Active Record Queries in Rails 3
Rails 3 introduces a new query interface for performing finds in Active Record. See how it works along with the changes in named scopes. http://railscasts.com/episodes/202-active-record-queries-in-rails-3
Building Push Applications for Android
Are you building cloud based apps for Android but are wondering how you can avoid polling and enable push functionality? This session will introduce the new Android Cloud to Device Messaging framework, showing you how you can integrate compelling mobile alert, send-to-phone, and two-way push sync functionality into your Android …
Rack Basics
Rack is the basis for most major web frameworks in Ruby (like Ruby on Rails.) This video gives a basic overview on how it is used and what features make it a powerful component for Ruby Web Frameworks Video Producer: Teach Me Code
HTML5 Status Update
Where is HTML5 today? What new features are now broadly supported, what features are on the horizon, and what features are on the chopping block? How do we decide what to implement, what to propose, and what to drop? Find out. Presentation slides (PDF)
Connecting MySQL and Python
This talk gives an overview of how to connect to MySQL and which drivers are available today under Python v2.x, and tomorrow’s Python v3.x. We’ll dive into MySQLdb, its strong history, its present. We’ll go over OurSQL and various other community projects, as well as Sun Microsystems’ MySQL Connector/Python.
Contributing with Git
Source code versioning is an invaluable tool for software development. This talk stress the importance of source code versioning in a related context: when contributing changes to an Open Source project, which is typically a moving target, it can take a few revisions of the patches until they are accepted. …