Apress Continues to Expand Its Media Offerings: firstPress Launches at JavaOne 2008

PRLog (Press Release) – May 07, 2008 – Apress Continues to Expand Its Media Offerings: firstPress Launches at JavaOne 2008
Berkeley, CA— May 2008—Apress, Inc. http://apress.com announces the official launch of its firstPress publishing program http://apress.com/ebook/firstpress at the 2008 JavaOne Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA.
Published with the developer in mind, firstPress technical briefs explore emerging technologies that have the potential to be critical for tomorrow’s industry. Apress keeps developers one step ahead by presenting key information as early as possible in a PDF of 150 pages or less.

Both PDF (eBook) and print-on-demand (POD) formats are available with firstPress. And, with a growing number firstPress books to choose from, we believe today’s developer is now empowered to consider and develop for tomorrow’s solutions. firstPress titles cover topical and cutting-edge aspects of computing to inspire and educate every professional developer who wants to keep abreast of change and ahead of the curve.

•Facelets Essentials
This is the first Facelets book to market. Additionally, we are offering this firstPress title FREE to JavaOne attendees in celebration of the official launch of firstPress.

•Stripes: The Official Guide to Stripes Java Web Framework
•The Relational Database Dictionary, Extended Edition
•MooTools Essentials: The Official MooTools Cookbook for JavaScript/Ajax Development
•Mule 2: Official Developer’s Guide to ESB and Integration Platform
•Comet and Reverse Ajax: The Next Generation Ajax 2.0
•Creating Mac Widgets with Dashcode
•Google Guice: Agile Lightweight Dependency Injection Framework
•Google Maps Mashups with Google Mapplets
•Facebook API Developers Guide
•Pulling Strings with Puppet: Configuration Management Made Easy
•Learn to Tango with D
•Silverlight and ASP.NET Revealed
•JavaFX Script: Dynamic Java Scripting for Rich Internet/Client-side Applications
•ZK: Ajax without the JavaScript Framework
•Raven: Scripting Java Builds with Ruby
•First Steps: Developing BizTalk Applications
•LINQ for VB 2005
•LINQ for Visual C# 2005

For more information on firstPress visit http://apress.com/ebook/firstpress. firstPress titles are available directly from Apress and Springer, as well as retailers like Amazon.com, Borders, Barnes & Noble, etc.