Take advantage of Sinatra, the Ruby-based web application library and domain-specific language used by Heroku, GitHub, Apple, Engine Yard, and other prominent organizations. With this concise book, you will quickly gain working knowledge of Sinatra and its minimalist approach to building both standalone and modular web applications. Sinatra serves as a lightweight wrapper around Rack middleware, with syntax that maps closely to functions exposed by HTTP verbs, which makes it ideal for web services and APIs. If you have experience building applications with Ruby, you’ll quickly learn language fundamentals and see under-the-hood techniques, with the help of several practical examples. Then you’ll get hands-on experience with Sinatra by building your own blog engine. Learn Sinatra’s core concepts, and get started by building a simple application Create views, manage sessions, and work with Sinatra route definitions Become familiar with the language’s internals, and take a closer look at Rack Use different subclass methods for building flexible and robust architectures Put Sinatra to work: build a blog that takes advantage of service hooks provided by the GitHub API
IronPython represents a unique direction for developers interested in working with dynamic languages within the .NET Framework. Whether you're looking to develop applications from scratch or add functionality and maintainability to an existing application, IronPython opens many doors while providing a high–speed, high–performance language that integrates tightly with other .NET languages. Learn to create applications using the benefits of a dynamically typed language. Discover how to leverage the power of IronPython to improve existing applications. Explore interacting with other .NET languages by invoking the common language runtime.
To be a successful ASP.NET 4 developer, you need to know how to apply the vast array of new functionality available in the latest release of the .NET 4 Framework and Visual Studio 2010. This book will immerse you in a variety of advanced topics, including architecting different application data tiers, memory caching paradigms, data mining, and search engine optimization. Working through step-by-step exercises using P/LINQ, DLR, MEF, MVC, IronPython, Axum, and Ajax, you will learn a variety of approaches to building each of the key application tiers common to all web solutions. Using a proven technique of illustrating advanced concepts with functional solutions, all topics in the book are modeled on a fully operational content management system (CMS), built from the ground up. This ensures that you’ll be introduced to real-world examples that demonstrate the full functionality of the .NET 4 Framework for ASP.NET, and that you’ll be able to apply your new skills to any web development situation.
Drawing on the key principles of some of today's most popular fitness trends, an all-encompassing workout resource shares recommendations for losing weight, strength training, and getting in shape by combining the philosophies of yoga, aerobics, and Pilates, in a guide complemented by two workouts on the accompanying DVD. Original.
“From its founding, Rice University has been an institution devoted to making a strong impact on the world,” according to current president David Leebron. Nestled near Houston’s cultural heart, Rice University is characterized by seriousness of purpose as well as by such quirky traditions as the MOB (Marching Owl Band). In Rice University: One Hundred Years in Pictures, more than 300 photographs tell the story of a century of student life, a world-famous faculty, and news-making events. Distinguished by its dignified architecture and stately grounds, respected for its intellectual depth and international reputation, and loved by its alumni for the community fostered by residential colleges, moderate size, and diverse campus organizations, Rice University celebrates its centennial in 2012. This collection of unique images, artfully supplemented by brief narrative, explanatory captions, and carefully chosen text sidebars, presents vignettes of significant episodes, characters, and events. A splendid commemoration of one hundred years of distinguished academics, groundbreaking research, and the spirited students and faculty who have made this institution unique among American universities, Rice University: One Hundred Years in Pictures pays fitting tribute to an eminent citadel of learning and the people who have made it great.
