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Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:56:10 PST

Sams Teach Yourself MySQL in 10 Minutes

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:55:57 PST

Paolo Dona put "Sams Teach Yourself MySQL in 10 Minutes" onto shelf

Sams Teach Yourself MySQL in 10 Minutes provides a no-fluff, just-the-answers guide to building and managing MySQL databases. It is carefully organized and thoughtfully written to provide just the information that you need in order to gain a rapid working knowledge of MySQL. Get up to speed quickly with Sams Teach Yourself MySQL in 10 Minutes.

Design Patterns in Ruby

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:55:47 PST

Paolo Dona put "Design Patterns in Ruby" onto shelf

Praise for Design Patterns in Ruby "Design Patterns in Ruby documents smart ways to resolve many problems that Ruby developers commonly encounter. Russ Olsen has done a great job of selecting classic patterns and augmenting these with newer patterns that have special relevance for Ruby. He clearly explains each idea, making a wealth of experience available to Ruby developers for their own daily ...

Behind Closed Doors

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:55:37 PST

Paolo Dona put "Behind Closed Doors" onto shelf

Great management is difficult to see as it occurs. It's possible to see the results of great management, but it's not easy to see how managers achieve those results. Great management happens in one-on-one meetings and with other managers---all in private. It's hard to learn management by example when you can't see it. You can learn to be a better manager---even a great manager---with this g ...

Implementing Lean Software Development

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:55:24 PST

Paolo Dona put "Implementing Lean Software Development" onto shelf

"This remarkable book combines practical advice, ready-to-use techniques, anda deep understanding of why this is the right way to develop software. I haveseen software teams transformed by the ideas in this book." --Mike Cohn, author of Agile Estimating and Planning "As a lean practitioner myself, I have loved and used their first book for years.When this second book came out, I was delighted t ...

The 4-hour Work Week

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:06:55 PST

Paolo Dona put "The 4-hour Work Week" onto shelf

Analysis Patterns

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:58:18 PST

Paolo Dona put "Analysis Patterns" onto shelf

Patterns are higher-order designs that can be reused across projects and types of computer systems. Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models defines over 70 patterns, beginning with some from the business world, such as the Party and Accountability patterns, which define the players in organizations and whom they report to. Many of the other patterns are drawn from the health care industry and m ...

Enterprise Integration with Ruby

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:57:21 PST

Paolo Dona put "Enterprise Integration with Ruby" onto shelf

Typical enterprises use dozens, hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of applications, components, services, and databases. Many of them are custom built in-house or by third parties, some are bought, others are based on open source projects, and the origin of a few--usually the most critical ones--is completely unknown. A lot of applications are very old, some are fairly new, and seemingly no ...

Best of Ruby Quiz Volume One

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:55:47 PST

Paolo Dona put "Best of Ruby Quiz Volume One" onto shelf

Solve these twenty-five popular programming puzzles, and sharpen your programming skills as you craft solutions. You'll find interesting and challenging programming puzzles including: 800 Numbers Crosswords Cryptograms Knight's Tour Paper, Rock, Scissors Tic-Tac-Toe Texas Hold-Em ...and more. Learning to program can be quite a challenge. Classes and books can get you so far, but at so ...

Carry On, Jeeves

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 3:50:10 PST

Paolo Dona put "Carry On, Jeeves" onto shelf

There seems to be little Bertie Wooster can do without the help of Jeeves these days. Formidable aunts, unbidden guests, and other headaches are small potatoes for the ever-resourceful Jeeves. Here is another heavenly dose of humor and intrigue from "the greatest comic writer ever" (Douglas Adams). "P. G. Wodehouse at his shining best." --John Mortimer