Videos in category Development

A few months ago I really hated the idea of testing my code, I just didn't do it. Now I couldn't think of writing a line of code without the proper tests in place. If you fall into either of these boats you may want to watch this presentation I put together for the Orlando Ruby Users Group. Feedback and comments are always welcome. Topic's Covered Why would you test your code? When do you test ...

Google Gadgets Presented by Zhen Wang Got content but want attention? Learn how to take your web application and make it distribute to millions of users and tens of thousands of sites across the internet by making a Google universal Gadget. In this session, we'll introduce Gadgets and their ecosystem, show you just how easy it is to make your first gadget, and go over some interesting advanced ...

Mapplets: Making Maps Mashups Discoverable Presented by James Macgill Thousands of Google Maps mashups have been created in the two years since we released the Google Maps API, but most of these sites are islands of information and few users know that they exist. We will discuss an approach to make these sites more discoverable by users around the world. More details will be provided at Develop...

Maps API Presented by Bo Majewski The Google Maps API lets you create compelling maps mashups on your websites. In this session, we'll go over all of the latest features in the API. You'll learn how to take your maps mashups to the next level and discover how to build highly interactive maps with the Google Maps API, learn about controls, overlays, and map events using the API, how to create cu...

This year, DHH noted that he up until now had started all his previous keynotes about Rails celebrating how “freakin’ fantastic we are”. For this keynote, he thought - with Rails being well within in its third year in existence - that it was time to perhaps be happy with what we have. He explained that new things tend to go through certain phases: First they ignore you, then t...

In this screencast tutorial you are going to see how to setup and use the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). This tutorial covers installation, basic concepts, usage of command-line tools, and Eclipse IDE integration. Total running time 08:10 minutes.

Bayesian networks are excellent tools for modeling knowledge, especially in realistic situations where there is incomplete domain awareness. Given reasonably accurate causal relationships between variables, a Bayesian network can determine the most likely state of unobserved variables in a system. Bayesian networks are used in a wide variety of applications, including textual analysis, image pr...

Tired of spending precious development time hand coding Ruby/Rails views? The MasterView template engine is a ruby gem (or rails plugin) that enables the creation of Ruby/Rails views in standards-compliant XHTML. MasterView makes the power and productivity of Ruby/Rails accessible to a wider range of development teams allowing designers to use traditional HTML and CSS editing tools, including W...

JRuby has made great progress over the past year, now supporting most of Ruby's libraries and capabilities as well as running mainstream apps like Rails and RSpec. The development team has grown to four core members and the JRuby community has 15 or more regular contributors and dozens of users. The potential of a JVM-backed Ruby implementation has started to attract the attention of even hardc...

One of the really neat things about USB devices is that they are almost entirely self-describing, which makes it easy to let Ruby just "do the right thing" when communicating with them. This presentation will give a brief introduction to the USB spec and then a discussion of the difficulties of integrating Ruby with this spec (and the libUsb library that wrapped it). Then there will b...