Design Patterns

Book Description
Design patterns books have been gaining popularity since languages like Java and C++ first became widely used. Since Microsoft released its first truly object-oriented language, .NET, software designers from an even broader range of business and programming spheres have been looking for ways to refine and write better code. Many have turned toward design patterns, iterative and AGILE design methodologies, and other more defined ways to improve performance, maintainability, portability, and scalability of code as well as design processes. This book fits into that need in that it can teach people who write software new skills and techniques for improving their existing and new coding efforts.

Product Details

Paperback: 300 pages
Publisher: Wordware Publishing, Inc. (November 25, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1598220314
ISBN-13: 978-1598220315

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Upgrading To Php 5

Upgrading to PHP 5

ISBN: 0596006365 Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc. Author: Adam Trachtenberg

Description:
If you’re using PHP 4, then chances are good that an upgrade to PHP 5 is in your future. The more you’ve heard about the exciting new features in PHP 5, the sooner that upgrade is probably going to be. Although an in-depth, soup-to-nuts reference guide to the language is good to have on hand, it’s not the book an experienced PHP programmer needs to get started with the latest release. What you need is a lean and focused guide that answers your most pressing questions: what’s new with the technology, what’s different, and how do I make the best use of it? In other words, you need a copy of Upgrading to PHP 5. This new book is targeted toward PHP developers who are already familiar with PHP 4. Rather than serve as a definitive guide to the entire language, the book zeroes in on PHP 5’s new features, and covers these features definitively. You’ll find a concise appraisal of the differences between PHP 4 and PHP 5, a detailed look at what’s new in this latest version, and you’ll see how PHP 5 improves on PHP 4 code. See PHP 4 and PHP 5 code side-by-side, to learn how the new features make it easier to solve common PHP problems. Each new feature is shown in code, helping you understand why it’s there, when to use it, and how it’s better than PHP 4. Short, sample programs are included throughout the book. Topics covered in Upgrading to PHP 5 include: The new set of robust object-oriented programming features An improved MySQL extension, supporting MySQL 4.1, prepared statements, and bound parameters Completely rewritten support for XML: DOM, XSLT, SAX, and SimpleXML Easy web services with SOAP SQLite, an embedded database library bundled with PHP 5 Cleaner error handling with exceptions Other new language features, such as iterators, streams, and more. Upgrading to PHP 5 won’t make you wade through information you’ve covered before. Written by Adam Trachtenberg, coauthor of the popular PHP Cookbook, this book will take you straight into the heart of all that’s new in PHP 5. By the time you’ve finished, you’ll know PHP 5 in practice as well as in theory.

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Generalized Voronoi Diagram

Generalized Voronoi Diagram: A Geometry-based Approach to Computational Intelligence
Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence , Vol. 158
Gavrilova, Marina (Ed.)
2009, Approx. 335 p. 133 illus., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-540-85125-7
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Not yet published. Available: January 3, 2009
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The year 2008 is a memorial year for Georgiy Voronoi (1868 -1908), with a number of events in the scientific community commemorating his tremendous contribution to the area of mathematics, especially number theory, through conferences and scientific gatherings in his honor. A notable event taking place in September 2008 a joint conference: the 5th Annual International Symposium on Voronoi Diagrams (ISVD) and the 4th International Conference on Analytic Number Theory and Spatial Tessellations held in Kyiv, Georgiy Voronoi’s native land. The main ideas expressed by G. Voronoi’s through his fundamental works have influenced and shaped the key developments in computation geometry, image recognition, artificial intelligence, robotics, computational science, navigation and obstacle avoidance, geographical information systems, molecular modeling, astrology, physics, quantum computing, chemical engineering, material sciences, terrain modeling, biometrics and other domains.

