book : "Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup"

In these tough economic times, some of you who are developers may think to start their own business. The Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup book is about developers who want to start their startup. David Welton has written a review on his blog : Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup.

I find the « Starting for the Right Reasons » discussion very useful : it's so easy to be wrong on this.

Here is an extract :

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Most developers want to build software products for the wrong reasons.

Reason #1 : Having a Product Idea
If you have an idea for a product, odds are high that you have a product/project confusion.

A project is a software application you build as a fun side project.
[...]

A product is a project that people will pay money for. In other words, it's a project that has a market (a group of people who want to buy it). Without a market, a software application is just a project.

Most developers who come up with an idea know exactly how they will build it, but no idea how they will reach potential customers. They think a link on TechCrunch will drive hundreds, if not thousands, of sales.

On rare occasions the product-first approach works, but for the most part it's a recipe for failure.
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books on Android from Mark Murphy (CommonsWare) available in ebook format

Mark Murphy from CommomsWare makes he's 3 books on Android available in ebook's MOBI format (Kindle).

The books are :

• Android Programming Tutorials v1.1, supports SDK 1.6/2.0
• The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development v2.8, supports SDK 2.0
• The Busy Coder's Guide to Advanced Android Development v1.2, supports SDK 1.6r1

book : Unlocking Android available in mobi and epub format for eBooks

Manning has the very good idea to make it's books available not only in PDF format, but also in EPUB and MOBI format, allowing to read them on eBook readers.

Manning publishes a book on Android : Unlocking Android. It covers the SDK 1.x.

Tutorial and Advanced Android books to complete The Busy Coder's Guide series

Mark L. Murphy currently writes a tutorial Android Programming Tutorials. It's available in 0.9 version on the CommonsWare website (http://commonsware.com/Android/).

There is also a new Advanced Android Development in 0.8 version in The Busy Coder's Guide series. It's available in 0.8 version on the CommonsWare website (http://commonsware.com/Android/).

And finaly, there's a new 2.0.3 version of the original Android Development available on the CommonsWare website (http://commonsware.com/Android/).

News on CommonsWare are also available on the group cw-android (http://groups.google.com/group/cw-android).

Book : The busy Coder's Guide

Mark L. Murphy's book The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development is available on Amazon.com. It is also available in PDF or Kindle format on Mark L. Murphy's CommonsWare web site.

Having it on the CommonsWare's web site, you have access to the more up-to-date version of the book, and you also have access to all the other books available, just for the $35 annual subscription.

Android book

This is one book to learn programming on Android : Unlocking Android (http://www.manning.com/ableson/) from Manning Publications Co.

This publisher has the very good idea to make most of it's books available as PDF e-books. And e-books are even made available chapter by chapter during their writing through an early access program.