Some murders become headlines. Others become history. Most become nothing at all.In the summer of 1997, the world watched transfixed as police hunted the man who shot Gianni Versace on the steps of his Miami mansion. Seven years earlier, a severed head in a West Hollywood dumpster didn't even make the local news.Both stories ask the same uncomfortable question. What does it take for a gay man's death to matter?From sun-bleached California freeways to the forums of t...

Mastering Drupal can lead to a mighty website - discover what Drupal 8 can really do with hidden techniques, best practices, and more!Key FeaturesThe most up-to-date advanced practical guide on Drupal 8 with an in-depth look at all the advanced new features such as authoring, HTML markup, built-in web services, and moreIf you are looking to dive deep into Drupal 8 and create industry-standard web apps, then this is the ideal book for youAll the...

Forever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Each issue will feature a novella, two short stories, and cover art by Ron Guyatt. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke. Our November 2016 issue features a novella by Kameron Hurley ("The Heart is Eaten Last"), a novelette by Sean Williams ("Evermore"), and a novelette by Gwyneth Jones ("The Vicar of Mars...

With Microsoft SQL Server 2016, a variety of new features and enhancements to the data platform deliver breakthrough performance, advanced security, and richer, integrated reporting and analytics capabilities. In this Preview 2 ebook, we introduce three new security features: Always Encrypted, Row-Level Security, and dynamic data masking; discuss enhancements that enable you to better manage performance and storage: TempDB configuration, query store, and Stretch Database; review several im...

"You'll find Faith in the clock shop," Peter Reed says."Faith? I don't believe in faith or God or predestination or any of that bullshit anymore. I believe in what I can see."Daniel has a list of things he wants to do before the clock strikes twelve on December 31st.Get a tattooRide a horse-drawn carriage in the snowSee a Broadway playBuy hot chestnuts from a street vendorEat a one-pound burger at Rocko’sDrink ...

Part of a series of specialized guides on System Center - this book focuses on using AppController to manage virtual machines and services across private and public clouds. Series editor Mitch Tulloch and a team of System Center experts provide concise technical guidance as they step you through key configuration and management tasks.

You've experienced the shiny, point-and-click surface of your Linux computer--now dive below and explore its depths with the power of the command line.The Linux Command Line takes you from your very first terminal keystrokes to writing full programs in Bash, the most popular Linux shell (or command line). Along the way you'll learn the timeless skills handed down by generations of experienced, mouse-shunning gurus: file navigation, environment configuratio...

Winner of the Compton Crook AwardFrom a new voice in the tradition of Lauren Beukes, Ian McDonald, and Nnedi Okorafor comes The Prey of Gods, a fantastic, boundary-challenging tale, set in a South African locale both familiar and yet utterly new, which braids elements of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and dark humor.In South Africa, the future looks promising. Personal robots are making life easier for the working class. The gov...

The Only Official, Best-Practice Guide to Qt 4.3 Programming Using Trolltech's Qt you can build industrial-strength C++ applications that run natively on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, and embedded Linux without source code changes. Now, two Trolltech insiders have written a start-to-finish guide to getting outstanding results with the latest version of Qt: Qt 4.3. Packed with realistic examples and in-depth advice, this is the book Trolltech uses to teach Qt to its own new...

The popular open source KDE desktop environment for Unix was built with Qt, a C++ class library for writing GUI applications that run on Unix, Linux, Windows 95/98, Windows 2000, and Windows NT platforms. Qt emulates the look and feel of Motif, but is much easier to use. Best of all, after you have written an application with Qt, all you have to do is recompile it to have a version that works on Windows. Qt also emulates the look and feel of Windows, so your users get native-looking interf...

Leon's never felt as strongly about any man as he does Andrew, but when Andrew asks to meet him for dinner, Leon's sure things are over before they've even started. Except Andrew isn't coming to dinner to call things off. He's coming to drop an entirely different bomb.Andrew's a sorcerer. He can manipulate fire, he can manipulate lightning… but like most of his kind, what he can't do is maintain absolute control of his power when he's sexually aroused, which is dangerous to non-mag...

Red, it just had to red.A world of blood, betrayal, love and war. A world Adisin gets thrown into when she looks for an escape from her past. A life led by the seven deadly sins.