Latest Screencasts

Get up and running in no time with enterprise-grade search powered by Solr. Nick Zadrozny shows you what Solr can do, how it works, and how you can make the most of it in production. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Dan Simpson and Nick Zadrozny give an overview of cutting-edge, real-time programming for the web; and demonstrate an interactive, web-based sequencer.

If dates play an important role in your application, consider adding a date picker or calendar view as shown in this episode.

In this episode I discuss how to add an abstraction onto existing types to improve code reuse. You can find the show notes & code here:

Rob Kaufman talks about his new Ruby 1.9 or Bust project. The project is dedicated to updating popular Ruby gems to be Ruby 1.9 compatible, and is seeking donations to hire a full-time developer to work on porting gems. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Matt Aimonetti shows how to quickly get your database queries to run faster when you are not a DBA and are running out of time. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

In the past, time zones have been very difficult to work with, but no longer! Rails 2.1 brings with it great time zone support as you can see in this episode.

Learn how to use the trusty strftime method to format a time, and see how Rails allows you to save this format for later use.

Tom Werner has released the ruby gem Chronic, a natural language date and time parser. In this episode he gives us a quick run through of some of the cool points.