A Positive Futurist Techno-Thriller. Denial is frequently funny, often irreverent, and occasionally indecent.The Singularity's Children Series: As the Third Millennium dawns, the world is slipping beyond human comprehension. Citizens are bewildered and angry; kept in line only by vast programs of computer-driven propaganda. Leaders are in Denial, clinging to the illusions of an idealised past, unable to move beyond corporate greed and political cha...

In the 22nd Century, humanity has spread across the solar system. From the inner Golden Lands to the frozen Second Belt: klans, kults, and corporations live by a diverging set of laws and norms.At the edge of the Saloa System the descendants of the distributed communities who fought the war of ReImagination follow the 'Self Evident Truths—a social pact and warrior's code.Responding to a message from her dead husband, forsaking her Klan, compelled by an unassailable sense of...

Understand and utilize Java LambdasAbout This BookTake a deep dive into one of the single most important additions to modern JavaMaster Java lambdas, and fully understand functions, classes, and scope.Improve your programming skills, which will enable you to write cleaner and more dynamic codeWho This Book Is ForLearning Java Lambdas is for developers looking to upgrade their Java skills and familiarize t...

A Techno-Optimist, Sci-Fi Adventure: Disruption is a thrilling ride into a baffling future—satirical, witty, and unexpectedly thought-provoking.Singularity's Children brings to life a world on the brink. A decade after economic collapse sent governments toppling like dominoes, the corporations are back on top. Intelligent machines do our dirty work, while the unnecessariat underclass suffocates beneath blankets of computer-generated propaganda.Governments a...

ReImagination: to imagine anew; to form a new conception.The 21st century is reaching middle age. Installations orbit the Earth and synthetic intelligences rule the digital. The Forwards have destroyed the Mesh. The Thalassocracy of New Atlantis lies shattered, reeling from multiple atomic strikes.Might the dreams of better times have been nothing more than naive, figments of wishful thinking?As the BugNet begins to stir, a few believe there may be ...

Action Adventure and Techno-Utopian Manifesto.Conflict is compelling and provocative—a romp through the alien landscape of our not-so-distant future.The balance is shifting. The Forward Coalition is losing relevance, it knows the world is slipping through its fingers. But Nebulous and the Kin are still too weak to confront the old bulls, who, cornered and confused, are at their most deadly. Can the torrent of fantastic technologies emerging from the Klan's ...

Master the fundamentals of Scala and understand its emphasis on functional programming that sets it apart from Java. This book will help you translate what you already know in Java to Scala to start your functional programming journey. Learn Scala is split into four parts: a tour of Scala, a comparison between Java and Scala, Scala-specific features and functional programming idioms, and finally a discussion about adopting Scala in existing Java teams and legacy projects.A...

Honour clashes with decree when Leimeiê receives a chilling message from her long-dead husband.Mid 22nd Century, humanity's klans, cults, and corporations have spread across the Saloa system; from the inner Golden Lands to the frozen Second Belt.Choosing to live in the cold darkness at the system's edge, the militaristic Kin distance themselves from the corruption which wafts from their home-world like the vapours from a rotting carcass.Bound by the code of the ...

Action Adventure and Techno-Utopian Manifesto.Book 3: Conflict is compelling and provocative — a romp through the alien landscape of our not-so-distant future. The balance is shifting. The Forward coalition is losing relevance, and the world is slipping through its fingers. But Nebulous and The Kin are still too weak to confront the old bulls, who, cornered and confused, are at their most deadly. Will the fantastic technologies emerging from the Klan Fabs bring uto...

ReImagination: to imagine anew; to form a new conception.The 21st century is reaching middle age. Installations orbit the Earth, and synthetic intelligences rule the digital. The Forwards have destroyed the Mesh. The Thalassocracy of New Atlantis lies shattered, reeling from multiple atomic strikes.Might the dreams of better times have been nothing more than naïve figments of wishful thinking?As the BugNet begins to stir, a few believe there may be ...

The first two books in the Singularity's Children series.Book one - DenialTense, intelligent science fiction packed with ideas.Debt, wars, and inequality are pushing society toward collapse. It's a world desiccated by soulless algorithms, pacified beneath the battle suit's boot, and numbed by the bewitching voices of computational propaganda.Singularity's Children is vivid world-building. The desperate lives of its ...

Regular expressions are such a powerful tool for manipulating text and data that anyone who uses a computer can benefit from them. Composed of a mixture of symbols and text, regular expressions can be an outlet for creativity, for brilliant programming, and for the elegant solution. While a command of regular expressions is an invaluable skill, all there is to know about them fills a very large volume, and you don't always have time to thumb through hundreds of pages each time a question a...