So while I hope that programmers will enjoy this work, it is meant equally or more for the rest of us. And if my research had uncovered some previously unknown innovation or fail-safe insight into building better software, I'd be smarter to seek investors, not readers. I wouldn't presume to try to teach the experts. I'm barely an elementary programmer myself. The shelves of the world are full of how-to books for software developers. Here's the author's note I put at the start of the book: In Dreaming in Code I tell their stories. I spent three years following the work of the Chandler developers as they scaled programming peaks and slogged through software swamps. Yet the art of creating it continues to be a dark mystery, even to the experts, and the greater our ambitions,ĭreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software sets out to understand why, through the story of one software project - Mitch Kapor's Chandler, an ambitious, open-source effort to rethink the world of e-mail and scheduling.
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Joyce was born in Dublin into a middle-class family. His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, letters, and occasional journalism. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, particularly stream of consciousness. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922), Finnegans Wake (1939) No champagne or beautiful women." And enemy is not portrayed as villains or dumb like in oh so many Hollywood films. This is a real story about a real James Bond. Not much clichéd hero stuff but rather to quote that guy who first told me about McNabb: "It's about misery. The film continues to be very realistic all the way through. it then cuts to a title card which says that this is a true story accompanied with the song "Londons Calling" by The Clash. a composition of old Gulf War footage and news reports. The opening montage of this film sucked me straight in. The film Bravo Two Zero tells the story about eight SAS soldiers who was sent behind enemy lines in The Gulf War. I haven't read anything by McNabb yet but I think i will. Later on i saw Heat and I was very impressed. And he said that many people reacted very well to the fact that everyone in that movie held their guns and rifles correctly and changing the clip in a professional way. I hadn't seen Heat at the time but he recommended it because McNabb was a technical weapons training adviser on it. He said if I liked Clancy i should check out Andy McNabb. I talked to him for a long time and we got talking about books and I mentioned I was a big Clancy fan. I was first told about Andy McNabb from a half-insane guy who played the main character in a movie which was shot in my home town. Quarkus starts and ends with the community which includes a vast ecosystem of 400+ extensions that includes support for popular Java APIs and standards. Watch the Quarkus Insights episode about Pact and Quarkus to learn more. This can help to save time and ensure that developers can focus on writing code. Quarkus with Pact, allows developers to easily integrate Pact into their testing and deployment workflows without any additional setup. Quarkus 3 enables Pact contract-based testing capability which has a significant impact on the development process for Quarkus developers. This release includes additional features like the quarkus deploy command that enables the deployment of Quarkus applications to platforms like Kubernetes, Knative, and OpenShift without requiring changes to the project dependencies or configuration Pact The Quarkus command line tool lets you create projects, manage extensions and perform essential build and dev commands. You can access the Dev UI at Check out the Dev UI playlist on Quarkus YouTube channel to learn more. Quarkus 3 includes a new and improved Dev UI with a new look and feel that is more extensible. This release continues that mission by making developers more efficient with new tools and services such as Dev UI, Quarkus CLI, and PACT contract testing. One of the founding principles of Quarkus is to bring joy to Java developers by creating a frictionless experience through a combination of tools, libraries, extensions, and more. Was a child, that their next leap would be over the Atlantic into America." Adams instructed his beloved Abigail to start saving all his letters even before the outbreak of the war for independence. And in conversation it was always added, since I more ancient in my memory," he wrote in 1807, "than the observation that arts, sciences, and empire had always travelled westward. In his old age, John Adams recalled his youthful intimations of the providential forces at work: Several other prominent American revolutionaries also talked as if they were actors in a historical drama whose script had already been written by the gods. And Thomas Jefferson's lyrical rendering of the reasonsįor the entire revolutionary enterprise emphasized the self-evident character of the principles at stake. Tom Paine, for example, claimed that it was simply a matter of common sense that an island could not rule a continent. On the inevitability side, it is true there were voices back then urging prospective