Open Source Tools for Software Development Videos and Tutorials
Testing Ruby web applications has always been the subject of mystery and debate. Yehuda Katz will walk you through the recommended way to test requests and responses using Merb’s built-in testing support. http://video.merbcamp.com/public/katz1.mp4 Merb community
Benefits of Groovy and Grails. How the dynamic languages and a new approach to web development can improve productivity in the JEE landscape. Have a peek at the power and easy learning curve of rails-like frameworks ported to the Java world. Conference by Davide Panelli at OpenExpo, the Swiss Open Source …
Sammy is an easy to use JavaScript framework that allows you to build simple front end applications using ‘routes’ and ‘events’. It’s also very tiny. Sammy Home Page http://s3.amazonaws.com/sammy-js/screencasts/sammy-screencasts-01/sammy-screencasts-01.mov
Billy McCafferty demonstrates the latest cut of S#arp Architecture 1.0. Sharp Architecture Home Page
With Rack emerging as the standard for composing web applications and services, most recently with Rails adoption, an architectural shift is taking place. Learn how to create next generation web services by reusing existing Rack middleware and supplementing with your own components and micro-frameworks like Sinatra. Rack Home Page
Learn about aspect-oriented design patterns and how they can be used to quickly add common functionality to your business objects. Josh Heyse explains how Aspect-Oriented Programming allows for the separation of true business logic and the code written allowing interaction with user interfaces. The Core framework is a generation model …