Pro Active Record: Databases with Ruby and Rails

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Apress (September 10, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590598474

Pro Active Record helps you take advantage of the full power of your database engine from within your Ruby programs and Rails applications. ActiveRecord, part of the magic that makes the Rails framework so powerful and easy to use, is the model element of Rails model/view/controller framework. Its an object-relational mapping library enabling you to interact with databases from both Ruby and Rails applications.

Because ActiveRecord is configured with default assumptions that mesh perfectly with the Rails framework, Rails developers often find they hardly need think about it at all. However, if you are developing in Ruby without Rails, or are deploying against legacy databases designed without Rails in mind, or you just want to take advantage of database-specific features such as large objects and stored procedures, you need the in-depth knowledge of ActiveRecord found in this book.

In Pro Active Record, authors Kevin Marshall, Chad Pytel, and Jon Yurek walk you through every step from the basics of getting and installing the ActiveRecord library to working with legacy schema to using features specific to each of todays most popular database engines, including Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, and more! You’ll come to a deep understanding of ActiveRecord that will enable you to truly exploit all that Ruby, Rails, and your chosen database platform have to offer.

About the Author

Kevin Marshall is a software developer at heart. He is a consultant to a number of companies and currently runs 50+ sites of his own&emdash;many of which are now happily taking advantage of ActiveRecord with the Ruby on Rails framework, including the popular Draftwizard.com. As a technology writer, Kevin has published a short article, “Web Services with Rails”; contributed a few recipes to the Ruby Cookbook; and contributed a number of articles to the Association of Computing Machinery’s periodical, Computing Reviews (available online at www.reviews.com).
Kevin is also a member of the Pro Football Writers Association, the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, and the Fantasy Sports Writers Association. When he’s not deep into coding, building content, or talking football, he’s generally off playing with his sons. To learn more about what he’s up to right now, you can visit his company site, falicon.com, or just drop him a note at info@falicon.com.

Chad Pytel is president of thoughtbot, inc. a software development consulting firm that specializes in agile, test-driven web application development using the Ruby on Rails framework located in Boston, MA, and New York, NY. A firm believer in the Model-View-Controller design pattern and realistic software development, with a history in Java and EJB development, Chad strongly believes that Ruby and Ruby on Rails represents a new, exciting, and better way to develop software.
Chad lives with his wife in Somerville, MA. When not at the office managing projects and writing code, Chad enjoys acting in and producing theater, film, and improv comedy. To follow along with Chad and the rest of the thoughtbot team’s thoughts on business, design, development, and technology, visit their blog at giantrobots.thoughtbot.com.

Jon Yurek is CTO at thoughtbot, inc. Born a programmer, Jon has been developing software professionally since 1999. After seeing the elegant and expressive power of Ruby, Jon quickly moved all new development at thoughtbot away from Java and Perl to using Ruby and Rails.
Jon is a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and currently lives in Somerville, MA.

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Successful Time Management

• Paperback: 152 pages
• Publisher: Kogan Page; 2nd ed. edition (April 10, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0749448342

In this day of increased pressure to achieve results, time management has become a vital skill. With time-saving solutions, checklists, tips and techniques, “Successful Time Management” helps review and assess time management techniques and shows how to adopt new work practices to make effective use of time. It includes great advice on controlling paperwork, getting and staying organized, delegating and working with others, prioritizing to focus on key issues and realizing the best results. The appendices include a brief assessment of various time management systems such as day, year or meeting planners, action sheets and more. This guide will help readers reduce time-wasting interruptions and focus on the priority tasks that lead to success. Includes new material on email usage

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PHP & MySQL For Dummies 3rd edition

• Paperback: 456 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 3 edition (November 20, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470096004

Build an online catalog and a members-only site

Everything you need to know to create a dynamic PHP and MySQL Web site!

Been thinking of creating a high-quality interactive Web site? This book is just what you need to get started! Here’s the fun and easy way® to develop a Web application in PHP 4, 5, or 6 and MySQL 5, test your software, enable your Web pages to display, change, and move database information, and much more.

