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Ruby in Practice increases your productivity by showing you specific Ruby techniques you can use in your projects. The book offers detailed strategies for using Ruby in a large-scale environment. You'll see concrete examples of integration, messaging, web development, and databases, all presented in a clear Problem/Solution format. This book won't help you push your deadline back, but it will help you get the job done in less time. Above all, Ruby in Practice is a practical book for developers who want an in depth understanding of the Ruby language and its toolset. The book is divided into three major parts. The first part concentrates on issues that developers face both from within their or...
How do you write truly elegant code with Ruby? Ruby Best Practices is for programmers who want to use Ruby as experienced Rubyists do. Written by the developer of the Ruby project Prawn, this concise book explains how to design beautiful APIs and domain-specific languages with Ruby, as well as how to work with functional programming ideas and techniques that can simplify your code and make you more productive. You'll learn how to write code that's readable, expressive, and much more. Ruby Best Practices will help you: Understand the secret powers unlocked by Ruby's code blocks Learn how to bend Ruby code without breaking it, such as mixing in modules on the fly Discover the ins and outs of t...
JSON is becoming the backbone for meaningful data interchange over the internet. This format is now supported by an entire ecosystem of standards, tools, and technologies for building truly elegant, useful, and efficient applications. With this hands-on guide, author and architect Tom Marrs shows you how to build enterprise-class applications and services by leveraging JSON tooling and message/document design. JSON at Work provides application architects and developers with guidelines, best practices, and use cases, along with lots of real-world examples and code samples. You’ll start with a comprehensive JSON overview, explore the JSON ecosystem, and then dive into JSON’s use in the ent...
At a fundamental level, service-oriented crowdsourcing applies the principles of service-oriented architecture (SOA) to the discovery, composition and selection of a scalable human workforce. Service-Oriented Crowdsourcing: Architecture, Protocols and Algorithms provides both an analysis of contemporary crowdsourcing systems, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk, and a statistical description of task-based marketplaces. The book also introduces a novel mixed service-oriented computing paradigm by providing an architectural description of the Human-Provided Services (HPS) framework and the application of social principles to human coordination and delegation actions. Finally, it examines previously...
Taking the interested novice to proficient practitioner, this beautifully written tutorial begins with the basic steps to get readers' first Ruby program up and running and goes on to explore sophisticated topics like callable objects, reflection, and threading.
Taledo’s Road is a story about the impact of westward expansion on some of the Native American tribes. The main characters and their story are fictional, but many of the historic battles and situations actually took place in American history. This story begins in the American southwest with the Apache bands, and their fight for survival in an ever changing land and country. The time period of this story also includes the issue of slavery, and American the Civil War. Many different topics are covered, such as the Indian Wars involving the Sioux and their Cheyenne allies. The Apaches and their wars for their southwest homeland are mentioned as well. Taledo’s Road illustrates the impact of Manifest Destiny on the Indigenous tribes and people that were previously living in this country. Although the influx of war and diseases devastated the Native American people and destroyed much of their culture, they did survive it. This book tells a tale of how they struggled and fought to survive in the face of unsurmountable odds. The story has some sad parts and situations, but everything can’t be happy when dealing with history.
A comprehensive, hands-on introduction to Microsoft's version of Python for the .NET framework. The book shows how to use IronPython with C♯, VB.NET, and ASP.NET applications. Readers will use IronPython as a Windows scripting tool, and see how it connects to PowerShell.
Summary MacRuby in Action is a tutorial for Ruby developers who want to code for Mac OS X without learning Objective-C. You'll learn the ins and outs of the MacRuby language, including straightforward examples of creating OS X applications using Cocoa components. About the Technology For Rubyists, it's a real drag switching to a static language like Objective-C for Mac development. Fortunately, you don't have to. MacRuby is a Ruby 1.9 implementation that sits right on the Mac OS X core. It gives you access to the Cocoa framework and easy interoperability with the Mac platform. About the Book MacRuby in Action teaches Ruby developers how to code OS X applications in Ruby. You'll explore key C...
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