This book is intended to provide the reader with in-depth overview and analysis of the fundamental methods and techniques developed following G. Voronoi ideas, in the context of the vast and increasingly growing area of computational intelligence. It represents the collection of state-of-the art research methods merging the bridges between two areas: geometric computing through Voronoi diagrams and intelligent computation techniques, pushing the limits of current knowledge in the area, improving on previous solutions, merging sciences together, and inventing new ways of approaching difficult applied problems. Some chapters of the book were invited following the successful 3rd Annual International Symposium on Voronoi Diagrams (ISVD’06), that took place in Banff, Canada, in June 2006. Some others are direct submissions by leading international experts in the prospective areas.
Written for:

Engineers, researchers, and graduate students in computational intelligence and computer science
Keywords:

* Computational Intelligence
* Geometry Based Approach

# Hardcover: 334 pages
# Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (Not yet published. Available: January 3, 2009)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 3540851259
# ISBN-13: 978-3540851257

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Mcts Self-paced Ting Kit (exam 70-640): Configuring Wind

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Ten Years Thinner: 6 Weeks To A Leaner, Younger-looking You

Ten Years Thinner: 6 Weeks to a Leaner, Younger-Looking You

Da Capo Lifelong Books | 2008 | ISBN: 0738212539 | Pages: 288 | PDF
Ten Years Thinner presents Yale-educated medical doctor Christine Lydon’s highly innovative diet and exercise program, every element of which Dr. Lydon has designed to fundamentally change how the body deals with food-all with the goal of developing a body chemistry that favors a youthful, toned, flab-free physique.To simplify the dietary transition to a higher metabolism, Ten Years Thinner includes a meal plan and dozens of quick, easy recipes that take the guesswork out of eating for a fabulous physique. Ten Years Thinner’s fully illustrated work-out component, also specifically designed for sustainability, focuses on exercises that both maximize fat burning and combat the aging process-in less than 25 minutes a day.

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Taking Care Of Your Child (2009)

Taking Care of Your Child – A Parent’s Illustrated Guide to Complete Medical Care (2009)
Da Capo Lifelong Books | English | 2009-06-01 | ISBN: 0738213497 | 544 pages | PDF | 2.7 MB

Taking Care of Your Child offers the most recent information on obesity, behavioral issues, and other critical health concerns, along with updated immunization schedules and new material on complementary and alternative medicine.
Taking Care of Your Child is easy to use, even in a crisis. Parents can look up a symptom to find a complete explanation of probable causes, how serious they are, and how to relieve the problem at home. Easy-to-follow decision charts show exactly when to take a child to see a doctor. Covering more than 100 common complaints—like injuries, allergies, and childhood diseases—and with especially clear advice on handling emergencies, it is the indispensable guide for parents

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Bruce Lee Fighting Method Volume 1-4

Bruce Lee Fighting Method Volume 1
Black Belt Communications | ISBN 0897500504 | 1977 | PDF | 125 Pages | 6MB

This first volume in Bruce Lee’s Fighting Method contains detailed illustrations and vintage photos capturing Lee in his prime. The essential series, compiled and organized by his close friend, Mito Uyehara, is the perfect companion to Bruce Lee’s classic text, Tao of Jeet Kune Do. The Bruce Lee’s Fighting Method series is an integral part of the Bruce Lee canon and a necessary addition for collectors and martial arts enthusiasts alike.

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Amazing Weight Loss And Health Tips

Amazing Weight Loss and Health Tips

Amazing Weight Loss
Publisher: Patt Levine | ISBN: N\A | edition 2008 | PDF | 33 2pages | 2,39 mb

A FUN and EASY way to get more vitamins & minerals into your diet is by drinking freshly made fruit juices, vegetable juices, and by blending thick
and frothy smoothies and shakes from frozen fruit. A friend of mine describes drinking freshly made fruit juices like this:
“If you have never taken a mouthful of cantaloupe juice or strawberry juice mixed with apple, you simply have not lived. Blueberry juice is a
taste of liquid heaven.”

