This video explains key concepts to design and implement UI for your apps. It covers screen-level details like language and visual techniques as well as deeper topics like modeling and best practices for coding templates and helpers. Video producer: Chicago Ruby
This part of the tutorial presents with regular expressions in Python. Supporting material: http://code.google.com/edu/languages/google-python-class/index.html
This video covers the basics of the CouchDB HTTP API and how to use it from PHP. Some architecture approaches are discussed and it briefly looks at things to avoid when moving from an RDBMS to a Document Database such as CouchDB.
The difficulty of partitioning social graphs has introduced new system design challenges for scaling of Online Social Networks (OSNs). Vertical scaling by resorting to full replication can be a costly proposition. Scaling horizontally by partitioning and distributing data among multiple servers using, for e.g., key-value stores using DHTs, can suffer …
The iPhone App Store is a “hit-driven” market; apps that manage to rise to the top of the sales charts get extra exposure for free and end up with the lion’s share of sales, while any app outside of the top 50 in its category will be practically invisible to …
In this video Chris Heilmann will show just how cool it is to be who we are and how to get joy out of our day to day jobs even when we think that everything is against us. We have the tools, we have the knowledge, we have the time. …
