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Latest 50 Free EBooks for Download |
| 1. | Pragmatic Programmers - The Ruby Object Model and Metaprogramming screencast - Just what is a Ruby object, and how can Ruby move you away from class-oriented development and back to object-oriented development? Learn about: the internals of objects, how classes really arent anything special, what self does, and the two ways it can get changed the method call mantra: one to the right, then up, singleton methods and ghost classes, why class methods dont exist, how classes get their names, how the concept of the current class interacts with def |
12/10/2011 1:35:06 AM |
| 2. | Vitamin Ruby On Rails - Ruby on Rails is a popular web application framework that is built in the Ruby programming language. Learn Ruby on Rails from the basics through to advanced level using our Ruby on Rails video tutorial library. |
12/10/2011 1:32:26 AM |
| 3. | LiveLessons Bundle Ruby on Rails 3 Learn by Example - These focused video lessons help you learn crucial new skills fast–and put them to work immediately! Watch top Rails developer Michael Hartl guide you through building a complete application using today’s best practices for MVC and REST design, layout, Ruby coding, security, testing, deployment, and more. Just place the DVD video in your computer’s DVD drive, and master Rails the easy way. |
12/10/2011 1:31:24 AM |
| 4. | Ruby on Rails Beyond the Basics - In this sequel to the popular Ruby on Rails Essential Training, expert instructor Kevin Skoglund teaches comprehensive techniques for web developers who already feel comfortable with the fundamentals of Ruby and the Rails MVC framework. This training will help developers move toward creating full-featured Ruby on Rails applications. Kevin begins by explaining how to update software and projects to the latest versions. He then demonstrates alternative ways to interact with Ruby and your Rails applications and teaches the intermediate aspects of the Ruby language. Kevin provides step-by-step instructions for creating a custom blog and content management application. He uses this practical example to show how to work with database migrations, how to get more from ActiveRecord and avoid common pitfalls, how to create flexible controllers and views, and how to improve performance, security, and code management. Exercise files accompany the tutorials. |
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| 5. | Continuous Testing: with Ruby, Rails, and JavaScript - Continuous Testing (CT) is a developer practice that shortens the feedback loops established by test-driven development and continuous integration. Building on techniques used by Agile software development practitioners, Continuous Testing with Ruby shows you how to get instant feedback about both the quality of your code, and the quality of your tests. |
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| 6. | The Book of Ruby - A Hands-On Guide for the Adventurous - Ruby is famous for being easy to learn, but most users only scratch the surface of what it can do. While other books focus on Ruby's trendier features, The Book of Ruby reveals the secret inner workings of one of the world's most popular programming languages, teaching you to write clear, maintainable code. You'll start with the basics—types, data structures, and control flows—and progress to advanced features like blocks, mixins, metaclasses, and beyond. Rather than bog you down with a lot of theory, The Book of Ruby takes a hands-on approach and focuses on making you productive from day one. As you follow along, you'll learn to: |
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| 7. | Continuous Testing: with Ruby, Rails, and javascript - Continuous Testing (CT) is a developer practice that shortens the feedback loops established by test-driven development and continuous integration. Building on techniques used by Agile software development practitioners, Continuous Testing with Ruby shows you how to get instant feedback about both the quality of your code, and the quality of your tests. |
12/10/2011 1:28:29 AM |
| 8. | Books of Ruby and Ruby on Rails - Ruby - a dynamic, reflective, high-level scripting language for quick and easy, object-oriented programming. Language has an independent on the operating system multithreading, strong dynamic typing, garbage collection and many other features. Ruby is similar in syntax to the language features of Perl, and Eiffel, object-oriented approach - to Smalltalk. Also, some features of the language taken from Python, Lisp, Dylan and CLU. |
