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In our previous video in the bookmarklet series we showed you how to create a simple bookmarklet where all the code was contained wholly within the bookmarklet itself. In this follow-up screencast we’re going to show you how to include source code from a JavaScript file stored on a remote...

In this quick video tutorial we'll show you what a bookmarklet is, and how you'd go about to create one. What you'll Learn What a Bookmarklet is How to create a simple Bookmarklet

With the adoption of CoffeeScript by the Node.js community, the JavaScript community in general, and with CoffeeScript's inclusion in the upcoming Rails 3.1 release, it's probably a good idea to see what all the fuss is about. In this free CoffeeScript screencast we'll cover all the basics and some neat...

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...

In a previous episode, Using ActiveRecord with Sinatra, we showed you how to use ActiveRecord and Sinatra to build a URL shortener. We showed how to get ActiveRecord up and running in your Sinatra application, and now in this screencast, we'll show you the various ways on how to configure...

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...

Sometimes it's nice to show how many times a page has been bookmarked on Delicious. In this screencast we'll show you how. We'll use HTML5 to help compliment the client side scripting to find out how many times each page has been bookmarked. We'll be building on top of what...