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Rob Kaufman explores tools and options for improving your development process: common issues with managing tasks, starting work, committing branches, and getting completed tasks verified and deployed to production. It's all about automating the little steps because details are too easy to forget. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

CoffeeScript offers more than nice syntax for setting and managing data and functions. It also offers Classes, Inheritance, access to a ‘super’ method, Ruby-style string interpolation, easy variable and function bindings, and chained comparisons. Here’s the code I showed in the video: class Vehicle constructor: (@name) -> move: (miles) -> console.log @name + " drove [...]

In a follow up to our popular Building iPhone Apps with JavaScript using Titanium screencast we show you how to create an iPad app without learning a line of Objective-C! Given the screen real estate of the iPad we just don't want a blown up clone of the iPhone app....

In our Ruby developer career there may come a time when we have to deploy our app with other versions of Ruby. We may also take a fancy to implementations such as MacRuby, and want to try them out. However, installing many different versions of Ruby on the same box...

Sick and tired of MacPorts and Fink taking an age to install UNIX packages on your Mac OS X box? Want to install UNIX packages fast, and securely without using sudo? In this screencast we'll show you how with Homebrew! Links Homebrew Homepage What you'll learn How to install Homebrew...

Wouldn't it be great to build an iPhone application without learning a line of Objective-C? Wouldn't it be great to put to use the skills you've already honed over the years as a web developer? In this screencast we'll show you how to build an iPhone app using JavaScript. We'll...

In this screencast we'll create a URL shortener in Ruby with Sinatra. We're going to show you how to integrate ActiveRecord with a Sinatra application. You'll need this regular expression to follow along: /^\b((?:https?:\/\/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:'".,<>?«»“”‘’]))$/ What you'll learn How to integrate ActiveRecord in to Sinatra with sinatra-activerecord How to build a...

Request specs in RSpec are a great way to ensure the entire application stack is working properly. Here I also show how to use capybara with integrated JavaScript testing using Selenium.

If you need pagination in Rails 3 try out Kaminari. It is a clean, flexible solution which uses scopes to flow nicely with Active Record queries. Did I mention it also works with Mongoid?

With HTML5 and CSS3 on the rise, we’d like to use it more frequently in our projects. Just a few lines of CSS3 can now take the place of background images, sprites, and complex div structures which aren’t semantic. Unfortunately, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 do not have...