Bøger af Ben Watson

As the Great Depression was winding down and a second world-wide war was ramping up in Europe and Asia youths were becoming adults and needed to find a way of meeting the financial obligations that come with adulthood. This book summarizes this journey for one young man on his quest for self-sufficiency. Every generation faces this challenge. Whether it be economic turmoil, pandemics, terrorism, war, gender dysphoria, the older generation hanging on to power too long, a dysfunctional childhood, or something not even dreamed of yet, every year as new adults come of age they are met by challenges. This is the story of one such youth, stripped of gainful employment he had enjoyed since he started working at 16 and finding himself facing an economy where a paycheck could either feed him or house him, but not both. Fate steps in, creativity and flexibility are employed, and a job is taken that provides both, and free housing to boot.

Take performance to the next level!This book does not just teach you how the CLR works---it teaches you exactly what you need to do now to obtain the best performance today. It will expertly guide you through the nuts and bolts of extreme performance optimization in .NET, complete with in-depth examinations of CLR functionality, free tool recommendations and tutorials, useful anecdotes, and step-by-step guides to measure and improve performance.This second edition incorporates the advances and improvements in .NET over the last few years, as well as greatly expanded coverage of tools, more topics, more tutorials, more tips, and improvements throughout the entire book.New in the 2nd Edition: 50% increase in content!New examples, code samples, and diagrams throughout entire bookMore ways to analyze the heap and find memory problemsMore tool coverage, including expanded usage of Visual StudioMore benchmarkingNew GC configuration optionsCode warmup techniquesNew .NET features such as ref-returns, value tuples, SIMD, and moreMore detailed analysis of LINQTips for high-level feature areas such as ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and WPFAlso find expanded coverage and discover new tips and tricks for: Profiling with multiple tools to quickly find problem areasDetailed description of the garbage collector, how to optimize your code for it, and how to diagnose difficult memory-related issuesHow to analyze JIT and diagnose warmup problemsEffective use of the Task Parallel Library to maximize throughputWhich .NET features and APIs to use and which to avoidInstrument your program with performance counters and ETW eventsUse the latest and greatest .NET featuresBuild a performance-minded team...and so much more

Mad Pride is set to become the first great civil liberties movement of the 21st century. Sick of discrimination, marginalisation, medication and being treated like shit, psychiatric patients are preparing to rise from the ghettos and make the world a fit place to live in. Featuring 24 authors - including Nick Blinko, Luther Blissett, Chris P and Fatma Durmush - boasting about the wild things they've done when they've been losing it and sharing their accounts of liberation through madness, this collection celebrates madness in all its forms as a means to all-out social revolution. Tough, uncompromising, subversive and very funny, this is a book that no one in their right mind will read. It reveals that madness, normally considered an unglamorous subject, is in fact all about sex, drugs, and rock n roll!

In this richly informative and entertaining book, Ben Watson explores the cultural and historical roots of cider. He introduces us to its different styles-draft, farmhouse, French, New England, and sparkling-and also covers other apple products, like apple wine, apple juice, cider vinegar, and Calvados.