Robert Warner

Ronald C. Duncan

ANUTECH, Pty Ltd

Ila Temu

Provides a critical assessment of Papua New Guinea's investment policies from the early 1980s to 1994 and puts forward recommendations for improving the investment climate. Focuses on management of mineral resources, financial sector development, and policies affecting foreign direct investment.

Improving the Investment Climate

Papua New Guinea

Robert Harris

Need to build stand-alone Java applications? The Definitive Guide to SWT and JFace will help you build them from the ground up. The book first runs down the Java GUI toolkit history. Then the book explains why SWT is superior and provides extensive examples of building applications with SWT. You'll come to understand the entire class hierarchy of SWT, and you'll learn to use all components in the toolkit with Java code. Furthermore, the book describes JFace, an additional abstraction layer built on SWT. Demonstrations of building JFace applications are also included and reinforced with thorough explanations and example code. These applications can be used as GUI plug-ins for Eclipse, and they're compatible with the new Eclipse 3.0 application development framework.

The Definitive Guide to SWT and JFace

* While the promise of Java has always been "Write Once, Run Anywhere," SWT and JFace make it a reality. Write it once but run on all different platforms. * Major revision of Eclipse 3.0 is coming out (probably April or May, 2004)– this book will be up to date (3.0) with no "time bomb" shelf life. Covers SWT 3.0 (in development) and 2.1. * Eclipse is free and open source and will become even more important over next year or so/ Eclipse will be the editor of choice for all developers going forward – the standard IDE for open source development. * Offers GUI designers an alternative to developing with Swing.

Benjamin Samuel Williams

Henry Williams

William Hugh Gower

The Orchid Album, Comprising Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, and Beautiful Orchidaceous Plants

Michael Privat

With the Mac App Store launch in early 2011, a new age in Mac development began. Look for many of the cool apps for iPhone and iPad coming to an iMac or MacBook Pro near you! Beginning OS X Lion Apps Development explains how to develop OS X Lion-based apps and publish them in the Mac App Store. It begins with the basics of Objective-C and Cocoa, and then moves through all the topics necessary to build and publish your first successful Mac apps! Get started with Objective-C and Xcode Build your first complete apps that integrate well with Mac OS X Publish your apps on the Mac App Store If you're new to Mac or new to iPhone or iPad apps development, and looking to develop apps for the Macbook Pro or Mac desktop, this book is for you!

Beginning OS X Lion Apps Development

The Eyes of Man is a science fiction phantasy novel about good and evil. The novel is so long it had to be cut in to two volumes, Book 1 and Book 2. This is Book 2. Earth is invaded by a swarm of big white balls from space. Some of them land on earth, some of them orbit earth. Earth goes wild with fear! But nothing happens! The big white balls just sit there all over the world. Why did the big white balls come to earth? No one knows! Later the the big spaceballs suddenly begin to spew smaller spaceballs of all sizes into the air from the tops of each bit spaceball like an endless stream of bubbles. Months later small spaceballs the size of baseballs suddenly begin to hover next to the people's right shoulders. The little spaceballs are round flying robots. They are calledd Eyes of One by the robots because they belong to just one person! They are The Eyes of Man! For the first time in the history of the world each person has a Guardian Angel, a little white spaceball robot to protect them from the evil of the world with a red ray called a stingray that knocks people down and out to awaken to agony for about an hour as punishment for being evil! As time goes by the people learn that each person's starball robot Eye of One reveals what kind of person that person is, good or evil by turning black for evil; dark gray for not as evil as black; light grey for mostly good with a little bad; and white for very good! Most people's starball eyes are grey; few eyes are white; many eye are dark grey, and many eyes are black! For the first time in the history of the world the people can see the good and evil of the people of the world with their own eyes, revealed to them by the color of the people's starball robot Eyes of One hovering over their right shoulders! The Eyes of Man take over the world because man has proven he can not run the world honestly and ethic

