Brian D: 304 books

If you’re a programmer, system administrator, or web hacker just getting started with Perl, this workbook helps you gain hands-on experience with the language right away. It’s the perfect companion to the 6th Edition of Learning Perl (known as “the Llama”), which is based on the popular introductory...

This book picks up right where Learning Perl leaves off. With Intermediate Perl, you’ll graduate from short scripts to much larger programs, using features that make Perl a general-purpose language. This gentle but thorough guide introduces you to modules, complex data structures, and object-oriented...

Take the next step toward Perl mastery with advanced concepts that make coding easier, maintenance simpler, and execution faster. Mastering Perl isn't a collection of clever tricks, but a way of thinking about Perl programming for solving debugging, configuration, and many other real-world problems...

I never wanted much: just a place of my own and a good woman at night. When I killed a rich man's brother in self-defense, they took all that away from me. Five years in the Yuma Territorial Prison. Five years smashing a sixteen pound hammer into a never-ending rockpile. Five years of beatings and...

"A good traditional Western with superb sense of place." ~ Roundup Magazine Book Review. In 1884 New Mexico, Buck Ford has troubles. After giving up prospecting for ranching, he ran head-on into more than he bargained for. With his home burned, his woman turned against him, and the law on his tail...

Algiers Point A Shocking Story of Murder and Corruption in the New Orleans Police Department. "WOW!" Judge "KK" Norman, New Orleans Court in Algiers. "It is all completley fiction...but his tale of CIA infiltration, death, and deception might have happened." Gloria Alverz,...

Kaysar was only sixteen years old, but had spent twelve of those years as a slave within one of Hilekar's mines, the Abyss of Tartarus.  The longer Kaysar remained a prisoner within the Abyss, the more distant and unreal the memories of his early childhood seemed to him.  Yet, Kaysar had a sense...

It Couldn't Be The Measles is a story of a big animal and an even bigger problem. When an owner discovers his pet elephant has polka dots, he goes to enormous lengths to have him treated. After all, "It's hard to keep an elephant, especially when it's sick". From the doctor to the fire department,...

Learn how to use the core Hibernate APIs and tools as part of the Spring Framework. This book illustrates how these two frameworks can be best utilized. Other persistence solutions available in Spring are also shown including the Java Persistence API (JPA). Spring Persistence with Hibernate,...

The Harvard Global Health Catalyst summit is a premier yearly event bringing together leaders from across the world to share knowledge, discuss, and partner in developing innovative solutions to vexing health problems and advocating for progress towards improved health outcomes that save lives. The...

Among the most distinctive and defining features of Mormonism is the affirmation of continuing revelation through modern day prophets and apostles. An important component of this concept is the acknowledgement of an open canon—that the body of authoritative scriptural texts can expand as new revelations...

This paper will conduct an analysis of the failure of the Luftwaffe (1939-45) and identify practices for the United States Air Force to avoid. The analysis will address lack of vision and institutional inflexibility in crafting airpower doctrine, as well as explore the ensuing systemic mismatch of...

Raymond Sunn was elated when he was invited to join a mountaineering expedition to the far reaches of Leh, Ladakh. After summitting the snow-bound peak, he with a few of his climbing comrades, investigated a cave he had noticed on his ascent of the mountain. Little did he know that his inquisitiveness...

Its been six months since Dr. Jackson ONeil discovered dinosaurs living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; and now hes at it again, this time heading to the outskirts of Sydney, Australia, to help out his childhood hero, Dr. John Tice, and his daughter, Maya, when mysterious disappearances start...