12/10/2011 1:27:30 AM |
| 9. | Practical Reporting with Ruby and Rails - Business intelligence and real–time reporting mechanisms play a major role in any of today’s forward–looking business plans. With many of these solutions being moved to the Web, the popular Rails framework and its underlying Ruby language are playing a major role alongside web services in building the reporting solutions of tomorrow. |
12/10/2011 1:26:36 AM |
| 10. | The Ruby Programming Language - The Ruby Programming Language is the authoritative guide to Ruby and provides comprehensive coverage of versions 1.8 and 1.9 of the language. It was written (and illustrated!) by an all-star team: David Flanagan, bestselling author of programming language "bibles" (including javascript: The Definitive Guide and Java in a Nutshell) and committer to the Ruby Subversion repository. |
12/10/2011 1:25:23 AM |
| 11. | Refactoring: Ruby Edition - With refactoring, programmers can transform even the most chaotic software into well-designed systems that are far easier to evolve and maintain. What’s more, they can do it one step at a time, through a series of simple, proven steps. Now, there’s an authoritative and extensively updated version of Martin Fowler’s classic refactoring book that utilizes Ruby examples and idioms throughout–not code adapted from Java or any other environment. |
12/10/2011 12:21:39 AM |
| 12. | Ruby on Rails Enterprise Application Development - This book for developers familiar with Ruby on Rails who want to develop and roll out small applications deals with a key feature or functional area of a complex, full-scale Rails application in each chapter, from installing Ruby, Rubygems, and Rails on Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X and setting up a Subversion repository, to improving user interfaces with Ajax, deploying with Capistrano, and scaling through caching and the Mongrel server. |
12/10/2011 12:07:01 AM |
| 13. | Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial Bundle- Learn Rails by Example - These video-based lessons help you learn new skills quickly and crucial to work immediately! Look up Rails developer Michael Hartl guide you through the construction of a complete application using best practices today for the MVC and REST, layout, coding, Ruby, security, testing, deployment , and more. Simply place the DVD video in the DVD drive of your computer, and the main rails with ease. |
12/10/2011 12:06:00 AM |
| 14. | "Ruby on Rails Enterprise Application Development" - This book is aimed at developers who already have some familiarity with the Ruby on Rails framework and who want to move on from the basic tutorials. In particular, it is aimed at those who wish to use the unique attributes of Rails to develop and roll out business applications. It concentrates on application development as a whole process, and is intended to complement existing Rails tutorials. This book is aimed at developers who want to find out how to rapidly build easily-deployed, easily-supported business applications. It is for developers who have learned Ruby on Rails, probably from one of the tutorial books, and want to apply that knowledge to effectively build full, realistic applications. |
12/9/2011 11:57:32 PM |
| 15. | The Lying Brain: Lie Detection in Science and Science Fiction - "The Lying Brain is a study to take seriously. Its argument is timely, clear, and of particular importance to the enlargement of our understanding of the relationships among science studies, literary studies, and technology studies." ---Ronald Schleifer, University of Oklahoma |
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| 16. | BBC Radio - Science Fiction Audio Collection - BBC Radio - Science Fiction Audio Collection |
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| 17. | The Year’s Best Science Fiction - The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 2001. It is the 18th in The Year’s Best Science Fiction series. The book includes a 39-page summation by Dozois; 23 stories, all that first appeared in 2000, and each with a two-paragraph introduction by Dozois; and a seven-page referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows: |
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| 18. | The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction - The Year’s top Ten Tales of Science Fiction is a superb collection of the year’s best stories of the old masters and new masters of Sci-fi. The Narrators such as Tom Dheere, Vanessa Hart and Sue Bilich have a great sense and character of reading and becoming a part of each of the stories in this excellent series. |
