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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

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

The Apache HTTP web server is the most popular web server on the planet. It servers millions of webpages all over the globe. After watching this episode, you'll have the know how to install and configure a basic Apache2 web server, create and edit virtual hosts, enable and configure popular... Watch this screencast

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

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

Over time a CSS file can become large and filled with unused selectors. In this episode I show how to use the Deadweight gem to determine which CSS selects you can remove. Watch this screencast

Security is important! Here I show seven different security flaws which are common to Rails applications ranging from mass assignment to CSRF protection. Watch this screencast

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... Watch this screencast

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... Watch this screencast

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,... Watch this screencast