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BOMB Issue 35, Spring 1991, featuring: Interviews with Philip Taaffe by Shirley Kaneda, Kid Capri by Lynn Geller, Luisa Valenzuela by Linda Yablonsky, James Wines by Stanely Moss, Kathy Bates by Michael O'Keefe, Keith Reddin by Craig Cholson, Jennie Livingston by Reena Jana, Lynne Tillman by Patrick McGrath, Zhang Yimou by Larry Chua. Fiction & Poetry by Elena Alexander, Benjamin Weissman, Liza Bear, Guy Gallo, Klaus Kertess, Maya Borisova, George Green, Tim Dlugos, and J.R. Rodriguez. Art by Ariane Lopez Huici, Karen Kilimnik, Sean Scherer, Teri Slotkin, Joe Andoe, Taro Suzuki, Craig Lucas, and Rocky Schenck. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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What is the spiritual message of each of the Jewish holidays?How do we teach it to our children? Many books tell children about thehistorical significance and customs of the holidays. Now, throughengaging, creative stories about one family s spiritual preparation,Sharing Blessings explores ways to get into the spirit of the holidaysall year long.

Musleah, mother and journalist, and Klayman, father and rabbi, gentlygive our children the spiritual message and help adult and childexplore it together. For 13 different holidays and festivals, there isa story about David and Ilana and their parents a story focusing onthe spiritual value embodied in each holiday. Being afraid of thedark, taking a walk in the woods with Grandpa, arguments between Davidand Ilana, sharing family photos, helping the community; all becomeopportunities for learning about how holidays meanings are related toour daily life. Each story concludes with a special prayer, a blessingthat child and adult can share to bring the spiritual meaning of theholiday into their own lives.

Selected Contents:

Shabbat: Sharing Blessings
Family

Rosh Hashanah: Being Able to Say I Did It
Responsibility

Yom Kippur: Talking to God
Prayer

Sukkot: Accepting Differences
Peace

Purim: Giving Instead of Taking
Gratitude

Yom HaShoah: Why Doesn't God Stop the Bad Guys?
Free Will

and more... ... Read more

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Server Controls are a core part of the ASP.NETarchitecture. They are components that produce a user interfaceelement that can be reused with ease. The standard controls that comewith ASP.NET include the textbox, the button, the data and listcontrols, and some rich controls (for example, the calendarcontrol). This book is designed to show you how to create your owncontrols, either from scratch, or based on existing controls.

This book is designed to be a complete reference on how to createCustom Server Controls using C#. In essence, it's a definitive guideto what they're used for, how they are created, and the benefits thatthey can provide.

The first part of the book will be concentrating on the code itself,and is designed to be editor-neutral, concentrating on the raw codeinvolved in creating controls and making use of these controls. Thesecond part of the book will have more coverage of visual designerslike Visual Studio .NET, talking about why using IDEs is so helpful,and examining the powerful features of Visual Studio .NET that areuseful when creating custom controls.

This book is a comprehensive guide to all of the processes involved increating fully-functional server controls, including handling events,managing state, templating, creating data binding controls, anddistributing controls.

The book will finish with a case study that will bring together all ofthe concepts discussed in the earlier chapters. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (19)

Not so in-depth to drive me crazy
I consider this a great book for starting to work with ASP.NET Server Controls. I have the MS Press book also but it is just so deep right off the start that it was hard for me to follow. (Although now I refer to it more and more) I have referenced this book may times for creating my server controls and it has been very helpful! Maybe the key is purchasing all of the server control books you can find and taking the best of each but I would definitely recommend this book as a great starting point for server controls.

advance book but first 7 chapter were good
chapter 1-7 was okay very good for a beginner
with v good explnations
chapter 8 onwards the chapters just went downhill
Cannot get chapter 8 and chapter 9downloads to work
there were full of bugs
It was very hard to try get the the last examples in
the few chapters to work since the explnations were
very poor too

Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen
Wow. This book is really confusing! I bought this book last year when I started working on a large project using .NET. It's been over 12 months and I'm grown to love .NET---and built-up quite a bag of tools.

When I returned to this book recently to build my own custom controls, I thought it would be much more comprehensible than my first attempt. Unfortunately it wasn't. That is, until I read a few articles and an excerpt from Dino Esposito's book! Esposito's explanations were so much more clear and simple--while this book took that same subject and made it so complicated!