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| 19. | Fantasy Fiction Pulp Magazines - 10 Issues of Beyond Fantasy Fiction Pulp Magazines |
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| 20. | Science Fiction - A massive and definitive collection of ebooks in the genre of Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy. |
10/10/2011 6:08:12 AM |
| 21. | A Work of Fiction - From the author of The Mind-Body Problem: a witty and intoxicating novel of ideas that plunges into the great debate between faith and reason. |
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| 22. | "The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery" - The world of mystery and crime fiction has been the subject of a numerous recent reference tomes, from Willetta Heising's excellent Detecting Women and Detecting Men to The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing. The former books are notable for their comprehensive cataloging of contemporary writers, and the latter succeeds by its reliance on a diverse range of authorities. But Bruce Murphy's The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery is much more a reader's book. |
10/10/2011 4:55:59 AM |
| 23. | A Beaufort and Company Mystery 01-02 by Mary Stanton - With a long list of ethereal clients who need her help, Savannah lawyer Brianna Winston Beaufort's career choice is beginning to haunt her... An already dead businessman needs Bree's help to find his murderer and prove his innocence against the charge of greed, which comes from the mightiest hand of the law, the Celestial Court. And the verdict in this case could put Bree's life on the line-as well as her client's afterlife. |
10/10/2011 4:48:03 AM |
| 24. | The Mystery of the Aleph Mathematics - In the late nineteenth century, an extraordinary mathematician languished in an asylum. His life's work on "the continuum problem" would bring us closer than any mathematician before him in helping us understand the nature of infinity. This is the story of Georg Cantor. |
10/10/2011 4:44:05 AM |
| 25. | Writing Film Noir & Mystery (Script Secrets Seminar) - NOIR & MYSTERY - 80 minute CD packed with information on writing Film Noir and Mystery scripts. Using examples from CHINATOWN to OUT OF THE PAST to DOUBLE INDEMNITY you'll learn how to create stories in this dark, twisted genre. How to plant clues, red herrings, suspects, victims, spider women, fallen heroes, the funhouse mirror world of noir supporting characters... and the origins of Film Noir in literature Noir dialogue and how noir endings are different than any other genre. All of the critical elements necessary to write in this critically popular genre. |
10/10/2011 4:04:47 AM |
| 26. | Armed and Glamorous: A Crime of Fashion Mystery - Unchallenged and unappreciated, fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian slips on her trench coat and high-heeled gumshoes to pursue a course in private investigation and a shot at a better job. |
10/10/2011 4:02:58 AM |
| 27. | Journey into Mystery - START READING with this Point One Issue! Young Loki is at a severe disadvantage: everyone in Asgard remembers him from his previous life-but they're all strangers to him, and they fully intend to keep it that way. Desperate, Loki conjures up a mystical means of eavesdropping on their private thoughts; and what he learns doesn't make him happy. Even worse, the lesson itself may just cost him his life! A perfect jumping-on point, showcasing Loki's relationships with Asgard's movers and shakers, and setting the stage for the choices he makes in the months to come. |
10/10/2011 4:01:27 AM |
| 28. | Mystery Men Complete - Before Captain America, before The Twelve, there was The Aviatrix, The Operative, Achilles, The Revenant and The Surgeon! What drives these five heroes to pull on masks and take to the rooftops of Manhattan? What dark conspiracy not only brings them together, but threatens to tear America apart? On the hunt to solve a brutal murder, our champions will smash their way from gleaming penthouses of privilege to squalid alleyways, as the full horror of their enemies’ schemes unfolds.” |
10/10/2011 3:59:41 AM |
| 29. | The Toby Dyke Mystery Collection - #1. Give a Corpse a Bad Name [1940] 6 hours 23 mins, read by Christopher Scott Set in the Devon countryside this is the first novel to feature Toby Dyke, an ex-reporter of no fixed occupation. In the village of Chovey, widow Anna Milne, formerly of South Africa but now residing at the charming "Laurels" in Chovey, reports to the police that she has run down and killed a man. Oddly, the dead man also comes from South Africa and has Anna Milne's address in his pocket, yet Anna Milne claims not to recognise him. Since the man had been drinking heavily before the fatal accident and she herself had not, no legal culpability is attached to Mrs. Milne. |
