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2D Artist August 2007

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2D Artist Magazine August 2007
High Res PDF @ 121 MB | Lite version PDF @ 17 MB

A Downloadable PDF Magazine Concept Art, Digital & Matte Painting creatives around the globe. 2DArtist Magazine will focus on techniques, tutorials, interviews, articles, project overviews and galleries. We will have news and reviews too but we find that these topics are best covered by the online news and CG sites that thrive on daily updates. Our magazine will focus on becoming more of a timeless resource for artists to turn to again and again whether you view it from your screen or choose to print it off.

Nature Magazine August 02, 2007

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Nature Magazine - August 02, 2007
PDF | English | 20 MB

Nature is a prominent scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869. Although most scientific journals are now highly specialized, Nature is idiosyncratic (along with other weekly journals such as Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) in still publishing original research articles across a wide range of scientific fields. In many fields of scientific research, important new advances and original research are published as articles or letters in Nature.

An Introduction to Testing Web Applications with twill and Selenium

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Brown, Gheorghiu, Huggins, « An Introduction to Testing Web Applications with twill and Selenium»
O'Reilly Media | ISBN: 0596527802 | June 2007 | 60 pages | CHM | 1 Mb

This Short Cut is an introduction to building automated web tests using two tools, twill and Selenium. twill is a simple web scripting language that can be used to automate web tests, while Selenium is a web testing framework that runs in any browser and can be used to test complex web sites that make extensive use of JavaScript. The best way to use this Short Cut is to run through the examples. We expect that within an hour you can start writing your own functional tests in either twill or Selenium, and within a day you will understand most, if not all, of the possibilities and the limitations of these tools.

Next-Generation Web Frameworks in Python / PHP and Smarty on Large-Scale Web Development

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Liza Daly, «Next-Generation Web Frameworks in Python»
O'Reilly Media | ISBN: 0596513712 | April 9, 2007 | 43 pages | CHM | .5 Mb

With its flexibility, readability, and mature code libraries, Python is a natural choice for developing agile and maintainable web applications. Several frameworks have emerged in the last few years that share ideas with Ruby on Rails and leverage the expressive nature of Python. This Short Cut will tell you what you need to know about the hottest fullstack frameworks: Django, Pylons, and TurboGears. Their philosophies, relative strengths, and development status are described in detail. What you won't find out is, "Which one should I use?" The short answer is that all of them can be used to build web applications- the challenge for the reader is to find the one that fits his or her project or coding style best.


Bruno Pedro, Vitor Rodrigues, «PHP and Smarty on Large-Scale Web Development»
O'Reilly Media | ISBN: 0596513798 | June 2007 | 36 pages | CHM | .5 Mb

With web development now being considered a commodity, projects are getting larger every day.If you are dealing with large projects on a daily basis, you know that the most difficult task is to deliver products on time and within a budget. However, many factors can influence those variables, including the programming language development methods you choose. This Short Cut shows you what a good choice it is to use PHP and Smarty for large-scale web projects. If you follow the principles and methodologies described here, you'll achieve greater productivity in your development tasks.

The Myths of Innovation

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Scott Berkun, «The Myths of Innovation»
O'Reilly Media | ISBN: 0596527055 | 1 edition (May 4, 2007) | 320 pages | CHM | 4 Mb

How do you know whether a hot technology will succeed or fail? Or where the next big idea will come from? The best answers come not from the popular myths we tell about innovation, but instead from time-tested truths that explain how we've made it this far. This book shows the way. In The Myths of Innovation, bestselling author Scott Berkun takes a careful look at innovation history, including the software and Internet Age, to reveal how ideas truly become successful innovations-truths that people can apply to today's challenges. Using dozens of examples from the history of technology, business, and the arts, you'll learn how to convert the knowledge you have into ideas that can change the world. * Why all innovation is a collaborative process * How innovation depends on persuasion * Why problems are more important than solutions * How the good innovation is the enemy of the great * Why the biggest challenge is knowing when it's good enough

