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About Rick Evans
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Rick Evans is a developer, consultant, and trainer specialising in J2EE technologies.
He is a Spring expert and has extensive experience in the healthcare and financial sectors. He is currently working for an agile consultancy that focuses on applying the "Theory of Constraints" to institute processes of ongoing improvement in organisations.
Rick speaks regularly at venues throughout the UK and Europe - on topics ranging through agile practices, extreme OLTP data grid technologies, and J2EE technologies.
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FAVORITES
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Hampshire Road Race League
All news and results related to the Hampshire Road Race League |
101 Cookbooks
The premise this site was built on is best summed up in two sentences: When you own over 100 cookbooks, it is time to stop buying, and start cooking. This site chronicles a cookbook collection, one recipe at a time. |
Gravity's Rainbow
Searchable Web-Guide to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow Treadwell Lectures
Treadwell’s bring esoteric subjects to thinking, well-read enquirers. Our invited speakers are scholars, biographers, and, occasionally, particularly renowned practitioners. Each talk is of about fifty minutes’ duration, and is followed by a thirty minute |
FXCuisine.com
A blog run by François-Xavier (FX), a French-speaking Swiss man living on the shores of Lake Geneva, an hour from France and Italy. François-Xavier is passionate about gastronomy and cooking and created this blog to share my adventures with Internet users |
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  ">Gravity's Rainbow
Synopsis (from Amazon) - Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), "a |
  ">Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
Book Description - from Amazon - This edition of Henry David Thoreau's classic account of his time spent in solitude in the woods by Walden Pond features an ecological appendix, maps, and comprehensive annotation. |
  ">The Name of the Rose
Book Description (from Amazon) - Set in Italy in the Middle Ages, this is not only a narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327, but also a chronicle of the 14th century religious wars, a history of monastic orders, and a compendium of her |
  ">Dangerous Liaisons
Synopsis (from Amazon) - Published in 1782, just years before the French Revolution, "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. At its centre are two aristocrats, former lovers, who embark on a sophi |
  ">Bridge of Birds
This is a fairy tale built for the Orient - or more precisely, a fairy tale with an Oriental flavor written for the enjoyment of poor, deprived Occidentals who have never had the benefit of hearing some of these Chinese legends. Starting with Number Ten O |
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