Focusing on performance optimization in .NET, this book provides practical guidance on achieving the best results with the Common Language Runtime (CLR). It includes detailed explorations of CLR functionality, recommended free tools, and tutorials. With useful anecdotes and step-by-step instructions, readers will learn how to measure and enhance performance effectively, making it a comprehensive resource for developers looking to elevate their skills and application efficiency.
How to Accomplish Successful Ideation through Creative Resilience
150 pages
6 hours of reading
The book emphasizes the evolution of creative thinking into creative resilience, a vital skill for business leaders to tackle complex problems effectively. It offers techniques to foster both physical and mental agility, enabling the creation of environments conducive to innovative ideas. Readers will learn to embrace flexible thinking and non-traditional approaches, enhancing their ability to find creative solutions for specific business and technical challenges.
Collected Thoughts on Taste, Tradition, and the Honest Pleasures of Food
287 pages
11 hours of reading
Remember the days before the dot.com explosion, before Golden Arches rose from the Great Plains, before the Age of Information, when the only commodity that wasn't in short supply in America was time? Time to relax and reflect, time to cook well, eat well, and live the life of sustainable hedonism. Today we pound down our Big Mac and fries as we check our e-mail on our collective Palm Pilots, at the expense of true nourishment for our bodies and souls. "Enough!" says Carlo Petrini, the founder of Slow Food International, a movement that encourages us to turn down the volume, unplug the answering machine, and enjoy life to its fullest. Away with nutraceutical soft drinks and breakfast cereals made from refined sugar and shaped liked clowns. Bring back the pleasure of the palate, and return the humanity to food. More than 60,000 members worldwide now belong to the Slow Food movement, which believes that the slow shall inherit the earth. Slow Collected Thoughts on Taste, Tradition, and the Honest Pleasures of Food is an anthology for cooks, gourmets, and anyone who is passionate about food and its impact on our culture. Drawn from five years of the quarterly journal Slow (only recently available in America), this book includes more than 100 articles covering eclectic topics from "Falafel" to "Fat City." From the market at Ulan Bator in Mongolia to Slow Food Down Under, this book offers an armchair tour of the exotic and bizarre. You'll pass through Vietnam's Snake Tavern, enjoy the Post-Industrial Pint of Beer, and learn why the lascivious villain in Indian cinema always eats Tandoori Chicken. The articles are contributed by some of the world's top food writers. Slow Food is moving fast in North America, with more than 5,000 members, loosely organized into 55 "Convivia," from Montreal to San Francisco, benefiting from enormous free publicity. Slow Food offers a clear alternative to the "fast food nation" (the title of Eric Schlosser's great book on the horrors of the fast food biz). This is a perfect follow-up to Joan Dye Gussow's This Organic Life , and is proof positive that he or she who lives slow, lives best.
Sháníte rychlá, robustní a efektivní programovací řešení pro Microsoft C# 4.0? Pak je tato kniha přesně to to, co hledáte. Najdete v ní přes 200 hotových řešení, nejlepší praktiky či vyzkoušené ukázky kódu pro všechno možné (od tříd po výjimky, od sítí po XML, od LINQ po Silverlight). Kniha zahrnuje hlavní rozšíření jazyka, která byla představena v C# 4.0 a .NET 4.0. Pokud trpíte chronickým nedostatkem času, na nic nečekejte a začněte rovnou zde. Získejte hned teď odpovědi, jimž můžete důvěřovat, a kód, který můžete hned používat. O autorovi: Ben Watson je softwarový inženýr z týmu Bing společnosti Microsoft. Pomáhá navrhovat a implementovat masivně škálovatelné distribuované systémy a další interní záležitosti pro vyhledávač Bing. Předtím, než se přidal k Microsoftu, pracoval jako vůdčí vývojář pro GeoEye, což je hlavní poskytovatel satelitního zobrazování. Bloguje na PhilosophicalGeek.com, kde zveřejnil spoustu populárních návodů pro psaní kódu v C# a C++. Ke stažení Stáhnout zdrojové soubory ke knize (31 MB)
