Today Manning got to release seven new books on various topics – Rails, Android, Objective-C etc. Three of them being about Server Side Java, where two of them talk about portlets (Liferay in Action and Portlets in Action).

Take a look at the list:

1. Rails 3 in Action 
2. Android in Practice 
3. Objective-C Fundamentals 
4. Liferay in Action 
5. Portlets in Action 
6. Spring Batch in Action 
7. Dependency Injection in .NET

Thus, portlets made the topic of the week!

Also they announced some October releases. Notably, Mahout and Tika apparently going to make Text Mining the theme of the next month!

By the way, this week’s promotin says, you can get a discount (depending on the volume). Here is the exact quote:

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