Focuses on the practice of designing objects as integral members of a community where each object has specific roles & responsibilities. This work

Includes:: the practices & techniques of Responsibility-Driven Design, & show how to apply them as you develop modern object-based applications. It is suitable for software designers & students.

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Maggie Scanlan begins to sense that, beneath the calm surface of her peaceful life, everything is going wrong. Maggie observes the shifting allegiances operating behind the scenes with the sharp view of a child on the verge of adulthood. A troubling time, it ultimately becomes one of liberation, an object lession Maggie will remember. ...

Lovers Tina (Andie Mac Dowell) & Jake (John Malkovich) are enjoying the good life, living far beyond their means in an expensive London hotel. To cover the costs Jake wants to sell a valuable sculpture given to Tina by her husb&, but when a deaf-mute maid steals the object first, the lovers begin to suspect each other of a double-cross, leading to a mass of mix-ups & misunderstandings. Also stars Peter Riegert & Lolita Davidovich. ...

Erotic thriller. Margaret (Erika Anderson) is divorced & bored with being single, until a wrong number sets her up with a mystery man (Scott Valentine) who seduces her over the phone & draws her into a one night stand with him. But once in his unfurnished warehouse apartment, she becomes trapped in his fantasies
- forced to fulfil his wild desires. She finally escapes from the warehouse but returns out of curiosity. She soon finds that her mystery man has been living a double life & decides to turn the tables on him.
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Remoting offers developers many ways to customize the communications process, for efficiency, security, performance & power, & allows seamless integration of components running on several computers into a single application. Typical challenges involve network latency, performance, predictability, scalability & partial failure. ...

This textbook develops a long-term single project & explores both the theoretical foundations of software engineering as well as the principles & practices of various tools, processes, & products.

It emphasizes practical experience whereby participants can apply the techniques learned in class to a realistic problem.

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This critical account of Gordon Matta-Clark's work considers it in the context of the art of the 1970s
- particularly site-specific,
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