March 10th, 2009

How to win free books at JavaRanch

Posted by Ed Burnette @ 6:31 am

Categories: Android, Community, General, Java, Programming

Tags: Forum, JavaRanch, Programming Languages, Advertising & Promotion, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Marketing, Ed Burnette

JavaRanch is giving away free books to developers. Here’s how it works: every week they invite authors of interesting books to visit, answer questions, and share their knowledge. All you have to do to win is participate in the discussion. On Friday, they comb the forums for qualifying messages and randomly select four winners. The publisher will then send each winner a free copy of the book! The odds of winning are pretty good given the limited number of participants, so see the site for details.

I’ve included a copy of the schedule for the next several weeks after the break. This week’s promotion is for my new book: Hello, Android: Introducing Google’s Mobile Development Platform. I’ll be hanging out in the Android forum to answer your questions so mosey on in and pull up a stool. Hope to see you there, pardner.

JavaRanch book promotion schedule (as of 3/10/2009; see original page for updates):

Starting Date	Cover	Book	Author(s)	Publisher	JavaRanch Forum
March 10		Hello, Android: Introducing Google’s Mobile Development Platform	Ed Burnette	Pragmatic	Android
March 17		DbVisualizer	Roger Bj�revall	Minq	JDBC
March 24		Unlocking Android	Frank Ableson, Charlie Collins, and Robi Sen	Manning	Android
March 31		Seam Framework: Experience the Evolution of Java EE	Michael Yuan & Jacob Orshalick	Prentice Hall	JBoss
April 7		Visual Paradigm	Rain Wong	Visual Paradigm	IDEs and other Tools
April 14		Grails 1.0 Web Application Development	Jon Dickinson	Packt	Groovy
April 20		A Programmer’s Guide to Java SCJP Certification	Khalid Mughal & Rolf Rasmussen	Addison Wesley	SCJP
April 28		Professional Android Application Development	Reto Meier	Wrox	Android
May 5	Available
May 12	Available
May 19	Available
May 26	Available