Latest Screencasts
Episode 077: Building Your Own Hosting Environment
Sdruby - 2010-02-01 - free
Nic Benders will show you what's needed for building a hosting environment for production applications. The focus will be on selecting server hardware, picking a Linux Distro, and getting your Rails app running. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk. Watch this screencast
Episode 076: OpenCyc
Sdruby - 2010-01-25 - free
Guyren Howe gives a way-too-brief demonstration of OpenCyc, an AI technology based on the world's most comprehensive general-purpose ontology. Along the way, he reveals how to talk to OpenCyc using JRuby. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk. Watch this screencast
Episode 075: Heroku
Sdruby - 2010-01-18 - free
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
Episode 074: Moonshine: 190 Proof Deployment
Sdruby - 2010-01-11 - free
Jarin Udom shows how to set up a full Rails stack and deploy your app on a bare Ubuntu server in 10 minutes. Is he drunk? Find out! Bonus content: download the slides from this talk. Watch this screencast
Episode 073: Cappuccino
Sdruby - 2010-01-05 - free
Cappuccino is a framework for building desktop-caliber applications that run in a web browser. Brian Chapados reviews the design concepts of Cappuccino and the underlying Objective-J language, shows how to get started, and builds a simple app for searching scientific literature databases. This talk was part of the DjangoSD/SD Ruby mashup meeting. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk. Watch this screencast
Episode 072: MongoDB
Sdruby - 2009-12-28 - free
Scott Motte introduces us to the document-oriented database MongoDB and shows how to use MongoDB as an alternative to MySQL and ActiveRecord using the MongoMapper gem. This talk was part of the DjangoSD/SD Ruby mashup meeting. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk. Watch this screencast
Episode 071: Mess of Protocols
Sdruby - 2009-12-18 - free
Guyren Howe discusses how we use different applications and protocols to govern how we communicate: with whom, how privately, how immediately, whether through text/video/whatever, and so on. He proposes we decouple these ideas, which would simplify and enrich the ways we communicate. This talk was part of the DjangoSD/SD Ruby mashup meeting. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk. Watch this screencast
Episode 070: Processing Real-world HTML
Sdruby - 2009-12-14 - free
Edward O'Connor from djangosd gives an overview of html5lib, a major-desktop-browser-compatible HTML parser and tokenizer for both Ruby and Python. This talk was part of the DjangoSD/SD Ruby mashup meeting. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk. Watch this screencast
Episode 069: Rails 3: From Vaporware to Awesomeness in 12 Months
Sdruby - 2009-12-04 - free
Yehuda Katz returns to San Diego with a report on the latest developments with the Ruby on Rails web application framework. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk. Watch this screencast
Episode 068: Hybrid iPhone Apps with Titanium Mobile
Sdruby - 2009-11-30 - free
Scott Motte talks about iPhone development using the Titanium Mobile framework, including how to build a basic app. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk. Watch this screencast