Don't buy this book.

Terrible book - Please stay clear
This is probably the most disappointing technical book I have ever seen.

I started developing custom server controls in the earlier days of ASP.NET 1.0, when this was the only book available on the topic.

This book was of literally zero help despite being written particularly for the topic.In fact, if anything, it was confusing and hindered my efforts repeatedly.

The book is a loosely related collection of materials written or assembled by the multitude of authors.Some of the portions of the book seem almost directly taken from Microsoft's freely available documentation.Not surprisingly, the weak points in the documentation typically coincide with the weakest points of the book.In other words, the book is useless.Wrox's own general ASP.NET book "Professional ASP.NET" and the various free online resources were of much more help in early 2002, and there are many more alternatives now.

By the time I was done with my first full-featured custom server control I realized that it was extremely unlikely that any of the authors had gone through the same experience prior to writing the book.This made me approach the publisher with the request for a full refund, a decision on which was delayed until I finally gave up and regretfully threw the book in the garbage.

It is my understanding that the newer editions of the book have added some of the most glaring omissions (like a full chapter on generating client-side script, where the original edition offered nothing).However, there is no fixing a house this crooked.There are much better books available now, like "Server Controls" by Kothari and Datye.

Confusing more than helpful
As it is often the case with WROX books, this one is glued from pieces written by different authors. Reading their books is like having deja vues all the time. The synergy among chapters is quite poor.

Compared to Kothari's book this one merely scratches the surface and leaves a lot of important details by the side. If I hadn't read Nikhil Kotari's book first, I would've been completely confused by this piece. Don't get me wrong---the book *does* have valuable information for developing server controls *if you are not a beginner*.

Would I recommend this book? Only if you go through Nikhil Kothari's book first and then want to learn a few more tricks. Don't expect to be taught much from this book.

Overall, 2 stars for inadequate coverage and a ton of typos and errors in the samples and throughout the text. I really wish WROX quit releasing hodge podge books and did a better job at reviewing them prior to publishing. ... Read more

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"The Southern African Environment" provides a comprehensive and up-to-date description of the countries of the SADC region - Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The area is one of rapid political, economic and social change, and each of the 10 country profiles in this book provides full and detailed information on the physical and human geography, environmental problems, resource base, institutional structures for environmental management and the issues associated with institutional change. Each profile was drafted by local environmental experts and is based on extensive fieldwork and research originally commissioned by the Dutch government. The report provides a unique synthesis of this richly-endowed but troubled region. ... Read more

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Shows the extraordinary lengths to which Michael's family and friends have had to go to in order to gain recognition for his case and win his freedom. Explains how Liverpool Football Club have supported the calls for Michael's release, with the players wearing 'Free Michael Now' t-shirts and the Kop forming a mosaic before a Premier League match. Tells the story of Michael's two failed appeals, his extradition to the UK to serve out the rest of his sentence, and why the courts refused to accept the confession of another man. Michael will also talk about Jack Straw's handling of his case and his royal pardon in September 2009. The front cover will feature an exclusive, unseen picture of Michael Shields. There will be further exclusive images and family photos within the book MICHAEL SHIELDS: MY STORY is the first-hand account of the Liverpool fan whose dream trip to a Champions League final in Istanbul turned into a nightmare. After watching his beloved Reds win the European Cup in 2005, Shields' happiness turned to horror as he ended up behind bars convicted of an attack on a Bulgarian waiter that he did not commit.Now released and pardoned after more than four long years in prison, this book tells his untold story - of the battle to clear his name and the remarkable campaign staged by his family, friends and Liverpool Football Club to see justice done.PUBLICITY DETAILS SERIALISATION * MICHAEL SHIELDS: MY STORY will be serialised and publicised nationally in the Daily Mirror and in Trinity Mirror's own regional titles * Michael Shields will do interviews on national chat shows following his release from prison including GMTV Additional media coverage already confirmed: * Daily Telegraph * The Times * The Guardian * SKY News * Daily Star * BBC * ITN * Channel 4 Plus other national and international media ... Read more

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A complete single-source guide to drug therapeutics for primary care

Pharmacotherapy in Primary Care gives you a uniquely balanced, all-inclusive look at drug therapies for all the conditions commonly seen in primary care and clinical pharmacy -- from cardiovascular to nutritional disorders.

