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Early Adopter Mac OS X Java
Mac OS X is a UNIX-based operating system that runs on some of the finest hardware in the world. It comes with some excellent development tools, and a first-class Java 2 Standard Edition implementation, including a HotSpot client virtual machine, tied right into the operating system. Apple has made Java a first-class citizen of Mac OS X, and this book shows how Java developers can take advantage of the power they've been given. Using Java as a development language on Mac OS X, you can write portable pure Java applications that run and look like native programs, or you can develop programs that exploit the Cocoa programming interface, allowing you to build powerful Mac OS X applications and take advantage of all the functionality provided by Apple's exciting Aqua UI. You can also exploit native operating-system functionality without writing any C or C++ code, through APIs such as JDirect. This book explains to the experienced Java developer where to start, what's possible, and where to go. This book covers: The role of Java in Mac OS X
Using Mac OS X as a Java development platform
Writing portable Java Code
Taking advantage of Mac OS X's features in pure Java applications
Developing enterprise applications on Mac OS X
Deploying Java code as a Mac OS X application
Accessing OS-specific functions through MRJ and JDirect
Using Java to program Cocoa
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Price: $4.97
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La Edad de Los Milagros: Como adopter una nueva perspective ante la mediana edad
The need for change as we get older—an emotional pressure for one phase of our lives to transition into another—is a human phenomenon, neither male nor female. There simply comes a time in our lives—not fundamentally different from the way puberty separates childhood from adulthood—when it’s time for one part of ourselves to die and for something new to be born. The purpose of this book by best-selling author and lecturer Marianne Williamson is to psychologically and spiritually reframe this transition so that it leads to a wonderful sense of joy and awakening. In our ability to rethink our lives lies our greatest power to change them. What we have called “middle age” need not be seen as a turning point toward death. It can be viewed as a magical turning point toward life as we’ve never known it, if we allow ourselves the power of an independent imagination—thought-forms that don’t flow in a perfunctory manner from ancient assumptions merely handed down to us, but rather flower into new archetypal images of a humanity just getting started at 45 or 50. What we’ve learned by that time, from both our failures as well as our successes, tends to have humbled us into purity. When we were young, we had energy but we were clueless about what to do with it. Today, we have less energy, perhaps, but we have far more understanding of what each breath of life is for. And now at last, we have a destiny to fulfill—not a destiny of a life that’s simply over, but rather a destiny of a life that is finally truly lived. Midlife is not a crisis; it’s a time of rebirth. It’s not a time to accept your death; it’s a time to accept your .life—and to finally, truly live it, as you and you alone know deep in your heart it was meant to be lived. .
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Framing the Medical Home Model of Care: Blueprint from Early Adopters
This 45-page resource describes the skills, technology, cultural change and financial incentives necessary to transform a physician practice into a medical home. It also presents a game plan for health plans that are ready to embrace and reimburse this model of care. Dawn Bazarko, senior vice president of clinical innovations for UnitedHealthcare, offers a payor's perspective as agent for the medical home. She shares feedback from consumer focus groups and suggests methods for dispelling consumers' misperceptions about the medical home. She provides guidance on consumer education and activation strategies and tips for marketing the medical home and measuring its outcomes. She also discusses opportunities for value-added partnerships for medical homes in care and disease management programs offered by external entities. From the physician standpoint, the medical home provides multiple opportunities to reframe traditional care delivery, reshape medical professionals' attitudes, improve practice processes and share innovations with other providers. Dr. Lonnie Fuller, medical director for the Pennsylvania Medicaid ACCESS Plus PCCM-DM Program, describes the four requirements of the advanced medical home, including a critical cultural shift in the practice from "physician as boss" to one of collaboration and support. He weighs in on the critical cash infusion that must occur to support the additional workload, staff and technology required by the medical home model. In "Framing the Medical Home Model of Care: Blueprint from Early Adopters," Ms. Bazarko and Dr. Fuller furnish details on the following: -Defining the payor's role as agent of the medical home; -Helping practices meet the medical home designation; -Distinguishing between the medical home model and the traditional HMO "gatekeeper" model; -Understanding the patient's role in the medical home partnership; -Enabling patient activation and education; -Marketing the medical home to consumers; -Measuring the medical home's outcomes; -Supporting the medical home model with training, technology and disease management; -Meeting the four requirements of the advanced medical home for successful practice transformation; Using "Diffusion of Innovation" theories to spread best practices; and much more..
Price: $147.00
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Shunka Wakan, a Horse for My Spirit: The Story of My First Year As a Wild Horse Adopter. How It Changed My Life And Shunka's.
Shunka Wakan, A Horse For My Spirit is a one-of-a-kind sharing of an older novice horseperson's first year as a wild horse adopter It is part training journal, part love story(between a woman and her first horse), and part facts about what a mustang is, what you can do with one, and other things learned during that year..
Price: $16.95
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Early Adopter VoiceXML
VoiceXML brings the power of Voice to the Web - the information we are used to accessing through the visual web interfaces of our PCs and mobile devices can now be accessed through speech alone. Building on the functionality already seen in IVR applications deployed by our banks and utility companies, the tag based syntax of VoiceXML will instantly be familiar to existing web developers, and applications can already be deployed using one of the many voice portals available. With the world's billion plus telephones, from antique black candlestick phones to the latest mobiles, there is a huge ready-made audience crying out for voice applications. The userbase encompases those on the move who require easy access to information wherever they are, and those who haven't the money or inclination to access the Internet through a PC. The book aims to give the reader an in-depth analysis of the current state of VoiceXML technology. The information will help you develop voice-enabled applications now, and make sure you are ready for future advances of this quickly changing arena. This book covers: An overview of the development and deployment environments available VoiceXML 1.0 syntax tutorial Grammar use, including JSGF and Nuance GSL syntax Use of VoiceXML with XSLT, ASP, JSP, and PHP Nuance Speechobjects The future of VoiceXML technologies, including VoiceXML 2.0.
Price: $12.40
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