Bringing C and C++ Games to Android
Want to make great Android games, but you’re not a Java programmer? This video is for you. Android supports a toolchain for building applications in C/C++.
Serious Enterprise Integration
Regardless of what you program in and at what scale you are going to come across some form of integration, at the simpler levels the frameworks take care of almost everything but as things get more complex old solutions can get cumbersome and new ones are needed, not restricted to …
Testing JavaScript in Rails with Jasmine
This video shows how to use Jasmine to test JavaScript in your Rails applications. Jasmine is a Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) framework for testing your JavaScript code. It does not depend on any other JavaScript frameworks. It does not require a DOM. And it has a clean, obvious syntax so that …
Building One File Web Apps with Sinatra
This is the video of the July 2011 meeting of the DC Ruby User Club. It contains two talks: * “Be a Good Ruby Citizen: Use and contribute code like you give a damn” by Jim Gay – Jim is a contributor to dozens of ruby projects on GitHub. He …
Interview of Martin Odersky on Scala
This video is a short interview with Martin Odersky, the father of Scala. Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages, enabling Java and other programmers to be more …
Getting Started with Gradle
This video introduces the Gradle build tool. Gradle is a new and revolutionary build tool, based on the Groovy programming language. It is very different from existing tools like Ant and Maven in that it provides an extremely powerful capability to develop build applications using Groovy code and a compelling …