Latest Screencasts
Episode 081: Rolling with Riak
Sdruby - 2010-06-04 - free
John Lynch from Rigel Group gives an overview of Riak, the newest kid on the NoSQL block, and explains why it should power your next web-scale app. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk. Watch this screencast
Episode 080: EventMachine, AMQP, and WebSockets: The Musical
Sdruby - 2010-05-26 - free
Dan Simpson and Nick Zadrozny give an overview of cutting-edge, real-time programming for the web; and demonstrate an interactive, web-based sequencer. Watch this screencast
Episode 079: Artificial Stupidity: Adding Smarts to Yer Kode
Sdruby - 2010-04-24 - free
Machine learning and data mining have long been "black arts" because they require access to expensive computing clusters. Randall Thomas discusses machine learning and the problem spaces it can help solve. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk. Watch this screencast
Episode 078: Scripting Android With Ruby
Sdruby - 2010-03-19 - free
Mark Ranallo will give an introduction to using JRuby in conjunction with the Android Scripting Environment. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk. Watch this screencast
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

