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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...

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...

Haml is the brain child of Hampton Catlin. In this screencast we’re going to show how Haml can simplify your markup and speed up front-end development. As developers we naturally gravitate towards products or languages that help keep our work clean and organized. Haml is just one of those things....