We're losing hundreds of billions of dollars a year on broken software & great new ideas such as agile development & Scrum don't always pay off But there's hope The nine software development practices in Beyond Legacy Code are designed to solve the problems facing our industry Discover why these practices work not just how they work & dramatically increase the quality & maintainability of any software project These nine practices could save the software industry Beyond Legacy Code is filled with practical hands-on advice & a common-sense exploration of why technical practices such as refactoring & test-first development are critical to building maintainable software Discover how to avoid the pitfalls teams encounter when adopting these practices & how to dramatically reduce the risk associated with building software--realizing significant savings in both the short & long term With a deeper understanding of the principles behind the practices you'll build software that's easier & less costly to maintain & extend By adopting these nine key technical practices you'll learn to say what why & for whom before how; build in small batches; integrate continuously; collaborate; create CLEAN code; write the test first; specify behaviors with tests; implement the design last; & refactor legacy code Software developers will find hands-on pragmatic advice for writing higher quality more maintainable & bug-free code Managers customers & product owners will gain deeper insight into vital processes By moving beyond the old-fashioned procedural thinking of the Industrial Revolution & working together to embrace standards & practices that will advance software development we can turn the legacy code crisis into a true Information Revolution ...

Written by renowned science fiction author Jack Williamson & superbly drawn by Lee Elias Beyond Mars is one of the rarest Sunday strips
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A powerful manifesto for CEOs & employees alike this book reveals how organizations can make huge changes with surprisingly small steps In an age of 'radical' shifts & 'disruption' business leader Margaret Heffernan lays the groundwork for a new kind of thinking arguing that organizations can create seismic shifts by making deceptively small changes such as using every mind on the team celebrating mistakes & encouraging time off from work A popular TED speaker Heffernan is a wise & witty storyteller who fully engages her reader at every turn Filled with incredible anecdotes & startling statistics she takes us on a fascinating tour across the globe highlighting disparate business & revealing how they've managed to change themselves in big ways through incremental shifts How did the CIA revolutionize their intelligence gathering with one simple question? How did one organization increase their revenue by 15 million by instituting a short coffee break? How can a day-long hackathon change the culture of a company? Heffernan investigates all these scenarios & comes to the same conclusion big improvements can come from simply making small changes ...

The rising popularity of unconventional treatment methods in Poland not accepted by academic medicine prompted the author to describe & interpret the social causes of this phenomenon & its diverse effects as well as to forecast the future of such methods These research results are the outcome of an analysis of more than 3500 letters sent to the Polish State TV by viewers of a two-year-long series of programs offering unconventional psychotherapy The analysis of the material enabled sociological reconstruction of everyday lay thinking of illness health & medicine The book also examined the relevance of classic socio-medical theories for the study of health behaviors associated with treatments offered by healers ...

In 1999 His Holiness The Dalai Lama published the bestselling Ancient Wisdom Modern World which addressed the question of ethics for the new millennium A decade later His Holiness enters the contemporary debate about religion vs atheism & returns to the theme of ethics with a major new work Beyond Religion ethics for a whole world In this thought-provoking new book he argues that religion is not a necessity for pursuing a spiritual life Rather focusing on tolerance & understanding between religions as well as tolerance & understanding between believers (of any faith) & non-believers is the way forward The way to achieve such an approach he proposes is through a system of secular ethics grounded in a deep appreciation of our common humanity Aimed particularly at the general reader Beyond Religion ethics for a whole world is a modern-day polemic which outlines those ethics he believes should be central to our lives ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Are you ready for a 10-bird roast with lashings of mulled cider? Then join your favourite country cook & rustic companion Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall in his latest River Cottage adventures Hugh has expanded his holding to 44 acres & with more land & livestock he is producing even more food He grasps the opportunity to set up a culinary HQ
- in a ramshackle cluster of old farm buildings where he can prepare his products for market & host seasonal dinners for paying customers For Hugh & his family & friends it&s a whole new challenge in rural living as they reap the harvest of the Dorset countryside & enjoy the very best in seasonal local home-cooked fare Actors Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Certificate PGYear 2004 Languages English
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Please note this is a region 2 Blu-ray & will require a region 2 or region Free Blu-ray Player in order to play Get ready for intense sci-fi action adventure with Beyond Skyline the st&-alone sequel to 2010 hit Skyline Los Angeles Detective Mark Corley (Frank Grillo Captain America The Winter Soldier) thought bailing out his eighteen-year-old son Trent (Jonny Weston Taken 3) was the worst part of his day But on the ride home the skies above fill with a strange blue light Within moments the entire city&s population is vacuumed up into a massive alien ship including his son In the aftermath the resilient Mark & a few survivors encounter a highly skilled resistance force in South East Asia led by the deadly Sua (Iko Uwais The Raid 1 & 2) In a race against time these warriors from different sides of the world must unite to save their families & take back the planet Actors Frank Grillo Bojana Novakovic Iko Uwais Callan Mulvey Valentine Payen Directors Liam O& Donnell Writers Liam O& Donnell Producers Matthew E Chausse Colin Strause Greg Strause Dubbed Indonesian Number of discs 1 ...

This is an amazing collection of some of the best short fiction ever written in the SF genre by an author acclaimed as 'the mastersinger of space opera' THE TIMESWith an introduction by noted SF critic Johnathan Strahan this collection of twenty short stories novellettes & novellas

Includes:: MINLA'S FLOWERS SIGNAL TO NOISE TROIKA & seven previous uncollected stories including TRAUMA POD THE WATER THIEF & IN BABELSBERGAlastair Reynolds has won the Sidewise Award & been nominated for The Hugo Awards for his short fiction One of the most thought-provoking & accomplished short-fiction writers of our time this collection is a delight for all SF readers

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A provocative challenge at a dinner party a serendipitous encounter on a Northumberland cliff top the accidental death of a friend & the rupture of his marriage converge to disrupt Peter Bowman's well-ordered middle-class existence as he approaches middle age Peter negotiates a sabbatical from his job as a solicitor to pursue his long held ambition to write fiction He embarks on an odyssey which leads him to new challenges & loves shaped by happiness & tragedy When Peter goes to France to stay with Sally an enigmatic freelance journalist with a troubled past he takes the first tentative steps towards writing a novel But can he as a member of the pre-baby boomer generation ever fully escape from the constraints imposed by his background & upbringing & embrace the liberal & permissive attitudes of the 1960s & achieve his lifelong ambition? Inspired by modern writers including Sebastian Faulks Kate Atkinson & Julian Barnes Beyond the Arch is the debut novel from David Evered which explores the changing society & culture of the late 1960s The book will appeal to readers that enjoy contemporary fiction as well as those interested in relationships ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Sweden December 1942 a country of uncertain future on the verge a Nazi German invasion One dark fateful night two restless young Swedish soldiers decide to leave the roadblock checkpoint they’ve been told to guard in search of an adventure But when they reach the Norwegian border all they find is a life threatening disaster The following morning they’re officially pronounced missing When a rebellious Lieutenant discovers that one of the missing soldiers is his younger brother he decides to take things into his own hands Recruiting a squadron of like-minded fighters he plans a secret rescue mission above any official authority Now they must go beyond the border behind enemy lines & fight their own war their own way Beyond The Border is Wartime actiondrama at its most intense Violent & provocative with its own unique modern edge ...