Books

Sixty-three sonnets for introspective perusal through the seasons.

What does the disappearance of a English student have to do with the founder of a Japanese religion? The university lecturer sent to deal with the disappearance finds herself drawn ever deeper into a mystery involving violence, conspiracy, and awakening psychic powers.

Software Testing is not the same as manufacturing a bolt or a screw on an assembly line. It is about human interactions and this is something that appears to have been forgotten in the software development world. This book takes a closer look at the psychology of software testing and how the irrational predictability of human interactions affect the software that we test.

James Murphy was a soldier in the Army of Tennessee. On a late fall afternoon in November 1864 his life is changed forever when he is killed during a charge against Federal lines on the edge of the town of Franklin, TN. However, Murphy's death is just the beginning of the story.

The Selenium WebDriver Recipes book is a quick problem-solving guide to automated testing web applications with Selenium WebDriver. It contains hundreds of solutions to real-world problems, with clear explanations and ready-to-run test scripts you can use in your own projects.

jQuery is veruit de populairste freeware JavaScript bibliotheek voor het ontwerp van interactieve webpagina’s. Via eenvoudige voorbeelden en oefeningen ontdekt u de mogelijkheden van jQuery. Elk hoofdstuk behandelt een deelaspect van de bibliotheek. Met dit boek ontwerpt u een volledig interactieve en gebruiksvriendelijke website.

Hack your FirefoxOS with guidance. Introduce FirefoxOS Frontend modules and apps that use true web technology to build the mobile operating system.

“Nowadays everybody knows how to use a computer. Smart people learn how to use it with style: effectively, efficiently, and, yes, enjoyably. Become one of them.”

This book is about a true learning machine you can start using today. This is not science fiction, and it's not some kind of promised technology we're hoping to see in the near future. It's already here, ready to download and use. It is already being used commercially to help save energy, predict mechanical breakdowns, and keep computers running on the Internet. It's also at the centre of a vibrant open source community with growing links to leading-edge academic and industrial research. Based on more than a decade of research and development by Jeff Hawkins and his team at Grok, NuPIC is a system built on the principles of the human brain, a theory called Hierarchical Temporal Memory (or HTM).

A simple beginner's guide to beginning a daily spiritual practice. Brought to you by YogaFreedom.org.

Sanki yapmış olduklarım, yapmakta olduklarım ve yapacaklarım birilerinin yazdığı bir filmin, bir oyunun parçalarıydı. Ama bunu düşünerek özgürlüğümün değerini düşünemezdim, felsefe yapmak yumuşatırdı belki beni, kağıt yumrularının arasında ömür tüketmiş o kel fareler gibi sinik, güçsüz olabilirdim. Hem özgürlük fazla düşünmemeyi gerektirirdi; ve acımasızlığın refahını tatmak etrafınızı sarmış özgürlüğe değer vermekle makbuldü. Sahilden epey uzaklaşmıştık ve etrafta bizden, obur martılardan, lacivert sulardan, sönük ışıklardan, keskinleşmiş rüzgârdan ve varlığını iyiden iyiye belli etmiş gün ışığının ortalığı arsız bir rüyaya çeviren sadeliğinden başka hiçbir şey yoktu. Kafamı bir cinayet aracı bulmak için yere eğdiğimde önce gözüme hiçbir zaman ziyadesiyle işimize yaramamış ve yaklaşık bir sene önce bir sürü para vererek aldığımız yangın söndürme tüpü çarptı.