FW: CSS Cookbook, 3rd Edition

 

 

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CSS Cookbook, 3rd Edition (Animal Guide) By Christopher Schmitt * Publisher: O'Reilly Media * Number Of Pages: 768 * Publication Date: 2009-12-30 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 059615593X * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780596155933 Product Description: Learn how to solve the real problems you face with CSS. This cookbook offers hundreds of practical examples for using CSS to format your web pages, and includes code samples you can use right away. You'll find exactly what you need, from the basics to complex hacks and workarounds. Each recipe explains how to customize a solution to meet your needs, and each chapter features a sample design that showcases the topics discussed. You'll learn about the behavior of the latest browsers-including IE 8, Firefox 3, Safari 4, and Google Chrome-and how you can resolve differences in the ways they display your web pages. Arranged in a convenient format for quick reference, this third edition is a valuable companion for anyone working with CSS. * Learn the basics, such as the CSS rule structure * Work with web typography and page layout * Create effects for images and other page elements * Learn techniques for configuring lists, forms, and tables * Design effective web navigation and create custom links * Get creative by combining CSS with JavaScript * Learn useful troubleshooting techniques * Explore features of HTML5 and CSS3 Summary: cook Rating: 4 The bo Read more...

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FW: The Shadow of Saganami

 

 

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The Star Kingdom has a new generation of officers! And this elite group hand-picked and trained by Honor Harrington herself is going to be needed immediately, as their first assignment turns out to be more dangerous than anyone expected. What was supposed to be a quiet outpost, far from the blazing conflict between the Star Kingdom of Manticore and the People's Republic of Haven has actually been targeted by an unholy alliance between the slaveholders of Manpower, the rival star kingdoms of Mesa and Monica, and the bureaucrats of the Solarian League. The alliance stands to benefit if the Havenites defeat Manticore, and are preparing for a surprise attack from the rear to divide Manticore's forces, which are already strained nearly to their limits. With their captain, the young Manticoran officers will risk their careers, if not their lives, on an unauthorized mission to expose and counter the threat to their Star Kingdom. Follow their journey as they show what they're made of as New York Times best-selling author David Weber begins a new series that will be a must for the hundreds of thousands of Honor Harrington fans. Read more...

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FW: Domain-Driven Design Using Naked Objects

 

 

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Domain-Driven Design Using Naked Objects By Haywood Dan * Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf * Number Of Pages: 375 * Publication Date: 2009-12-22 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1934356441 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781934356449 Product Description: Domain-driven design (DDD) focuses on what matters in enterprise applications: the core business domain. Using object-oriented principles, you can develop a domain model that all team members-including business experts and technical specialists-can understand. Even better, this model is directly related to the underlying implementation. But if you've tried building a domain-driven application then you'll know that applying the DDD principles is easier said than done. Naked Objects, an open-source Java framework, lets you build working applications simply by writing the core domain classes. Naked Objects automatically renders your domain object in a generic viewer--either rich client or HTML. You can use its integration with Fitnesse to test-drive the development of your application, story-by-story. And once developed, you can deploy your application either to the full Naked Objects runtime, or within your existing application infrastructure. In this book, Dan Haywood first gives you the tools to represent your domain as plain old Java objects, expressing business rules both declaratively and imperatively. Next, you'll learn the techniques to deepen your design while keeping it maintainable as the sco Read more...

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FW: Web Design for Developers: A Programmer's Guide to Design Tools and Techniques

 

 

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Web Design for Developers: A Programmer's Guide to Design Tools and Techniques By Brian Hogan, Hogan Brian * Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf * Number Of Pages: 300 * Publication Date: 2009-12-30 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1934356131 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781934356135 Product Description: Developers don't get to spend a lot of time thinking about design, but many secretly wish they knew how to make their applications look just a little bit better. This book takes you on a journey through a web site redesign, where you'll learn the basic concepts of design, color theory, typography, and accessibility. You'll learn how to take a sketch and transform it into a digital mockup in Photoshop, and then finally into a working web page. You'll see how to develop logos, icons, and buttons using Illustrator and Photoshop, and then code a web page that will load fast, be easy to maintain, and most of all, be accessible to all audiences. Read more...

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FW: Pomodoro Technique Illustrated: Can You Focus - Really Focus - for 25 Minutes?

