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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...

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 this screencast Renzo Borgatti introduces MacRuby, a Mac OS X implementation of the Ruby language. After a brief introduction and some examples from the command line, Renzo guides us in building an application with Xcode and, finally, with HotCocoa, an idiomatic library that allows us to program graphical interfaces...

iPhone SDK Essential Training presents the tools and skills needed to create applications for this mobile platform. Developer Simon Allardice breaks down the process of becoming an iPhone developer, from getting started with the tools and the language to building user interfaces and working with the unique features of the...

In Ruby Essential Training, expert instructor Kevin Skoglund teaches the fundamentals of Ruby, the popular object-oriented open-source programming language. Kevin begins by walking through the basic data types, demonstrating Ruby's control structures (loops, iterators, conditionals, and code blocks) and showcasing the elegant syntax structure of the language. Kevin explains variable...

In jQuery Essential Training, Microsoft professional Joe Marini presents the power of the jQuery library, an open-source JavaScript project that greatly simplifies the process of adding advanced functionality to web sites. Joe teaches how to use these new features to build pages that work across browsers with the functionality that...

Web designers and coders will be introduced to techniques to improve their results in CSS Positioning Best Practices. Beginning with a brief review of CSS, instructor Bill Weinman demonstrates how to position elements on a page using CSS instead of tables. He then goes step by step through the process...

MySQL is by far the most popular database management system for small- to medium-sized web projects. In MySQL Essential Training, instructor Bill Weinman provides clear, concise instruction in the tools needed to create and maintain a database. Bill explores the different data types MySQL supports, and the functions it provides,...

In XHTML and HTML Essential Training, Bill Weinman helps designers and coders understand XHTML and HTML. In the process, Bill covers document structure, block and inline-level tags, floating images, controlling white space, phrase and font markup, and tables and frames. He even provides a good introduction to CSS. Bill offers...

Objective-C is the programming language for writing native iPhone and Mac applications. It's also the language that Apple uses to build their own applications and frameworks. So, if you know Objective-C, you have a lot of power at your fingertips. But if you're new to C or object-oriented programming, then Objective-C can seem a little awkward at first. These screencasts by Bill Dudney, an experienced Objective-C programmer, will help you quickly get up to speed on Objective-C 2.0 basics.