Discover how to

• Plan and implement a Web database application
• Design and build a MySQL 5 database
• Build dynamic HTML forms
• Create scripts that store, retrieve, and update database information
• Display database information in a Web page

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Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache All in One (3rd Edition)

• Paperback: 624 pages
• Publisher: Sams; 3 edition (June 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672328739

You own your own business. You have also created a website for your business that details the products or services that you offer, but it doesn’t allow potential customers to purchase anything online. Don’t risk losing business-learn to create a dynamic online environment using only three programs. PHP, MySQL and Apache are three popular open-source tools that can work together to help you create a dynamic website, such as an online shopping experience. Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache All in One is a complete reference manual for all three development tools. You will learn how to install, configure and set up the PHP scripting language, use the MySQL database system, and work with the Apache Web server. Then you’ll take it a step further and discover how they work together to create a dynamic website. Use the book and the included CD to create a simple website, as well as a mailing list, online address book, shopping cart and storefront. Updated to reflect the most recent developments in PHP and MySQL, including the final stable release of MySQL 5.0, you will open your website to limitless possibilities with Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache All in One.

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Practical PHP and MySQL(R): Building Eight Dynamic Web Applications

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; Pap/Cdr edition (November 14, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0132239973

“Practical PHP and MySQL reflects Jono’s commitment to the spirit of making open source subjects accessible to everyone. The book carefully walks you through the code for eight useful, dynamic Web applications. Projects are presented in a playful way, like the forum project that touts horror movies that make you ‘hide behind the couch.’”

–From the Foreword by Christopher Negus, Series Editor, Negus Live Linux Series

Build Dynamic Web Sites Fast, with PHP and MySQL…

Learn from Eight Ready-to-Run Applications!

Suddenly, it’s easy to build commercial-quality Web applications using free and open source software. With this book, you’ll learn from eight ready-to-run, real-world applications–all backed by clear diagrams and screenshots, well-documented code, and simple, practical explanations.

Leading open source author Jono Bacon teaches the core skills you’ll need to build virtually any application. You’ll discover how to connect with databases, upload content, perform cascading deletes, edit records, validate registrations, specify user security, create reusable components, use PEAR extensions, and even build Ajax applications.

Working from complete examples on the CD-ROM, you’ll create

• Generic dynamic Web sites

• Blogs

• Discussion forums

• Shopping carts

• Auction sites

• Calendars

• FAQ systems

• Reusable components

• Content management systems

• News sites

JONO BACON is Ubuntu community manager for Canonical, Ubuntu’s sponsor. He is an established speaker, author, and contributor to the open source community. Bacon co-authored Linux

Desktop Hacks and The Official Ubuntu Book; has served as a columnist for Linux Format, Linux User & Developer, and PC Plus; and is an O’Reilly Networkweblog author. He is a lead developer onthe Jokosher (www.jokosher.org) project,and co-founder of LUGRadio–a podcastwith more than 15,000 listeners, andan annual event that attracts visitorsfrom around the world.

CD-ROM Includes

• XAMPP for Linux: easy-to-install, preconfigured Apache distributions containing MySQL, PHP, Perl, and more

• Source code for all eight fully-working applications discussed in the book

• A remastered Ubuntu live CD, set to run all eight applications live

System Requirements

• CPU: Pentium III, 650 MHz. RAM: 256MB (recommended 512MB).

• Hard disk: No space required to run live CD; 250MB of space needed to put XAMPP server and projects on installed system.

Contents

Foreword xi

About the Author xii

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 A New Approach 5

Chapter 2 Getting Started with PHP and MySQL 15

Chapter 3 Running the Projects 53

Chapter 4 Building a Weblog 63

Chapter 5 Discussion Forums 111

Chapter 6 Creating a Shopping Cart 169

Chapter 7 Building an Online Auction Site 219

Chapter 8 Creating a Web-Based Calendar 265

Chapter 9 FAQ Content Management System 303

Chapter 10 Building a Re-Usable Project 379

Chapter 11 Building a News Web Site 425

Appendix A Web Site Design 469

Index 499

About the Author

Jono Bacon works for Canonical as the Ubuntu community manager and is an established speaker, author, and regular contributor to the Open Source community. As an author, Bacon co-authored Linux Desktop Hacks and the Official Ubuntu Book, and has written more than 400 published articles in more than 14 publications. Bacon has also contributed as a columnist for Linux Format, Linux User & Developer, and PC Plus, and is an O’Reilly Network weblog author.

In addition, Bacon is a regular contributor to Open Source in a range of projects, a lead developer on the Jokosher (www.jokosher.org) project, and one of the co-founders of the popular LUGRadio (www.lugradio.org) podcast–a show with more than 15,000 listeners and an annual event that pulls visitors from around the world.

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Practical PHP and MySQL(R): Building Eight Dynamic Web Applications

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; Pap/Cdr edition (November 14, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0132239973

“Practical PHP and MySQL reflects Jono's commitment to the spirit of making open source subjects accessible to everyone. The book carefully walks you through the code for eight useful, dynamic Web applications. Projects are presented in a playful way, like the forum project that touts horror movies that make you ‘hide behind the couch.

