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Improve Your Creativity, Effectiveness, and Ultimately, Your Code
In Modern Software Engineering, continuous delivery pioneer David
Farley helps software professionals think about their work more
effectively, manage it more successfully, and genuinely improve the
quality of their applications, their lives, and the lives of their
colleagues. Writing for programmers, managers, and technical leads
at all levels of experience, Farley illuminates durable principles
at the heart of effective software development. He distills the
discipline into two core exercises: learning and exploration and
managing complexity. For each, he defines principles that can help
you improve everything from your mindset to the quality of your
code, and describes approaches proven to promote success. Farley's
ideas and techniques cohere into a unified, scientific, and
foundational approach to solving practical software development
problems within realistic economic constraints. This general,
durable, and pervasive approach to software engineering can help
you solve problems you haven't encountered yet, using today's
technologies and tomorrow's. It offers you deeper insight into what
you do every day, helping you create better software, faster, with
more pleasure and personal fulfillment. Clarify what you're trying
to accomplish Choose your tools based on sensible criteria Organize
work and systems to facilitate continuing incremental progress
Evaluate your progress toward thriving systems, not just more
"legacy code" Gain more value from experimentation and empiricism
Stay in control as systems grow more complex Achieve rigor without
too much rigidity Learn from history and experience Distinguish
"good" new software development ideas from "bad" ones Register your
book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or
corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.
These volumes gather together a body of critical sources on the
major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary
responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to
read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of
Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane
Austen's novels. The selected sources range from important essays
in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion,
and documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant
pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order
to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each
volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a
selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects.
In 1600, after a decade spent establishing himself as the most
popular and successful playwright of his generation, Shakespeare
found himself having to compete with new and younger writers. At
the same time he had to face the challenge of new theatres designed
for a better class of audience, which looked as though they might
cream off some of his most valued customers. Difficult as it may be
to believe that Shakespeare faced such commercial and artistic
pressures, common sense and hard historical fact tell us that he
did not work in isolation from the theatrical world in which he was
so spectacular a success. In "Shakespeare and the Rival
Playwrights" David Farley-Hills gives an interpretation of seven of
Shakespeare's plays from 1600 to 1606 in the light of pressures
exerted by his major stage rivals. He argues that Shakespeare
responded to the problem with a double strategy; attempting to
compete with the new fashions of the covered theatres with plays
such as "Troilus and Cressida", "All's Well That Ends Well", and
"Measure for Measure"; and rivalling the work of the open theatres
with the tragedies "Hamlet", "Othello", and "King Lear".
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical
sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents
contemporary repsonses to a writer's work, enabling student and
researcher to read the material themselves.
Terrorism is one of the serious threats to international peace and
security that we face in this decade. No nation can consider itself
immune from the dangers it poses, and no society can remain
disengaged from the efforts to combat it. The termcounterterrorism
refers to the techniques, strategies, and tactics used in the ?ght
against terrorism. Counterterrorism efforts involve many segments
of so- ety, especially governmental agencies including the police,
military, and intelligence agencies (both domestic and
international). The goal of counterterrorism efforts is to not only
detect and prevent potential future acts but also to assist in the
response to events that have already occurred. A terrorist cell
usually forms very quietly and then grows in a pattern - sp- ning
international borders, oceans, and hemispheres. Surprising to many,
an eff- tive "weapon", just as quiet - mathematics - can serve as a
powerful tool to combat terrorism, providing the ability to connect
the dots and reveal the organizational pattern of something so
sinister. The events of 9/11 instantly changed perceptions of the
wordsterrorist andn- work, especially in the United States. The
international community was confronted with the need to tackle a
threat which was not con?ned to a discreet physical - cation. This
is a particular challenge to the standard instruments for
projecting the legal authority of states and their power to uphold
public safety. As demonstrated by the events of the 9/11 attack, we
know that terrorist attacks can happen anywhere.
