group Liaison]

Apress User Group Program Newsletter

May 2008 Issue

Hello registered Apress User Groups! We’ve got lots of news to share!

    1. The new Spring/Summer 2008 Catalog is here!
    2. Join the Apress Group on Facebook
    3. You voted for them, and here they are! The new Apress T–shirts!
    4. Introducing the Apress new title mini–brochure
    5. Visit us at the next tradeshow
    6. Recently released featured titles
    7. Forthcoming featured titles
    8. Have you checked out the eBook Deal of the Day yet?
    9. User Group events recently supported by Apress
   10. Upcoming User Group events supported by Apress
   11. Review our books? Send me the link!

1. The new Spring/Summer 2008 Catalog is here!


The new Apress catalog features all the titles you need You can  
download our new catalog here:

http://apress.com/resource/file/ApressCatalog_08.pdf

You may also request physical copies, so please let me know how many  
you need and where to send them.

2. Join the Apress Group on Facebook

Thanks to everyone for joining the Apress company page on Facebook.  
We also have an Apress group page that will feature images of our new  
titles and Apress news items. Please join our open group!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=23009752800

3. You voted for them, and here they are! The new Apress T–shirts!
“Most people would rather die than think: many do. — Russell”  “A  
good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. — Plato”

http://www.apress.com/promotion/t-shirt

The votes are in and tallied. Here is the new batch of limited  
edition Apress T–shirts that you voted for. These are available for  
$10 + $5 shipping and handling here.

4. Introducing the Apress new title mini–brochure

We’ve been putting our heads together to find more ways to make our  
new title listings relevant to you and your interests. These are full– 
color mini–catalogs that will feature our new titles isolated into a  
related category.

The following are now available on our tradesite, and there are more  
to come.

  http://apress.com/community/tradesite

Agile Blended Development
NEW APRESS BOOKS 2008
THE EXPERT’S VOICE® IN OPEN SOURCE
Empowering the Professional Working in Agile Blended Development with  
Quality Books in Java, Spring, Ruby and Rails, Python, PHP, Flash,  
Flex, Ajax and JavaScript

Download it here.

http://apress.com/resource/file/eBrochure.pdf


.NET 3.5 NEW APRESS BOOKS 2008
THE EXPERT’S VOICE® IN .NET
Develop Your .NET Career

Download it here.

  http://apress.com/resource/file/Brochure-NET2008-US.pdf

5. Visit us at the next tradeshow!

Apress will be exhibiting at TechEd 2008 Developers in Orlando, FL,  
June 3–6, 2008, booth #1432.

Click here for show details.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2008/default.mspx


6. Recently released featured titles


Pro VB 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform by Andrew Troelsen
| ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-822-1 | Published Mar 2008 | 1377 pp. | $59.99

 From Program to Product: Turning Your Code into a Saleable Product  
by Rocky Smolin
| ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-971-6 | Published Mar 2008 | 201 pp. | $29.99

Beginning XNA 2.0 Game Programming: From Novice to Professional by  
Alexandre Santos Lobão, Bruno Pereira Evangelista, José Antonio Leal  
de Farias
| ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-924-2 | Published Apr 2008 | 456 pp. | $39.99

Creating Mashups with Adobe Flex and AIR by Chris Korhonen, David  
Hassoun, John Crosby
| ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-936-5 | Published April 2008 | 368 pp. | $42.99

Foundation Flash CS3 Video by Tom Green, Adam Thomas
| ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-956-3 | Published Mar 2008 | 450 pp. | $44.99

Foundation Flex for Designers by LordAlex Leon, Greg Goralski
| ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-877-1 | Published Jan 2008 | 288 pp. | $36.99

Practical DWR 2 Projects by Frank Zammetti
| ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-941-9 | Published Jan 2008 | 540 pp. | $46.99

Pro Netbeans IDE 6 Rich Client Platform Edition by Adam Myatt
| ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-895-5 | Published Feb 2008 | 491 pp. | $49.99

Beginning Spring 2: From Novice to Professional by Dave Minter
| ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-685-2 | Published Dec 2007 | 271 pp. | $39.99

Beginning JSP™, JSF™ and Tomcat Web Development: From Novice to  
Professional by Giulio Zambon, Michael Sekler
| ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-904-4 | Published Nov 2007 | 448 pp. | $39.99

Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services by Raymond Yee
| ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-858-0 | Published Feb 2008 | 603 pp. | $49.99

Pulling Strings with Puppet: Configuration Management Made Easy by  
James Turnbull
| ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-978-5 | Published Feb 2008 | 192 pp. | $19.99


7. Forthcoming Featured Titles

Office and SharePoint 2007 User’s Guide: Integrating SharePoint with  
Excel, Outlook, Access and Word by Michael Antonovich
|ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-984-6 | Will Publish May 2008 | 552 pp. | $44.99

Accelerated SQL Server 2008 by Rob Walters, Michael Coles, Robin  
Dewson, Fabio Claudio Ferracchiati, Jan D. Narkiewicz, Robert Rae
| ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-969-3 | Will Publish Jun 2008 | 700 pp. | $52.99

Pro Silverlight 2 by Matthew MacDonald
| ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-949-5 | Not Yet Published | 400 pp. | $44.99

Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional, Third Edition  
by W. Jason Gilmore
| ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-862-7 | Published Mar 2008 | 1080 pp. | $46.99

