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If you looking for ebooks on programming, and have been searching all over the net including megaupload and rapidshare just to download ebooks for free, APress maybe is a good place to visit.

APress book publisher, with its motto “Books for Professionals by Profesionals” gives away 8 ebooks free for visitors. All ebooks are in pdf (portable document format), which are easily to open via Acrobat Reader. You can download all ebooks with a download accelerator, because it does support it.

Here the list of free ebooks from APress:

1. A Programmer’s Introduction to PHP 4.0 (PHP Book, Web Development Book) size: 4.2 MB of ebook and along with it you can download accompanied source code (60kb zip file)
   

   No matter what language you are familiar with, this book will benefit you. Beginning with a rapid introduction to PHP’s syntax and basic functionality, you will swiftly understand PHP. The book then steers you toward advanced issues, like PHP’s role in database manipulation, sessions, and user interactivity.

   . Click here to download A Programmer’s Introduction to PHP 4.0 ebook and the source code.

2. Writing Perl Modules for CPAN(Perl Book) size 3.44 MB
   

   Writing Perl Modules for CPAN offers Perl developers a comprehensive guide to using and contributing to the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Starting with a general overview of CPAN’s history, network topology, and navigational mechanisms, the book quickly brings you up to speed regarding how to search out and install available modules. However, in the true open source spirit, author and experienced Perl developer Sam Tregar teaches you how to not only use, but also contribute to CPAN via an in-depth discussion of module creation, submission, and maintenance.

   . Click to download Writing Perl Modules for CPAN

3. Programming VB .NET: A Guide For Experienced Programmers (Visual Basic.NET ebook) size 3.93 MB
   

   In Programming VB .NET: A Guide for Experienced Programmers, authors Gary Cornell and Jonathan Morrison carefully explain the exciting new features of Visual Basic .NET. Since VB .NET is, for all practical purposes, a whole new language even for the most experienced Visual Basic programmers, developers need to think differently about many familiar topics. Cornell and Morrison are there to help you with careful discussions of each topic.

   Click to download free ebook: Programming VB .NET: A Guide For Experienced Programmers (the ebook has gone away)

4. COM and .NET Interoperability (COM, .NET ebook) size: 6.36 MB
   

   COM and .NET Interoperability provides a complete overview of the process of building .NET applications that interact (interoperate) with existing COM code. Before digging into that critical topic, author Andrew Troelsen offers a concise overview of the COM architecture and provides examples using various COM frameworks (C++, ATL, and VB 6.0) as well as the core .NET managed languages (C# and VB .NET).
   After covering the preliminaries, the book explores numerous issues that arise in interoperability, including interacting with the Win32 API, dynamically generating source code via System.CodeDOM, creating serviced (COM+) components using managed code, manually editing (and recompiling) .NET metadata, and the process of constructing custom COM/.NET conversion utilities. Both intermediate and advanced developers will welcome the practical information they need to quickly work with COM and COM+ in .NET applications, and learn how to create .NET components that are COM compatible.

   Click here to download free ebook: COM and .NET Interoperability.(the ebook has gone away)

5. XML Programming: Web Applications and Web Services With JSP and ASP (XML, JSP, ASP ebook) size: 3.66 MB
   

   XML Programming: Web Applications and Web Services with JSP and ASP provides a fast-moving introduction to the XML family of technologies for programmers. Although written with a focus upon JSP- and ASP-based XML solutions, the book presents the material from a language-independent point of view that benefits all developers, whatever their language. The code is written to be readable by all.
   Chapters 1 through 3 cover the foundations of XML—well-formed and valid documents, DTDs and namespaces—but XLink, XPointer, and elements of XSLT are introduced early so the examples can be interesting and useful. Chapters 4 through 6 cover XML processing using SAX, DOM, and XSLT, separately and in various combinations. Each chapter progresses from simple to advanced examples.
   Chapter 7 is devoted to the development of a real world project involving the use of various XML technologies to create an information repository. In the context of the project, the authors present RDF and the Dublin Core; revisit XPath, XLink, and XPointer; and show how XML data can live inside a relational database. Chapter 8 introduces the newer validation technologies (RELAX NG and XML Schema), in preparation for the final chapter on Web services. In the concluding chapter, the authors not only explain the specifications, but also build working examples: You’re shown, step-by-step, how to convert a software module into a Web service, how to generate a WSDL description from code, how to use WSDL to generate stubs and skeletons for distributed language-independent applications, and how to register such applications with a UDDI repository, either local or on the Internet.
   XML Programming: Web Applications and Web Services with JSP and ASP is an indispensable resource for programmers who wish to become proficient in XML technologies and use them for solving large-scale, real-life problems.

   Click here to download free ebook: XML Programming: Web Applications and Web Services With JSP and ASP.

6. Google, Amazon, and Beyond: Creating and Consuming Web Services (Web Service ebook) size: 4.9 MB
   

   While many books are focused on the underlying technologies of web services and others are dedicated to providing web services, few books show how to consume web services. Google, Amazon, and Beyond: Creating and Consuming Web Services provides a thorough review of the technologies and techniques for connecting client applications to services of all kinds.
   Using a decidedly hands-on approach, authors Alexander Nakhimovsky and Tom Myers present extensive examples of programming with XML, SOAP, REST, and WSDL in JavaScript (tested in IE and Mozilla) and in Java (using open-source tools available on Windows, Linux, and OS X).

   Click here to download free ebook: Google, Amazon, and Beyond: Creating and Consuming Web Services.

7. Practical Common Lisp (LISP ebook) size: 17.45 MB
   

   Lisp is often thought of as an academic language, but it need not be. This is the first book that introduces Lisp as a language for the real world.
   Practical Common Lisp presents a thorough introduction to Common Lisp, providing you with an overall understanding of the language features and how they work. Over a third of the book is devoted to practical examples such as the core of a spam filter and a web application for browsing MP3s and streaming them via the Shoutcast protocol to any standard MP3 client software (e.g., iTunes, XMMS, or WinAmp). In other “practical” chapters, author Peter Seibel demonstrates how to build a simple but flexible in-memory database, how to parse binary files, and how to build a unit test framework in 26 lines of code.

   Click here to download free ebook: Practical Common Lisp.

8. Dissecting a C# Application: Inside SharpDevelop (C# ebook) size: 3.8 MB and source code accompanied: 5.9MB zip file.
   

   Learn advanced .NET programming techniques by getting an insider’s look at a complete application!
   The developers who created SharpDevelop give you the inside track on application development with a guided tour of the source code for SharpDevelop. They show you the most important code features and explain how you can use these techniques in your own projects. You will gain valuable experience of building an application on this scale, learning from the decisions, mistakes, problems, and solutions that led to the current version of SharpDevelop.

   Click here to download free ebook: Dissecting a C# Application: Inside SharpDevelop and the source code.

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