Do you want to push Ruby to its limits? The Ruby Cookbook is the most comprehensive problem-solving guide to today's hottest programming language. It gives you hundreds of solutions to real-world problems, with clear explanations and thousands of lines of code you can use in your own projects. From data structures and algorithms, to integration with cutting-edge technologies, the Ruby Cookbook has something for every programmer. Beginners and advanced Rubyists alike will learn how to program with: <ul>
<li>Strings and numbers</li>
<li>Arrays and hashes</li>
<li>Classes, modules, and namespaces</li>
<li>Reflection and metaprogramming</li>
<li>XML and HTML processing</li>
<li>Ruby on Rails (including Ajax integration)</li>
<li>Databases</li>
<li>Graphics</li>
<li>Internet services like email, SSH, and BitTorrent</li>
<li>Web services</li>
<li>Multitasking</li>
<li>Graphical and terminal interfaces</li>
</ul> If you need to write a web application, this book shows you how to get started with Rails. If you're a system administrator who needs to rename thousands of files, you'll see how to use Ruby for this and other everyday tasks. You'll learn how to read and write Excel spreadsheets, classify text with Bayesian filters, and create PDF files. We've even included a few silly tricks that were too cool to leave out, like how to blink the lights on your keyboard. The Ruby Cookbook is the most useful book yet written about Ruby. When you need to solve a problem, don't reinvent the wheel: look it up in the Cookbook.

Ruby Cookbook

Computers & Technology

Carlson, Lucas

Richardson, Leonard

Web Development & Design

O'Reilly Media

<ul>
<li>This tutorial offers readers a thorough introduction to programming in Python 2.4, the portable, interpreted, object-oriented programming language that combines power with clear syntax</li> <li>Beginning programmers will quickly learn to develop robust, reliable, and reusable Python applications for Web development, scientific applications, and system tasks for users or administrators</li> <li>Discusses the basics of installing Python as well as the new features of Python release 2.4, which make it easier for users to create scientific and Web applications</li> <li>Features examples of various operating systems throughout the book, including Linux, Mac OS X/BSD, and Windows XP</li> </ul>

Beginning Python

Foster-Johnson, Eric

Diamond, Jason

Aitel, Dave

Norton, Peter C.

Samuel, Alex

Parker, Aleatha

Roberts,Michael

Programming Languages

Wrox

An anthology of nine outstanding science fiction and fantasy stories, published under a Creative Commons license.

Thoughtcrime Experiments

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Harihareswara, Sumana

Science Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The popularity of REST in recent years has led to tremendous growth in almost-RESTful APIs that don’t include many of the architecture’s benefits. With this practical guide, you’ll learn what it takes to design usable REST APIs that evolve over time. By focusing on solutions that cross a variety of domains, this book shows you how to create powerful and secure applications, using the tools designed for the world’s most successful distributed computing system: the World Wide Web.
You’ll explore the concepts behind REST, learn different strategies for creating hypermedia-based APIs, and then put everything together with a step-by-step guide to designing a RESTful Web API.
<ul>
<li>Examine API design strategies, including the collection pattern and pure hypermedia</li>
<li>Understand how hypermedia ties representations together into a coherent API</li>
<li>Discover how XMDP and ALPS profile formats can help you meet the Web API "semantic challenge"</li>
<li>Learn close to two-dozen standardized hypermedia data formats</li>
<li>Apply best practices for using HTTP in API implementations</li>
<li>Create Web APIs with the JSON-LD standard and other the Linked Data approaches</li>
<li>Understand the CoAP protocol for using REST in embedded systems</li>
</ul>

