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Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:07:50 -0800 From: Apress <newslett...@apress.com> To: adam.trick...@iredale.net Subject: Apress March 2011 Newsletter ** Apress March 2011 Newsletter *** This month we have some exciting new releases. First in the lineup is Pro Expression Blend 4, a comprehensive guide to the Expression Blend IDE by bestselling author Andrew Troelsen. This book will help .NET developers as well as graphic artists produce slick WPF, Silverlight, and Windows Phone 7 applications. If you have still yet to take the plunge into Android, you can start with Practical Android Projects by Lucas L. Jordan and Pieter Greyling. It will introduce you to the Android platform in the most effective way possible: quickly getting down to business and building an app. If you’re averse to going native, you can use Pro Android Web Apps by Damon Oehlman and Sebastien Blanc to harness the power of HTML5 and create rich web apps for Android devices. And finally, if you want to tinker with everything from robots to mobile devices, check out Beginning Arduino by Michael McRoberts, which will introduce you to the ever popular Arduino platform for open source electronics. *** Master the Microsoft Expression Blend IDE Pro Expression Blend 4 by Andrew Troelsen eBook Now Available, Print Now Available http://apress.com/book/view/143023377X Pro Expression Blend 4 by Andrew Troelsen guides .NET developers and graphic artists through the world of Expression blend, moving beyond the basics to detailed examinations of workspace customization, graphics, data binding, SketchFlow, and more. *** Create compelling apps for Android —native or web Practical Android Projects by Lucas Jordan, Pieter Greyling eBook Now Available, Print Now Available http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430232439 Pro Android Web Apps: Developing HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, and Chrome OS Web Apps By Damon Oehlman, Sébastien Blanc eBook Now Available, Print Now Available http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430232765 *** Latest Books * Pro Drupal 7 for Windows Developers * Pro Data Backup and Recovery * Pro DNS and BIND 10 * Advanced BlackBerry 6 Development * Windows Phone 7 Made Simple Forthcoming Books * Creative Blogging: Your First Steps to a Successful Blog * Beginning Oracle Application Express 4 * Advanced BlackBerry 6 Development * Pro SharePoint 2010 Search * PowerPivot Solutions for Business Intelligence using Excel and SharePoint Best-sellers 1. Beginning iPhone 4 Development: Exploring the iOS SDK 2. iPhone 4 Made Simple 3. Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition 4. Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework, Second Edition 5. The Game Maker's Companion *** Conference News and Notes: SXSW Interactive March 11-15 We’ll be attending SXSW Interactive in Austin, TX once again this month. It’s an event we always enjoy attending as it gives us the opportunity to meet and spend time with developers working in so many different technology areas on such a wide range of projects. We’re fortunate to have titles of relevance to many attendees, and will be there fully loaded with print books plus our Kindles, Nooks, and iPads showing off titles on topics as diverse as HTML5, Arduino, Android, and iOS. If you’re attending, why not call in to the Trade Show area and see us at booth 413. We’d love to see you SPTechCon February 7–9 The SharePoint Technology Conference, or SPTechCon for short, took place in San Francisco, CA February 7 – 9. Approximately 1000 attendees—ranging from developers and administrators to project managers and business consultants —enjoyed many sessions and keynote speeches led by a veritable who’s who of the SharePoint community. Highlights included a keynote from Jared Spataro, Director of SharePoint Project Management, who noted that “if you took harePoint and ran it as a standalone business, it would be bigger than Salesforce.com, and one of the top 50 companies in the world.” Apress was in attendance with our full line of SharePoint titles, presented in both traditional book form and on various devices like the iPad and Kindle. There was particular interest in our end-user title SharePoint 2010 User’s Guide, as well as the BI-focused Pro SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence Solutions. Thanks to all who attended and stopped by the booth—we’ll see you at next year’s show! *** Build cool robots and electronics using this popular open source platform Beginning Arduino by Michael McRoberts eBook Now Available, Print Now Available http://apress.com/book/view/1430232404 *** Apress User Group Spotlight Houston SharePoint User Group (H-SPUG) The Houston SharePoint User Group was founded in Spring 2007 and has been an active member of the Apress User Group program since 2009. H-SPUG is one of the largest SharePoint User Groups in the country, with members representing many different business verticals. The goal of H-SPUG is to provide up-to-date recommendations and guidance from SharePoint professionals. Speakers include local experts as well as nationally known speakers from the SharePoint Trainings and MVP communities. Meetings take place every third Wednesday of the month at the Microsoft corporate office in Houston. Windows Azure User Group The Windows Azure User Group is a virtual User Group, which meets every second Wednesday of the month at 3pm CT. The group is focused with sharing knowledge and experience on all things related to the Windows Azure Platform. Speakers range from Microsoft staff to Azure MVP consultants in the field. Since the Windows Azure User Group started in 2010, it has grown rapidly with over 1000 members. Here is a sneak peak at the topics coming up this year: * Real Projects in Azure: Lessons Learned from the Field * Build Your Own HPC in Azure * Security Principles and Patterns over Windows Azure * Developing Applications for SQL Azure * AzureWatch - Dynamic Scaling System for Windows Azure Visit www.AzureUG.net to learn more and to sign up for notifications regarding upcoming events. *** Apress User Group Program Apress is committed to supporting the tech community. With over 1,700 registered User Groups on apress.com, there are meetings happening every week all over the world. Why not find a user group near you? If you run a User Group, sign up your User Group to take advantage of our exclusive Apress User Group benefits. For more information about the Apress User Group Program, please visit our User Group pages. A Special Note about Apress eBook Front Matter For your convenience, Apress has moved the eBook front matter content to the back of the eBook. Front matter material (including the author bio and preface) has appeared after the index for all Apress and friends of ED eBooks published since January 2011. The reason we have adopted this new formatting change, along with many other publishers, is to make the eBook reading experience as easy and convenient as possible for our readers to jump right into the eBook’s content. 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