"Mastering Scala: Functional and Object-Oriented Programming" is an essential guide for anyone looking to delve into the powerful world of Scala. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the language, blending both functional and object-oriented paradigms to equip readers with versatile and robust programming skills. Designed for both beginners and experienced developers, it covers everything from basic syntax and foundational principles to advanced topics such as concurrency, da...

Previously published in the print anthology The Mysterious Mr. Quin.While visiting the rather dull, conventional Denmans, Mr. Satterthwaite unexpectedly meets Mr. Quin on a road called Harlequin's Lane. Even he can't foresee the impact that Quin will have on the Denmans and, indeed, on all the neighborhood's residents.

Maybe he's fast enough to catch you. Maybe you want him to.JeffreyReturning to my hometown, to normalcy, after all I've been through feels strange, to say the least. Returning to the friends and family who have all moved on with their lives while I'm still trapped with demons of my past haunting me is the worst kind of torment.I'm safe now. Lydia, the woman who stole me when I was just nine years old, is in prison. I'm free. But I d...

Connection - a relationship in which a person, thing, or idea is linked or associated with something else. What do you do when your heart has been broken and you've been basically publicly humiliated by the guy you probably shouldn't have been involved with in the first place? Do you a) move on with one of his close friends, b) wallow in self-pity, c) have his baby, or d) all of the above? If you chose d, congratulations you're just like me. My very brief romance with world famous Zamir Ka...

Create Stunning Artwork Inspired by Stylish Typefaces of the PastIn this one-of-a-kind lettering workbook, Lisa Quine— internationally renowned illustrator and hand letterer extraordinaire—teaches you how to draw a range of old-school fonts, like elegant victorian, chic art deco, and flowery art nouveau, with helpful step-by-step instructions and detailed illustrations. These 20 stunning projects are printed on high-quality art paper, so you can draw and practice r...

Advance your skills in efficient data analysis and data processing using the powerful tools of Scala, Spark, and HadoopKey Features\[\*\] This is a primer on functional-programming-style techniques to help you efficiently process and analyze all of your data\[\*\] Get acquainted with the best and newest tools available such as Scala, Spark, Parquet and MLlib for machine learning\[\*\] Learn the best practices to incorporate new Big Data machine...

Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born on the 15th September 1890 in Torquay, Devon.She was primarily home schooled and developed an early passion for both reading and music.During the horrors of World War I she served as a nurse and later a pharmacy assistant. These experiences, especially the deep and technical knowledge of poisons, became a later trademark of her detective storiesIn 1920 she debuted in the literary world with ‘The Mysterious Affair at Styles’ and w...

At the May Day dancing at Glasgow Cross, Gil Cunningham sees not only the woman who is going to be murdered, but her murderer as well. Gil is a recently qualified lawyer whose family still expect him to enter the priesthood. When he finds the body of a young woman in the new building at Glasgow Cathedral he is asked to investigate, and identifies the corpse as the runaway wife of cruel, unpleasant nobleman John Semphill. With the help of Maistre Pierre, the French master-mason, Gil must as...

USE THE ACTOR MODEL TO BUILD SIMPLER SYSTEMS WITH BETTER PERFORMANCE AND SCALABILITYEnterprise software development has been much more difficult and failure-prone than it needs to be. Now, veteran software engineer and author Vaughn Vernon offers an easier and more rewarding method to succeeding with Actor model. Reactive Messaging Patterns with the Actor Model shows how the reactive enterprise approach, Actor model, Scala, and Akka can he...

This book presents – for the first time in the English language - the concept of systemic organization development and its use in management and consultancy. It demonstrates in a succinct and compact way, how the systemic approach, in its up-to-date version, is well suited to describe and handle complex challenges in diverse organizations of all sectors of society.First, the authors sketch out the crucial role organizations play today and the increasing importance of their ability ...

W. V. Quine was one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century American analytic philosophy. Although he wrote predominantly in English, in Brazil in 1942 he gave a series of lectures on logic and its philosophy in Portuguese, subsequently published as the book O Sentido da Nova Lógica. The book has never before been fully translated into English, and this volume is the first to make its content accessible to Anglophone philosophers. Quine would go on to develop revolutionary ide...

This book is a must-have tutorial for software developers aiming to write concurrent programs in Scala, or broaden their existing knowledge of concurrency. This book is intended for Scala programmers that have no prior knowledge about concurrent programming, as well as those seeking to broaden their existing knowledge about concurrency. Basic knowledge of the Scala programming language will be helpful. Readers with a solid knowledge in another programming language, such as Java, should fin...