O'Reilly Adding Ajax

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Shelley Powers, «Adding Ajax»
O'Reilly Media | ISBN: 0596529368 | 2007-06-20 | 399 pages | CHM | 4Mb

Ajax can bring many advantages to an existing web application without forcing you to redo the whole thing. This book explains how you can add Ajax to enhance, rather than replace, the way your application works. For instance, if you have a traditional web application based on submitting a form to update a table, you can enhance it by adding the capability to update the table with changes to the form fields, without actually having to submit the form. That's just one example. Adding Ajax is for those of you more interested in extending existing applications than in creating Rich Internet Applications (RIA). You already know the "business-side" of applications-web forms, server-side driven pages, and static content-and now you want to make your web pages livelier, more fun, and much more interactive.

Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience

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James Kalbach, «Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience»
O'Reilly Media, Inc. | ISBN: 0596528108 | June 1, 2007 | 456 pages | CHM | 29 Mb

Thoroughly rewritten for today's web environment, this bestselling book offers a fresh look at a fundamental topic of web site development: navigation design. Amid all the changes to the Web in the past decade, and all the hype about Web 2.0 and various "rich" interactive technologies, the basic problems of creating a good web navigation system remain. Designing Web Navigation demonstrates that good navigation is not about technology-it's about the ways people find information, and how you guide them. Ideal for beginning to intermediate web designers, managers, other non-designers, and web development pros looking for another perspective, Designing Web Navigation offers basic design principles, development techniques and practical advice, with real-world examples and essential concepts seamlessly folded in. How does your web site serve your business objectives? How does it meet a user's needs? You'll learn that navigation design touches most other aspects of web site development.

Pattern Oriented Software Architecture Volume 5: On Patterns and Pattern Languages

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Buschmann / Henney / Schmidt, «Pattern Oriented Software Architecture Volume 5: On Patterns and Pattern Languages»
Wiley | ISBN: 0471486485 | June 11, 2007 | 490 pages | PDF | 2.5 Mb

Software patterns have revolutionized the way developers think about how software is designed, built, and documented, and this unique book offers an in-depth look of what patterns are, what they are not, and how to use them successfully ]The only book to attempt to develop a comprehensive language that integrates patterns from key literature, it also serves as a reference manual for all pattern-oriented software architecture (POSA) patterns]Addresses the question of what a pattern language is and compares various pattern paradigmsDevelopers and programmers operating in an object-oriented environment will find this book to be an invaluable resource

Piping Engineering

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Tube Turns, INC., «Piping Engineering»
Tube Turns, INC. | ASIN: B000GP70VG | 1986 | PDF | 25 Mb

Contents: Commercial pipe size and wall thicknesses, Design properties of pipe, Pressure-Stress ratios, Volumetric capacities of fittings, Flow of fluids, Line expansion & flexibility, Layout dimensions of fittings & Flanges and much more.

How English Works: A Grammar Practice Book (with Answers)

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Michael Swan / Catherine Walter, «How English Works: A Grammar Practice Book (with Answers)»
Oxford University Press | ISBN: 0194314561 | 1997-10-31 | 368 pages | DJVU | 8 Mb

Self-study material for learning and practising English grammar. Covers all important elements in the standard EFL grammar syllabus in a wholly novel way. Includes entry tests to show students what they need to study most; short learner-friendly grammar presentations followed by examples of correct use and simple traditional-type exercises to build confidence.

Marketing Research That Won't Break the Bank: A Practical Guide to Getting the Information You Need

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«Marketing Research That Won't Break the Bank: A Practical Guide to Getting the Information You Need»
Alan R. Andreasen | Jossey-Bass | ISBN: 0787964190 | 2 edition (Sept. 17, 2002) | 304 pages | PDF | 1.3 Mb

Marketing research is vital to part of organizational effectiveness in today's highly competitive marketplace. But many managers in small businesses with limited budgets consider it out of reach. In Marketing Research That Won't Break the Bank, Alan Andreasen shows readers how to get the information they need to make smart, strategic decisions without spending a lot of money. The tools and techniques presented will help managers gain an in-depth understanding of their target market, competitors, and environment without stretching the organization's budget.