Terrorism is one of the serious threats to international peace and
security that we face in this decade. No nation can consider itself
immune from the dangers it poses, and no society can remain
disengaged from the efforts to combat it. The termcounterterrorism
refers to the techniques, strategies, and tactics used in the ?ght
against terrorism. Counterterrorism efforts involve many segments
of so- ety, especially governmental agencies including the police,
military, and intelligence agencies (both domestic and
international). The goal of counterterrorism efforts is to not only
detect and prevent potential future acts but also to assist in the
response to events that have already occurred. A terrorist cell
usually forms very quietly and then grows in a pattern - sp- ning
international borders, oceans, and hemispheres. Surprising to many,
an eff- tive "weapon," just as quiet - mathematics - can serve as a
powerful tool to combat terrorism, providing the ability to connect
the dots and reveal the organizational pattern of something so
sinister. The events of 9/11 instantly changed perceptions of the
wordsterrorist andn- work, especially in the United States. The
international community was confronted with the need to tackle a
threat which was not con?ned to a discreet physical - cation. This
is a particular challenge to the standard instruments for
projecting the legal authority of states and their power to uphold
public safety. As demonstrated by the events of the 9/11 attack, we
know that terrorist attacks can happen anywhere.
Winner of the 2011 Jolt Excellence Award! Getting software released
to users is often a painful, risky, and time-consuming process.
This groundbreaking new book sets out the principles and technical
practices that enable rapid, incremental delivery of high quality,
valuable new functionality to users. Through automation of the
build, deployment, and testing process, and improved collaboration
between developers, testers, and operations, delivery teams can get
changes released in a matter of hours- sometimes even minutes-no
matter what the size of a project or the complexity of its code
base. Jez Humble and David Farley begin by presenting the
foundations of a rapid, reliable, low-risk delivery process. Next,
they introduce the "deployment pipeline," an automated process for
managing all changes, from check-in to release. Finally, they
discuss the "ecosystem" needed to support continuous delivery, from
infrastructure, data and configuration management to governance.
The authors introduce state-of-the-art techniques, including
automated infrastructure management and data migration, and the use
of virtualization. For each, they review key issues, identify best
practices, and demonstrate how to mitigate risks. Coverage includes
* Automating all facets of building, integrating, testing, and
deploying software * Implementing deployment pipelines at team and
organizational levels * Improving collaboration between developers,
testers, and operations * Developing features incrementally on
large and distributed teams * Implementing an effective
configuration management strategy * Automating acceptance testing,
from analysis to implementation * Testing capacity and other
non-functional requirements * Implementing continuous deployment
and zero-downtime releases * Managing infrastructure, data,
components and dependencies * Navigating risk management,
compliance, and auditing Whether you're a developer, systems
administrator, tester, or manager, this book will help your
organization move from idea to release faster than ever-so you can
deliver value to your business rapidly and reliably.
Professor Jonathan David Farley is in the department of mathematics
at the California Institute of Technology. He has formerly been a
Science Fellow at Stanford University's Center for International
Security and Cooperation and a professor at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Seed Magazine named him one of "15 people
who have shaped the global conversation about science in 2005."
A tour through the centuries and through a bizarre Italian town in
search of an unbelievable relic: the foreskin of Jesus Christ
In December 1983, a priest in the Italian hill town of Calcata
shared shocking news with his congregation: The pride of their
town, the foreskin of Jesus, had been stolen. Some postulated that
it had been stolen by Satanists. Some said the priest himself was
to blame. Some even pointed their fingers at the Vatican. In 2006,
travel writer David Farley moved to Calcata, determined to find the
missing foreskin, or at least find out the truth behind its
disappearance. Farley recounts how the relic passed from
Charlemagne to the papacy to a marauding sixteenth-century German
solider before finally ending up in Calcata, where miracles
occurred that made the sleepy town a major pilgrimage destination.
Over the centuries, as Catholic theology evolved, the relic came to
be viewed as something of an embarrassment, culminating in a 1900
Church decree that allowed the parish to display it only on New
Year's Day.
