Books
Liftoff: Launching Agile Teams & Projects
by Diana Larsen and Ainsley Nies
December 2011
Liftoff—it's the unexplored, often ignored, Agile project practice.
As the first act of the flight, a rocket launch requires an entire set of systems to successfully lift the vehicle into orbit—not just the vehicle itself, but all the systems needed for smoothly moving off the ground into space. Likewise, your project needs its entire set of supporting systems in place to begin a successful journey to delivery.
You too can launch successful projects! Agile veterans Diana Larsen and Ainsley Nies share their experience and teach you how to organize and conduct liftoffs, hold team activities to discover what's most important, and offer a working framework for effective and lightweight agile chartering.
Modern Perl
by chromatic
October 2010
Modern Perl is one way to describe how effective Perl 5 programmers work. These programs are shorter, faster, more powerful, and easier to maintain than their alternatives. You can learn this too, whether you've dabbled with Perl for a decade or someone just handed you this book and said "Fix this code by Friday."
Covers Perl 5.10 and Perl 5.12.
Glow
coming soon
The only thing worse than waking up with a dead body is waking up with your own dead body. Maybe it helps if you're still very much alive. Maybe not. All she knows now is that someone wanted her dead. She's mastered the secrets of time and space. Surely understanding mortality can't be that difficult.
A philosophical and supernatural romance, or a meditation on free will.
Gigapolis
In a crisis, an average person may demonstrate superhuman characteristics. Usually they go away. Usually. No one asked for this power—no one ever does—but they still have to figure out how to use it before their existence destroys their world.
A novel about power, about leaders, and the importance of small decisions.
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Gravitas
When Ben turned thirty, thirty hit back. His awakening was gradual: a sense of wonder suppressed, the fear that he'd given up his only chance at happiness, the question of whether this is all life is. How do you live with the world weighing you down? Is Emily the key?
A novel about becoming who you are.
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Parrot Developer's Guide: PIR
by Allison Randal, Andrew Whitworth & The Parrot Team
mod_perl 2 User's Guide
by Stas Bekman & Jim Brandt