RESTful Web APIs: Services for a Changing World

Amundsen, Mike

Ruby, Sam

Why spend time on coding problems that others have already solved when you could be making real progress on your Ruby project? This updated cookbook provides more than 350 recipes for solving common problems, on topics ranging from basic data structures, classes, and objects, to web development, distributed programming, and multithreading.
Revised for Ruby 2.1, each recipe includes a discussion on why and how the solution works. You’ll find recipes suitable for all skill levels, from Ruby newbies to experts who need an occasional reference. With Ruby Cookbook, you’ll not only save time, but keep your brain percolating with new ideas as well.
Recipes cover:
<ul>
<li>Data structures including strings, numbers, date and time, arrays, hashes, files and directories</li>
<li>Using Ruby’s code blocks, also known as closures</li>
<li>OOP features such as classes, methods, objects, and modules</li>
<li>XML and HTML, databases and persistence, and graphics and other formats</li>
<li>Web development with Rails and Sinatra</li>
<li>Internet services, web services, and distributed programming</li>
<li>Software testing, debugging, packaging, and distributing</li>
<li>Multitasking, multithreading, and extending Ruby with other languages</li>
</ul>

Ruby Cookbook: Recipes for Object-Oriented Scripting

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our April 2022 issue (#187) contains: Original fiction by Thoraiya Dyer ("Doc Luckless and the Stationmistress"), Leonard Richardson ("Two Spacesuits"), Greg Egan ("Dream Factory"), Pan Haitian ("Hanuman the Monkey King"), Beth Goder ("An Expression of Silence"), Martin Cahill ("An Urge To Create Honey"), and Parker Ragland ("The Carrion Droid, Zoe, and a Small Flame"). Non-fiction includes an article by Julie Novakova, interviews with Rachel Cordasco and Djuna, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.

Clarkesworld Issue 187 (Clarkesworld Magazine)

Literature & Fiction

Dyer, Thoraiya

Egan, Greg

Clarke, Neil

Goder, Beth

Cahill, Martin

Ragland, Parker

Haitian, Pan

Short Stories & Anthologies

Wyrm Publishing

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our August 2022 issue (#191) contains: Original fiction by M. J. Pettit ("Tender, Tether, Shell"), Bo Balder ("The Pirates Counselor"), Finbarr O’Reilly ("Pollatomish"), Carrie Vaughn ("Polly and (Not) Charles Conquer the Solar System"), R.T. Ester ("Slight Forms"), Leonard Richardson ("The Scene of the Crime"), and Derrick Boden ("Migratory Patterns of the Modern American Skyscraper"). Non-fiction includes an article by Octavia Cade, interviews with Ashley Mackenzie and Anya Ow, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.

Clarkesworld Issue 191 (Clarkesworld Magazine)

Balder, Bo

Vaughn,Carrie

O’Reilly, Finbarr

Ester, R.T.

Boden, Derrick

Pettit, M. J.

First contact isn't all fun and games. Ariel Blum is pushing thirty and doesn't have much to show for it. His computer programming skills are producing nothing but pony-themed video games for little girls. His love life is a slow-motion train wreck, and whenever he tries to make something of his life, he finds himself back on the couch, replaying the games of his youth. Then the aliens show up. Out of the sky comes the Constellation: a swarm of anarchist anthropologists, exploring our seas, cataloguing our plants, editing our wikis, and eating our Twinkies. No one knows how to respond--except for nerds like Ariel who've been reading, role-playing and wargaming first-contact scenarios their entire lives. Ariel sees the aliens' computers, and he knows that wherever there are computers, there are video games. Ariel just wants to start a business translating alien games so they can be played on human computers. But a simple cultural exchange turns up ancient secrets, government conspiracies, and unconventional anthropology techniques that threaten humanity as we know it. If Ariel wants his species to have a future, he's going to have to take the step that nothing on Earth could make him take. He'll have to grow up.

Constellation Games

Literary

Candlemark & Gleam

The galaxy's two multi-species superpowers stand on the brink of yet another pointless war. Soldiers, draft-dodgers, smugglers and spies from both sides are rushing towards Cedar Commons, an uninhabited forest planet near the border. Everyone has some plan for fighting, avoiding, or profiting from the conflict. None of these plans are going to work out: war destroys plans as efficiently as it does lives. But as the visitors to this once-quiet planet discover each other, they'll make new friends, new enemies, and new plans that have a chance to end the war before it causes the collapse of several civilizations.

Situation Normal

Humor & Satire

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