Bruce W. Perry

Ajax Hacks

Für einen echten Geek ist Fitness eine Wissenschaft wie jede andere auch. Klar, dass er sich dem Thema systematisch, mit viel Neugier und mit dem richtigen Humor nähern will. Er möchte die richtigen Hacks kennen, um seine Ziele schneller zu erreichen, und vor allem die tiefergehenden Gründe, warum dies so ist. Endlich gibt es das passende Buch für ihn: Fitness für Geeks. Hier lernt er interessante Apps und Widgets fürs Training kennen und erfährt allerhand Wissenswertes, z.B. über die Bausteine der Ernährung und sekundäre Pflanzenstoffe. Natürlich findet er auch jede Menge Tipps, wie er sein System mit Hilfe von Bewegung rebooten kann – etwa mit Joggen oder sorgfältig geplanten Runden im Fitnessstudio. Auch spontan ausführbare Fitnessprogramme fehlen nicht, wie z.B. die „Airport Fitness Hacks“, durchführbar bei langen Aufenthalten in Flughäfen. Der Autor, natürlich ein echter Geek, weiß, wovon er spricht: Er hat für O’Reilly Media zwei Programmierbücher geschrieben und an Hunderten Straßenrennen sowie vielen anderen Sportereignissen teilgenommen.

Fitness für Geeks

Ajax, the popular term for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is one of the most important combinations of technologies for web developers to know these days. With its rich grouping of technologies, Ajax developers can create interactive web applications with XML-based web services, using JavaScript in the browser to process the web server response. Taking complete advantage of Ajax, however, requires something more than your typical "how-to" book. What it calls for is Ajax Hacks from O'Reilly. This valuable guide provides direct, hands-on solutions that take the mystery out of Ajax's many capabilities. Each hack represents a clever way to accomplish a specific task, saving you countless hours of searching for the right answer. A smart collection of 80 insider tips and tricks, Ajax Hacks covers all of the technology's finer points. Want to build next-generation web applications today? This book can show you how. Among the multitude of topics addressed, it shows you techniques for: Using Ajax with Google Maps and Yahoo Maps Displaying Weather.com data Scraping stock quotes Fetching postal codes Building web forms with auto-complete functionality Ajax Hacks also features a number of advanced hacks for accelerated web developers. Discover how to create huge, maintainable bookmarklets, how to use client-side storage for Ajax applications, and how to call a built-in Java object from JavaScript using Ajax. The book even addresses best practices for testing Ajax applications and improving maintenance, performance, and reliability for JavaScript code. The latest in O"Reilly's celebrated Hacks series, Ajax Hacks smartly complements other O'Reilly titles such as Head Rush Ajax and JavaScript: The Definitive Guide.

Tips & Tools for Creating Responsive Web Sites

The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a nifty framework that Java programmers can use to create Ajax applications. The GWT allows you to create an Ajax application in your favorite IDE, such as IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse, using paradigms and mechanisms similar to programming a Java Swing application. After you code the application in Java, the GWT's tools generate the JavaScript code the application needs. You can also use typical Java project tools such as JUnit and Ant when creating GWT applications. The GWT is a free download, and you can freely distribute the client- and server-side code you create with the framework. This shortcut explains how to get started with the GWT, and then demonstrates how to create a simple Ajax application.

Google Web Toolkit for Ajax

Für einen echten Geek ist Fitness eine Wissenschaft wie jede andere auch. Klar, dass er sich dem Thema systematisch, mit viel Neugier und mit dem richtigen Humor nähern will. Er möchte die richtigen Hacks kennen, um seine Ziele schneller zu erreichen, und vor allem die tiefergehenden Gründe, warum dies so ist. Endlich gibt es das passende Buch für ihn: Fitness für Geeks. Hier lernt er interessante Apps und Widgets fürs Training kennen und erfährt allerhand Wissenswertes, z.B. über die Bausteine der Ernährung und sekundäre Pflanzenstoffe. Natürlich findet er auch jede Menge Tipps, wie er sein System mit Hilfe von Bewegung rebooten kann - etwa mit Joggen oder sorgfältig geplanten Runden im Fitnessstudio. Auch spontan ausführbare Fitnessprogramme fehlen nicht, wie z.B. die "Airport Fitness Hacks", durchführbar bei langen Aufenthalten in Flughäfen. Der Autor, natürlich ein echter Geek, weiß, wovon er spricht: Er hat für O'Reilly Media zwei Programmierbücher geschrieben und an Hunderten Straßenrennen sowie vielen anderen Sportereignissen teilgenommen.

