Programming Videos and Tutorials
Many people use Open Source but are intimidated by the idea of contributing to a project. “I’m not smart enough!” “I don’t know enough!” “What if people laugh at me?” In this talk I’ll teach you why and how to contribute to Open Source.
Most of the code you write is not for yourself or for the computer, but for a other software developers. If you want that your colleagues understand your code, you have to consider certain aspects. Dino Esposito discusses these topics in this presentation.
This talk covers his top ten tips and tricks for squeezing maximum performance out of web applications (PHP or otherwise). Memcached, APC, database query performance, PHP settings you’ve never heard of… nothing will be off limits.
Learn how to keep your system clean and what are you challenges when you need to keep a large system clean. Rebecca Wirfs-Brock explain this, making parallels with quotes from Clint Eastwood and from other renowned people from this field like Ward Cunningham or Alan Wirfs-Brock.
It’s said that without evil there can be no good and that without darkness, there can be no light. Is the same true of ugly and beautiful code? Maybe… but that’s certainly not a question I’ll be answering in this talk. Instead, we’ll talk about ugly code, where it comes …
Most Ruby code makes heavy use of mutable state, which often contributes to long term maintenance problems. Mutability can lead to code that’s difficult to understand, libraries and applications that aren’t thread-safe, and tests that are slow and brittle.
