Search results for ""Author John Smart""
Troubador Publishing Shores of Paradise: The life of Sir John Squire, the Last Man of Letters
This is the first biography of Sir John Squire since 1963 and reassesses the triumphs and tragedies, through a modern lens, of a man whom The Times called the most brilliant of our present day poets and critics. J.C. Squire (1884-1958) was, amongst many other things, a poet, journalist, editor of the New Statesman and the best-selling magazine the London Mercury. He was both loved and detested, Evelyn Waugh satirised him in Decline and Fall. Lytton Strachey called him ‘that little worm.’ T.S. Eliot was an implacable foe, but he enjoyed the friendship of Thomas Hardy, Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon, and ruled the roost over literary society for the best part of twenty years. Shores of Paradise: Sir John Squire, last of the Georgian Poets is both the story of his achievement, but also a tale of breakdown and tragedy. It offers an unflinching account of how a career begun in a blaze of promise ended in drink and oblivion. The product of extensive research among primary sources, Shores of Paradise sheds a penetrating light on the literary politics and quarrels of a bygone age and the life of Sir John Squire as a wit, broadcaster, pioneer conservationist, founder of a legendary cricket club, and saviour of Stonehenge from developers.
£20.00
Manning Publications BDD in Action
Almost half of all software projects fail to deliver on key requirements. Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) reduces these costly failures by building a shared understanding of how an application should work. Behavior Driven Development in Action, Second Edition teaches communication skills, collaborative practices, and automation tools that ensure everyone from developers to non-technical stakeholders are in agreement on the goals of a project. Revised and expanded in a second edition, the book contains new techniques for incorporating BDD into large-scale development practices such as Agile and DevOps, as well as updating examples for the latest versions of Java. about the technology You can't write good software if you don't understand what it's supposed to do. Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) encourages developers, quality teams, and non-technical stakeholders to collaborate, using conversation and concrete examples to make sure everyone agrees how an application should work and what features really matter. With a body of best practices and sophisticated tools for requirement analysis and test automation, BDD has become a mainstream practice for keeping projects on track and avoiding cancellation. what's inside BDD theory and practice How BDD will affect your team BDD for acceptance, integration, and unit testing Automating web services Reporting and living documentation about the reader For all development teams. No experience with BDD required. Examples written in Java.
£41.39