10/10/2011 3:40:08 AM |
| 30. | The Bryant and May Mystery Collection - Christopher Fowler was born in Greenwich, London. He is the multi award-winning author of thirty novels and ten short story collections, and the author of the Bryant & May mystery novels. His first bestseller was 'Roofworld'. Subsequent novels include 'Spanky', 'Disturbia', 'Psychoville' and 'Calabash'. His books have been optioned by Guillermo Del Toro ('Spanky') and Jude Law ('Psychoville'). He co-founded Creative Partnership, a company that changed the face of film marketing, and spent many years working in film. His memoir of growing up without books, entitled 'Paperboy', was highly acclaimed. |
10/10/2011 3:39:22 AM |
| 31. | In The Presence Of A Great Mystery - This is a concise but intensive recorded excerpt from a 2002 seminar by the noted spiritual teacher and author of The Power of Now. Tolle, born in Germany and educated at the universities of London and Cambridge, weaves together familiar threads from both Western and Eastern faith traditions into an eclectic tapestry of insights concerning human nature. Tolle guides his audience to carve out new "space," a heightened awareness of the present moment made possible by moving beyond our conditioned thought patterns. |
10/10/2011 2:31:17 AM |
| 32. | Programmer Mega Book Pack - Part 2 - Programmer Mega Book Pack - Part 2 |
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| 33. | Problem Solving 101: A Simple Book for Smart People - Ken Watanabe originally wrote Problem Solving 101 for Japanese schoolchildren. His goal was to help shift the focus in Japanese education from memorization to critical thinking, by adapting some of the techniques he had learned as an elite McKinsey consultant. |
10/8/2011 2:35:47 AM |
| 34. | The Book of IMAP - IMAP (the Internet Message Access Protocol) allows clients to access their email on a remote server, whether from the office, a remote location, or a cell phone or other device. IMAP is powerful and flexible, but it’s also complicated to set up; it’s more difficult to implement than POP3 and more error-prone for both client and server. |
10/8/2011 2:33:18 AM |
| 35. | Programming Net Book Collection Vbnet And C - Programming Net Book Collection Vbnet And C |
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| 36. | CCIE Collection Book - CCIE Collection Book |
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| 37. | Drawing Book Collection 2011 - Drawing Book Collection 2011 |
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| 38. | The Assembly Programming Master Book - Aiming to prove that writing programs for Windows in the Assembly language is no more difficult than writing the same programs using C/C++, this guide shows how Assembly code is actually more compact and executes faster. The algorithmic knowledge and skills lost in high-level programming provides the justification demonstrated in this guide for using Assembly code. Working applications with detailed comments and descriptions of their operating principles, along with material that can be considered hackish, are included. |
10/8/2011 2:21:08 AM |
| 39. | A First Book of C++ - Gary Bronson’s A FIRST BOOK OF C++, Fourth Edition, takes a hands-on, applied approach to the first programming language course for students studying computer science. The book begins with procedural programming in C, and then gradually introduces object-oriented programming features and the C++ language syntax that enables first-time programmers to use them. |
10/7/2011 10:53:19 PM |
| 40. | The Assembly Programming Master - Aiming to prove that writing programs for Windows in the Assembly language is no more difficult than writing the same programs using C/C++, this guide shows how Assembly code is actually more compact and executes faster. The algorithmic knowledge and skills lost in high-level programming provides the justification demonstrated in this guide for using Assembly code. Working applications with detailed comments and descriptions of their operating principles, along with material that can be considered hackish, are included. |
10/7/2011 10:52:15 PM |
| 41. | E-Book Collection for Animation Artists - Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways. The most common method of presenting animation is as a motion picture or video program, although there are other methods. This pack of e-books is collection for animation artists. |
