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Text editor development has been stagnant for several years. It’s time for developers to take the text editing experience forward into the future! NOTE: This is beta software and doesn’t support some features like TextMate project files. It works only with self-contained directories on disk. NOTE: Use MacVim snapshot 55...

jQTouch makes programming for mobile browsers fun! Simple HTML, CSS, and jQuery Javascript combine to make it easy to build applications for WebKit-based mobile browsers like the iPhone/iPod Touch, Android, and Palm webOS. The framework is sparsely documented, but after watching this 70 minute screencast you’ll have a firm understanding...

by Geoffrey Grosenbach Two years in the making, it’s the PeepCode screencast on jQuery, the popular Javascript framework for developing web applications. jQuery stormed out of the gate and quickly won the hearts of developers. Its design and implementation make it easy for you to accomplish basic tasks. Extendability is...

by Alex Vollmer and Geoffrey Grosenbach MacRuby takes the “almost” out of “almost a desktop experience.” With MacRuby, you can write real Mac OS X desktop applications with Ruby. MacRuby is a Ruby interpreter built by Apple on top of Objective-C. Unlike other scripting interfaces to the Cocoa frameworks, MacRuby...

By Phil Hagelberg. Technical editing by Clojure creator Rich Hickey Clojure is a dynamic functional programming language designed to be as approachable as scripting languages, yet harness the power of multi-core machines in the manner of more cryptic languages such as Erlang. In this 65 minute screencast, Clojure expert Phil...

Technical editing by Scott Stevenson of CocoaDevCentral and Theocacao. If you know Ruby and you want to write applications for Mac OS X or the iPhone, you’re in a great place to start! This concise and content-packed 80-minute screencast will teach you what you need to know to start programming...

The classic Gnu Emacs text editor is an incredibly powerful piece of software that has been used by thousands of programmers over the last few decades. Many alpha geeks have recently been giving Emacs a second look as well. Emacs Lisp expert Phil Hagelberg prepared the script and accompanying code...

Productivity. You know you want it, but how do you get there? We’ve collaborated with accomplished entrepreneur, developer, and life coach Lars Pind to bring you a practical plan customized for programmers. Programming is hard work that requires creativity, problem solving, and even physical stamina. Over the course of 40...

Test-first development can improve your workflow, improve the quality of your software, and give you confidence. If you have looked at the “test” directory sitting at the bottom of your Rails applications and have wondered what it’s there for, this is the screencast for you! This screencast walks through the...

Many have learned the basics of using Git from the PeepCode Git screencast. In this PDF, Scott Chacon goes even further to explain the distributed filesystem behind the popular source code management system. If you’re tired of terse man pages or academic white papers, you’ll enjoy more than four dozen...