 

 

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Pomodoro Technique Illustrated: Can You Focus - Really Focus - for 25 Minutes? By Noteberg Staffan * Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf * Number Of Pages: 144 * Publication Date: 2009-11-30 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1934356506 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781934356500 Product Description: You have so much you need to accomplish today. Your list is a mile long and you find yourself getting interrupted every other minute. You'd like to tell everyone to leave you alone, but most of the interruptions are coming from you! You think of a phone call you need to make or a web site you need to check and before you know it you're answering email, checking twitter, and finding a million other things to occupy your time. You need to focus---really focus. The Pomodoro Technique puts you back in charge of your day. You'll apply successful techniques from software engineering to identify what you should be doing today and to help you achieve your goals. Your mind won't wander when it is fully engaged in short bursts of focused activity. Learn to work less and accomplish more using nothing more than paper, pencil, and a simple kitchen timer. Set the timer and start on your next Pomodoro. When the bell rings take a break. This personal approach to timeboxing is at the core of the Pomodoro technique and this book is filled with advice on how get started and how to tailor it to your own needs. Summary: Interesting Productivity Approach Rating: 4 Read more...

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FW: CGArena ~ Volume 4, Issue 6 Dec - Jan 2010

 

 

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FW: 3dcreative ~ Issue 052 December 2009

 

 

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Editorial Welcome to the last issue of 2009, where we wrap up two of our tutorial series’ and get you ready for a fresh start in 2010! We’ll be tackling the final chapter of the Next Gen tutorial series with Joseph Harford for Max, Gavin Goulden for Maya, James Busby for LightWave, and John Hayes for modo, where we’ll be setting up our shaders and materials, and applying textures; moving on to set up a light rig and camera, and finishing with a final render. Each artist also finishes his chapter with a preview of what the character would look like in-game, so turn to p.88 to get your final fix of that Next Gen tutorial good stuff! And for those wondering what’s coming next month, to follow on from such a fantastic tutorial series, well here’s your answer: Due to popular demand we’ll be bringing you a second series of Environment Lighting, this time looking at an outdoor environment, specifically created to make it the ideal demo model for the lighting scenarios we’ll be teaching you. This series will come to you for Max and Mental Ray, Max and V-Ray, Maya, and Cinema 4D. We have a great artist line-up planned for you, and we’re even working on a third series of Environment Lighting tutorials as well, so you’ll want to stay tuned to 3DCreative in 2010 – that’s a heads up from me to you! We’ll also be finishing up with the final chapter of our Photoshop for 3D tutorial series, with Fabio M. Raghona teaching us how to create backgrounds for characters. Read more...

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FW: Listen 'n' Learn Spanish with Your Favorite Movies

 

 

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Listen 'n' Learn Spanish with Your Favorite Movies (Listen N Learn) By Scott Thomas, Gaby Thomas * Publisher: McGraw-Hill * Number Of Pages: 304 * Publication Date: 2009-10-20 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0071475656 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780071475655 Product Description: It’s a thumbs-up for this movie-inspired guide to learning Spanish 1. Pop in a movie in your DVD player 2. Turn on the Spanish soundtrack in the DVD options menu 3. Open up Listen ‘n’ Learn Spanish with Your Favorite Movies, and relax as you learn core Spanish vocabulary and phrases It is as easy as that to learn thousands of essential Spanish terms and expressions. You follow along using the book to decipher difficult Spanish passages while watching (and listening!) to a movie’s Spanish soundtrack. Listen ‘n’ Learn Spanish with Your Favorite Movies features comprehensive language notes and translations for: “The Fox and the Hound,” “March of the Penguins,” “The Absent-Minded Professor,” “Tarzan,” “Eight Below,” “Home Alone,” “Holes,” “Rocky III,” “Eragon,” “Hoosiers,” “The Chronicles of Narnia,” “The Princess Bride,” “Anne of Green Gables,” “Finding Nemo,” “The Incredibles,” and “Mary Poppins.” These films are all family favorites and can be easily rented from Netflix or other rental stores. Read more...

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FW: Sestrinskoe delo

 

 

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FW: Mission-Critical and Safety-Critical Systems Handbook and Magnetism

 

 

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Electromagnetic devices are crucial to the operation of modern society. They are used to convert energy from mechanical or thermal to an electrical form that may be easily transported over great distances; they can convert electrical energy into mechanical work through the medium of an electric motor; and they can be used to send and receive information around the globe. At this point in time, with issues of energy efficiency and production costs being crucial to the success of a product and becoming more important daily as a growing part of the world’s energy is consumed by electromagnetic systems, designers of these systems need to both understand and have access to effective design techniques and tools. The basic theory underlying the operation of these devices was developed in the nineteenth century and culminated in the work of Maxwell in 1873. The equations he proposed describe the basis of the operation of an electromagnetic system. The main problem has been in the solution of these equations in the presence of the geometries, boundary conditions, excitations and material properties which are found in real devices. Over the past half century, the development of digital computers and the numerical systems needed to compute the field accurately for arbitrary devices has meant that physical prototypes can largely be replaced with computer models and performance results obtained which are, usually, as good as those achieved through experimental systems. H Read more...

