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Rob Kaufman explores tools and options for improving your development process: common issues with managing tasks, starting work, committing branches, and getting completed tasks verified and deployed to production. It's all about automating the little steps because details are too easy to forget. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

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...

With Rspec and Cucumber, Ruby has brought testing to a whole new level, but tests still require a lot of work. But things just got better. Llewellyn Falco will show you new patterns and practices to dramatically decrease the amount of effort needed to test. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

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...

Let's face it. Migrating legacy data into a new app is a giant pain in the ass. It's slow, error prone, and a ton of work. What if you could import old data into a new app before it's finished? Normalize fields? Clean up old data? And migrate often? Patrick Crowley shows the way. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

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.

XML technologies offer web developers and designers more flexibility than ever before. In Real-World XML, industry expert Joe Marini covers the best programming practices with XML, including the tools needed to build effective XML structures. He demonstrates the implementation of XML formats, how these formats work in real-world situations, and...

Productivity. You know you want it, but how do you get there? We’ve collaborated with accomplished entrepreneur, developer, and life coach Lars Pind to bring you a practical plan customized for programmers. Programming is hard work that requires creativity, problem solving, and even physical stamina. Over the course of 40...

Windows users who are contemplating a change to the Mac might have a number of questions. What exactly will be gained and lost in the transition? What is involved in the actual transfer of an entire digital life? How can familiar workflows be recreated in the new environment? Instructor David...

Kevin Clark is back again and talking about his latest work: Rubinius, grammar parsing from ruby, kqueue, and massive build systems.