Videos tagged with 37signals

David Heinemeier Hansson is a partner in 37signals. The company behind Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack, Writeboard, and Ta-da List. They also run a popular weblog at Signal vs Noise. David is also the creator of the web-application framework Ruby on Rails. The infrastructure software that is used to build all their applications at 37signals.  

This is probably the first full featured Rails 2.0 screencast since the official Rails 2.0 release last friday (12/08). The original "Blog in 15 minutes" by David Hansson was made from the keynote he presented at FISL (Forum Internacional de Software Livre) in Brazil, back in 2005, when nobody knew what Rails was. So, I go full cycle revisiting the same blog application with the newes...

With the release of Rails 1.2 we take a look back at David Heinemeier Hansson’s RailsConf keynote from Chicago. In it, he outlines a number of issues that the Rails team was looking at as they moved towards the current release, the importance of opinionated software and of course, how he “learned to stop worry and love the CRUD.” Here, briefly, is an outline of the talk: Disco...

The following video is taken from the closing session of RailsConf 2006 in Chicago. Learn about standards and whether they’ll be included, who’s in charge of saying no to feature requests, debugging support, what’s planned for upcoming releases and whether these are are boxers, briefs or cowboy kind of guys.

Paul Graham is an essayist, programmer, and programming language designer. In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. In 2002 he described a simple Bayesian spam filter that inspired most current filters. He’s currently working on a new programming language called Arc, a new book on startups, and is one of the partners i...

Martin Fowler is Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks, and, in his own words: I’m an author, speaker, consultant and general loud-mouth on software development. I concentrate on designing enterprise software – looking at what makes a good design and what practices are needed to come up with good design. I’ve pioneered object-oriented technology, refactoring, patterns, agile methodologies, domain mod...

From No Fluff Just Stuff: Dave Thomas is recognized internationally as an expert who develops high-quality software—accurate and highly flexible systems. He helped write the now-famous Agile Manifesto, and regularly speak on new ways of producing software. He is the author of six books, including the best selling The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Addison-Wesley) and Programmi...

A bit about David, in his own words from his LoudThinking.com: A product of Danish Design from the Winter of ‘79. Grew up, lived, and graduated in the city of Copenhagen, then moved to Chicago in November of 2005.As a partner in 37signals, I helped transform the venerable design shop into a product company. Basecamp, Backpack, and Ta-da List are all applications launched since the shift came in...

This small screencast by elifoner.com gives us a small review of amazing Open-Source software for project management which name is activeCollab. A few months ago Paul Scrivens (of 9rules fame) asked what it would take to copy Basecamp (and 37 Signals’ other offerings). Enter activeCollab - let’s check it out.

Really great presentation of Rails on Roskilde '04 conference. Information about Ruby on Rails about Basecamp and its major idea of simplicity of Project Management and lots of other interesting things.