John Smith
Last Know Survivor of the Microsoft Wars
ISBN-13Last Know Survivor of the Microsoft Wars
In many ways this book is the sequel to Infinite Exposure. While it will not pick up where Infinite Exposure left off, it will take place in a post 2012 world and be in the form of a newspaper reporter interviewing the last known survivor only to find out what they thought they knew they really didn't know.
Twenty
of Two
The Infamous They
ISBN-13
978-0-9823580-1-6The Infamous They
This book is currently being written, but won't appear until the entire trilogy is complete. Actual title has not been settled on. This book will be part of an interlocking trilogy. In case you don't know what an interlocking trilogy is, each successive book is a wrapper around the story told in the prior book(s). A traditional trilogy moves forward in a linear time line while an interlocking trilogy is like going from the narrowest zoom view in a Mapquest map to a much farther out view so you can see everything surrounding what you were originally interested in.
The book is basically a modern day tale about how a corporation of assassins is run. Don't look for a lot of things blowing up and non-stop sex as seen in the movies. That simply isn't the focus here.
If you think more along the lines of "corporate decisions", then you will be thinking in terms of this book.
If you are worldly enough to realize that 95% of all major crime is corporate, even counting the crimes of today's street gangs, then you probably already understand a lot about this book.
The Minimum You Need to Know
About Java and xBaseJ
ISBN-13
978-0-9823580-3-0About Java and xBaseJ
This book will be released as a free eBook. It will cover using Java and the OpenSource xBaseJ library found on SourceForge. The book will be available in PDF format from many sites and possibly in EPUB format via ShortCovers. It will not be available in print form.
I wasn't really planning on writing another Java book, but I had to deal with a need of a family member to track fuel surcharge rates for a trucking company. During the 80s and possibly even some of the 90s we had lots of great stand alone software which had its own file systems and didn't have dependencies on other software. Today, especially under Linux, packages to do this sort of thing are "expert friendly". If you happen to know how to install, configure, and maintain a relational database engine along with half a dozen other libraries which were used. I wanted a return to the days of a single simple aplication with it's own self contained data files. The vast majority of people using computers haven't got the foggiest idea about configuring a MySQL or PostgreSQL database and they couldn't care less about it.
Given that some form of Java is installed on all Linux computers (and most Windows computers) this will cover creating a self-contained application which uses XBASE files to store its data. Yes, a relational engine gives a person much more control in the area of data integrity, but just about every "office" product available can import data from a DBF file to a spreadsheet.
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Zinc It!
1.5 UIW_TABLE Exposed
ISBN: 0-934272-41-7
Format: Paperback, 128pp
Pub. Date: August 1996
Publisher: John Gordon Burke Pub., Inc.
This book is out of print. It was written to help developers use the newly introduced UIW_TABLE object. Documentation and example programs provided by the vendor caused massive confusion. This book built upon the first book as far as tools used.
Available in PDF format from the Google book site. There are no printed copies left to my knowledge. My last printed copy went to Google so they could scan it to PDF. At some point they will finish scanning it.
ISBN: 0-934272-41-7
Format: Paperback, 128pp
Pub. Date: August 1996
Publisher: John Gordon Burke Pub., Inc.
This book is out of print. It was written to help developers use the newly introduced UIW_TABLE object. Documentation and example programs provided by the vendor caused massive confusion. This book built upon the first book as far as tools used.
Available in PDF format from the Google book site. There are no printed copies left to my knowledge. My last printed copy went to Google so they could scan it to PDF. At some point they will finish scanning it.
Zinc
It! Interfacing Third
Party Libraries with Cross Platform GUI'S
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ISBN 0-934272-39-5
Format: Paperback
Publisher: John Gordon Burke Pub., Inc.
Written by Roland Hughes and originally put out by John Gordon Burke Publisher, Inc. in 1995. A limited number of copies have been retrieved from storage and will be available through a page at the Island Computer Web site in the future. A CD-ROM is included with this book.
This book covered using the Watcom C/C++ compiler, the Zinc Application Framework, X-32VM with FlashGraphics, CodeBase, Greenleaf Database, Btrv++, ODBC, POET and Greenleaf CommLib. Various programs were written under DOS, 32-bit DOS, Windows 3.x and OS/2 Warp showing how to interface the products.
Much of the code is once again relevant given the emergence of OpenWatcom, the return to the marketplace of Greenleaf Software, and new owners for the Zinc Application Framework. The C++ cross platform GUI market has gotten renewed interest. Once these copies are gone no more will be available. This is a very limited number of books pulled from a storage unit.
Format: Paperback
Publisher: John Gordon Burke Pub., Inc.
Written by Roland Hughes and originally put out by John Gordon Burke Publisher, Inc. in 1995. A limited number of copies have been retrieved from storage and will be available through a page at the Island Computer Web site in the future. A CD-ROM is included with this book.
This book covered using the Watcom C/C++ compiler, the Zinc Application Framework, X-32VM with FlashGraphics, CodeBase, Greenleaf Database, Btrv++, ODBC, POET and Greenleaf CommLib. Various programs were written under DOS, 32-bit DOS, Windows 3.x and OS/2 Warp showing how to interface the products.
Much of the code is once again relevant given the emergence of OpenWatcom, the return to the marketplace of Greenleaf Software, and new owners for the Zinc Application Framework. The C++ cross platform GUI market has gotten renewed interest. Once these copies are gone no more will be available. This is a very limited number of books pulled from a storage unit.
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