Imponderables: Science

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David Feldman, «Imponderables: Science»
Collins | ISBN: 0060898860 | 2006-10-01 | 192 pages | PDF | 2 Mb

In gathering the most fascinating questions asked about science into a handy Gem format, pop culture guru David Feldman demystifies these and much more in Imponderables: Science. Providing you with information you can't find in encyclopedias, dictionaries, or almanacs, Science is a fun look at the little things that make life so interesting. Feldman, a media consultant and lover of the obscure, here addresses scores of questions that one may have contemplated, but to which no answers are readily forthcomingwhy certain traffic jams occur and clear up without apparent reason, why the word "Filipino" is spelled with an F and not a Ph, why unleaded gasoline costs more than leaded. In an engaging, sometimes jocular manner, Feldman communicates an impressive amount of information: a piece on popcorn develops into an examination of the economics of running a movie theater; the answer to a question on laundry bleach is worthy of an encyclopedia. Occasionally, Feldman offers such a fresh way of looking at a phenomenonas when he discusses why people cry at happy endingsthat he makes us see it as if for the first time. This is an entertaining collection of trivial and not so trivial information.

Does Game Theory Work? The Bargaining Challenge (Economic Learning and Social Evolution)

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«Does Game Theory Work? The Bargaining Challenge (Economic Learning and Social Evolution)»
Ken Binmore | The MIT Press | ISBN: 0262026074 | 2007-04-02 | 400 pages | PDF | 6 Mb

This volume brings together all of Ken Binmore's influential experimental papers on bargaining along with newly written commentary in which Binmore discusses the underlying game theory and addresses the criticism leveled at it by behavioral economists. When Binmore began his experimental work in the 1980s, conventional wisdom held that game theory would not work in the laboratory, but Binmore and other pioneers established that game theory can often predict the behavior of experienced players very well in favorable laboratory settings. The case of human bargaining behavior is particularly challenging for game theory. Everyone agrees that human behavior in real-life bargaining situations is governed at least partly by considerations of fairness, but what happens in a laboratory when such fairness considerations supposedly conflict with game-theoretic predictions? Behavioral economists, who emphasize the importance of other-regarding or social preferences, sometimes argue that their findings threaten traditional game theory. Binmore disputes both their interpretations of their findings and their claims about what game theorists think it reasonable to predict.

The Art of The Lord of the Rings

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Gary Russell, «The Art of The Lord of the Rings»
Houghton Mifflin | ISBN: 0618510982 | 2004-11-15 | 46 pages | PDF | 194 Mb

A dual-edition full-color book for the millions of fans who have taken The Lord of the Rings to heart through the celebrated film trilogy. Many of the images included in this volume, depicting pivotal scenes and characters, were previously embargoed and have never appeared in book form. The work of Alan Lee and John Howe — the two artists most closely associated with Tolkien's world — is featured, along with that of many other talented artists and designers. The artists' own descriptions of the design process used in creating the look of the films both enlighten and enliven this essential book.

Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America (3 Volume Set)

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Jeffrey Lehman, «Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America (3 Volume Set)»
Thomson Gale | ISBN: 0787639869 | 2nd Edition (February 2000) | 1974 pages | PDF | 20 Mb

The three volumes of this edition address 152 ethnic, ethnoreligious, and Native American cultures currently residing in the United States. The average essay length is 8,000 words, but ranges from slightly less than 3,000 to more than 20,000 words, depending on the amount of information available. Essays are arranged alphabetically by the most-commonly cited name for the group—although such terms as Sioux and Gypsy may be offensive to some members of the groups themselves, as noted in the essays. Every essay in the first edition appears in the second edition of Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, though some are in a different form. For example, the Lebanese Americans and Syrian Americans originally were covered in a single essay on Syrian/Lebanese Americans; in this book, they are separate entries. Additionally, the editors selected 50 more cultures based on the original volume’s two main criteria: size of the group according to 1990 U.S. Census data and the recommendations of the advisory board. The advisors chose groups likely to be studied in high school and college classrooms.