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The Name of the Rose: including Postscript to the Name of the Rose
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It is the year 1327. Franciscans in an Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, but Brother William of Baskerville’s investigation is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

PDF Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools

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PDF Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools
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PDF--to most of the world it stands for that rather tiresome format used for documents downloaded from the web. Slow to load and slower to print, hopelessly unsearchable, and all but impossible to cut and paste from, the Portable Document Format doesn't inspire much affection in the average user. But PDFs done right is another story. Those who know the ins and outs of this format know that it can be much more than electronic paper. Flexible, compact, interactive, and even searchable, PDF is the ideal way to present content across multiple platforms.

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This practical introduction to the techniques needed to produce high-quality mathematical illustrations is suitable for anyone with basic knowledge of coordinate geometry. Bill Casselman combines a completely self-contained step-by-step introduction to the graphics programming language PostScript with an analysis of the requirements of good mathematical illustrations. The many small simple graphics projects can also be used in courses in geometry, graphics, or general mathematics. Code for many of the illustrations is included, and can be downloaded from the book's web site: www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/manualMathematicians; scientists, engineers, and even graphic designers seeking help in creating technical illustrations need look no further.

The LaTeX Graphics Companion: Illustrating Documents with TeX and Postscript(R)

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The LaTeX Graphics Companion: Illustrating Documents with TeX and Postscript(R)
Michel Goossens , Sebastian Rahtz , and Frank Mittelbach
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This handy reference describes techniques and tricks needed to illustrate LaTeX documents, and answers common user questions about graphics and PostScript fonts. It provides the first full description of the standard LaTeX color and graphics packages, and shows how you can combine TeX and PostScript capabilities to produce beautifully illustrated pages. Following the successful format of <B>The LaTeX Companion, this new book is an invaluable LaTeX resource for people incorporating pictures into text.

You will learn how to: incorporate graphic files into a LaTeX document, program technical diagrams using several differant languages, produce color pictures, achieve special effects with fragments of embedded PostScript, and make high-quality music scores and games diagrams.

You will find detailed descriptions of: important packages like Xy-pic, PSTricks, and METAPOST; the standard LaTeX color and graphics packages; PostScript fonts and how to use them in LaTeX; the dvips dvi to PostScript driver; and Ghostscript, the free interpreter that lets you view or print PostScript files even if you do not have a PostScript printer.

The authors examine a number of packages that extend or modify LaTeX's basic illustration features, and present hundreds of examples of useful solutions to graphics and font problems. In addition to packages for general drawing, the book also presents specific tools for mathematicians, physicists, chemists, engineers, and people interested in games and music typesetting.

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Whether you are a new or experienced .NET programmer, this book offers data management methods that you might frequently miss in the rush to complete projects on time. Author Deborah Kurata writes a handy, complete guide to lead you through hidden features and tricks buried within Visual Studio.

The book focuses on daily code management, rather than deep .NET framework discussions. Kurata concentrates on efficiencies, presentation, controls, data management methods, and day-to-day code snags. So if you’ve developed inefficient habits or have been fighting the development environment, you will, mercifully, save hours in the team development cycle by putting the book's tips into practice.

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Average Read for Beginers and Mid-level Dev.......2005-06-29

Like other reviewers have pointed out, "Best Kept Secrets in .NET" is a bit misleading title. From a developer's jargon, it would mean internals of assembly binding redirection or uncharted waters of machine.config etc however, this book is more about shortcuts and development techniques from an IDE perspective. "Literally" speaking, its a cross between Visual Studio Hacks and Code to Developer.

Apart from its name, it's generally a good book for beginers and average book for mid-level devs and skim through for seniors in case they won't know how to store code snippets in toolbox. I liked the improving unit testing and defensive development sections along with much ADO and hidden tricks in VS.NET. The Apress roadmap explains the intended audience and its a good match but generally, I'd recommend Coder to Developer for this particular genre of IDE/Process learning.

A Waste of Paper.......2005-06-03

I read this entire book. Those who have praised this book as a "good book for newbies" have apparently forgot that the book is entitled "Best Kept Secrets". These are not secrets. Much of the book goes into painful detail of basic procedures in Visual Studio that you can figure out easily by using the program for a few days. The title of this book is absolutely fraudulent.

What's really funny is that, at the end of the book, the author declares that if you said "I didn't know that" at least once while reading her book, then the book "met its objective of revealing the best kept secrets in .NET." That self-congratulatory statement is so illogical and false I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Literally 90% (I made careful marks of the content that was at least slightly informative to me) of the book's "secrets" are extremely basic, tepid, well-known practices.

A good read + shortcuts.......2005-03-11

Best Kept Secrets in .NET
Deborah Kurata
APress 2004 ISBN: 1-59059-426-6

Reviewed by Steven Mullins, HuNTUG member

"The Secrets to improve your productivity and code quality" well that was about the gist of it. For those of us that are just getting into the writing of code and scripting this may give you a few clues on how to tweak while you write. I have only just started to learn how to compose code and this is what I needed to learn a little bit more. The author speaks well and gives plenty of examples in both VB and C# to keep even the beginner up to speed. I always want real world scenario when I read technical literature to help it all sink in.

So down to the dirty, the book starts with the basics how to hot key and toggle between different screens where all the tools are stored and how to get to the tools and your data quickly. This is basics but for those who are still feeling our way through the interface it's nice to learn how to lock all that down. The keyboard shortcuts are here to, nice to have handy during setup. Getting deeper into it, the layout and cleaning of the interface was a nice thing to add in, I know I am not the cleanest builder of pages and have very little graphics skills. The biggest thing that I found here was the operator listings, another good reference for beginners. Chapter four covered a lot of area on getting your database into shape and configured for use but was pretty straight forward in how to get your data into your project. Chapter five was listed as defensive deployment which I learned that means how to clean it up and get your code right. There was very little "security" at least in my facet of it, I expect for security to talk on how to lock it down and deny access to users. There was a really good explanation of hashing and salting but that is where it left off.

After all that being said let me say for a quick read and reference book this is one that I would put on a student readers list just for all the shortcuts and hotkeys. The author has a good flow to writing keeping it from being a solitary technical book. It was a good read for me and I would consider it a good find to add to a desktop library.

Great.......2004-12-31

This has a lot of great ideas for the professional developer that uses Visual Studio to do .NET development. Many ideas that are hard to find or you have to spend a LOT of time working with others to find. Saves a ton of time. For a small book and a small price, this should definitely be on your shelf.

Helpful performance gems and good coding practices.......2004-12-01

While this book does not go into great depth in any one area, it does a good job of recommending ways to increase the performance of code as well as make it more readable and extensible. Many of the tips apply across programming practice (i.e. short-circuiting and/or), but a few are related to just .NET. It is at least worth the $20 Amazon is selling it at (30 Nov 2004) for intermediate / beginning programmers. Advanced programmers may not find anything new however.

PostScript(R) Language Reference (3rd Edition)

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PostScript(R) Language Reference (3rd Edition)
Adobe Systems Inc.
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Programmers who specialize in PostScript, the page-description language, now have a newly updated reference guide for LanguageLevel 3. PostScript® Language Reference starts off with a bit of history on the language and an overview of the new version. It goes on to cover basic topics such as raster output devices, scan conversion, and page-description languages in general.

PostScript® Language Reference provides an overview of how to use the PostScript interpreter and understand the ideal structure of PostScript page descriptions. The book covers the heart of the language, including syntax, data types and objects, stacks, execution, basic operators, memory management, file input/output (I/O), functions, errors, and filtered-files and binary-encoding details. Subsequent chapters cover graphics, fonts, device control, rendering, and operators.

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