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Generative Art

Manning Publications, 2011

As a young man, this career shift wasn’t entirely motivated by a need to restore the right-left hemisphere balance to my young brain; it may also have had something to do with the worry that knowing a lot about Alan Turing and C++ was probably not the best way to get a girlfriend.

My studies of early 1990s ideas...

Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers

Princeton Press, 2011

Computing is transforming our society in ways that are as profound as the changes wrought by physics and chemistry in the previous two centuries. Indeed, there is hardly an aspect of our lives that hasn't already been influenced, or even revolutionized, by digital technology. Given the importance of computing to modern society,...

Games Diversions & Perl Culture: Best of the Perl Journal

O'Reilly, 2004

This is the third of three “Best of The Perl Journal” O’Reilly books, containing the créme de la créme of the 247 articles published during The Perl Journal ’s five-year existence as a standalone magazine. This particular book contains 47 articles about the leisure pursuits of Perl programmers....

Electromagnetic Fields in Mechatronics, Electrical And Electronic Engineering: Proceedings of Isef'05

IOS Press, 2006

This book contains the papers presented at the International Symposium on Electromagnetic Fields in Mechatronics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering ISEF’05 which was held in Baiona, Spain on September 15–17, 2005. ISEF conferences have been organized since 1985 as a common initiative of Polish and European...

Ultra-Fast ASP.NET 4.5

Apress, 2012

The time that I spent working at Microsoft was an unexpectedly transforming experience. The first half of my career regularly put me and the companies I worked with in competition with Microsoft, and I was often surrounded by anti-Microsoft stories and propaganda. However, when I heard about .NET, I decided I wanted to know more...

Illustrated C# 2012

Apress, 2012

The purpose of this book is to teach you the syntax and semantics of the C# programming language in as clear a manner as possible. C# is a wonderful programming language! I love coding in it. I don’t know how many programming languages I’ve learned over the years, but C# is by far my favorite. I hope that by using this...

EVE Online: ISK Strategy Guide

Packt Publishing, 2012

EVE Online is a popular sci-fi MMORPG with the reputation of being one of, if not the most complex and unforgiving MMO on the market. There are many players with years of experience playing EVE without ever fully understanding the game or achieving any kind of notable success.

This book differs from all the other written...

Mac OS X Power User's Guide (Mac/Graphics)

Course Technology PTR, 2002

So what is the big deal about a new operating system from Apple?

Just those very words: new, operating, system, and Apple are enough to get the blood of every Mac geek on the planet boiling with anticipation. But why should the rest of us care?

Having specialized in the Linux operating system for...

Responsive Web Design (Brief Books for People Who Make Websites, No. 4)

Book Apart, 2011

Language has magical properties. The word “glamour”—which was originally a synonym for magic or spell-casting—has its origins in the word “grammar.” Of all the capabilities of language, the act of naming is the most magical and powerful of all.

The short history of web design has already...

Jump Start CoffeeScript

SitePoint Pty Ltd, 2012

CoffeeScript is “a little language that compiles into JavaScript.”1 It aims to smooth over some of JavaScript’s rougher edges while highlighting and augmenting the impressive flexibility at the core of the JavaScript language. It’s clean, concise, and maintainable, and makes writing client-side code really, really...

Endurance: Winning Life's Majors the Phil Mickelson Way

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

As one of the five clubs that founded the United States Golf Association and with the first and oldest clubhouse in the United States (opened in 1892), Shinnecock Hills in Southampton, New York, is America’s version of St. Andrews, a links course bathed in beauty and rock-hard difficulty colored most brilliantly by...

Sertoli Cell Biology (Vol 1)

Academic Press, 2004

In 1993 Lonnie Russell and Michael Griswold edited a book titled The Sertoli Cell, which has served as a major resource for investigators interested in male reproduction. It is appropriate that now—more than 10 years later—the advances in this field are summarized in this new text. It is also appropriate that...

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