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Publisher: O’Reilly
Author: Leonard Richardson
ISBN: 0596523696
Release Date: 19 July 2006

eBook Description
Do you want to push Ruby to its limits? The Ruby Cookbook is the most comprehensive problem-solving guide to today’s hottest programming language. It gives you hundreds of solutions to real-world problems, with clear explanations and thousands of lines of code you can use in your own projects.

From data structures and algorithms, to integration with cutting-edge technologies, the Ruby Cookbook has something for every programmer. Beginners and advanced Rubyists alike will learn how to program with:

• Strings and numbers
• Arrays and hashes
• Classes, modules, and namespaces
• Reflection and metaprogramming
• XML and HTML processing
• Ruby on Rails (including Ajax integration)
• Databases
• Graphics
• Internet services like email, SSH, and BitTorrent
• Web services
• Multitasking
• Graphical and terminal interfaces

If you need to write a web application, this book shows you how to get started with Rails. If you’re a system administrator who needs to rename thousands of files, you’ll see how to use Ruby for this and other everyday tasks. You’ll learn how to read and write Excel spreadsheets, classify text with Bayesian filters, and create PDF files. We’ve even included a few silly tricks that were too cool to leave out, like how to blink the lights on your keyboard.

The Ruby Cookbook is the most useful book yet written about Ruby. When you need to solve a problem, don’t reinvent the wheel: look it up in the Cookbook.

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Ruby Cookbook (Cookbooks (O’Reilly))

Publisher: Packt Publishing
Author: A. Kabelova
ISBN: 190481171X
Release Date: 20 April 2006

eBook Description
This book covers in detail the Open System Interconnection (OSI) reference model and the TCP/IP protocols that operate that different layers.

Its coverage includes various application protocols.
The authors explain in an easy-to-read style networking concepts and protocols, with examples that make the book a practical guide in addition to its coverage of theory.

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Understanding Tcp/ip: A Clear And Comprehensive Guide

Publisher: Wrox Press
Author: Jeff Scanlon
ISBN: 0764574868
Release Date: 04 February 2005

eBook Description
Professional Java builds upon Ivor Horton’s Beginning Java to provide the reader with an understanding of how professionals use Java to develop software solutions. Pro Java starts with an overview of best methods and tools for developing Java applications. It then examines the the more sophisticated and nuanced parts of the Java JDK. The final and most extensive part of the book shows how to implement these ideas to build real-world applications, using both Java APIs as well as related Java open source tools. In short, this book provides a comprehensive treatment of the professional Java development process, without losing focus in exhaustive coverage of isolated features and APIs.

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Professional Java, JDK 5 Edition

Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Author: Randi J. Rost
ISBN: 0321197895
Release Date: 12 February 2004

eBook Description
OpenGL Shading Language is the experienced application programmer’s guide to writing shaders. Part reference, part tutorial, this book thoroughly explains the shift from fixed-functionality graphics hardware to the new era of programmable graphics hardware and the additions to the OpenGL API that support this programmability. With OpenGL and shaders written in the OpenGL Shading Language, applications can perform better, achieving stunning graphics effects by utilizing the capabilities of both the visual processing unit and the central processing unit.

In this book, you will find a detailed introduction to the OpenGL Shading Language and the new OpenGL function calls that support it. The text begins by describing the syntax and semantics of this high-level programming language. Once this foundation has been established, the book explores the creation and manipulation of shaders using new OpenGL function calls.

OpenGL Shading Language features extensive examples of shaders and their underlying algorithms, including

• Procedural texturing
• Noise
• Particle systems
• Hatching
• Analytic antialiasing
• Image processing

The color plate section illustrates the power and sophistication of the OpenGL Shading Language. The API Function Reference at the end of the book is an excellent quick reference to the API entry points that support the OpenGL Shading Language. An enhanced online index allows readers to quickly and easily search the entire text for specific topics.

