Culture

Running a tech conference? Concerned about the details, the financial risks, the logistics and the wow factor? Event Driven will walk through the ins, outs and gotchas in an instructional format designed to help make sure you create the best possible event, and keep everyone happy along the way.

Getting things done is hard. Getting things done without completely destroying our work-life balance is really hard. The idea has traditionally been that if we focus on the tasks and work we will inevitably achieve our goals and everyone will be happy. Most of us can remember working some really long weeks and hitting the “goal” but not feeling very happy. Note: This book's source is available and open for contributions!  Please consider contributing and getting your amazing ideas out into the wild!

"The authors combine the views of their disciplines and look at larger issues such as the interplay between systems and people, the abstract and concrete, and the theoretical and practical . The authors' style is light and sometimes humorous with a large number of quotations from literature. . . . Never dull . . . the book bears evidence of a global view in which systems design is a means if organizing ideas, structures, things, and experience."

Want to read posts like: "When life gives you lemons, charge them with C4 and lob em back", "12 steps for vampires" or "Rawhead Rex, Maniac Nurses and a Steam Powered Cat Cannon"? Then buy the book!

Addresses how to create an environment conducive to implementing the software engineering culture described in the first books of the series. What is fascinating about Weinberg's approach to software development management is how his perspective encompasses such diverse sources as family therapy theories, personality type studies, and experiences drawn from years of consulting for software development organizations. Thanks, Jerry." —Warren Keuffel. Software Development

...a lot of good concepts and models. Very thought-provoking. If you wonder why you haven't been able to change your organization, Becoming a Change Artist is well worth reading.

"Ben Kristel was an oasis of sanity in a Britain gone mad. A nation clamped to the loveless teat of self-deluded politicians, moronic celebrities, and self-promoting baby-faced TV chefs. A world for children, colonised by anthropomorphised flora, fauna, and blubbery puppets, shot through with bullshit spirituality and pro-vegetable propaganda. The whole thing stunk. Ben was going to fix it, and he was happy to ruffle a few feathers along the way..."

Mach Dich mit uns auf zu einer Rundreise durch die "grüne Insel" Irland. Illustriert mit zahlreichen wunderschönen Landschaftsaufnahmen und Impressionen lässt Dich dieses Buch eintauchen in eine scheinbar andere Welt!

Ever wanted to know what it takes to be a street musician? This book will show you the hows, the whys, and the why not's of being a professional street musician. Littered throughout the wonderful how-to are amusing anecdotes of failure and triumph that--even if you don't want to do-it-yourself--you can still laugh at our folly.

Why Does Music Make You Move? Learn about the psychology of music and movement, and how researchers study music-related movements, with this free online course.

He knows nothing, but burns with a desire to know. She is knows much, but despairs of the will to know. She appoints himself his guide, and leads him through innumerable conversations and lectures to teach him the vanity of his desire. Will Lapsus make the leap to wisdom? Will Suada persuade him to abandon his impossible quest?

President Barack Obama is the most unusual president of my lifetime and perhaps the life of the nation. An unprecedented, popular beginning was quickly squandered leaving the dreams and hopes that propelled him to office shattered. Camelot was not to be. Obama's phenomenal fall from grace creates a serious political liability for the media and the Democrat Party. Supporters may turn on him in an effort to save themselves. For political aficionados, it doesn't get much better . For those who love their country, it is despair. The final act is apt to be the most exciting.

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