Fur einen echten Geek ist Fitness eine Wissenschaft wie jede andere auch. Klar, dass er sich dem Thema systematisch, mit viel Neugier und mit dem richtigen Humor nahern will. Er mochte die richtigen Hacks kennen, um seine Ziele schneller zu erreichen, und vor allem die tiefergehenden Grunde, warum dies so ist. Endlich gibt es das passende Buch fur ihn: Fitness fur Geeks. Hier lernt er interessante Apps und Widgets furs Training kennen und erfahrt allerhand Wissenswertes, z.B. uber die Bausteine der Ernahrung und sekundare Pflanzenstoffe. Naturlich findet er auch jede Menge Tipps, wie er sein System mit Hilfe von Bewegung rebooten kann - etwa mit Joggen oder sorgfaltig geplanten Runden im Fitnessstudio. Auch spontan ausfuhrbare Fitnessprogramme fehlen nicht, wie z.B. die "Airport Fitness Hacks," durchfuhrbar bei langen Aufenthalten in Flughafen. Der Autor, naturlich ein echter Geek, wei, wovon er spricht: Er hat fur O'Reilly Media zwei Programmierbucher geschrieben und an Hunderten Straenrennen sowie vielen anderen Sportereignissen teilgenommen.

Fitness Fur Geeks

If you’re interested in how things work, this guide will help you experiment with one crucial system you usually ignore—your body and its health. Long hours focusing on code or circuits tends to stifle notions of nutrition, but with this educational and highly useful book you can approach fitness through science, whether it’s investigating your ancestral health or using the latest self-tracking apps and gear. Tune into components of your health through discussions on food, exercise, sleep, hormesis, and other issues—as well as interviews with various scientists and athletes—and discover healthy ways to tinker with your lifestyle. Learn to live in the modern digital world and still be physically vibrant Examine apps and widgets for self-tracking various fitness issues Zero in on carbs, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals Find and choose food, and learn when to eat and when to fast Reboot your system through movement in the outside world Select from more than a dozen techniques for your gym workout Fuel fitness by focusing on the science of nutrition and supplements Apply lifestyle hacks, such as high-intensity exercise and good stress

Real Science, Great Nutrition, and Good Health

Fitness for Geeks

It's 2026. Emma Wallace Blair, a Scottish national, is a pandemic research scientist for the World Health Organization in New York City, where a highly transmissible and virulent form of influenza A decimates the city and spreads throughout world capitals. "The Last" is part dystopian survival adventure and part medical mystery. H7N11 is thought to have emerged from melting permafrost that exposed an ancient elk, which was carrying an infectious agent akin to Deer Wasting Disease. But some scientists fear a bio-weapon gone rogue from a Pentagon-contracted lab in Denver. From there, infected airline passengers launched the pandemic. We first meet Emma at a remote farmhouse on the Isle of Skye, where she harvests and scavenges for food and water, battles loneliness, and ponders whether the 99.999 percent catastrophe has left her the only uninfected female of her species. H7N11 attacks the Central Nervous System and causes acute dementia-like symptoms. When five or more of the virus victims "herd" together, they roam the countryside in an implacable swarm of what Emma calls "reivers." New York, the Scottish Highlands, and especially Edinburgh and London provide detailed settings during the pandemic. As the story evolves, Emma formulates an H7N11 theory that involves the endocannabinoid system and the possibly protective properties of CBD oil and cannabis. The badass and brilliant Emma Blair uses a small axe and a notched cricket bat to fend off reivers, and rescues a dog named Hepburn from a sinking ferry that is infested with reivers on Loch Ness. She ends up in London with a heroic sidekick, a former trainman for ScotRail for whom survival and good nature appear to come naturally.

