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The Yakovlev design bureau started life in 1927 when Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1894-1977) brought out his first aircraft, the two-seat AIR-1. The first nine designs created by Yakovlev remained in prototype form, being developed largely at his own initiative; in 1935, however, his fortune changed when the UT-2 primary trainer entered large-scale production. In the [...]
The history of SQL begins in an IBM laboratory in San Jose, California, where SQL was developed in the late 1970s. The initials stand for Structured Query Language, and the language itself is often referred to as “sequel.” It was originally developed for IBM’s DB2 product (a relational database management system, or RDBMS, that can [...]
This book shows you how to create large, complex, dynamically driven web sites that look good and are a snap to maintain. You’ll learn how to visualize multiple Mason-based solutions to any given problem and select among them. At its heart, Mason is simply a mechanism for embedding Perl code into plain text. It is [...]
All this talk about the music industry online overlooks one simple fact: there isn’t one. There are many. One size does not fit all. You’ve seen the website. It has a landing page with a photo on it and a little bit of blurb. There may be one or two things that move on it, [...]
How do you know what music to buy? Often, another person tells you – generally in some mediated way. Different media, different people, same principle. Other than hearing, then liking, the most common and reliable way to find out about music is via the opinion leader. Often this will take the form of a press [...]
There are lots of sophisticated tricks and tips for marketing music, online and off. But if you mess up this one fundamental principle, you might as well not bother at all. Music is pretty much unique when it comes to media consumption. You don’t buy a movie ticket because you liked the film so much, [...]
There’s a great deal of discussion about music online in the mainstream press, and there are a couple of predominant threads to that coverage. Mostly, it’s not true. It pays to be able to separate fact from fiction and hype from reality when it comes to the online music environment. Especially when your livelihood depends [...]
I’m making myself redundant here. Understand and implement these simple principles — and you won’t need me any more. I was on a panel last night, at an event for the Moseley Creative Forum. The topic was ‘Is this the best time ever to be in the music industry?’. Naturally, there was some debate. My [...]
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Women long for the kind of beauty and health that can only come with clean cells. Yet many women find detox plans difficult to follow and are disappointed with the results. In her ten years of working privately with celebrity clients at leading Manhattan spas, Natalia Rose has discovered that traditional detox plans don’t work [...]