"An Irreverent Curiosity" interweaves this history with the
curious landscape of Calcata, a beautiful and untouched medieval
village set atop four-hundred-fifty-foot cliffs, which now, due to
the inscrutable machinations of Italian bureaucracy, is a veritable
counterculture coven. Blending history, travel, and perhaps the
oddest story in Christian lore, "An Irreverent Curiosity" is a
weird and wonderful tale of conspiracy and misadventure.
A visual and anecdotal exploration of the curious worlds hidden
beneath our feet, including ancient cities, salt mine cathedrals,
underground amusement parks, and more. From bone-filled catacombs
to sculpted salt churches to hand-carved cave complexes large
enough to house 20,000 people, Underground Worlds is packed with
more than 50 unusual destinations that take some digging to find.
Award-winning travel writer David Farley revels in the unexpected,
whether it is a cave city in China which houses one of the world's
largest collections of Buddhist art or an old salt mine converted
into a theme park in Romania. Stunning photos help readers see
places they could not even imagine, such as a three-story
underground train station in Taiwan that is home to the a
4,500-panel "Dome of Light" that is the largest glasswork on Earth,
as well as secret spaces, such as an ornate temple built beneath a
suburban home in Italy. Throughout the fascinating text are themed
entries of underground systems such as the 2,500-year-old water
tunnels of Kish Qanat in Iran or engineering marvels like the New
York City steam tunnels.
"This is an incisive study showing the instrumental role of
travelling and travel writing in the late phase of modernism.
Whether it is Wyndham Lewis in Morocco. Rebecca West In the
Balkans, E.E. Cummings in [Soviet] Russia, or Ezra Pound in France
- in each case, travelling was productive of an awareness and a
formal repertoire germane to the writer's respective literary
project. David Farley's book is part of an ongoing reassessment of
modernism's vital historical, cultural, and political contexts." -
Bernard Schweizer, author of Radicals on the Road: The Politics of
English Travel Writing in the 1930s. As the study of travel writing
has grown in recent years, scholars have largely ignored the
literature of modernist writers. Modernist Travel Writing:
Intellectuals Abroad, by David Farley, addresses this gap by
examining the ways in which a number of writers employed the
techniques and stylistic innovations of modernism in their travel
narratives to variously engage the political, social, and cultural
milieu of the years between the world wars. Modernist Travel
Writing argues that the travel book is a crucial genre for
understanding the development of modernism in the years between the
wars, despite the established view that travel writing during the
interwar period was largely an escapist genre - one in which
writers hearkened back to the realism of nineteenth-century
literature in order to avoid interwar anxiety. Farley analyzes
works that exist on the margins of modernism, generically and
geographically, works that have yet to receive the critical
attention they deserve, partly due to their classification as
travel narratives and partly because of their complex modernist
styles. The book begins by examining the ways that travel and the
emergent travel regulations in the wake of the First World War
helped shape Ezra Pound's Cantos. From there, it goes on to examine
E. E. Cumming's frustrated attempts to navigate the "unworld" of
Soviet Russia in his book Eimi, Wyndham Lewis's satiric journey
through colonial Morocco in Filibusters in Barbary, and Rebecca
West's urgent efforts to make sense of the fractious Balkan states
in Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. These modernist writers travelled to
countries that experienced most directly the tumult of revolution,
the effects of empire, and the upheaval of war during the years
between World War I and World War II. Farley's study focuses on the
question of what constitutes "evidence" for Pound, Lewis, Cummings,
and West as they establish their authority as eyewitnesses,
translate what they see for an audience back home, and attempt to
make sense of a transformed and transforming modern world.
Modernist Travel Writing makes an original contribution to the
study of literary modernism while taking a distinctive look at a
unique subset within the growing field of travel writing studies.
David Farley's work will be of interest to students and teachers in
both of these fields as well as to early-twentieth-century literary
historians and general enthusiasts of modernist studies.
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