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  Ruby on Rails 3.1 is moving to use Sprockets to compile CoffeeScript into JavaScript and include JQuery in it’s JavaScript by default. This is a quick demo of how it all hangs together to manage your JavaScript in Rails 3.1.

Showing validation errors inline as the user is filling out the form can lead to a better use experience. Learn how to do this using the Client Side Validations gem.

  CoffeeScript is now going to be a default installation with Ruby on Rails. So, I installed CoffeeScript and NodeJS and have been playing with it for the last hour or so. Here are the basics you need to know to use CoffeeScript including functions, arrays, hashes (objects), control functions (if, else, unless) and loops. [...]

With HTML5 and CSS3 on the rise, we’d like to use it more frequently in our projects. Just a few lines of CSS3 can now take the place of background images, sprites, and complex div structures which aren’t semantic. Unfortunately, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 do not have...

People are drawn to Ruby by its beautiful syntax, and CoffeeScript brings that same joie de vivre to Javascript. John Lynch shares his experience using CoffeeScript for both web and mobile app development. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Patrick Crowley dives into the world of mobile app development and shows how to use the jQTouch framework to quickly build awesome mobile-optimized web apps. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Rails 3 is possibly the most anticipated release of the popular Ruby web framework. It’s been rewritten from the inside out with speed and stability at the forefront. However, these extensive internal and syntactical improvements require some changes to your code and plugins. Respected Rubyist Jeremy McAnally has researched and...

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.

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

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...