10/7/2011 10:45:27 PM |
| 42. | Game Design (Book Collection) - Game Design.pdf The Making of Uncharted Drake's Fortune four Chapters videos. The Art Game Design.pdf Game Interface Design.pdf Game Interface Design - Brent Fox.pdf Game Development Series - Character Development and Storytelling.pdf Game Design, 2nd Edition.pdf Game Design Foundations.pdf David Perry on Game Design - A Brainstorming Toolbox.pdf Better Game Characters by Design.pdf Challenges for Game Designers.pdf Better Game Characters by Design.pdf |
10/7/2011 10:37:08 PM |
| 43. | Cisco book flood 600+ - Cisco book flood 600+ |
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| 44. | Creating eBooks with Adobe InDesign CS4 & CS5 - An In-Depth Guide to Mastering eBook Production Expert trainer Gabriel Powell takes you through every step in the process of creating an eBook, from setting up the InDesign document to exporting an EPUB file that can be read on a computer, smartphone, Apple iPad, or Sony Reader. You’ll also learn how to edit an eBook, customize its navigation, and create scalable images, as well as how to validate an EPUB file to ensure that it’s error-free and fully compliant with the EPUB specification. |
10/5/2011 5:17:02 AM |
| 45. | Scripting InDesign CS3/4 with JavaScript - InDesign provides a powerful set of tools for producing beautiful documents. While you can certainly do all your work by hand through InDesign’s graphical interface, there are many times when it’s much easier to write a script. Once you’ve automated a task, you can run it over the whole document, ensuring consistency, or just when you need it, simplifying and speeding your layout process. All it takes is a bit of JavaScript knowledge and a willingness to explore InDesign’s programming features. |
10/5/2011 5:14:58 AM |
| 46. | InDesign CS5 Collaborative Workflows with InCopy CS5 - In InDesign CS5: Collaborative Workflows with InCopy CS5 Anne-Marie Concepción shows how Adobe InCopy CS5 and InDesign CS5 work together, helping editors and designers collaborate on publications, and save time and money, with no additional hardware, software, or expensive publication management systems. This course shows how to set up for the workflow, how to address cross-platform Mac and Windows issues when working in a mixed environment, how to work with remote writers and designers, and how to integrate with Microsoft Word. Exercise files are included with the course. |
10/5/2011 5:13:41 AM |
| 47. | Exploring Adobe InDesign CS5 - In the world of design, projects don't come with directions. The "recipe book" approach used by most software books does little to prepare designers for the demands of a highly competitive industry. Exploring Adobe InDesign CS5 takes a different approach. With its emphasis on typography and critical thinking, Exploring Adobe InDesign CS5 transforms the novice into a professional who is able to use the software while applying industry-standard design principles. In addition to understanding how to use the new features of Adobe InDesign CS5, readers learn to identify each project's challenges and to strategize the best production sequence. |
10/5/2011 4:21:51 AM |
| 48. | Adobe InDesign CS5 Manual - Adobe InDesign CS5 Manual and User Guide |
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| 49. | Indesign - INDESIGN is created exclusively for retailers of fine jewelry design. Since readership consists only of jewelers who are already highly successful, INDESIGN focuses it efforts on only the highest-level management and marketing issues as well as finding creative ways in which jewelers can sell the exclusive luxury brands they carry in their stores. |
10/5/2011 2:50:11 AM |
| 50. | InDesign CS5.5 to EPUB, Kindle, and iPad - In InDesign CS5.5 to EPUB, Kindle, and iPad, author Anne-Marie Concepci?n shows publishers, designers, and production staff how to use the software they already use to create print books?InDesign?for the emerging ebook market. Beginning with an overview of digital publishing for the ebook marketplace, the course demonstrates how to prepare existing InDesign files for optimal EPUB and Kindle conversion. The course covers applying professional text formatting, validating EPUBs, and incorporating search-engine friendly metadata, as well as setting up publisher accounts at the major ebook distribution channels and selling ebooks directly to readers through an e-commerce site. Exercise files accompany the course. |
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