From the Foreword by Christopher Negus, Series Editor, Negus Live Linux Series

Build Dynamic Web Sites Fast, with PHP and MySQL…

Learn from Eight Ready-to-Run Applications!

Suddenly, easy to build commercial-quality Web applications using free and open source software. With this book, you'll learn from eight ready-to-run, real-world applications all backed by clear diagrams and screenshots, well-documented code, and simple, practical explanations.

Leading open source author Jono Bacon teaches the core skills you'll need to build virtually any application. You’ll discover how to connect with databases, upload content, perform cascading deletes, edit records, validate registrations, specify user security, create reusable components, use PEAR extensions, and even build Ajax applications.

Working from complete examples on the CD-ROM, you'll create

Generic dynamic Web sites

• Blogs

• Discussion forums

Shopping carts

Auction sites

Calendars

FAQ systems

Reusable components

• Content management systems

News sites

JONO BACON is Ubuntu community manager for Canonical, Ubuntu's sponsor. He is an established speaker, author, and contributor to the open source community. Bacon co-authored Linux

Desktop Hacks and The Official Ubuntu Book; has served as a columnist for Linux Format, Linux User & Developer, and PC Plus; and is an O'Reilly Networkweblog author. He is a lead developer onthe Jokosher (www.jokosher.org) project,and co-founder of LUGRadio–a podcastwith more than 15,000 listeners, andan annual event that attracts visitorsfrom around the world.

CD-ROM Includes

• XAMPP for Linux: easy-to-install, preconfigured Apache distributions containing MySQL, PHP, Perl, and more

• Source code for all eight fully-working applications discussed in the book

A remastered Ubuntu live CD, set to run all eight applications live

System Requirements

• CPU: Pentium III, 650 MHz. RAM: 256MB (recommended 512MB).

• Hard disk: No space required to run live CD; 250MB of space needed to put XAMPP server and projects on installed system.

Contents

Foreword xi

About the Author xii

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 A New Approach 5

Chapter 2 Getting Started with PHP and MySQL 15

Chapter 3 Running the Projects 53

Chapter 4 Building a Weblog 63

Chapter 5 Discussion Forums 111

Chapter 6 Creating a Shopping Cart 169

Chapter 7 Building an Online Auction Site 219

Chapter 8 Creating a Web-Based Calendar 265

Chapter 9 FAQ Content Management System 303

Chapter 10 Building a Re-Usable Project 379

Chapter 11 Building a News Web Site 425

Appendix A Web Site Design 469

Index 499

About the Author

Jono Bacon works for Canonical as the Ubuntu community manager and is an established speaker, author, and regular contributor to the Open Source community. As an author, Bacon co-authored Linux Desktop Hacks and the Official Ubuntu Book, and has written more than 400 published articles in more than 14 publications. Bacon has also contributed as a columnist for Linux Format, Linux User & Developer, and PC Plus, and is an O'Reilly Network weblog author.

In addition, Bacon is a regular contributor to Open Source in a range of projects, a lead developer on the Jokosher (www.jokosher.org) project, and one of the co-founders of the popular LUGRadio (www.lugradio.org) podcast'a show with more than 15,000 listeners and an annual event that pulls visitors from around the world.

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Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional

• Paperback: 700 pages
• Publisher: Apress (December 5, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159059648X

The PHP language and PostgreSQL database server have long offered an ideal blend of practicality and power for both the novice and experienced programmer alike. Yet the continued evolution of both technologies makes them better suited to drive enterprise-class applications than ever before. In Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional, noted authors Cristian Darie, Emilian Balanescu, and Mihai Bucica show you how to take advantage of this powerful duo to build an e-commerce web site, guiding you step-by-step through the process of designing and developing the project.

Each chapter is devoted to a specific new feature. You’ll learn how to build an online product catalog complete with pagination features, shopping cart, checkout mechanism, product search feature, product recommendations, administrative features, customer accounts, an order-management system, and more. You’ll also learn how to process electronic payments by integrating several popular payment services, including PayPal, DataCash, and Authorize.net, and how to integrate the Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS).

The book promotes good programming practices, including the separation of presentation code, business code, and data access code using a 3-tier architecture. PDO (PHP Data Objects) is used to connect to the database, and PostgreSQL functions are used to store the data logic. The Smarty templating engine is used to create the presentation layer. For a preview of what this book will teach you, take a look at the HatShop shopping cart demo.