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FW: Trends in Intelligent Systems and Computer Engineering (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering)

 

 

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This volume contains contributions from participants in the 2007 International Multiconference of Engineers and Computer Scientists. Topics covered include Automated planning, Expert system, Machine learning, Fuzzy Systems, Knowledge-based systems, Computer systems organization, Computing methodologies, and industrial applications. The book offers the up to date information on advances in intelligent systems and computer engineering and also serve as an excellent reference work for researchers and graduate students working on intelligent systems and computer engineering. Read more...

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FW: Using Joomla: Building Powerful and Efficient Web Sites

 

 

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Using Joomla: Building Powerful and Efficient Web Sites By Crowder Kenneth, Severdia Ron * Publisher: O'Reilly Media * Number Of Pages: 416 * Publication Date: 2009-12-28 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0596804946 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780596804947 Product Description: Why use Joomla? Because with Joomla you don't need to have any technical expertise or web design experience to create effective websites and web apps. Whether you're creating your first website or building a multi-function site for a client, this book provides straightforward, hands-on instruction that makes it easy to learn this open source web content management system. Written by members of the Joomla Leadership Team, Using Joomla helps newcomers quickly learn the basics, while developers with Joomla experience will pick up best practices for building more sophisticated websites. You'll also find more than a dozen ways to extend the functionality of existing Joomla-built websites. Start building with Joomla in minutes! * Get guidelines for planning, creating, and organizing your content * Understand how to create and use Joomla templates to build websites quickly * Explore how components, modules, and plug-ins can extend your site's functionality * Increase your site ranking by using Joomla best practices * Use built-in components such as banners, news feeds, polls, search, and web links * Set up an online store, calendar, photo gallery, dis Read more...

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FW: Organizational Learning and Competitive Advantage

 

 

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Organizational Learning and Competitive Advantage By Professor Bertrand Moingeon, Professor Amy Edmondson * Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd * Number Of Pages: 240 * Publication Date: 1996-10-11 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0761951679 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780761951674 Product Description `In this volume, contributors from the fields of both strategic management and organizational behaviour have been brought together to explore the relationship between organizational learning and competitive advantage.... In their editorial introduction, Edmonson and Moingeon trace changes within the fields of strategy and organizational development that have encouraged a more integrative approach. On the strategy side, the emergence of the "resource view of the firm" has drawn attention to the importance of firm-specific resources including knowledge and how it is acquired, as sources of competitive advantage. On the other hand, organizational development practitioners have become increasingly interested in relating their traditional tasks more firmly to strategic business issues and concerns. The topic of organizational learning can thus be seen as a bridge, which is the intention of this volume to begin constructing, between these two fields.... The papers presented in this book offer a rich variety of concepts, frameworks and provovative ideas on organizational learning and its strategic implications. In addition, the theoretical presentations are often su Read more...

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FW: Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld

 

 

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Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld By Carr Jeffrey * Publisher: O'Reilly Media * Number Of Pages: 240 * Publication Date: 2009-12-23 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0596802153 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780596802158 Product Description: You may have heard about "cyber warfare" in the news, but do you really know what it is? This book provides fascinating and disturbing details on how nations, groups, and individuals throughout the world are using the Internet as an attack platform to gain military, political, and economic advantages over their adversaries. You'll learn how sophisticated hackers working on behalf of states or organized crime patiently play a high-stakes game that could target anyone, regardless of affiliation or nationality. Inside Cyber Warfare goes beyond the headlines of attention-grabbing DDoS attacks and takes a deep look inside multiple cyber-conflicts that occurred from 2002 through summer 2009. * Learn how cyber attacks are waged in open conflicts, including recent hostilities between Russia and Georgia, and Israel and Palestine * Discover why Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, Vkontakte, and other sites on the social web are mined by the intelligence services of many nations * Read about China's commitment to penetrate the networks of its technologically superior adversaries as a matter of national survival * Find out why many attacks originate from servers in the United States, and who Read more...

