Practical Object-oriented Design in Ruby

Practical Object-oriented Design in Ruby
Author: Sandi Metz
Publisher: Pearson Education
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2013
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0321721330

The Complete Guide to Writing More Maintainable, Manageable, Pleasing, and Powerful Ruby Applications Ruby's widely admired ease of use has a downside: Too many Ruby and Rails applications have been created without concern for their long-term maintenance or evolution. The Web is awash in Ruby code that is now virtually impossible to change or extend. This text helps you solve that problem by using powerful real-world object-oriented design techniques, which it thoroughly explains using simple and practical Ruby examples. This book focuses squarely on object-oriented Ruby application design. Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby will guide you to superior outcomes, whatever your previous Ruby experience. Novice Ruby programmers will find specific rules to live by; intermediate Ruby programmers will find valuable principles they can flexibly interpret and apply; and advanced Ruby programmers will find a common language they can use to lead development and guide their colleagues. This guide will help you Understand how object-oriented programming can help you craft Ruby code that is easier to maintain and upgrade Decide what belongs in a single Ruby class Avoid entangling objects that should be kept separate Define flexible interfaces among objects Reduce programming overhead costs with duck typing Successfully apply inheritance Build objects via composition Design cost-effective tests Solve common problems associated with poorly designed Ruby code

The Black Isle

The Black Isle
Author: Sandi Tan
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2010-10-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0446582700

This “ambitious, supernatural coming-of-age story” (The LA Times) is a sweeping tale of ghosts in the modern world, and one woman's struggle to create her own destiny. There are ghosts on the Black Isle. Ghosts that no one can see. No one...except Cassandra. Uprooted from Shanghai with her father and twin brother, young Cassandra finds the Black Isle's bustling, immigrant-filled seaport, swampy jungle, and grand rubber plantations a sharp contrast to the city of her childhood. And she soon makes another discovery: the Black Isle is swarming with ghosts. Haunted and lonely, Cassandra at first tries to ignore her ability to see the restless apparitions that drift down the street and crouch in cold corners at school. Yet despite her struggles with these spirits, Cassandra comes to love her troubled new home. And soon, she attracts the notice of a dangerously charismatic man. Even as she becomes a fearless young woman, the Isle's dark forces won't let her go. War is looming, and Cassandra wonders if her unique gift might be her beloved island's only chance for salvation . . . Taking readers from the 1920s, through the Japanese occupation during WWII, to the Isle's radical transformation into a gleaming cosmopolitan city, The Black Isle is a sweeping epic--a deeply imagined, fiercely original tale from a vibrant new voice in fiction.

Between Planting and Picking

Between Planting and Picking
Author: Sandi Haber Fifield
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9788881587988

This is a striking photographic celebration of the unexpected beauty of life on small farms.

Practical Object-Oriented Design

Practical Object-Oriented Design
Author: Sandi Metz
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Total Pages: 701
Release: 2018-07-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0134445570

The Complete Guide to Writing Maintainable, Manageable, Pleasing, and Powerful Object-Oriented Applications Object-oriented programming languages exist to help you create beautiful, straightforward applications that are easy to change and simple to extend. Unfortunately, the world is awash with object-oriented (OO) applications that are difficult to understand and expensive to change. Practical Object-Oriented Design, Second Edition, immerses you in an OO mindset and teaches you powerful, real-world, object-oriented design techniques with simple and practical examples. Sandi Metz demonstrates how to build new applications that can “survive success” and repair existing applications that have become impossible to change. Each technique is illustrated with extended examples in the easy-to-understand Ruby programming language, all downloadable from the companion website, poodr.com. Fully updated for Ruby 2.5, this guide shows how to Decide what belongs in a single class Avoid entangling objects that should be kept separate Define flexible interfaces among objects Reduce programming overhead costs with duck typing Successfully apply inheritance Build objects via composition Whatever your previous object-oriented experience, this concise guide will help you achieve the superior outcomes you’re looking for. Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

Lurkers

Lurkers
Author: Sandi Tan
Publisher: Soho Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1641292563

From author and filmmaker Sandi Tan, director of the acclaimed documentary Shirkers, comes a novel about a neighborhood of immigrants, seekers, lovers, and lurkers. The residents of Santa Claus Lane do their best to stay out of each other’s way, but desire, fury and mischief too often propel these suburban neighbors to collide. Precocious Korean American sisters Mira and Rosemary find their world rocked by a suicide, and they must fight to keep their home; a charismatic and creepy drama teacher grooms his students; a sardonic gay horror novelist finds that aging is more terrifying than any monster; and a white hippie mom and her adopted Vietnamese daughter realize that their anger binds them rather than pushes them apart. Lurkers is an homage to the rangy beauty of Los Angeles and the surprising power that we have to change the lives of those around us.

SANDI

SANDI
Author: Doug Boylan
Publisher: DMBoylan
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2020-06-25
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

This is a love song for Sandra Waddell Boylan, my wife of fifty years. She is a quiet woman who has made the world a better place for her family, her friends, for strangers, and for me. This book tells the story of her youth in Canada, her growing up in Ohio, and her marriage and rearing a family in New Orleans and Birmingham. It recounts her history and her interests in hopes that her children, grandkids, and friends who love her will know this woman a little better.

Sandi’s Story

Sandi’s Story
Author: Randy Gardner
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2012-01-30
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1462878970

This story is for you, whether you are a victim or a survivor of child abuse, or know someone who is. This is the compelling story of a child’s struggle to survive emotional, physical and sexual abuse at the hands of her own family. It is also the story of her lifelong struggle to deal with the pain and to heal the emotional scars resulting from years of abuse. Sandi’s Story is taken directly from the journals of the victim herself. Anyone concerned about child abuse will, without a doubt, want to read and learn from this personal account. This story is also enriched by helpful comments, quotes, poetry, and prose; much of it written by other survivors or experts in child abuse. Remember... tell your story

Sandi

Sandi
Author: Terrence K. Absher
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2018-03-26
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1641382597

Sandi is about a hometown girl who has become the head nurse at the local clinic-hospital. The new neighbor has caught her eye. She sets her sights on marriage as Sandi and John and daughter share the evening meal, which leads to courtship. Marriage is planned as a medical emergency puts all on hold. The small community is pulled for recovery. This book is about rural courtship, community, and family.

Sandi

Sandi
Author: Frank Bilton
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2007-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0595396380

In the small town of Summerville, South Carolina, Sandi McMann is the prettiest girl around. She and her fianc , handsome athlete Larry Burton, can't wait to attend the annual dance sponsored by their high school senior class, never suspecting that the night will change their lives forever . For Sandi, the dance was a memorable occasion, and a fun-fest she did not want to end. When the music stopped and she and Larry were leaving, she tried to persuade him to overlook the time limit suggested by his parents and to continue the evening fun elsewhere. At that moment, Jack Lemay drives up in a truck he had just stolen, and offers to take them for a ride down Interstate 95 to top off the evening's fun. They accepted his offer. The three are in good spirits until they hear a radio broadcast naming Jack as a suspect in a burglary. In a panic, Jack drives toward California to avoid arrest, starting a crime spree that involves Sandi and Larry as unwilling accomplices. Will Sandi and Larry find a way to escape, or will Jack's fate seal their own?

After the Threshold

After the Threshold
Author: Vicki Goldberg
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Photography, Artistic
ISBN: 9783868283648

New photo series by celebrated American art photographer