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good bood for pharmacy rotations
I purchased this book to help out with pharmacy rotations.Ihave only scanned thru it so far but it seems like it is going to be a good one. ... Read more

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Macromedia ColdFusion is probably the most complete package of tools ever created for developing dynamic web applications. It runs on a number of operating systems, works with almost any web server, and integrates seamlessly with COM, CORBA and Java. The Enterprise edition comes with all the tools you need to create a robust, secure, and scalable web application, including full-text indexing, and clustering and load-balancing software. ColdFusion also has its own complete Integrated Development Environment, ColdFusion Studio, which provides just about all the features you can think of for creating, editing, and debugging ColdFusion templates. Perhaps most importantly, it's extremely easy to use.

This book covers:
The new features of ColdFusion 5.0
Extending ColdFusion with Java, COM, and CORBA
Integrating ColdFusion with XML and WDDX
ColdFusion as a web service client and server
Creating mobile applications with WAP and WML
Optimizing the architecture and coding of your site for performance and security
Integrating ColdFusion with client-side technologies such as the DOM and JavaScript
Building CFX tags in Java and C++
Administrating your ColdFusion server
Amazon.com Review
Professional ColdFusion 5.0 is a chunky and comprehensive guide to Macromedia's Web application server. This book is suitable both for existing ColdFusion professionals and for those evaluating this technology against rivals such as Active Server Pages, JavaServer Pages, and PHP.

ColdFusion is cross-platform, and it integrates well with both COM on Windows and Java on any supported operating system. It has strong development tools, including ColdFusion Studio and Dreamweaver UltraDev, and following its acquisition by Macromedia these are likely to get better still.

The authors kick off with a "Getting Started" section, which explains installation, basic features, and key tools such as the Application Manager and ColdFusion Studio. There is also a thorough explanation of CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language), the core tagging system. A section on database essentials covers a wide variety of database servers. The third section has chapters on state management, templates, error handling, scripting, and drawing charts. The topic of XML and Web services gets a section of its own, followed by coverage of ColdFusion extensions using COM, CORBA, Java, and custom tags. The later parts of the book go into the details of administration, such as scheduling tasks, logs and archives, clustering and load balancing, security, troubleshooting, and optimization. There is a brief case study based on an auction site.

Packed with tips and example code, this is an excellent ColdFusion resource. It is disappointing to find nothing on Dreamweaver UltraDev, whereas the general material here on cascading style sheets and Dynamic HTML can easily be found elsewhere. On the plus side, the chapters on administration are particularly valuable, and the authors do a good job of explaining ColdFusion from the ground up but at a professional level. --Tim Anderson, Amazon.co.uk ... Read more

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A must have for all CF'ers...
Being a ColdFusion user group president, I give this book my seal of approval.This book is well written with easy to understand examples.It will help someone with no CF knowledge all the way to the experts.This book is well laid out and is enjoyable to read.I didn't know what to expect from Wrox on this.I have been a huge Ben Forta fan but this book is just as good as his (if not better)!If you want to learn CF, or just want to get better, buy this book.You will be very happy with it.

Very good book
This is a very good book!
Vale a pena galera!

The downward spiral of WROX
WROX books used to be the only ones I'd buy; after having a grand ol' time with the ASP and ASP Databases series. The Professional series has been a real disappointment (and waste of money!). The books tend to be more wordy than necessary and spend too much time on the obvious and too little on the abstract. Cold Fusion is a fairly straight-forward programming language. WROX has somehow managed to make it much more.Perhaps too many cooks in the kitchen; looks like they had 18 authors put this beast together.
Look elsewhere...

Nice
You only need this book if you wanna learn CF. I've found that even total begginers like me can read it. But it's written in a way that the authors are expecting the readers already another programming language. Like when they've talked about looping, they said that CF support For Next loop and didn't say anything other than that... Anywayz, it's a nice book.

Very useful
This book was a great addition to my CF Web Application Construction Kit by Forta. I found that the book explained topics fairly well,but there was a lack of code examples. I'm the kind of person that needs to see the syntax.

Also, I looked for hours on how to perform a simple multiple update using checkboxes. This book barely acknowledged them and provided no examples on how to incorporate them into a form using CF. I realize, however, that my incident may be isolated. ... Read more