Who This Book Is For

Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional is aimed at developers looking for a tutorial approach to building a full e-commerce web site from design to deployment. However, its assumed that you have mastered the basics of PHP and have some experience working with relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL).

About the Author
Emilian Balanescu is a programmer experienced in many technologies, such as PHP, Java, .NET, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MS SQL Server. He currently works as a Wireless Network Administrator at accessNET International S.A. Romania, a company that provides fixed wireless access services operating a point-to-multipoint digital radio communication network with national coverage. You can reach Emilian at www.emilianbalanescu.ro. Mihai Bucica started programming and competing in programming contests (winning many of them), all at age twelve. With a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the Automatic Control and Computers Faculty of the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania, Bucica works as an Outsourcing Project Manager for Galaxy Soft SRL. Even after working with a multitude of languages and technologies, Bucica’s programming language of choice remains C++, and he loves the LGPL word. Cristian Darie is a software engineer with experience in a wide range of modern technologies and the author of numerous books, including his popular tutorial, Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 E-Commerce in C#. Cristian is studying distributed application architectures for his PhD and is getting involved with various commercial and research projects. When not planning to buy Google, he enjoys his bit of social life. If you want to say “Hi,” you can reach Cristian through his personal web site at http://www.cristiandarie.ro.

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Beginning PHP, Apache, MySQL Web Development

• Paperback: 720 pages
• Publisher: Wrox (March 12, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764557440

What is this book about?
PHP, Apache, and MySQL are the three key open source technologies that form the basis for most active Web servers. This book takes you step-by-step through understanding each — using it and combining it with the other two on both Linux and Windows servers.

This book guides you through creating your own sites using the open source AMP model. You discover how to install PHP, Apache, and MySQL. Then you create PHP Web pages, including database management and security. Finally, you discover how to integrate your work with e-commerce and other technologies. By building different types of Web sites, you progress from setting up simple database tables to tapping the full potential of PHP, Apache, and MySQL.

When you’re finished, you will be able to create well-designed, dynamic Web sites using open source tools.

What does this book cover?

Here’s what you will learn from this book:

• How PHP server-side scripting language works for connecting HTML-based Web pages to a backend database
• Syntax, functions, and commands for PHP, Apache, and MySQL
• Methods and techniques for building user-friendly forms
• How to easily store, update, and access information using MySQL
• Ways to allow the user to edit a database
• E-commerce applications using these three technologies
• How to set up user logins, profiles, and personalizations
• Proper protocols for error handling

Who is this book for?

This book is for beginners who are new to PHP and who need to learn quickly how to create Web sites using open source tools. Some basic HTML knowledge is helpful but not essential.

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PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide

• Paperback: 648 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Press (December 29, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 032152599X

It hasn’t taken Web developers long to discover that when it comes to creating dynamic, database-driven Web sites, MySQL and PHP provide a winning open source combination. Add this book to the mix, and there’s no limit to the powerful, interactive Web sites that developers can create. With step-by-step instructions, complete scripts, and expert tips to guide readers, veteran author and database designer Larry Ullman gets right down to business: After grounding readers with separate discussions of first the scripting language (PHP) and then the database program (MySQL), he goes on to cover security, sessions and cookies, and using additional Web tools, with several sections devoted to creating sample applications. This guide is indispensable for intermediate- to advanced level Web designers who want to replace their static sites with something dynamic. In this edition, the bulk of the new material covers the latest versions of both technologies: PHP 6 (due out in 2008) and MySQL 5 (available now). The book’s publication date is likely to beat the official release of PHP 6, making it one of the first books available on the subject.

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Advanced Data Mining Technologies in Bioinformatics

• Publisher Idea Group Publishing


• Author(s) Hui-Huang Hsu


• Release Date 25 May 2006

The technologies in data mining have been successfully applied to bioinformatics research in the past few years, but more research in this field is necessary. While tremendous progress has been made over the years, many of the fundamental challenges in bioinformatics are still open. Data mining plays an essential role in understanding the emerging problems in genomics, proteomics, and systems biology.

Advanced Data Mining Technologies in Bioinformatics covers important research topics of data mining on bioinformatics. Readers of this book will gain an understanding of the basics and problems of bioinformatics, as well as the applications of data mining technologies in tackling the problems and the essential research topics in the field. Advanced Data Mining Technologies in Bioinformatics is extremely useful for data mining researchers, molecular biologists, graduate students, and others interested in this topic.

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Data Mining Using SAS Enterprise Miner

• Publisher Wiley


• Author(s) Randall Matignon


• Release Date 03 August 2007

The most thorough and up-to-date introduction to data mining techniques using SAS Enterprise Miner.

