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Rubyisms in Rails, Digital Shortcut

Addison Wesley, 2007

This is not a programming guide. Yes, there is code, but this digital shortcut is not about coding. Rather, this is really a short about design, about philosophy, and about appreciating beauty. This short looks at the way in which the grace of Ruby informs the design of Rails.

This is a surprisingly...

HBase in Action

Manning Publications, 2012

I got my start with HBase in the fall of 2008. It was a young project then, released only in the preceding year. As early releases go, it was quite capable, although not without its fair share of embarrassing warts. Not bad for an Apache subproject with fewer than 10 active committers to its name! That was the height of the NoSQL...

Making Innovation Pay: People Who Turn IP Into Shareholder Value

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

Early Praise for MAKING INNOVATION PAY: "Bruce Berman has persuaded, arm twisted and otherwise cajoled today’s most successful patent practitioners into telling their stories and allowing him to tell theirs. Until now, no book has discussed innovation in so resolutely clear-eyed, personal and practical business terms…...

How to Argue: Powerfully, Persuasively, Positively

Pearson Education, 2012

The ability to persuade, influence and convince is a vital skill for success in work and life. However, most of us have little idea how to argue well. Indeed, arguing is still seen by many as something to be avoided at all costs, and mostly it's done poorly, or not at all. Yet it's possibly the most powerful and yet most neglected...

Detecting the Social: Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book analyses the ways in which twenty-first century detective fiction provides an understanding of the increasingly complex and often baffling contemporary world ? and what sociology, as a discipline, can learn from it.

Conventional sociological accounts of fiction generally comprehend its value in terms of...

Visual Basic .NET Design Patterns

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Experience gives programmers a variety of wisdom. As programmers gain experience, they may recognize new problems as being similar to problems they have solved before. With even more experience, they recognize that solutions for similar problems follow recurring patterns. By being aware of these patterns, experienced programmers recognize...

Inside the Box: Leading With Corporate Values to Drive Sustained Business Success

Jossey-Bass, 2006

How to turn company values into competitive advantage

We are inclined, for whatever reason, to treat values like works of art. We view them as nice to hang on the wall, and beautiful to look at, but we don’t act as though they truly mean much to us in the real world. In fact, the opposite is true. The best...

Web Design for ROI: Turning Browsers into Buyers & Prospects into Leads

New Riders Publishing, 2007

This book is a child borne, like many others, of a cosmic combination of passion, frustration, experience, and luck.

Passion—we quite simply love what we do and care deeply about the results. We hope we’re able to communicate this in our writing.

Frustration—it seems for every victory we gain with...

International Investment for Sustainable Development: Balancing Rights and Rewards

Earthscan, 2004

This book is the culmination of the International Sustainable and Ethical Investment Rules Project, a collaboration of researchers from the following five non-governmental organization (NGO) think-tanks:

African Centre for Technology Studies, Nairobi, Kenya;

Fundacion ECOS, Punta del Este, Uruguay;

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