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Pro Netbeans Ide 6 Rich Client Platform Edition

Book Description

Pro NetBeans IDE 6 Rich Client Platform Edition is the second Apress book to cover the agile, open source NetBeans IDE platform. But the focus of this book is on enabling you to rapidly develop Java front ends of applications using API buttons, functions, and features mostly based in the Java SE 6 platform (instead of Java EE 5–based NetBeans 5.5 IDEa different platform/IDE altogether that published earlier in 2007):

* Enables you to click and use any of the Java Swing and other desktop Java graphical user interface (GUI) APIs available in Java SE 6 or prior
* Covers working with rich client platform features available in NetBeans for building web–based application front ends
* Shows you the web–tier development plug-ins available including JSF, Struts Action Framework 2.0, and JRuby for bringing the Ruby on Rails feature set to Java via NetBeans

For building back–end, server–side Java applications, pick up Pro NetBeans IDE 5.5 Enterprise Edition, which is based on APIs found in the Java EE 5.
What you’ll learn

* Easily install and set up your NetBeans IDE platform environment, and organize your projects.
* Use the NetBeans source editor, code compiler, refactoring, software development, profiler, collaboration, database, and debugger tools.
* Develop your Java Swing application for your desktop from start to finish.
* Deploy your Java Swing or other GUI application using Java Web Start features embedded in NetBeans.
* Build rich client applications using NetBeans plug–in module tools/features from start to finish.
* Extend your NetBeans IDE wish list to building Struts 2 and even JRuby (Ruby on Rails) based Java web application front ends.

Who is this book for?

Intended for Java developers of varying skill who may or may not be familiar with NetBeans IDE or Java IDEs in general.
About the Apress Pro Series

The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder.

You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard7ndash;won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career.

About the Author
Adam Myatt currently works as a project leader and systems analyst for GE Global Research, the worldwide R&D headquarters of General Electric located in Niskayuna, New York. Adam is an experienced Java developer holding the Sun Microsystems Certified Java Programmer certification. His work entails leading globally developed Java software and web applications through a rigorous software development lifecycle process. He is an active participant in a local Java users group and is an avid enthusiast of open source software. He has also worked for several area software firms prior to joining General Electric. Adam is a graduate of the computer science department at the State University of New York College at Potsdam.
Product Details

* Paperback: 491 pages
* Publisher: Apress (February 21, 2008)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 1590598954
* ISBN-13: 978-1590598955

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Atkins’ Physical Chemistry, 8th Edition

I’ve seen this out there over 500 Megs claiming HQ -High Quality…..but I really dont know what the big deal is……I made this one and its under 200 Megs and here’s some screens of it……look pretty quality to me

Atkins’ Physical Chemistry remains the benchmark of achievement for a chemistry degree throughout the world. The judicious choice of topics, the clear writing style of both authors, and the careful exposition of maths, reaffirm the book’s position as market leader. In the eighth edition the authors provide a more compact presentation through the careful restructuring and redistribution of material. The coverage of introductory topics has been streamlined, and later topics rationalized, bringing into sharper focus the scope of the text to mirror the needs of today’s students and lecturers. Mathematics remains an intrinsic yet challenging part of physical chemistry; the new edition offers greater explanation and support, to ensure that students can master the important mathematical principles, without sacrificing the rigour and depth of its mathematical content. The pedagogical framework, which is a hallmark of Atkins’ writing, has been strengthened further: new ‘Notes on good practice’ provide guidance on the use of terminology and help students to avoid common pitfalls; short ‘Commentaries’ remind students of the applications of mathematical and physical concepts, and provide useful cross-references to related resources in the book and on the accompanying companion web site. The eighth edition introduces new ‘Impact on’ sections which integrate the impact of physical chemistry on modern applications such as biology, biochemistry, medicine, nanoscience and astrophysics. All these exciting new features and innovations are presented within a new full colour text design, to stimulate and engage students still further.

# 1097 pages
# Publisher: Oxford University Press; 8Rev Ed edition (9 Mar 2006)
# Language English
# ISBN-10: 0198700725
# ISBN-13: 978-0198700722

…..there’s only 2 parts and yes its a PDF file…..

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