Whether you just want to learn Ruby, or if you already know Ruby and want to learn about its internals and newest features, this is the book to get.Programming Ruby has been the definitive reference book on Ruby for more than 20 years. This fully revised and updated edition covers Ruby up to and including Ruby 4.The first section of the book is a tutorial introduction that gets you up to speed with the Ruby language and its most im...

This book marks the 50th anniversary of Burnley's Division Two title win in 1972/73, a landmark that was mirrored by Vincent Kompany's Clarets champions, who stormed back into the Premier League exactly half a century later. Burnley Football Club has produced many great teams - the 'Team of the Seventies' was one of the finest, and legions of admirers still talk about them today. Martin Dobson, Geoff Nulty and Leighton James were just three of many players sold by Burnley chairman Bob Lord...

A compelling insider's account of 35 years at Burnley FC.Former Burnley FC director Clive Holt, with Dave Thomas, shares a captivating memoir of his time at the club. From near relegation to Premier League glory, Holt provides a unique perspective on the challenges and triumphs of running a football club.Discover untold stories of boardroom tensions, managerial decisions, and financial struggles. Perfect for football fans and business enthusiasts, this

Software development is inherently complex, but it needn't be as complicated as we make it. Learn to recognize and deal with the gnarly stuff, and your job is simpler, your code is easier to create and to work with, and you are more effective. You won't find a bunch of rules, practices, and clever acronyms here. There are no best practices, because there's no such thing as a best practice. You'll cut through real-world complexities to discover and amplify what works best for you in your cu...

A Director's Tale is the story of Burnley Football Club in the early 1980s, a time of short-lived success and then turmoil. With special access to the diaries of director Derek Gill, Dave Thomas brings you the unvarnished inside story, revealing what went on behind the scenes amid conflict with chairman John Jackson and manager John Bond. These were torrid times involving, at first, a surprise promotion, then a relegation, then John Bond's departure and another relegation. This was a group...

The biography of controversial Burnley chairman Bob Lord, the self-made butcher who ruled the club from 1955 to 1981. A blunt, opinionated leader, football's own 'Khrushchev' upset many with his views; but he had the idea of running a club on businesslike lines, and oversaw a production line of top players then sold on to sustain his vision.

Jimmy Adamson was a soccer enigma, revered by some, disliked by others—a supremely elegant player of the 1950s and early 1960s, a title winner, and a respected coach, but a manager whose spirit was ultimately shattered. In 1962, Adamson had the world at his feet: FA Cup finalist, Footballer of the Year and invited to become England manager, having been assistant at the World Cup in Chile. But Adamson said no. In 1970 he predicted that Burnley would become the "Team of the Seventies," but d...

Paul Weller was a one-club player. He moved from sunny Brighton aged just 16 to dreary Burnley, with its grey skies, run-down terraced streets and mill chimneys, where riots were among the first things he saw. A more timid person might have caught the first train home. But he went on to play 252 games for the Clarets between 1993 and 2005. He would have played many more but for suffering the debilitating effects of colitis. It took a huge chunk out of his career, forcing him out of the fir...

Details the management philosophy of Sean Dyche, which enabled a sporting David to compete with the GoliathsOnce upon a time, on April 21, 2014, something extraordinary happened, as unfashionable Burnley sealed their promotion to the Premier League. It was the improbable culmination to one of the most magical, inspirational, and unpredictable stories in the modern game. This is English soccer's Moneyball. At the start of the season, the Lancashire club wer...

Champions is the story of Burnley's Championship title win of season 2015/16. In the world of the big city football clubs, Burnley remains the club from the small town that continues to defy the odds through its good management and careful budgeting. This is the third promotion to the Premier League in just seven years. It was a season that began tentatively, after relegation. Three key players had been sold, and the first month produced nothing too special. Two key additions were...

Ruby is one of the most important programming languages in use for web development. It powers the Rails framework, which is the backing of some of the most important sites on the web. The Pickaxe Book, named for the tool on the cover, is the definitive reference on Ruby, a highly-regarded, fully object-oriented programming language. This updated edition is a comprehensive reference on the language itself, with a tutorial on the most important features of Ruby - including pattern matching a...

The eighth major release of Rails focuses on the ability to produce production-ready applications. It achieves this while building upon and retaining the ability to produce fantastic user experiences, and achieves all the benefits of single-page applications at a fraction of the complexity. Rails 8 introduces Kamal 2, Thruster, new database adapters, replaces the asset pipeline, and adds a new authentication generator. The result is a toolkit so powerful that it allows a single individual ...