"A Fly-by-Wire Architecture for Multi-Threaded Windows Apps" demonstrates the power and beauty of multi-threading-and its necessity in complex applications that perform lengthy processing or that wait for stimulus from outside of the program. The book presents an architecture for structuring multi-threaded Windows applications, brings readers to an understanding of these techniques, and prepares them to employ the concepts in their own Windows apps. The architecture is "fly-by-wire" because it is modeled after systems whose components are interconnected not directly but by a network over...

THE IMMORTALS is a graphic novel that features some of the world's greatest Martial Arts Legends and Hall of Famers in an epic battle of good vs evil. In the year 2005, a massive battle took place on the streets of New Orleans. The damage to the city was incalculable, and the world lost one of its greatest protectors, The Shadow Runner. As a result, the group of heroes known as The Immortals were sent into exile by an Executive Order written by the evil telepath Doctor Giovanni posing as the President. The world was thrown into chaos, and the villains seemed to have finally won. It's ten...