Month: January 2012
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf: Pragmatic Guide to Sass
Pragmatic Guide to Sass: CSS is fundamental to the web, but it’s a basic language and lacks many features. Sass is just like CSS, but with a whole lot of extra power so you can get more done, more quickly. Build better web pages today with Pragmatic Guide to Sass. These concise, easy-to-digest tips and…
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O’Reilly Media book: Mapping with Drupal
Mapping with Drupal: Build beautiful interactive maps on your Drupal website, and tell engaging visual stories with your data. This concise guide shows you how to create custom geographical maps from top to bottom, using Drupal 7 tools and out-of-the-box modules. You’ll learn how mapping works in Drupal, with examples on how to use intuitive…
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Microsoft Press book: Software Change Management: Case Studies and Practical Advice
Software Change Management: Case Studies and Practical Advice: Drawing from 30+ years of field experience, with case studies spanning industry, government, and academia, this practical guide illuminates the change-management approaches that lead to successful software process improvement.
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book: SQL and Relational Theory – O’Reilly Media
SQL and Relational Theory: SQL is full of difficulties and traps for the unwary. You can avoid them if you understand relational theory, but only if you know how to put the theory into practice. In this insightful book, author C.J. Date explains relational theory in depth, and demonstrates through numerous examples and exercises how…
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the Tetragrammaton YHWH aka Yahweh – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yahweh – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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euphemism – Wiktionary
euphemism – Wiktionary The English Wiktionary article explains: (uncountable) The use of a word or phrase to replace another with one that is considered less offensive or less vulgar than the word or phrase it replaces. (countable) (rhetoric) A word or phrase that is used to replace another in this way. I have only known…
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“what the heck?” – Wiktionary
what the heck – Wiktionary I seriously hoped, this would be a much nicer phrase than WTF, but it’s not; its wiktionary article explains: (euphemistic) A “softer” way to say “what the hell?“. For someone with a vague religious background, replacing “what the heck” with the well-known WTF is like “driving out demons by the power of…
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AM/FM broadcasting
AM broadcasting is the process of radio broadcasting using amplitude modulation FM broadcasting is the process of radio broadcasting using frequency modulation I don’t remember ever having heard this explanation. In German a different terminology is being used for radio broadcasting: UKW for Ultrakurzwelle, in English: VHF for very high frequency, popularly (but incorrectly) also FM KW for Kurzwelle, in English: SW…
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Obama signed a law that makes it possible to indefinitely detain terrorist suspects without any form of trial or due process
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia