Rolling with Riak
This presentation gives an overview of Riak, the newest kid on the NoSQL block and explains why it should power your next web-scale app. http://sdruby.org/podcast/81
Ruby 2.0: What We Want to Accomplish in the Near Future
Matz, the founder of Ruby discusses about Ruby 2.0 and the future of Ruby. He begins with a brief history of Ruby and then covers topics like what Ruby 2.0 means for enterprise customers, Ruby for digital appliances, and Ruby in distributed systems.
The Problem with PHP’s Prepared Statements
PHP’s prepared statements (for database access) are fantastic. Not only do they help secure your database queries, but they’re also particularly more efficient for larger products. However, there are a couple issues that appear to make these methods less flexible than we’d hope. This video shows solutions to these issues. …
Google Python Class Day 1 Part 2
This second part of the Google Python Class Day 1 deals with lists, sorting and tuples. Course reference: http://code.google.com/edu/languages/google-python-class/index.html
Android Application Development – A 9,000 Foot Overview
This video takes you through the Android software stack, the Dalvik VM, and setting up the Android SDK with the Eclipse environment. Video Producer: Marakana
Demonstration of PlantUML in Eclipse
PlantUML is a open source component that allows to quickly write Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams defined using a simple and intuitive language.