Twenty-three major corporate leaders and entrepreneurs tell how their lives and careers have been influenced by their faith. Readers will find these real-life accounts from Guideposts magazine both inspiring and entertaining. Contributions from Thomas, Orville Reddenbacher, Wally Amos, Gayle Miller, Bill Bowerman, and 19 others.

Higher Than The Top Dfl

Dave Thomas

Sam Walton

Wally Amos

Religion & Spirituality

ABINGDON PRESS *

Depeche Mode

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Bobcat Books

En 'Bien hecho!' Dave Thomas revela los principios que lo ayudaron a ir desde la cocina de un pequeno restaurante hasta la junta directivea de Wendy's

Bien Hecho! (Spanish Edition)

Business & Money

Business Culture

Life Pubns Intl

The story of the Irish rock band U2 from their early beginnings through 1984; a discography through that year is included at the end of the book.

Arts & Photography

Music

Proteus Pub Co

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 Programmer's Guide. Now in its second edition, author Dave Thomas has expanded the famous Pickaxe book with over 200 pages of new content, covering all the improved language features of Ruby 1.8 and standard library modules. The Pickaxe contains four major sections:
<ul>
<li>An acclaimed tutorial on using Ruby.</li>
<li>The definitive reference to the language.</li>
<li>Complete documentation on all built-in classes, modules, and methods</li>
<li>Complete descriptions of all 98 standard libraries.</li>
</ul>
 If you enjoyed the First Edition, you'll appreciate the expanded content, including enhanced coverage of installation, packaging, documenting Ruby source code, threading and synchronization, and enhancing Ruby's capabilities using C-language extensions. Programming for the World Wide Web is easy in Ruby, with new chapters on XML/RPC, SOAP, distributed Ruby, templating systems, and other web services. There's even a new chapter on unit testing. This is the definitive reference manual for Ruby, including a description of all the standard library modules, a complete reference to all built-in classes and modules (including more than 250 significant changes since the First Edition). Coverage of other features has grown tremendously, including details on how to harness the sophisticated capabilities of irb, so you can dynamically examine and experiment with your running code. "Ruby is a wonderfully powerful and useful language, and whenever I'm working with it this book is at my side" --Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist, ThoughtWorks

Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition

Computers & Technology

Andy Hunt

Chad Fowler

Web Development & Design

Pragmatic Bookshelf

The definitive, Jolt-award winning guide to learning and using Rails is now in its Second Edition. Rails is a new approach to web-based application development that enables developers to create full-featured, sophisticated web-based applications using less code and less effort. Now programmers can get the job done right and still leave work on time.
NEW IN THE SECOND EDITION: The book has been updated to take advantage of all the new Rails 1.2 features. The sample application uses migrations, Ajax, features a REST interface, and illustrates new Rails features. There are new chapters on migrations, active support, active record, and action controller (including the new resources-based routing). The Web 2.0 and Deployment chapters have been completely rewritten to reflect the latest thinking. Now you can learn which environments are best for your style application, and see how Capistrano makes managing your site simple. All the remaining chapters have been extensively updated. Finally, hundreds of comments from readers of the first edition have been incorporated, making this book simply the best available.
Rails is a full-stack, open source web framework that enables you to create full-featured, sophisticated web-based applications with a twist...you can create a full Rails application using less code than the setup XML you'd need just to configure some other frameworks.
With this book, you'll learn how to use Rails Active Record to connect business objects and database tables. No more painful object-relational mapping. Just create your business objects and let Rails do the rest. You'll learn how to use the Action Pack framework to route incoming requests and render pages using easy-to-write templates and components. See how to exploit the Rails service frameworks to send emails, talk to web services, and interact dynamically with JavaScript applications running in the browser (the "Ajax" architecture).
You'll see how easy it is to deploy Rails. You'll be writing applications that work with your favorite database (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, and more) in no time at all.

Agile Web Development with Rails, 2nd Edition

David Hansson

Leon Breedt

Mike Clark

James Duncan Davidson

Justin Gehtland

Andreas Schwarz

The NIST estimates that poor testing costs the US economy $60 billion annually. This book gives teams straightforward and proven ways to introduce unit testing into their process, resulting in higher quality and fewer bugs.
All over the world, software teams are using unit testing both to verify their code and as a way of helping them design better code. This book is unique in the way it covers two aspects: showing developers both how to test and helping them determine what to test.
New in the second edition:
<ul>
<li>Updated for NUnit 2.4 (.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005)</li>
<li>More assert methods</li>
<li>New String and Collection assertion support</li>
<li>Better support for multiple-platform development</li>
<li>Higher-level setup and teardown fixtures</li>
<li>Whole new chapter on extending NUnit</li>
<li> and more!</li>
</ul>

Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit, 2nd Edition (Pragmatic Starter Kit Series, Vol. 2)

Matt Hargett

Programming

Dave Thomas: Guiding Me Home & Away

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Hornet Books Ltd

Agile Web Development with Rails 6

Sam Ruby

David B. Copeland

O'Reilly Media, Inc.

A Pocketful of Rhyme Cambridgeshire

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Young Writers

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