The Eyes of Man

The power of Core Data allows iOS developers to efficiently store and retrieve application data using familiar object-oriented paradigms. Pro Core Data for iOS explains both how and why to use Core Data for data storage, from simple to advanced techniques. Covering common and advanced persistence patterns, this book prepares any iOS developer to store and retrieve data accurately and proficiently. Lots of iOS development books touch on Core Data, taking you through a few mainstream use cases for storing and retrieving data in your iOS applications. In Pro Core Data for iOS, however, we take you further into Core Data and show you how to leverage the power of this data framework. After reading this book, you’ll be able to answer all of these questions: What are all the parts of Core Data, and how do they interact? How do I create my own custom store? Should I use plain NSManagedObject instances or custom classes? How do I undo and redo Core Data actions? How do I filter, sort, and aggregate data? What is “faulting,” and why should I care? Suppose I want to change my data model; how do I migrate my users’ data? Pro Core Data for iOS delves into these and other Core Data questions. With explanations, diagrams, code samples, and working explanations, this book will make you a Core Data pro!

Data Access and Persistence Engine for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

Pro Core Data for iOS

Fully updated for Xcode 4.2, Pro Core Data for iOS explains how to use the Core Data framework for iOS SDK 5 using Xcode 4.2. The book explains both how and why to use Core Data, from simple to advanced techniques. Covering common and advanced persistence patterns, this book prepares any iOS developer to store and retrieve data accurately and efficiently. This book starts by giving you a solid grounding in Core Data, providing a foundation for the rest of the book. With this knowledge, you'll have all you need to master Core Data and power your data-driven applications. You'll see how to work with SQLite and how to create an efficient data model to represent your data. Once you've established your data model, you'll learn how to work with data objects and refine result sets to get the most out of the stored data. The advanced portions of the book begin by showing you how to tune your apps' performance and memory usage, to give you a truly professional edge. You'll see how to version and migrate your data as well, to ensure your data stays organized and efficient. Finally, the book covers managing table views with NSFetchedResultsController.

Pro Core Data for iOS, Second Edition

David Walker

Graeme Dandy

Trevor Daniell

Providing students with a commonsense approach to the solution of engineering problems and packed full of practical case studies to illustrate the role of the engineer, the type of work involved and the methodologies employed in engineering practice, this textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the scope and nature of engineering. It outlines a conceptual framework for undertaking engineering projects then provides a range of techniques and tools for solving the sorts of problems that commonly arise. Focusing in particular on civil engineering design, problem solving, and the range of techniques and tools it employs, the authors also explore: creativity and problem solving, social and environmental issues, management, communications and law, and ethics the planning, design, modelling and analysis phases and the implementation or construction phase. Designed specifically for introductory courses on undergraduate engineering programs, this extensively revised and extended second edition is an invaluable resource for all new engineering undergraduates as well as non-specialist readers who are seeking information on the nature of engineering work and how it is carried out.

Planning and Design of Engineering Systems

Bernadette Foley

This newly updated book offers a comprehensive introduction to the scope and nature of engineering work, taking a rigorous but common sense approach to the solution of engineering problems. The text follows the planning, modelling and design phases of engineering projects through to implementation or construction, explaining the conceptual framework for undertaking projects, and then providing a range of techniques and tools for solutions. It focuses on engineering design and problem solving, but also involves economic, environmental, social and ethical considerations. This third edition expands significantly on the economic evaluation of projects and also includes a new section on intractable problems and systems, involving a discussion of wicked problems and soft systems methodology as well as the approaches to software development. Further developments include an array of additional interest boxes, worked examples, problems and up-to date references. Case studies and real-world examples are used to illustrate the role of the engineer and especially the methods employed in engineering practice. The examples are drawn particularly from the fields of civil and environmental engineering, but the approaches and techniques are more widely applicable to other branches of engineering. The book is aimed at first-year engineering students, but contains material to suit more advanced undergraduates. It also functions as a professional handbook, covering some of the fundamentals of engineering planning and design in detail.

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