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OpenGL(R) Shading Language

Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Osborne
Author: Byron S Gottfried
ISBN: 0071356711
Release Date: 22 June 2001

eBook Description
This comprehensive, easy-to-use introduction to Visual Basic contains: complete, solved examples that illustrate a range of material, from simple points to more complex programming problems; chapter-ending programming problems that reinforce concepts; and a comprehensive, annotated appendix for easy reference.

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Schaum’s Outline of Visual Basic

Publisher: IRM Press
Author: Yu-jin Zhang
ISBN: 1591407540
Release Date: 02 May 2006

eBook Description
Image and video segmentation is one of the most critical tasks of image and video analysis: extracting information from an image or a sequence of images. In the last 40 years, this field has experienced significant growth and development, and has resulted in a virtual explosion of published information. Advances in Image and Video Segmentation brings together the latest results from researchers involved in state-of-the-art work in image and video segmentation, providing a collection of modern works made by more than 50 experts around the world.

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Advances in Image And Video Segmentation

Publisher: A List Publishing
Author: Steven Stahlberg
ISBN: 1921002115
Release Date: 30 July 2005

eBook Description
d’artiste: Character Modeling is presented in sections based around each master artist. Artist sections include a personal gallery, the artist’s work and thoughts in their own words, more than 24-pages of tutorials each, and an invited artist gallery featuring 94 character modeling creations from some of the most talented 3D character artists in the world.

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D’artiste: Character Modeling. Digital Artists Master Class (D’artiste Digital Artists Master Class)

Publisher: Apress
Author: Joel Spolsky
ISBN: 1893115941
Release Date: 26 June 2001

eBook Description
Full color guide showing any programmer how to become a good user interface designer. Discusses information programmers need to know, and features examples of what to do and not to do with user interfaces. Poses logical rules that can be used without artistic talent.

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User Interface Design for Programmers

Publisher: Wiley
Author: Martin Worner
ISBN: 0470870613
Release Date: 29 October 2004

eBook Description
Applied C# in Financial Markets covers all the aspects of C# relevant to practitioners working in financial sector. It contains a practical workshop which builds on the material in the book, guiding you through all the stages of building a multiple model options calculator. An accompanying website features examples, illustrations and solutions to the workshops and a downloadable application to complement the book. Features examples and illustrations taken from a sample trading application, making the book relevant to those working in the financial markets. Provides a quick start to C# for financial professionals to hit the ground running in building financial applications. Workshops illustrate building an options calculator, exploring the various elements in C# as they progress.

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Applied C# in Financial Markets (The Wiley Finance Series)

Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Author: Aaron Hillegass
ISBN: 0321213149
Release Date: 30 April 2004

eBook Description
There’s a reason that a large slice of the open-source movement has defected from running Linux on its laptops to running Mac OS X. The reason is the Unix core that underlies Mac OS X, and the development tools that run on that core. Cocoa makes it easy to create very slick Mac OS X interfaces for software (as well as to create applications in a hurry), and this new edition of Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X does an excellent job of teaching its readers how to put a Cocoa face on top of code (Objective-C code almost exclusively). If you know something about C and/or C programming and want to apply your skills to the Mac, this is precisely the book you want.

Author Aaron Hillegass teaches a Cocoa class, and his book reads like a demonstration-driven lecture in a computer lab. That is, the book takes a heavily example-centric approach to its subject, beginning with simple announcement windows and proceeding to cover the more advanced controls and object-oriented features of Cocoa and Objective-C. Throughout, he hops back and forth between descriptions of the goal to be accomplished, listings of the code that does the job, and instructions on how to use the Mac OS X development tools to speed the development process. –David Wall

Topics covered: How to write software for Mac OS X in Objective-C and, especially, with Cocoa. The new edition shows how to use NSUndoManager, add AppleScript capability to an application, do graphics work with OpenGL, and use Cocoa under Linux using GNUstep. As well, all the basic controls and design patterns are covered.

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Cocoa(R) Programming for Mac(R) OS X (2nd Edition)