The Essential Guide to Flex 3 by Charles E Brown
| ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-950-1 | Will Publish May 2008 | 650 pp. | $54.99

The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development By Chris Allen,  
Wade Arnold, Aral Balkan, Nicolas Cannasse, John Grden, Marc Hughes,  
R. Jon MacDonald, Andy Zupko
| ISBN-13: 978-1-4302-0993-5 | Will Publish July 2008 | 350 pp. | $46.99

AdvancED AIR Applications by Peter Elst, Marco Casario, Zach Stepek,  
Koen De Weggheleire
| ISBN-13: 978-1-4302-0985-0 | Will Publish July 2008 | 400 pp. | $49.99

Practical Django Projects by James Bennett
| ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-996-9 | Will Publish Jun 2008 | 300 pp. | $44.99

Practical Prototype and script.aculo.us by Andrew Dupont
| ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-919-8 | Will Publish Jun 2008 | 350 pp. | $39.99

Beginning Ubuntu Linux: From Novice to Professional, Third Edition by  
Keir Thomas, Jaime Sicam
| ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-991-4 | Will Publish Jun 2008 | 690 pp. | $39.99

Beginning Groovy and Grails: From Novice to Professional by  
Christopher M. Judd, Joseph Faisal Nusairat, Jim Shingler
| ISBN-13: 978-1-4302-1045-0 | Will Publish Jun 2008 | 450 pp. | $42.99

Spring 2.5 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach by Gary Mak
| ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-979-2 | Will Publish Jun 2008 | 650 pp. | $49.99

The Definitive Guide to Terracotta: Cluster the JVM for Spring,  
Hibernate and POJO Scalability by Terracotta, Inc.
| ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-986-0 | Will Publish Jun 2008 | 300 pp. | $44.99

8. Have you checked out the eBook Deal of the Day yet?


Have you ever wanted to buy an eBook to learn something fun but  
couldn’t justify it because of the price? We are pleased to offer you  
the “eBook Deal of the Day” found on our homepage on the top right  
corner. At 12:01 a.m. PST, a different Apress or friends of ED eBook  
will be priced at only $10 US for a 24–hour period. Check back  
everyday for a new deal.

9. User Group events recently supported by Apress

Thank you for posting Apress logos to your group and event sites! We  
hope your event was a success!

Twin Cities Code Camp — April 5th
http://www.twincitiescodecamp.com

Minneapolis Flash/Flex User Group: Flex Camp — April 7
http://www.mnswf.org/camp

Python Meetup in Manhattan — April 8

San Francico Perl Mongers at LugRadio — April 12–13
http://lugradio.org/live/USA2008/

Central Maryland Association of .NET Professionals: Code Camp 2008  
Spring Edition — April 12
http://www.cmap-online.org/CodeCamp

SQL Saturday — May 3
http://www.sqlsaturday.com

SOUG: Oracle Tech Day — May 3
www.oracledays.com
10. Upcoming User Group events supported by Apress

Code Analysis Meeting: NEJUG — May 8

Poland Developer Group Heroes Community Launch — May 9
http://www.isvclub.com

TechBash 2008 — May 10
http://techbash.com/

West Michigan Day of .NET — May 10
http://www.wmdotnet.org

TulsaCodeCamp — May 10
www.schoolofdev.com

Sarasota SQL User Group: Meeting — May 14
This months meeting will be on Thursday, March 13 at 6pm at the  
Community Foundation of Sarasota. Rob Hatton, leader of the Tampa SQL  
Business Intelligence Group, will be giving his presentation  
Designing Analysis Services Cubes.

Singapore .NET Professional User Group: Heroes Community Launch — May 17
http://www.sgdotnet.org/events/heroes08

Philly .NET presents: Code Camp 2008.2 — May 17
http://www.phillydotnet.org/

Cleveland Day of .NET — May 17
http://www.clevelanddodn.org/

Hong Kong Java User Group: “Spring 2.5 Gathering” — May 20
http://hkjug.org

KUL.NET: Lublin IT Days 2008 — May 20–22
http://codeguru.pl/group-info-97.aspx

Adobe Italy: Meeting — May 22
http://events.adobe.co.uk/cgi-bin/main.cgi?country=it

The SW Computer Conference — May 30
http://www.theswcc.org/

Wroclaw .NET User Group: Heroes Community Launch Event — June 2
http://slask-msclub.isvclub.com/

Sarasota IT Pro User Group: Pre–TechEd Event — June 6
http://www.sarasotaitpro.org

NEJUG: RESTful Services with Bill Burke from JBoss — June 12
www.nejug.org
11. Review our books? Send me the link!

If you have received a book for review, have read one of our books  
and wish to review it, or have already reviewed an Apress book,  
please send me the URLs. We love to have your feedback!

As a publisher we rely on independent writers and reviewers to speak  
forcefully and honestly about our products to the larger technology  
book–buying community. In addition to reviewing this book on your own  
site, please consider reposting that review on Amazon.com,  
Barnesandnoble.com, Bookpool.com, or any other commercial site you  
favor.

If you would like to request a book for review, please let me know.

Your Apress User Group Liaison,
Cheryl Martinez
________________________________

cheryl martinez | marketing supervisor | cheryl.martinez at apress.com |  
510.549.5930 ext 129 | 510.549.5939 fax | 2855 telegraph avenue,  
suite 600, berkeley, ca. 94705 | apress.com


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