Adventures in Rule-Based Programming is a fun introduction to writing applications using CLIPS, a popular rule-based programming language written in C. Originally developed at NASA, CLIPS has been in use for over thirty-five years. CLIPS and the CLIPS source code are available for free.In this tutorial you'll learn the basic concepts of rule-based programming, where rules are used to specify the logic of what must be accomplished, but an inference engine determines when ru...

Bailey and Everest's lives are torn apart when the Professor's evil colleague tries to steal his invention and Everest is dognapped by the criminal gang. Can his best friend Bailey and a pack of local dogs along with one lone wolf come to his rescue? Will the Professor get his invention back and what will the future hold for this four-legged crime-busting pack.

Silence.That was the response at Cafe Society the first time Billie Holiday performed a song called "Strange Fruit." In the 1930s, Billie was known as a performer of jazz and blues music, but this song wasn't either of those things. It was a song about injustice, and it would change her life forever.Discover how two outsiders—Billie Holiday, a young black woman raised in poverty, and Abel Meeropol, the son of Jewish immigrants—combined their talents to create a song that ch...

The Windows Command Line Beginner's Guide gives users new to the Windows command line an overview of the Command Prompt, from simple tasks to network configuration.In the Guide, you'll learn how to:-Manage the Command Prompt.-Copy & paste from the Windows Command Prompt.-Create batch files.-Remotely manage Windows machines from the command line.-Manage disks, partitions, and volumes.-Set an IP address and configure other network setti...

*** Learn the basics of VBA in less than one day ***This e-book is an introductory course to Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), an incredibly useful tool that can make your day-to-day work with Microsoft Excel a lot easier and increase your productivity enormously. With VBA you can automate Excel work that would take a lot of time if done manually. Whether it's copying data from one workbook or worksheet to another, reacting to user input or performing complex calculations on you...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot's first middle-grade series! Allie Finkle is excited when a new girl, who comes all the way from Canada, joins her class at Pine Heights Elementary. Now Allie won't be the new girl anymore! But her excitement turns to dismay when the new girl, Cheyenne, starts telling everyone in the fourth grade what to do! Soon Cheyenne has everyone, including Allie's best friends, Caroline, Sophie, and Erica, believing that if they don't do what she says, t...

Allie returns with new rules in the sixth book of the acclaimed series! Allie's excited about her class field trip. Sure, it's to a historic one-room schoolhouse, built back before there was the Internet or even cell phones, and Allie's teacher is encouraging everyone to dress up in old timey costumes, which some of Allie's friends are actually doing. GAH! But at least she gets to ride on a bus, which she's never gets to do, living so close to school that she actually has to walk there eve...

With the Android platform fast becoming a target of malicious hackers, application security is crucial. This concise book provides the knowledge you need to design and implement robust, rugged, and secure apps for any Android device. You’ll learn how to identify and manage the risks inherent in your design, and work to minimize a hacker’s opportunity to compromise your app and steal user data.How is the Android platform structured to handle security? What services and tools are ava...

The following Document outlines what we believe are the top 20 Windows tools every System Administrator should know or be familiar with. Some will you most likely already know about, but we hope you'll find plenty of information here that you didn't know.In this eBook, we will describe many of the 20 most common tools that a System Administrator, or home user, could use to help make sure computers and networks are running properly.A few of the tools include Remote Desktop, ...

Ubuntu Linux--the most popular Linux distribution on the planet--preserves the spirit embodied in the ancient African word ubuntu, which means both "humanity to others" and "I am what I am because of who we all are." Ubuntu won the Linux Journal Reader's Choice Award for best Linux distribution and is consistently the top-ranked Linux variant on DistroWatch.com. The reason this distribution is so widely popular is that Ubuntu is designed to be useful, usable, customizable...

“Vivid and moving. I loved it.” —Rebecca Stead, Newbery-winning author of When You Reach MeJulia and Eliza are best friends, so when Julia’s mom is sent to serve in Iraq, it makes perfect sense for her to spend the summer with Eliza and her parents. Any other time, Julia would be thrilled to be there. But on top of worrying about her mom, Julia develops her first real crush. The gap between Julia and Eliza keeps widening—until Eliza does something drastic ...