patriots to regard American independenceĪs an early version of manifest destiny. No event in American history which was so improbable at the time has seemed so inevitable in retrospect as the American Revolution. Regardless, Hannibal was such a threat that the Romans responded in an unprecedented nature when the Carthaginians resumed the campaigning season in the spring of 216 BCE by capturing the city of Cannae, a crucial supply hub, and placing themselves along the line that convoys from the ports and warehouses of the south needed to travel to reach Rome. While military historians are still amazed that he was able to maintain his army in Italy near Rome for nearly 15 years, scholars are still puzzled over some of his decisions, including why he never attempted to march on Rome in the first place. *Includes pictures*Includes ancient accounts of the battles*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingAlthough the Romans gained the upper hand over Carthage in the wake of the First Punic War, the legendary Carthaginian general Hannibal brought the Romans to their knees for over a decade during the Second Punic War. Furthermore, it highlights the variation of impoliteness strategies used by characters. This research paper is intended to examine the opposite direction of politeness 'impoliteness phenomenon' in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (1913). In other words, they studied the communicative situations where the speaker's purpose is to damage a hearer's face rather than softening face threatening acts. Meanwhile, Brown and Levinson dealt with politeness as a knotty framework applied to soften face threatening acts, other linguists including, Culpeper, Bousfield and Eelen, headed for the opposite direction of politeness. Brown and Levinson's model of politeness (1987) paved the way for linguists to explore the phenomenon of impoliteness. I loved the first book, I loved Hades and this intensity and passion, a very genuine hero which I know will leave a mark. This power couple will have some fighting to do and they will need everything there is to it so stay to together. Persephone will find out that her destiny is to rule besides Hades, but their union is not seen ok by the God, a relationship which be contested and hated. What started with a challenge and a pact will became one of the most powerful love stories in Olympian history. Her curiosity will lead her to Hades club and her life will never be the same again. She loves to write and her journey into journalism will make her become a very curious person, someone who will fight for justice. Persephone was been living all her life hidden away by her mother, Demeter, but she has dreams. I loved the originality and the new approach of the author and why not, the fact that even the Gods made an upgrade to their living. The beginning with “ A Touch of Darkness” was very smooth and considering the background, it is the best book from the series. He also was one of the writers in Marvel Comics' crossover storyline that year, " Fear Itself". That same year, Earwig Press/Evileye Books published Bunn's middle-reader horror prose series Crooked Hills. In 2011, Oni Press published Bunn's original hardcover graphic novel, The Tooth. In 2010 Oni Press premiered Bunn's series, The Sixth Gun, which ran from May 2010 to June 2016. The sequel, The Damned: Prodigal Sons, was released in 2008. Career īunn's noir/horror comic, and first collaboration with Brian Hurtt, The Damned, was published in 2007 by Oni Press. After a couple years, his parents moved back to North Carolina, but Bunn remained in Missouri. He lived there until he was 19, when his parents moved to Thayer, Missouri to run a cattle farm. Cullen Bunn is an American comics writer, novelist, and short story writer, best known for his work on comic books such as Uncanny X-Men, X-Men: Blue, Magneto and various Deadpool miniseries for Marvel Comics, and his creator-owned series The Damned and The Sixth Gun for Oni Press and Harrow County for Dark Horse Comics, as well as his middle reader horror novel Crooked Hills, and his short story work collection Creeping Stones & Other Stories.Īs of 2018, Bunn writes X-Men: Blue and Venomized for Marvel, PumpkinHead for Dynamite, Subspecies for Action Lab, Shadow Roads for Oni Press, Regression for Image, Unholy Grail, Brothers Dracul and Dark Ark for Aftershock Comics, and Harrow County for Dark Horse.Ĭullen Bunn grew up in rural North Carolina. The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the Humduns, mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall intent on breaking through. From the author’s letter, you learn that this is a love letter to Chinese culture and the only female emperor while also an unflinching portrayal of a system designed to keep women from succeeding at anything. A pitch like “ Pacific Rim meets The Handmaid’s Tale in a polyamorous reimaging of China’s only female emperor” is as unique as it is intriguing. The hype is real with this one and let me tell you, it is deserved. If you don’t live under a rock in the depths of the sea, chances are you’ve heard about Iron Widow once or twice, or about a hundred times in the past few months. |