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Systems Thinking, Third Edition: Managing Chaos and Complexity: A Platform for Designing Business Architecture

Morgan Kaufmann, 2011

This is an unconventional book for an unconventional reader. It is intended for those professionals who, in addition to their specialized knowledge, would like to get a handle on life so they may put their special text into its proper context. It speaks to those thinkers and practitioners who have come to realize that learning to be...

The Microsoft Data Warehouse Toolkit: With SQL Server 2008 R2 and the Microsoft Business Intelligence Toolset

John Wiley & Sons, 2011

In the five years since the first edition was published, Microsoft has made impressive progress in building out its data warehousing and business intelligence tools suite. It is gratifying to those of us who work in this space to see the steady commitment that Microsoft has made to provide usable, professional quality tools. During...

ActionScript Developer’s Guide to Robotlegs

O'Reilly, 2011

In April 2009, Shaun Smith posted the following on his blog:

Want a framework like PureMVC but without Singletons, Service Locators, or casting? Perhaps one with Dependency Injection and Automatic Mediator Registration?

Well, you might enjoy RobotLegs AS3: yet another lightweight micro-architecture for Rich Internet...

The Photoshop Darkroom 2: Creative Digital Transformations

Focal Press, 2011

Back in the old days, working in a chemical darkroom, I could only have dreamed of a postprocessing tool as wonderful as Photoshop. But for me that’s exactly what Photoshop is—a tool. It’s a tool that helps me as a professional image creator. The image is what matters, not the tool.

The Photoshop...

Software Build Systems: Principles and Experience

Addison Wesley, 2011

Are you a software developer? Are you interested in how build systems work? You’re reading this book; so there’s a good chance you answered “Yes” to both questions. On the other hand, many software developers aren’t interested in how their program is compiled. Most people just want to press a button and...

Stock Trader's Almanac 2005

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

J.P. Morgan's classic retort "Stocks will fluctuate" is often quoted with a wink-of-the-eye implication that the only predication one can make about the stock market is that it will go up, down, or sideways. Many investors agree that no one ever really knows which way the market will move. Nothing could be farther from the truth. We...

Living in the Heart: How to Enter into the Sacred Space Within the Heart

Light Technology Publications, 2003

All over the planet Drunvalo Melchizedek is known and immensely loved as a great spiritual teacher. Through workshops and books he brought his vision of the Flower of Life and the Mer-Ka-Ba to the world. Now, based on his latest series of workshops, he shares his experiences of living in the sacred space within the heart, and he explains the...

The Permanent Pain Cure

McGraw-Hill, 2008

Are you taking medication or considering surgery because of pain? Have you lived with muscle or joint pain for years? Imagine your life today without pain. Imagine you hold the key to eliminating any future pain. Find it inside this book: a groundbreaking drug- and surgery-free healing plan from master pain therapist Ming Chew.

The Ming...

Algorithms

McGraw-Hill, 2006

This text, extensively class-tested over a decade at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego, explains the fundamentals of algorithms in a story line that makes the material enjoyable and easy to digest. Emphasis is placed on understanding the crisp mathematical idea behind each algorithm, in a manner that is intuitive and rigorous without being unduly...

Designing Interactions

MIT Press, 2007

Digital technology has changed the way we interact with everything from the games we play to the tools we use at work. Designers of digital technology products no longer regard their job as designing a physical objectÐ²Ð”beautiful or utilitarianÐ²Ð”but as designing our interactions with it. In Designing Interactions,...

Refactoring in Ruby

Addison Wesley, 2009

The First Hands-On, Practical, All-Ruby Refactoring Workbook!

Refactoring the art of improving the design of existing code has taken the world by storm. So has Ruby. Now, for the first time, there's a refactoring...

Python 3 Object Oriented Programming

Packt Publishing, 2010

Object Oriented Programming is a very important aspect of modern programming languages. The basic principles of Object Oriented Programming are relatively easy to learn. Putting them together into working designs can be challenging.

This book makes programming more of a pleasure than a chore using powerful Python 3 object-oriented...

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