Videos tagged with SD Ruby Podcast
Patrick Crowley shows how to turbo-charge your layouts with Compass, a lightweight stylesheet framework built on top of Haml and Sass.
SD Ruby Episode 98: Give Yourself Some Backbone
Ryan Weald gives a brief overview of Backbone.js and the advantages it has for your project.
SD Ruby Episode 99: Omniauth: Future Proof Your Authentication
Kevin Ball shows how the traditional model of username/password authentication is dying, and how Omniauth makes it all rainbows and sunshine going forward.
SD Ruby Episode 97: Basic Reporting with Ruby and CouchDB
Christopher Petersen shows how to create both basic reports on individual user behavior and aggregate reports across all user activity.
SD Ruby Episode 95: The State of MacRuby
Matt Aimonetti discusses the latest developments with the MacRuby project, which aims to implement Ruby 1.9 directly on top of Mac OS X core technologies.
SD Ruby Episode 96: Rounded Corners Everywhere
Scott Olmsted explores Javascript libraries to simulate CSS3 decorations on browsers that don't support them. (Yeah, we're talking about you Internet Explorer.)
SD Ruby Episode 94: Refactoring ActiveRecord Models
It's always important to keep your ActiveRecord models in tip-top shape. Ben Hughes explores several techniques for refactoring models and preventing them from getting out of hand.
SD Ruby Episode 92: File Uploads With S3SwfUpload
Nathan Colgate Clark gives a general overview of his Amazon S3 upload plugin (past, present, and future) and shares his thoughts on how it managed to stand out on GitHub.
SD Ruby Episode 93: Are You Redis?
Emanuele Tozzato gives a brief introduction to Redis, then demonstrates real-life database performance optimization with redis-object and how to manage background jobs using Resque.
SD Ruby Episode 90: CoffeeScript
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.