The Rails View: Creating a Beautiful and Maintainable User Experience (Repost)

Bruce Williams and John Athayde, "The Rails View: Creating a Beautiful and Maintainable User Experience"


English | 2012 | ISBN-10: 1934356875 | EPUB | 264 pages | 3 MB

Working in the View layer requires a breadth of knowledge and attention to detail unlike anywhere else in Rails. One wrong move can result in brittle, complex views that stop future development in its tracks. This book will help you break free from tangles of logic and markup in your views as you pick up the practical skills you need to implement your user interface cleanly and maintainably.




You"ll discover how to build up solid, sustainable layouts and popular interface elements with semantic HTML5 and CSS3, and when you can responsibly generate markup and use advanced presenters… all without leaving the designers on your team out in the cold. Widen your appeal with responsive design, and discover how new progressive enhancement techniques can take you beyond the "weakest link" approach of the past. Master the asset pipeline introduced in Rails 3.1 and use Sass and Coffeescript to make your interface code shorter and more enjoyable.




You"ll create elegant, well-structured views that are a joy to build on. You"ll appreciate its comprehensive, objective guidance in a realm full of subjective opinions.




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All examples in the book assume Rails 3.1 and Ruby 1.9.x are installed. Detailed information on how to install these for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux is included in the book.

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Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images: Astrophotography with Affordable Equipment and Software (repost)

Greg Parker, "Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images: Astrophotography with Affordable Equipment and Software"


2007 | ISBN-10: 0387713522 | 178 pages | PDF | 7 MB

This book is based around the author’s beautiful and sometimes awe-inspiring color images and mosaics of deep-sky objects.


The images were used as the basis of a public exhibition held at the University of Southampton (Summer 2006), attended by the press, local radio and TV interviewers as well as the public. The book describes how similar images can be created by amateur astronomers, using commercially available telescopes and CCD cameras. Subsequent processing and image enhancement in the “electronic darkroom” is covered in detail as well.


Not everybody can afford the biggest and best telescopes and CCD cameras, so a range of telescopes and equipment is considered, from the author’s 11-inch with Hyperstar camera, down to more affordable instruments.


Appendices provide links to free software – not available from a single source – and are themselves an invaluable resource.

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Heaven Is a Beautiful Place: A Memoir of the South Carolina Coast In Conversation with William P. Baldwi

Heaven Is a Beautiful Place: A Memoir of the South Carolina Coast In Conversation with William P. Baldwi by Genevieve C. Peterkin and William P. Baldwin


English | 2015 | ISBN: 1611176026, 1611175232 | 272 pages | PDF | 8 MB

Born in 1928 in the small coastal town of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, Genevieve "Sister" Peterkin grew up with World War II bombing practice in her front yard, deep-sea fishing expeditions, and youthful rambles through the lowcountry. She shared her bedroom with a famous ghost and an impatient older sister. But most of all she listened. She absorbed the tales of her talented mother and her beloved friend, listened to the stories of the region"s older residents, some of them former slaves, who were her friends, neighbors, and teachers.


In this new edition she once again shares with readers her insider"s knowledge of the lowcountry plantations, gardens, and beaches that today draw so many visitors. Beneath the humor, hauntings, and treasures of local history, she tells another, deeper story–one that deals with the struggle for racial equality in the South, with the sometimes painful adventures of marriage and parenthood, and with inner struggles for faith and acceptance. This edition includes a new foreword by coastal writer and researcher Lee G. Brockington and a new afterword by coauthor and lowcountry novelist William P. Baldwin.

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