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FW: MAKE: Electronics: Learning by Discovery, December 2009

 

 

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MAKE: Electronics: Learning by Discovery By Charles Platt * Publisher: Make Books * Number Of Pages: 350 * Publication Date: 2009-12-17 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0596153740 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780596153748 Product Description: Want to learn the fundamentals of electronics in a fun, hands-on way? With Make: Electronics, you'll start working on real projects as soon as you crack open the book. Explore all of the key components and essential principles through a series of fascinating experiments. You'll build the circuits first, then learn the theory behind them! Build working devices, from simple to complex You'll start with the basics and then move on to more complicated projects. Go from switching circuits to integrated circuits, and from simple alarms to programmable microcontrollers. Step-by-step instructions and more than 500 full-color photographs and illustrations will help you use -- and understand -- electronics concepts and techniques. * Discover by breaking things: experiment with components and learn from failure * Set up a tricked-out project space: make a work area at home, equipped with the tools and parts you'll need * Learn about key electronic components and their functions within a circuit * Create an intrusion alarm, holiday lights, wearable electronic jewelry, audio processors, a reflex tester, and a combination lock * Build an autonomous robot cart that can sense its environment and avo Read more...

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FW: Pandemonium: Towards a Retro-Organization Theory

 

 

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Pandemonium: Towards a Retro-Organization Theory By Professor Gibson Burrell * Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd * Number Of Pages: 254 * Publication Date: 1997-05-06 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0803977778 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780803977778 Product Description: `Two volumes in one, Pandemonium is a disorganizationally challenging contribution to the postmodern theory of organizations which systematically questions the underlying assumptions and values of contemporary administrative science and organization theory' - Bryan S Turner, Deakin University `Pandemonium is a dark, Gothic place, full of danger and enchantment for all who enter its labyrinth, a retro-vision that seeks to ensare, disarm and disturb all who enter, whatever sense they make from the many opportunities it provides' - Stewart R Clegg, University of Western Sydney, Macarthur In this irreverent and inventive book, Gibson Burrell seeks to circumvent the established frameworks which have defined our understanding of organization and organizations. He brings us tales from under the edge which enmire us in the nether side of modernist organization. By looking backwards deep into the history of Western societies, and sideways across the broad domain of social and cultural theory, Pandemonium disconcerts and invigorates the domain of the study of organizations. Through his experimental device of the two-directional text, Burrell offers multi-layered meanings and a meta Read more...

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FW: Person-Centred Therapy: A European Perspective

 

 

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Person-Centred Therapy: A European Perspective By Professor Brian Thorne, Ms Elke Lambers * Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd * Number Of Pages: 256 * Publication Date: 1999-01-04 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0761951555 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780761951551 Product Description: This book brings together up-to-date contributions to the development of person-centred theory and practice from leading European practitioners. The book makes available for the first time in English some of the most significant theoretical ideas and practical applications of a distinguished group of contributors at the cutting edge of the approach. It also gives a valuable insight into a vibrant professional network whose members are making a significant impact on the European world of counselling and psychotherapy. Covering a wide range of person-centred issues, the book provides unique and challenging material that will act as a springboard for debate at many levels between experienced practitioners, supervisors, trainers and trainees. The diverse contributions reflect the vitality and originality of person-centred therapists throughout the European continent and the book will be of immense heuristic value as well as practical relevance. Review `In this scholarly book, Brian Thorne and Elke Lambers have gathered together significant contributions to the advancement of person-centred theory and practice from leading exponents of the approach in Austria, Belgi Read more...

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FW: Psychodrama

 

 

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Psychodrama (Creative Therapies in Practice series) By Mr Paul Wilkins * Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd * Number Of Pages: 160 * Publication Date: 1999-12-13 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0761957022 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780761957027 Product Description: This highly accessible and fascinating book introduces the rationale, theory and psychotherapeutic practice of psychodrama. It providing an insight into its origins, outlining its techniques and bringing to life the dynamic interrelationships which form the core of the practice. Following the theatrical process that lies at the heart of psychodrama, the book shows how the enactment of scenes from the past, present or future, whether real or imagined, can benefit the group of individuals involved, leading to unexpected insight and growth through creativity and spontaneity. Psychodramatic terms and processes are explained and illustrated using numerous examples from practice. Lively and informative, Psychodrama is an invaluable starting point for all those curious to learn about the approach, particularly new trainees or clients, and practising therapists who use other methods. Review `As with all Wilkins writings the book is thorough and well-researched, with a wealth of information arising from wide readership and personal communication... My own view is that the book fulfils its aim as an introduction to psychodrama for the audience it addresses. It also is packed with informati Read more...

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