Tag: Publishing

The Book of Ruby: A Hands-On Guide for the Adventurous – #ruby #programming #software #bookreview

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The Book of Ruby: A Hands-On Guide for the Adventurous By Huw Collingbourne (No Starch Press, $39.95, paperback; $31.95, Kindle)  Ruby, first introduced in 1995, is “a cross-platform interpreted language that has many features in common with other ‘scripting’ languages such as Perl and Python,” says Huw Collingbourne,  who is director of technology for SapphireSteel Software and has 30 … Continue reading The Book of Ruby: A Hands-On Guide for the Adventurous – #ruby #programming #software #bookreview

Introducing Microsoft WebMatrix – #bookreview

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Introducing Microsoft WebMatrix By Laurence Moroney (Microsoft Press, $39.99, paperback) Introducing Microsoft WebMatrix is aimed (1) at readers who may be first-time web developers and (2) at readers who want to learn how to build active web pages or learn how to customize open source web applications to their own needs. WebMatrix is a free, downloadable … Continue reading Introducing Microsoft WebMatrix – #bookreview

Captain John R. Hughes: Lone Star Ranger

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  Captain John R. Hughes: Lone Star Ranger Chuck Parsons (University of North Texas Press, $29.95)  John R. Hughes is often considered one of the Texas Rangers’ “Four Great Captains,” alongside William Jesse McDonald, James A. Brooks and John H. Rogers. (Chuck Norris, as Walker, Texas Ranger, figures nowhere in this equation.) Before Hughes became a Ranger … Continue reading Captain John R. Hughes: Lone Star Ranger

Faking It in the School for Tricksters

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School for Tricksters: A Novel in Stories By Chris Gavaler (SMU Press, $23.95) Amazon Link: http://amzn.to/fjgemh Pennsylvania’s Carlisle Indian Industrial School remains a controversial chapter in U.S. history, more than 90 years after the school was shut down and converted to a military hospital. Later, it became the site of the U.S. Army’s War College. The Carlisle campus … Continue reading Faking It in the School for Tricksters

Neptune’s Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal

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 Neptune’s Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal By James D. Hornfischer (Bantam Books, $30.00) Amazon Link: http://amzn.to/giTclq Kindle Link: http://amzn.to/fKzayj Guadalcanal typically is remembered as a small Pacific island where U.S. Marines stayed locked in savage combat for months with tenacious, desperate Japanese defenders during World War II. U.S. Army troops, however, also fought heroically … Continue reading Neptune’s Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal

Lone Star Noir: Deep in the (Dark) Heart of Texas

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 Fans of noir fiction prefer their stories dark and gritty. They relish harsh tales told from troubled viewpoints: crime victims, serial killers, suspects, witnesses. A private eye may be snooping around somewhere nearby. But cops and sheriff’s deputies are not yet on the scene. A terrible act central to the story is just about to be … Continue reading Lone Star Noir: Deep in the (Dark) Heart of Texas

The Walter Cronkite You Never Knew

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One day about 40 years ago, I almost met Walter Cronkite. I was supposed to receive a news photography award from a state journalism organization. The famous broadcaster was supposed to hand the plaque and check to me and shake my hand. Then he would have dinner with me and the other winners of coveted journalism awards. But, a few months earlier, I had … Continue reading The Walter Cronkite You Never Knew

Fast-Paced Action: By Sea, by Land and by Air

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Corsair By Clive Cussler with Jack Du Brul (Putnam, $27.95, hardback) Some fans of Jack Du Brul’s writing think his name should be listed first on the cover of Corsair, a new installment in the popular Oregon Files series. But, regardless of who actually wrote what within this 437-page action-thriller, the team of Cussler and … Continue reading Fast-Paced Action: By Sea, by Land and by Air

A True (and Truly Good) Tale of Newsprint and Murder

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  WAR OF WORDS: A True Tale of Newsprint and Murder By Simon Read (Union Square Press, $24.95) You think the newspaper business is tough now? Competing newspapers in mid-19th century San Francisco sometimes fought each other—literally—for circulation and advertising supremacy in a rough-and-tumble city fueled by Gold Rush money, whiskey and gambling and ruled … Continue reading A True (and Truly Good) Tale of Newsprint and Murder