David Wheeler

"Creating a database schema means creating an interface for applications to use to manage their data. But how do you know how well that interface works until you've tried it? This video introduces the concept of test-driven development to database administrators. We'll use pgTAP to work through a real-world example creating a database design with an intuitive, useful interface for managing application data."--Product description page (viewed Oct....

"Hip-hop. Sci-fi. Kung-fu. Thirteen-year-old Wax's life may not be perfect, but that doesnt stop him from spinning some of the sickest beats on their Brooklyn block...but he's a better DJ than he thinks. One night, while making a mixtape for his crush, Wax scratches the perfect beat and responds to an intersteller challenge that transports him and the entire block to the robot-filled planet of Discopia. Mistaken by the locals for a master of the futuristic...

Chock-full of useful interpretations of signs, planets in signs, aspects, and synastry, it ensures that readers will come away with a sufficient understanding of astrological charts to begin creating their own.

Sometimes it's neither art nor science that serves as the origins of the everyday kitchen and food items that we take for granted today. Sometimes, as Josh Chetwynd shows us in “How the Hot Dog Found Its Bun”, some of our greatest culinary achievements were simply by-products of "damned good luck." In “How the Hot Dog Found Its Bun”, Josh explores the origins of kitchen inventions, products, and foodstuff in seventy-five short essays that...

Preach great sermons and plan innovative worship services with the newest edition of Nelson's Annual Preacher's Sourcebook. Nelson's Annual Preacher's Sourcebook, Volume 1 is the same sermon planner you have come to depend on for over ten years with a new topical focus. Outstanding pastors provide an entire year's worth of preaching and worship resources for every Sunday. With an emphasis on the family, sermon series on the names of God, and special...