Ruby is an increasingly popular, fully object-oriented dynamic programming language, hailed by many practitioners as the finest and most useful language available today. When Ruby first burst onto the scene in the Western world, the Pragmatic Programmers were there with the definitive reference manual, Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic...
Many foods depend on additives for safety, stability or preservation. Foods are packaged to protect them and keep them in good condition while they are delivered to shops, stacked on shelves or stored at home. The packaging material has to both preserve the food and to protect it from deterioration, outside contamination or damage during...
A guide to completing Python projects for those ready to take their skills to the next level
Python Projects is the ultimate resource for the Python programmer with basic skills who is ready to move beyond tutorials and start building projects.
Unlike other packaging titles, which simply provide templates to copy, this book enables designers of all packaging types to create 3-D packaging forms that are specific to their needs rather than based on an existing design. Structural Packaging gives the reader an understanding of the underlying principles of packaging construction...
DotNetNuke creator Shaun Walker leads this superlative author team of MVPs while delivering the latest update of a bestseller. They offer complete coverage of the major revisions to DotNetNuke 5, such as more granular administration, widgets, XHTML compliance, improved social networking, workflow, and better content management. They thoroughly...
A complete revision to a popular SharePoint developer's resource
Fully updated for SharePoint 2013, this book is an ideal starting place for SharePoint development. Covering all the major topics that a new developer needs to know in order to get started, this resource contains 100 percent new content and addresses the...
Now that Director supports JavaScript and DVD-Video, it's hard to come up with a reason not to use it for all of your interactive Web content creation needs. Buy this book, and you soon will be! In this volume (which is based on the curriculum employed by Macromedia's authorized trainers), veteran author ...
This extensively updated second edition was created for medical device, medical packaging, and food packaging design engineers, material product technical support, and research/development personnel. This comprehensive databook contains important characteristics and properties data on the effects of sterilization methods on plastics and...
Eating junk food and fast food is a great all-American passion. American kids and grownups love their candy bars, Big Macs and supersized fries, Doritos, Twinkies, and Good Humor ice cream bars. The disastrous health effects from the enormous appetite for these processed fat- and sugar-loaded foods are well publicized now. This was particularly...
A shell is a sophisticated way to control your computer—Unix, Linux, Microsoft Windows,
Mac OS X, and others. If you do more than the most basic operations, you can do many of them
more powerfully and quickly with a shell and your keyboard than by using a mouse.
The history of shells goes back some 30 years. In the early...
