CoffeeScript is a relatively small and simple language. At its core, it’s just JavaScript. Because its types and semantics are the same, you can use CoffeeScript with any JS library. But a little syntactic sugar goes a long way. Find out how this little language could dramatically change the way …
Complexity is often the most neglected non-functional requirements in software development, even if it seems to be the most important from a long term point of view. This video explores some of the forces that drive complexity at the code level and at a system level and their impact. It …
Programming languages must be implemented in Java or C, everybody knows this. Sure, a prototype in Ruby, but that would be unusable. After all, Ruby is made for web development, right? Hard tasks, like implementing a compiler, have to happen in far more manly languages. But wait, the Rubinius compiler …
This video is a 30 minute foray into the world of the system administrator, focusing on situations shared between sysadmins and developers, however differ from perspective, motivations and problems. The primary goal here is to provide some light hearted anecdotes, examples and situations, that developers will relate to from their …
Angular is an open source framework allows you to extend the HTML vocabulary, have proper business-logic / presentation separation through bidirectional data-binding, declarative application assembly through dependency-injection and testability story like no other framework. Angular is a fundamentally different way of building an AJAX app.
In this keynotes talk of the Golden Gate Ruby Conference, Yehuda Katz, a member of the Ruby on Rails and jQuery Core Teams; covers some of his principles for building friendly, usable frameworks. He explains about how you can apply them to your application codebase as it grows in complexity …