The Sample, Explore, Modify, Model, and Assess (SEMMA) methodology of SAS Enterprise Miner is an extremely valuable analytical tool for making critical business and marketing decisions. Until now, there has been no single, authoritative book that explores every node relationship and pattern that is a part of the Enterprise Miner software with regard to SEMMA design and data mining analysis.

Data Mining Using SAS Enterprise Miner introduces readers to a wide variety of data mining techniques and explains the purpose of-and reasoning behind-every node that is a part of the Enterprise Miner software. Each chapter begins with a short introduction to the assortment of statistics that is generated from the various nodes in SAS Enterprise Miner v4.3, followed by detailed explanations of configuration settings that are located within each node.

Features of the book include:

The exploration of node relationships and patterns using data from an assortment of computations, charts, and graphs commonly used in SAS procedures

A step-by-step approach to each node discussion, along with an assortment of illustrations that acquaint the reader with the SAS Enterprise Miner working environment

Descriptive detail of the powerful Score node and associated SAS code, which showcases the important of managing, editing, executing, and creating custom-designed Score code for the benefit of fair and comprehensive business decision-making

Complete coverage of the wide variety of statistical techniques that can be performed using the SEMMA nodes

An accompanying Web site that provides downloadable Score code, training code, and data sets for further implementation, manipulation, and interpretation as well as SAS/IML software programming code

This book is a well-crafted study guide on the various methods employed to randomly sample, partition, graph, transform, filter, impute, replace, cluster, and process data as well as interactively group and iteratively process data while performing a wide variety of modeling techniques within the process flow of the SAS Enterprise Miner software. Data Mining Using SAS Enterprise Miner is suitable as a supplemental text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of statistics and computer science and is also an invaluable, all-encompassing guide to data mining for novice statisticians and experts alike.

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Advanced Data Mining Techniques

• Publisher Springer-Verlag


• Author(s) Dursun Delen


• Release Date 01 February 2008

This book covers the fundamental concepts of data mining, to demonstrate the potential of gathering large sets of data, and analyzing these data sets to gain useful business understanding. The book is organized in three parts. Part I introduces concepts. Part II describes and demonstrates basic data mining algorithms. It also contains chapters on a number of different techniques often used in data mining. Part III focusses on business applications of data mining. Methods are presented with simple examples, applications are reviewed, and relativ advantages are evaluated.

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Pro ASP.NET for SQL Server: High Performance Data Access for Web Developers

• Paperback: 408 pages


• Publisher: Apress (September 21, 2007)


• Language: English



• ISBN-10: 1590598601

Pro ASP.NET for SQL Server: High Performance Data Access for Web Developers explains how to use ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 most efficiently together. It covers all crucial performance issues and illustrates optimal techniques with enterprise-quality development.

Performance is always an issue, and optimizing database access is one of the most daunting performance challenges facing web developers. With Brennan Stehling as your guide, you’ll explore the many overlaps of web and database technologies, including configuration, programming, performance tuning, and deployment. You’ll learn how to make high-performance database access not just a goal, but a reality.

What you’ll learn

• Discover what impedes ASP.NET 2.0 access to SQL Server 2005 and how to make web applications and databases work blindingly fast together.


• Learn to make the subtle choices between DataSets, DataReaders, and DataObjects, to simplify code and maximize performance.



• Optimize data-bound controls and create your own.


• See when a custom database provider is advisable and how to build one.


• Understand how to monitor and measure web/database performance.


• Learn to build, deploy, and configure enterprise-level web applications against SQL Server 2005.

Who is this book for?

Anyone involved in .NET web development will find this book invaluable. Whether you’re struggling just to handle traffic or scaling up to meet demand, you’ll find all the tools, tips, and techniques you need for high-performance web access to databases. If you want to build enterprise-level web database applications 100% of the time, this book will tell–and show–you how to do it.

About the Apress Pro Series

The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder.

You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard-won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career.

Related Titles

Pro ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming

Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 Databases: From Novice to Professional

Expert ASP.NET 2.0 Advanced Application Design

About the Author

Brennan Stehling is a consultant in Milwaukee who specializes in web, console, and desktop development projects. He’s worked with .NET for several years, particularly since the .NET 2.0 Beta 1 release. He blogs regularly on .NET topics at http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/. He also develops reusable tools in C# and makes them available to developers at SmallSharpTools.com. In his spare time, Brennan plays Gaelic hurling, an Irish sport that has become popular in Milwaukee over the past 10 years.

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