A Post-Apocalyptic Pandemic Adventure

The Last

Lahars from an erupting Mount Rainier in Washington devastate nearby river valleys and threaten the millions of people who live in Seattle and Tacoma. Caught up in the natural catastrophe is Shane Cooper, a mountain guide from Telluride, Colorado, and Mikaela Brand, a young mixed martial arts (MMA) competitor. Civilization has broken down after lahars roar down the mountain's flanks and destroy towns, utilities, airports, bridges, roads, and highways. The towns have become ruined ghost-towns inhabited mainly by desperadoes. Food, clean water, and gasoline are scarce or non-existent, and more lahars are on the way as Rainier has begun an every-1,000-year eruption. Cooper and Brand end up with a little girl named Amy, and her dog Turk, both orphaned by the disaster. They have to live off the land as they claw their way to the coast, and survive an armed gang that paints its faces white and keeps captives as future food sources.

A Post-Apocalyptic Adventure

Devastated Lands

Brad Garner thought he had lost everything, after the Yellowstone calderas exploded and the awful volcanic aftermath. After fleeing south and wallowing in self-pity, by random chance, he hears of a faint signal over a functioning network. It comes from far north, somewhere in Idaho on the Montana border, near the eruption's epicenter. Soul sick, and with little remaining purpose to his life, Garner decides to follow the signal, an unmistakable if faint cry for help. He gears up and heads with an abandoned dog named Tanya into the ash-strewn wasteland that the U.S. West has become. Alone. Later, Garner finds himself in a vast refugee camp in the Great Basin of Southern California near Thousand Palms. He believes his family, trapped in Idaho by the Yellowstone volcanic eruption, is still alive, after having all but given up hope. Many obstacles obstruct the path to his loved ones, however, including floods, desert extremes, as well as his own gnawing guilt and need for personal redemption. Zeke Sanchez, a part Ute, Hispanic Indian who distinguished himself in Iraq and tends toward peyote inspired spiritual journeys, plays a big role in To The North, especially in regard to his desert-survival skills. Garner also encounters Sam, orphaned by the eruption, Giovanna, a Red Cross nurse who lost her husband Marcel in a terrorist attack in Egypt, and two federal agency officials who are close-mouthed about their actual mission to the epicenter. They might be intimately involved in an artificial intelligence experiment to study the deadly super volcano.

To the North

AppleScript in a Nutshell is the first complete reference to AppleScript, the popular programming language that gives both power users and sophisticated enterprise customers the important ability to automate repetitive tasks and customize applications. As the Macintosh continues to expand and solidify its base in the multimedia and publishing industries, AppleScript is the tool of choice on this platform for creating sophisticated time- and money-saving workflow applications (applets). These applets automate the processing and management of digital video, imaging, print, and web-based material. AppleScript is also gaining a foothold in scientific programming, as technical organizations adopt G4 CPU-based systems for advanced computing and scientific analysis. Finally, "power users" and script novices will find that AppleScript is a great everyday Mac programming tool, similar to Perl on Windows NT or Unix.In this well-organized and concise reference, AppleScript programmers will find: Detailed coverage of AppleScript Version 1.4 and beyond on Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. Complete descriptions of AppleScript language features, such as data types, flow-control statements, functions, object-oriented features (script objects and libraries), and other syntactical elements. Descriptions and hundreds of code samples on programming the various "scriptable" system components, such as the Finder, File Sharing, File Exchange, Network scripting, Web scripting, Apple System Profiler, the ColorSync program, and the numerous powerful language extensions called "osax" or scripting additions.Most other AppleScript books are hopelessly out of date. AppleScript in a Nutshell covers the latest updates and improvements with practical, easy to understand tips, including: Using AppleScript as a tool for distributed computing, an exciting development that Apple Computer calls "program linking over IP." Programmers can now do distributed computing with Macs over TCP/IP networks, including controlling remote applications with AppleScript and calling AppleScript methods on code libraries that are located on other machines. Using the Sherlock find application to automate web and network searching. Insights on scripting new Apple technologies such as Apple Data Detectors, Folder Actions, Keychain Access, and Apple Verifier.AppleScript in a Nutshell is a high-end handbook at a low-end price--an essential desktop reference that puts the full power of this user-friendly programming language into every AppleScript user's hands.

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