Open Source Tools for Software Development Videos and Tutorials
Considered by many developers to be one of the fastest frameworks for building applications, Rails has come a long way since 2005. Slated for release later this year, Rails 3 will feature some innovative new features that will make the developer experience even better. Rails 3 will also be the …
Demonstration of JsTestDrive technology and how you can use it to TDD your JavaScript code. Good blog posting evaluating JsTestDrive
Have a great idea for an iPhone app, but don’t have the time or inclination to learn Objective-C? Created at iPhoneDevCamp 2008 and winner of the Launch Pad competition at Web 2.0 Expo 2009, PhoneGap is an open source initiative for building mobile applications with JavaScript. Using the PhoneGap framework, …
Guyren Howe has considerable experience with both MySQL and PostgreSQL. He discusses the myriad technical and other advantages to using PostgreSQL instead of MySQL for, well, pretty much anything. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk. http://sdruby.com/podcast/55
Jeliot 3 is a Program Visualization application. It visualizes how a Java program is interpreted. Method calls, variables, operation are displayed on a screen as the animation goes on, allowing the student to follow step by step the execution of a program. Programs can be created from scratch or they …
Making the move from sprinkling simple interactive Ajax controls into basic web applications to building feature rich clients with large JavaScript libraries brings with it some unique challenges. Among them is the need for better testing tools. The presenter will discuss some pros and cons of a few of the …