About the BookIn the Midst of Darkness: A Schindler's List Survivor's Story Never Told That Confronts Inherited TraumaIn a synagogue on Yom Kippur Day, 1993 (holiest day of the year in the Jewish religion), as a rabbi's sermon discussed the release of the upcoming film "Schindler's List," Robert Don's life changed forever. After what had been said, his father leaned over to him and mentioned six words that he would never forget: "Your mother was on that lis...

As the application of object technology--particularly the Java programming language--has become commonplace, a new problem has emerged to confront the software development community. Significant numbers of poorly designed programs have been created by less-experienced developers, resulting in applications that are inefficient and hard to maintain and extend. Increasingly, software system professionals are discovering just how difficult it is to work with these inherited, "non-optimal" appl...

Growing up is never easy, not even in a small Pennsylvania town in the fifties. Harry Morgan has his faults, but he tries. Judgmental but often clueless, he resolutely makes decisions and reluctantly learns to live with the consequences. He has a passion for knowing everyone's business, but he is no snitch. Keeping secrets may show loyalty, but at what cost?

This book was written solely as an accounting of real-life adventures; wild adventures that some may find a little difficult to believe that all these things could happen to one in a relatively short space of time. Hopefully, you will be inspired to see our great God as the most awesome adventurer that could be known because that is an exact representation of what He's really like. I say these are wild adventures because they are out of the ordinary and many of them were in the wilds of na...

This fascinating book demonstrates that to be a good communicator and therefore an effective manager, a person must have five qualities in order to be viewed as totally credible–competence, character, composure, sociability, and extroversion. While some executives seem to possess all these qualities and be born with savvy communication skills, Weiner shows how anyone can find ways to make measurable improvements in how they present themselves that will enhance their credibility.

The book begins with an amusing account of the antics of a small boy who started school in 1939. In later years, when he became a student teacher at the school he himself had attended, his old sports master, with whom he enjoyed a mutual respect, told him that his name had been regarded by all his other teachers as a teacher swear word. Attending a one-teacher school in the bush when he was eight was such a revelation that he decided to be a teacher and, from observation of what he liked a...

Rap is an art form and a language all its own. Combining rhyme with a beat, read out loud, it is a powerful method of communication that kids relate to in increasing numbers. Rap can also be used to convey a positive message about such things as self-esteem, careers, friendship, love, relationships, school, money, drugs, sex, and many other concerns that kids have growing up in a sometimes confusing and dangerous world. Here in book form are tested, uplifting, positive raps that adults can...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. There is a connection between my physical and spiritual energies that I have power over. I know this because I experienced it.Nearly two days after the death of my father, I found myself in a deeply moving connection experience with his spirit that was a life-changing event for me. The profound love we shared became the vehicle that allowed our spirits to find each other, communicate and then visit loved ones together. This event has alway...

Be a Better Developer and Deliver Better CodeDespite advanced tools and methodologies, software projects continue to fail. Why? Too many organizations still view software development as just another production line. Too many developers feel that way, too—and they behave accordingly.In The Software Craftsman: Professionalism, Pragmatism, Pride, Sandro Mancuso offers a better and more fulfilling path. If you want to develop software ...

Test-Driven Development (TDD) is now an established technique for delivering better software faster. TDD is based on a simple idea: Write tests for your code before you write the code itself. However, this "simple" idea takes skill and judgment to do well. Now there's a practical guide to TDD that takes you beyond the basic concepts. Drawing on a decade of experience building real-world systems, two TDD pioneers show how to let tests guide your development and “grow” software that is coher...

The practice of enterprise application development has benefited from the emergence of many new enabling technologies. Multi-tiered object-oriented platforms, such as Java and .NET, have become commonplace. These new tools and technologies are capable of building powerful applications, but they are not easily implemented. Common failures in enterprise applications often occur because their developers do not understand the architectural lessons that experienced object developers have learne...

Get more out of your legacy systems: more performance, functionality, reliability, and manageabilityIs your code easy to change? Can you get nearly instantaneous feedback when you do change it? Do you understand it? If the answer to any of these questions is no, you have legacy code, and it is draining time and money away from your development efforts.In this book, Michael Feathers offers start-to-finish strategies for working more effectively with large, u...