Forge Your Future with Open Source

Forge Your Future with Open Source

Author: VM (Vicky) Brasseur

Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf

Published: 2018-10-08

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1680506390

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Free and open source is the foundation of software development, and it's built by people just like you. Discover the fundamental tenets that drive the movement. Take control of your career by selecting the right project to meet your professional goals. Master the language and avoid the pitfalls that typically ensnare new contributors. Join a community of like-minded people and change the world. Programmers, writers, designers, and everyone interested in software will make their mark through free and open source software contributions. Free and open source software is the default choice for the programming languages and technologies which run our world today, and it's all built and maintained by people just like you. No matter your skill level or area of expertise, with this book you will contribute to free and open source software projects. Using this practical approach you'll understand not only the mechanics of contributing, but also how doing so helps your career as well as the community. This book doesn't assume that you're a programmer, or even that you have prior experience with free and open source software. Learn what open source is, where it came from, and why it's important. Start on the right foot by mastering the structure and tools you need before you contribute. Choose the right project for you, amplifying the impact of your contribution. Submit your first contribution, whether it's code, writing, design, or community organising. Find out what to do when things don't go the way you expect. Discover how to start your own project and make it friendly and welcoming to contributors. Anyone can contribute! Make your mark today and help others while also helping yourself.


Fusionbranding

Fusionbranding

Author: Nick Wreden

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13:

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FusionBranding: How to Forge Your Brand for the Future by brand futurist Nick Wreden represents a fresh look at branding imperatives, especially for companies selling to other businesses. Core principles of FusionBranding are illustrated with numerous case studies. Each chapter includes a FutureView, which looks at branding in 2005 and beyond, Takeaways, in-depth questions that can help apply FusionBranding principles, and Resources that features books and Web sites about FusionBranding principles.


Blood on the Forge

Blood on the Forge

Author: William Attaway

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2013-12-11

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1590178084

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Praised by both Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, this classic of Black literature is a brutal depiction of the Great Migration from the Jim Crow South This brutally gripping novel about the African-American Great Migration follows the three Moss brothers, who flee the rural South to work in industries up North. Delivered by day into the searing inferno of the steel mills, by night they encounter a world of surreal devastation, crowded with dogfighters, whores, cripples, strikers, and scabs. Keenly sensitive to character, prophetic in its depiction of environmental degradation and globalized labor, Attaway's novel is an unprecedented confrontation with the realities of American life, offering an apocalyptic vision of the melting pot not as an icon of hope but as an instrument of destruction. Blood on the Forge was first published in 1941, when it attracted the admiring attention of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison. It is an indispensable account of a major turning point in black history, as well as a triumph of individual style, charged with the concentrated power and poignance of the blues.


The Courage to Conquer

The Courage to Conquer

Author: Tony Williamson

Publisher:

Published: 2013-12

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9789769551084

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The book, "Courage to Conquer: 9 Inspiring Strategies to Be Bold, Overcome Obstacles and Forge Your Fantastic Future" provides a roadmap for success in life. It highlights and demonstrates the importance of the mind, its awesome power and how it can determine what you achieve in life. It forces us to think and to take stock of our own circumstances and to ask why not? It makes you realize that you and you alone are responsible for your own circumstances and for what you become or make of your life. -Excerpt from the Foreword written by: The Honourable R. Danny Williams, OJ, CD, JP


Forge

Forge

Author: Laurie Halse Anderson

Publisher: Seeds of America

Published: 2018-01-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781432850371

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Separated from his friend Isabel after their daring escape from slavery, fifteen-year-old Curzon serves as a free man in the Continental Army at Valley Forge until he and Isabel are thrown together again, as slaves once more.


Forging the Future

Forging the Future

Author: Mary Calmes

Publisher: Dreamspinner Press

Published: 2015-06-29

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1634763041

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If Jin can regain his memory and Logan overcome the threats to his leadership, they can resume their lives. But is that what they want?


Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future

Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future

Author: Tobias Wolffhardt

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2017-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1785336894

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Scottish experiences -- Building an East Indian career -- On the route: from military imperatives to the tasks of government -- Mackenzie's survey -- Mapping history, producing territory -- Knowledge for the future -- The past in the present -- The surveyor general -- Epilogue


Forecasting the Future & Redefining Your Future

Forecasting the Future & Redefining Your Future

Author: David Goldsmith

Publisher: BenBella Books

Published: 2012-10-23

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 1937856569

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In reality, the conditions we live with today are simply the results of decisions made in the past and, in leadership terms, this means that the better able you are to project your thinking into the future and forecast upcoming challenges and opportunities on the horizon, the more effectively you can decide today how to forge tomorrow. Get the tools and concepts that have a high-beam effect on your thinking, project your focus more accurately into the future, and cash in on the positive benefits of your improved strategic planning now and in years to come.


Paid to Think

Paid to Think

Author: David Goldsmith

Publisher: BenBella Books

Published: 2012-10-23

Total Pages: 674

ISBN-13: 1936661705

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Have you ever thought about the fact that a craftsman has more and better tools to solve challenges on the job than the leader of a business or organization does? Leadership "tools" are usually defined as computers, spreadsheets, data, and even experience, but in reality, leaders need thinking tools that are hard to come by, so they find themselves hunting and pecking for answers in books, at seminars, through on-the-job training programs, from mentors, and at business schools, and still, they're left with gaps. Surely, most leaders are good at what they do, but the daily challenges of their jobs, like accelerating growth, increasing productivity, driving innovation, doing more with less, and balancing work with life don't come with some sort of leadership toolkit...until now. In Paid to Think, international consultant David Goldsmith presents his groundbreaking approach to leadership and management based on research revealing the twelve specific activities that all leaders perform on a daily basis, and he provides you with each activity's accompanying tools and instructions proven to boost your performance and that of your entire organization. Take the uncertainty out of everyday leading, convert ideas to realities, and maximize your intellectual value. Learn how decision makers at some of the world's most successful organizations have already used Paid to Think's universal and easily transferable tools—regardless of their industries, sectors, geographic locations, or management levels—as their greatest advantages in achieving more, earning more, and living more.