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Subject: Apress January 2011 Newsletter Date: Wednesday 05 Jan 2011, 17:51:16 From: "Apress" <[email protected]> *** Apress January 2010 Newsletter *** 2011 is here and it’s take to make good on those New Year’s resolutions. Maybe your resolution is revamping your website. If so, be sure to check out the second edition of bestselling DOM Scripting by Jeremy Keith and Jeffrey Sambells, which will help you add dynamic components to your site and create markup on the fly. Move those same web development skills to the world of iPhone and iPad with Beginning iPhone and iPad Web Apps, or take advantage of the soaring popularity of Android by creating cool apps with Pro Android Media. Or perhaps you unwrapped a LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT kit over the holidays and your goal is winning a robotics competition this year. Then have a look at Winning Design!, your one-stop resource for MINDSTORMS NXT robot design and programming. *** Everything you need to harness the power of the DOM DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model, Second Edition by Jeremy Keith, Jeffrey Sambells eBook Now Available, Print Now Available http://friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=1430233893 DOM Scripting by Jeremy Keith and Jeffrey Sambells starts off by giving you a basic crash course in JavaScript and the DOM, then continues on to provide you with several real world examples— including dynamic image galleries and dynamic menus—showing you how to manipulate web page styles using the CSS DOM and create markup on the fly. *** Build native or web apps for the two most popular mobile platforms Pro Android Media by Shawn Van Every eBook Now Available, Print Now Available http://apress.com/book/view/1430232676 Beginning iPhone and iPad Web Apps by Chris Apers, Daniel Paterson eBook Now Available, Print Now Available http://apress.com/book/view/1430230452 *** Latest Books * Pro Drupal 7 Development, Third Edition * Pro WPF and Silverlight MVVM: Effective Application Development with Model-View-ViewModel * JavaScript for Absolute Beginners * Pro PHP Application Performance: Tuning PHP Web Projects for Maximum Performance * Beginning Blender: Open Source 3D Modeling, Animation, and Game Design Forthcoming Books * Beginning iPhone 4 Development: Exploring the iOS SDK * Mac Programming for Absolute Beginners * Beginning 3D Game Development with Unity * Pro Data Backup and Recovery * Windows Phone 7 Made Simple Best-sellers 1. Taking Your iPad to the Max 2. iPad Made Simple 3. The Game Maker's Apprentice: Game Development for Beginners 4. LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0: The King's Treasure 5. iPhone and iPad Apps for Absolute Beginners *** Conference News and Notes: 2011 International CES January 6-9 Apress is exhibiting this year at the world’s largest consumer electronics show, CES. CES is the industry's largest forum for companies who want to expand their businesses and understand new technology. Approximately 300 sessions and 900 expert speakers discuss industry trends and topics, and keynote addresses feature executives from the world's largest and most successful companies. If you are attending the show, stop by booth #26618 to check out the latest Apress mobile development books, device guides, and more! CodeMash January 12-14 CodeMash is a unique event that educates developers on current practices, methodologies, and technology trends in a variety of platforms and development languages such as Java, .Net, Ruby, Python and PHP. Held January 12-14, 2011, at the lush Kalahari Resort in Sandusky, Ohio, attendees will be able to enjoy a world-class technical conference amid Ohio's largest indoor waterpark. Chad Fowler and TJ Fiuli will present keynote speeches while several Apress authors including Jason Gilmore and Jim Weaver lead discussions on their areas of expertise. This conference keeps growing and growing and we look forward to seeing you there! *** Gain the competitive advantage you need for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT competitions Winning Design! LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Design Patterns for Fun and Competition by James Jeffrey Trobaugh eBook Now Available, Print Now Available http://apress.com/book/view/1430229640 *** Apress User Group Spotlight Python Ireland User Group The Python Ireland User Group has been an active Apress User Group since April 2009. The group was started for anyone in the Dublin-area interested in networking and learning about Python. Python Ireland holds regular events and meetings as well as joint events with other local user groups such Ruby Ireland, Dublin ALT.net and Ubuntu.ie. Python Ireland is free to join and meets on the second Wednesday of every month. To learn more about Python Ireland, visit http://www.python.ie/about/. The Ohio, Indiana, and Northern Kentucky PHP User Group (OINK-PUG) The Ohio, Indiana, and Northern Kentucky PHP User Group was founded in February 2005 by a small, but dedicated, group of PHP developers with the aim of facilitating the acceptance of PHP within the local developer community and to mentor less experienced developers. This group meets in the Cincinnati, Ohio area on the third Monday of every month. OINK-PUG welcomes everyone, without any membership requirement other than a desire to learn more about PHP! To learn more about OINK-PUG, follow them on Twitter or visit http://www.oink-pug.org/. *** 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. *** Apress on Twitter We tweet about what we're up to, what our authors are up to, and about anything else that takes our fancy. We even offer exclusive deals to our followers, so what are you waiting for? Come find us at @apress. Want to know what’s hot off the presses? We also have a new secondary account that'll keep you informed of our books as they publish, backing up our regular 'New Titles' RSS feed. Follow @ApressBooks for these updates. *** We do not send unsolicited newsletters. You received this because you've previously bought eBooks from us, or signed up for our newsletter at www.apress.com or at a tradeshow. To be removed from the Apress newsletter mailing list, you can unsubscribe here: http://app.streamsend.com/private//6IK/ 4qYC8Mw/unsubscribe/ For all other requests, please do not reply to this e-mail. 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