MongoDB and MongoMapper
MongoDB is a document based database engine. Learn how to access it through MongoMapper in this episode. http://railscasts.com/episodes/194-mongodb-and-mongomapper
How Rails 3 Makes Your Life Better
Rails 3 introduces a series of brand new features that will make your Rails applications better and your experience more pleasant. Yehuda Katz covers some of the most important improvements in Rails 3 and shows how you can take advantage of those improvements today. This post is a bit technically …
Non-relational Data Persistence in Java using MongoDB
Kristina Chodorow, a software engineer at MongoDB, talks about non-relational data persistence in Java using MongoDB, a high-performance, open source, schema-free document-oriented database. In the last couple years, dozens of non-relational databases have appeared to solve problems that relational databases aren’t good at. Kristina will go over many of the …
Agile, Testing and Quality: Looking Back, Moving Forward
Once considered radical, Agile approaches have become mainstream, with Scrum as the most well-known and most adopted of the Agile methods. For the last several years, Elisabeth Hendrickson has worked with a variety of Agile teams, some for whom agility came naturally and others who struggled with the transition. In …
Polishing Rubygems
Ask any new Ruby developer what their favorite thing about Ruby is, and they’ll inevitably mention the smooth experience of Rubygems. Initially created as a quick weekend hack, it quickly took the Ruby community by storm, and there are now more than 10,000 Ruby libraries packaged up as Rubygems. In …