Now it can be told! The true, behind-the-scenes story of Casablanca Records, from an eyewitness to the excess and insanity. Casablanca was not a product of the 1970s, it was the 1970s. From 1974 to 1980, the landscape of American culture was a banquet of hedonism and self-indulgence, and no person or company in that era of narcissism and druggy gluttony was more emblematic of the times than Casablanca Records and its magnetic founder, Neil Bogart. "And Party Every Day" is a frontline look at the record label that exploded onto the 1970s music scene, rising faster, burning brighter, and crashing in a more spectacular fashion than any other label in history. From Bogart's daring first signing, the positively pyrotechnic "Kiss", through the discovery and superstardom of Donna Summer and the Village People - not to mention extraterrestrial funk master George Clinton and his circus of freaks, Parliament Funkadelic - to the descent into the manic world of disco and its attendant vices, this book charts Bogart's meteoric success and eventual collapse under the weight of uncontrolled ego and hype. A compelling tale of ambition, greed, excess, and some of the era's most biggest music acts. Written with great candour and humour by Larry Harris, Casablanca's co-founder and former senior vice president and managing director, "And Party Every Day" is the only definitive and firsthand look at Casablanca's remarkable story, and a breathtaking view of that great American era of extravagance. It includes dozens of never-before-seen photos and a complete discography.
First published in 1976. It can be argued that both moral and religious education are undervalued in schools. The author, Alan Harris, believes that too many people think of them as indoctrinatory subjects with moral educators’ telling people what they ought to do and religious educators telling them what they ought to believe. By a combination of practical examples of both good and bad teaching from the classroom and clear, analytical examination of what is meant by moral and religious education, the author shows that the object of both subjects should be to help pupils form their own judgements.
Quest is a Key Stage 3 history series. It has been extensively researched and developed since the first publication to continue to help meet real teachers' concerns and problems with teaching history at this level. The Quest students' books introduce a range of historical concepts. The support guides test and develop these concepts through tasks and activities, providing the opportunity to assess each student.
Tales of Larkin: Hawthorn's Discovery is a Christian fiction novel involving three tribes of one-inch-tall people living in the woods, facing the dangers of ants the size of bulldogs, lizards as big as dragons, and snakes as threatening as runaway freight trains. If these ever-present dangers are not menacing enough, the Larkin's enemies, the brutal Renegades, are actively seeking to destroy as well. Hawthorn is a young Larkin facing his first opportunity to hunt for his people when he and others are captured by angry Renegades. Dramatically rescued by a people whose existence he had never known, Hawthorn is not only taught about the true God, but this devout tribe plans and executes a rescue of his other friends who remain in bondage. With delightful characters, nonstop action, laugh-out-loud humor, and abundant examples of godly character, the story offers spiritual insights that are a delight to discuss and lead to challenging, potentially life-changing application. It is an adventure that is best experienced together as a family."--Amazon.com.
The Quest series is a course for history at Key Stage 3 that offers a progressive approach designed to appeal to pupils through: a narrative style with carefully controlled language level; a visual layout; character guides to the toics, highlighting issues and raising questions; and a continuous timeline reinforcing the chronology of events. Focusing specifically on the Roman world, this guide provides resource material to accompany the pupil's book.
Everything you ever wanted to know about storks, ibises and spoonbills. Some of the world's largest and most spectacular birds are to be found among this group of wading birds. Tragically, they also include many of the world's most endangered species, as changes in land use erode their wetland habitats. Some like the White Stork have lived alongside humans for hundreds of years and are well known from numerous studies. Others, like the Storm's stork and ibises of West Africa, South-East Asia and South America live so secluded a life in the remote corners of the globe that they will probably be extinct before even the most basic details of their biology are known. In this monograph, three authors and two artists have combined their skills to capture what is known of this group of wading birds. The text opens with general chapters on taxonomy and feeding, breeding and behaviour, followed by detailed coverage of each species.
Memoir of a Western Australia farmer, Alan Harris (1897-1953), during the Great Depression from 1926 to 1937. Written in 1938, it was rejected by several publishers as his philosophy and political outlook were not acceptable at the time. Alan was born in Katanning in the south west of Western Australia, leaving school at 14 to work in a bank. He then served in the Army gaining the rank of Sergeant. He began farming in the Gnowangerup district in 1926 and the story of his farmlife as recounted begins there. Includes maps and index. Proceeds from book sales go to Cancer Foundation of Western Australia.
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