It's Friday now. Is it a good time for announcement for a new book?

Today, I proudly announce a new Symbian OS book from Symbian Press, Quick Recipes on Symbian OS. The book is available for pre-order from Amazon today.

The book is authored by Michael Aubert and a bunch of other people that you may be familiar with, i.e.:

• Alexey Gusev
• Myself (a.k.a. antonypr)
• Jo Stichbury (the author Symbian OS Explained and The Accredited Symbian Developer Primer)
• Jenny Mulholland
• Jukka Silvennoinen (a.k.a. symbian_yucca)
• Tanzim Husain

What this book is all about? Unlike existing Symbian OS books, it is structured like recipes book. Each recipe solves one specific problem, for example: how to write data to a file, how to load JPG/PNG images, how to handle incoming message, how to dial a phone number, etc.

All the recipes are categorized in 10 different technology areas, i.e.:

• File Handling
• Contacts & Agenda
• Networking
• Messaging
• Graphics and Drawing
• 3D Graphics
• Multimedia
• Telephony
• Connectivity
• Location-based Services

The example source code will be available soon on Symbian Press web site soon (once the book has started selling).

For now, you can download the source code of our Quick Recipes Taster booklet. The booklet is basically the stripped-down version of the book.