Latest Screencasts (page 7)

Blake Mizerany from Heroku shows off the company's cloud platform for Ruby applications. The talk covers Heroku basics, Sinatra, Ruby development, and scaling. Watch this screencast

Add and remove nested model fields dynamically through JavaScript using either Prototype or jQuery. Watch this screencast

In this episode I discuss how to add an abstraction onto existing types to improve code reuse. Watch this screencast

Create a Ruby on Rails Jukebox Application and implement the "permalink" feature instead of the usage of "ID". Taking advantage of the "Counter Cache" you will be able to automatically keep track of the number of Albums asociated with each Artist. The last part spicy up the application with the usage of the Themes plugin for Rails. Watch this screencast

In Part 2 of our tutorial, we’ll create some enemies for our player to fight. We’ll set up collision detection, use timers to make a pretty fading effect, and set up a custom manager to coordinate enemy movements and shooting. Be sure to visit jemini.org for help on starting your own game! Jemini Tutorial (Part 2 of 2) Watch this screencast

Jemini is a Ruby-based framework for game development. In this screencast, we’ll create a shooter game from scratch. Part 1 shows creating a project, setting up a game state, loading animations, music and sound effects, and setting up keyboard input and event handlers. (Not bad for 22 minutes, right?) Jemini Tutorial (Part 1 of 2) Watch this screencast

If you need to copy data, byte for byte, you use dd. dd can do many great things like copying a hard disk to another disk, making .iso's of CDs or DVDs, and making backup images of data. Further, dd can zero out a drive, create files with random data,... Watch this screencast

We add the capability to filter search results based on the brand they belong to and the source they came from. Watch this screencast

When Google Chrome was originally announced, it sounded awesome and one of the first things I was interested in was how they planned on doing browser extensions. When Chrome was finally released as a Beta, I thought about trying it out but the extension framework still didn’t exist so I... Watch this screencast

In this episode I review how to use comp & partial, and write point free code in Clojure. Watch this screencast