Videos tagged with Scripting


Lean & Mean Tokyo Cabinet Recipes

Lean & Mean Tokyo Cabinet Recipes

Posted in Conferences, Development, Ruby

Summary In this FutureRuby talk, Ilya Grigorik explores Tokyo Cabinet's features such as the key-value store, ordered traversal, attribute search, schemaless data structures,indexing, and scripting with Lua. Bio Ilya Grigorik is the founder of AideRSS – a real-time social media engagement monitoring and analytics platform. He has been wrangling with Ruby and cloud computing for over four years,...

Tags: Conferences, Ruby, InfoQ, Data Access, Database Design, Architecture, Dynamic Languages, Scripting, database, Development, FutureRuby, ...



JRuby: You've Got Java in my Ruby

JRuby: You've Got Java in my Ruby

Posted in Conferences, Development, Java, Ruby

Summary Tom Enebo explains reasons for choosing JRuby: Hotspot optimizations, JVM Garbage Collectors, tools like profilers. Also: how JRuby helps to write cleaner, more expressive code with Java libraries. Bio Thomas Enebo has been a practitioner of Java for over a decade and he is the co-lead of the JRuby project. Thomas has also been happily using Ruby since 2001. In addition to working on JR...

Tags: Conferences, Ruby, Java, JRuby, InfoQ, QCon, Runtimes, Virtual Machines, JVM, Scripting, GarbageCollection, ...


Avi Bryant on Trendly, Ruby, Smalltalk and Javascript

Avi Bryant on Trendly, Ruby, Smalltalk and Javascript

Posted in Development, Broadcasting, Science, Java, Javascript, Ruby, Smalltalk, Interview, Statistics

Summary Avi Bryant talks about the iterative process that led to Trendly (http://trendly.com/ ), using Javascript, Ruby and Java in the process. He goes on to give his view on the state of Smalltalk and Squeak and talks about his experiments with writing a Smalltalk that compiles to idiomatic Javascript to make use of all the modern Javascript VMs. Bio Avi Bryant is the co-CEO of Dabble DB, a V...

Tags: Ruby, Java, Javascript, Smalltalk, Interview, Science, OpenID, Statistics, InfoQ, Architecture, Dynamic Languages, ...


Testing Your Presentation Layer

Testing Your Presentation Layer

Posted in Conferences, Development, Javascript, Ruby

Summary In the Ruby world, no serious programmer would write an application without a comprehensive test suite. Unfortunately, the realities of integration testing the presentation layer of an Ajax-heavy web application has forced today's programmers to rely on kludges like HTML parsing in Ruby (which can't be used to test JavaScript comprehensively) or Selenium (which requires real-life browse...

Tags: Conferences, Ruby, Testing, Javascript, BDD, InfoQ, Dynamic Languages, Software Testing, QCon, Scripting, QCon San Francisco 2008, ...


JQuery – a Javascript DOM Library

JQuery – a Javascript DOM Library

Posted in Conferences, Technologies, Development, Frameworks, AJAX, Java, Javascript, Ruby

Summary jQuery is a JavaScript library which allows you to develop solutions with less code, in less time. You can build interactive prototypes for your prospective clients, or take an existing solution and add new dynamic behaviour with very little effort. This presentation will introduce, and demonstrate, how jQuery can be used to quickly and concisely apply JavaScript behaviour to your web a...

Tags: Conferences, Ruby, Frameworks, Technologies, AJAX, Java, Javascript, InfoQ, QCon, QCon London 2008, Scripting, ...




Tom Preston-Werner on Powerset, GitHub, Ruby and Erlang

Tom Preston-Werner on Powerset, GitHub, Ruby and Erlang

Posted in Companies, Development, Broadcasting, Frameworks, Microsoft, Ruby, Erlang, Interview, Ruby On Rails

Summary In this interview filmed at RubyFringe 2008, Tom Preston-Werner talks about how both Powerset and GitHub use Ruby and Erlang, as well as tools like Fuzed, god, and more. Bio Tom Preston-Werner works for Powerset Inc., and is one of the founders of GitHub. He's created various Ruby tools such as the monitoring tool god, and many more.

Tags: Ruby, Ruby On Rails, Frameworks, Microsoft, Interview, High Performance, Scalability, Erlang, Git, GitHub, InfoQ, ...


Archaeopteryx: A Ruby MIDI Generator

Archaeopteryx: A Ruby MIDI Generator

Posted in Conferences, Development, Ruby

Summary Giles Bowkett captures the heart and soul of the RubyFringe conference as he demonstrates his revolutionary Archaeopteryx MIDI generator. He delivers an eloquent, highly politicized call to action in a career-defining presentation that is raucously hilarious yet unnerving in its practicality. Bio Giles Bowkett is an artist, musician, Ruby developer, acid freak, activist, Burner, entrepr...

Tags: Conferences, Ruby, InfoQ, Metaprogramming, Language Features, Scripting, MIDI, Archaeopteryx, RubyFringe


Websphere CTO Jerry Cuomo on REST & Project Zero

Websphere CTO Jerry Cuomo on REST & Project Zero

Posted in Web 2.0, Technologies, Companies, Development, Broadcasting, Frameworks, IBM, PHP, Java, Interview

Summary IBM Fellow and WebSphere CTO Jerry Cuomo talks about REST and Project Zero, IBM's new Groovy & PHP based RESTful app mashup / scripting / dev tool. Bio Jerry Cuomo is an IBM Fellow and CTO for the WebSphere brand. He has spent 20 years at IBM and his work includes breakthrough innovations in the areas of TCP/IP, real-time collaboration software, and high-performance transactional sy...

Tags: Web 2.0, Frameworks, PHP, Technologies, Java, Interview, IBM, Groovy, REST, Mashups, InfoQ, ...