Great programmers aren't born--they're made. The industry is moving from object-oriented languages to functional languages, and you need to commit to radical improvement. New programming languages arm you with the tools and idioms you need to refine your craft. While other language primers take you through basic installation and "Hello, World," we aim higher. Each language in Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks will take you on a step-by-step journey through the most important paradigms of our time. You'll learn seven exciting languages: Lua, Factor, Elixir, Elm, Julia, MiniKanren, and Idris. Learn from the award-winning programming series that inspired the Elixir language. Hear how other programmers across broadly different communities solve problems important enough to compel language development. Expand your perspective, and learn to solve multicore and distribution problems. In each language, you'll solve a non-trivial problem, using the techniques that make that language special. Write a fully functional game in Elm, without a single callback, that compiles to JavaScript so you can deploy it in any browser. Write a logic program in Clojure using a programming model, MiniKanren, that is as powerful as Prolog but much better at interacting with the outside world. Build a distributed program in Elixir with Lisp-style macros, rich Ruby-like syntax, and the richness of the Erlang virtual machine. Build your own object layer in Lua, a statistical program in Julia, a proof in code with Idris, and a quiz game in Factor. When you're done, you'll have written programs in five different programming paradigms that were written on three different continents. You'll have explored four languages on the leading edge, invented in the past five years, and three more radically different languages, each with something significant to teach you

You can test just about anything with Cucumber. We certainly have, and in "Cucumber Recipes" we'll show you how to apply our hard-won field experience to your own projects. Once you've mastered the basics, this book will show you how to get the most out of Cucumber--from specific situations to advanced test-writing advice. With over forty practical recipes, you'll test desktop, web, mobile, and server applications across a variety of platforms. This book gives you tools that you can use today to automate any system that you encounter, and do it well."The Cucumber Book" showed you how your team can work together to write "executable specifications"--documents that tell a clear story and also happen to be working test code. We'll arm you with ready-rolled solutions to real-world problems: your tests will run faster, read more clearly, and work in any environment. Our first tips will help you fit Cucumber into your workflow. Powerful filters will tame tables full of test data, transforming them into the format your application needs. Custom output formatters will generate reports for any occasion. Continuous Integration servers will run your Cucumber tests every time the code changes. Next, you'll find recipes tailored to the platform you're running on. Ever wanted to know how to test a Grails app from Cucumber? Need to put a Windows program through its paces? How about a mobile app running on Android or iOS? We'll show you how to do all of these. Throughout the book, you'll see how to make Cucumber sing as you interoperate with different platforms, languages, and environments. From embedded circuits to Python and PHP web apps, Cucumber has something for you.What You Need: You'll need basic working knowledge of Cucumber and Ruby. Individual recipes may have additional requirements; for example, a recipe on Windows automation might pull in an open source GUI driver. We've written the recipes for compatibility with Ruby 1.9.3 and 1.8.7, plus Cucumber 1.1.4. Other versions may work as well, but these are the ones we test with.

This is a fast moving and exciting new thriller that blends ancient history with right up to date suspense. A relic from the past haunts Adam Gunn as he tries to solve this first mystery in the Curtana series of new novels. Prologue Having survived the horrors of Helmand, Major Adam Gunn VC, resigned from the Army and returned home to Scotland to recover from his wounds. Hoping for a quiet and peaceful retirement, he planned to spend his time playing golf and adjusting to civilian life, but that dream was shattered when his past caught up with him. As his grandfather, John Gunn, lay dying in hospital, Adam began to unravel his mysterious and dangerous past. The old man had left him a letter, and as Adam read it, he began a journey into the distant past when he discovered that an ancient sword, a Curtana, had cast its shadow over his family for centuries. From that chance discovery in a hidden tomb in Kinlochy, to a murderous climax in a cold war bunker in Wales, Adam fights to save himself and Lucy, the beautiful young reporter who inadvertently photographed the key to the discovery. He is up against Lord Anthony Faulkner, a ruthless oil baron with links to organised crime and who has a fanatical interest in ancient Egypt. In his attempts to find the Curtana, he launches increasingly desperate and violent attempts to force Adam to tell him the secret of the location of what he believes is a clue to the location of the lost tomb of Imhotep. Only when Adam begins to unravel the many tentacles of Faulkner's criminal activities and his plans to use Polygon, an international drugs syndicate that he controls, to dominate the UK drugs market, does he begin to find a way to stop him and in the process, discover the truth behind the mystery of the lost tomb of Imhotep.

This is a fast moving adventure thriller featuring Major Adam Gunn VC, recently returned from Helmand province where he was wounded in action. Just when he thought that he had got his life back under control, he is once again drawn into a dangerous and perplexing chain of events as he tries to return Imhotep's sarcophagus to its rightful place in Egypt. Someone very powerful is stalking him, determined to learn the secret of the Curtana, and prepared to kill anyone who gets in his way. In his search for the Mahdi, a mysterious and shadowy figure who is rumored to want to re-establish a caliphate throughout the Middle East, Adam finally solves the mystery of the Curtana sword. Death, murder and love all blend into an exciting story, loosely based on ancient legends, as Adam finally finds the code that opens the Hall of Records, a mythical source of knowledge long lost to mankind. Some quotes from this book "Major Gunn, please remember that you are not James Bond. " The Prime Minister "You seem to solve most of your problems by using heavy artillery, Major Gunn." Chief Superintendent McDonald. Grampian Police "Adam, that car is just a pile of scrap metal and bullets." Motor mechanic "That thing sent a signal through twenty feet of rock, destroyed a passing satellite and headed straight for the Orion Nebula. I just hope we haven't declared war on anyone out there, Major" Prime Minister at COBRA meeting "Just remember, Frankie. You can always die twice." Adam Gunn to Frankie McCann, gangster