Pivotal Labs Tech Talks
By Pivotal Labs
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Podcast Description
A series of informal technical presentations hosted by Pivotal Labs, focusing on the Agile, Rails, and Ruby communities.
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| 1 | VideoMovember Mohawks | This year Pivotal Labs enlarged the definition of Movember to include mohawks, a mustache for your head. Watch as the SF Pivots get their heads shaved for a good cause! We're so happy to have raised $40K for prostate and testicular cancer research. | 11/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoHadoop for Rubyists | Is your MySQL groaning under too much data? Tired of waiting hours for analytics rake tasks? Loren Siebert discusses leveraging your existing Ruby codebase by building Hadoop Map/Reduce jobs using Hive and plugging in your own Ruby mappers/reducers. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoParse: A Better Way to Develop Mobile Apps | Many mobile developers find themselves rewriting the same server code for every app. Co-founder Kevin Lacker talks about Parse, a service that helps you build mobile applications without writing any backend code. | 10/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoTravis: Distributed CI for OSS | Erik Michaels-Ober, Fellow at Code for America, discusses Travis CI, a modern distributed open-source build system for continuous integration. | 10/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoBusiness Intelligence Tools for Engineers | The analysts and engineers at ModCloth.com spent the past year building business intelligence tools to measure their business. Evan Tahler, Jennifer Suit, and Kate Zimmerman describe their agile approach to BI problems and share their process and tools. | 10/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoFrank: Cucumber Tests for Native iOS Apps | Frank allows you to write automated acceptance tests for native iOS apps using cucumber. You could describe it as Selenium for iOS. Pete Hodgson from ThoughtWorks shows some Frank tests and demonstrates additional tools that Frank provides. | 9/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoIntroduction to Go | Keith Rarick of Heroku introduces the Go programming language, including code examples and discussion of its motivation, design, and philosophy. He covers Go's syntax, type system, concurrency model, and fun features from its tool set and build system. | 8/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoMongoDB Redux | Chris Westin from 10gen discusses more in-depth uses of mongoDB and answers questions from the audience. | 8/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoRemote Pair Programming: People and Technology | Long-time Pivot Joe Moore had to learn how to effectively remote pair with developers across the country. He shares the lessons he's learned about the technologies and personal interactions that allow him to remote pair 8 hours a day without going mad. | 7/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoHow to Build an Online and Mobile Video Platform In House | Video is a business asset, like any other type of content, that can and should be leveraged by development and product teams. In this talk, David Overcash and Christian Sterner of Framesocket (a video platform used to tackle video projects of any size) make the business case for hosting your own video content and then lay out the key elements of a successful video integration via topics such as encoding, content delivery, viewer experience, seo and analytics. | 6/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoSoundSeed.me | Jared Cosulich of Irrational Design recently started a new music site, SoundSeed.Me. He discusses the process as he launches a new product, getting it built, finding the first users, iterating, testing, and trying to get the right market fit. | 6/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoMetrics, Metrics Everywhere | If you don’t measure it, you can’t optimize it. Coda Hale of Yammer talks about service-level performance metrics, how they use them to guide their development strategy, and how you can improve the transparency of your own software. | 6/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoBackbone.js | Backbone.js is a lightweight MVC framework for organizing JS code and simplifying common AJAX and event-driven DOM update use cases. Pivot Jay Phillips shows how to get started with Backbone.js and demonstrates how he uses it on projects. | 6/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoPerformance and Scalability: Make Your App Just Fast Enough in an Agile Way | Veteran Pivot David Stevenson gives his thoughts on the when, why, and how of performance optimization in Rails. He touches on a few of the approaches that make sense and the best tools for each approach. | 5/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoHardware is the New Software | We see the power of cheap cloud hosting, OSS, and incubators to make building a web app cheap, and now the same is happening to hardware. The means of production is becoming democratized and agile hardware startups are popping up to solve problems IRL. | 3/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoDemystifying Autoscale: The Tale of an API Mashup | For most applications autoscale is not fire-and-forget, but it shouldn’t require a fancy PaaS, either. Jesse Proudman of Blue Box shows how to combine the New Relic API with the Fog gem to build your own autoscale system using any cloud infrastructure. | 3/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoLibrato Silverline: Application Monitoring and Workload Management Service | Joe Ruscio, CTO of Librato, demonstrates Silverline, an app-centric monitoring and workload management service. He shows how Silverline improves capacity planning, continuous deployment, RCA, alerting, and provides predictable degradation under load. | 3/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoArtful Personalization | Rapleaf is an aggregation service for personalization data. Manish Shah describes how they help companies gain insight into customers, engage them more meaningfully, and deliver timely messages. They also help consumers understand their online footprint. | 2/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoJRuby on AppEngine | John Woodell, a JRuby developer from Google, describes the 1.4.0 release of Google's AppEngine, which includes JRuby support. John focuses on the how AppEngine differs from other managed cloud hosting environments for Ruby web apps. | 1/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoWhat Technology Wants | Kevin Kelly, Founding Executive Editor of Wired Magazine and noted technologist, presents ideas from latest book, What Technology Wants. "[T]echnology as a whole is...a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies." | 1/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoModel Driven Management with Puppet | Luke Kanies, Puppet's original author, talks about how Puppet relies on modeling and why. Luke also discusses Puppet's DSL, resource types, the acyclic graph at the heart of everything, and the guarantees about simulation mode, auditing, and logging. | 1/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoInternationalization | Shelly Roche of Wordchuck.com discusses the i18n and l10n of web apps. She'll cover the basics of i18n, common pitfalls, hidden challenges, and what she's learned building Wordchuck, a service that streamlines the localization process. | 1/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoWinemaking: A Donkey and Goat | Vintner Jared Brandt was a technical product manager before the first dot-com crash. He and his wife spent a year in France learning biodynamic wine production methods before returning to Berkeley to found their winery. | 12/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoRiak Overview and Schema Design | Want to get on the NoSQL bandwagon but don't know where to start? Riak is one of the lesser known entrants into the NoSQL horserace. Learn about what Riak is and how you can design Riak schemas to store your data. | 12/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoHacking Customer Development | Patrick Vlaskovits addresses some fallacies around customer development and describes multiple approaches on how to hack "Getting Out of The Building" such that product development decisions can be made with better, higher-quality data. | 12/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | VideoQualitative Research | Qualitative Research expert Laura Klein helps you garner valuable feedback from current and potential users. She covers appropriate research for the various stages of the development cycle and what questions qualitative research can answer effectively. | 11/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 27 | VideoIntrodution to Riak | Riak is a fault tolerant, highly-scalable key/value store. This talk focuses on the origins of Riak, the high level architecture decisions, the problems it solves, and what to consider when using it to build applications. | 11/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 28 | VideoWriting Tools With WebKit | As a popular web rendering engine, WebKit is mostly used via browsers. Sencha Engineering Director Ariya Hidayat presents a different angle: using WebKit as a library to write web development tools. Includes how to get and compile the WebKit code. | 10/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 29 | VideoCrowdsourcing with CrowdFlower | CrowdFlower enables a quality, fast, large, global workforce to complete simple tasks. Brian O'Rourke and Chris Van Pelt create a sample app to demonstrate the API and the quality analysis tools. They also discuss lessons learned in its development. | 10/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 30 | VideoInsightster | The founders of Irrational Design present Insightster, an app to help you encourage, discuss, iterate on, rediscover, prioritize, and execute on ideas from all over your organization. They demo a "Clean out your Icebox" Pivotal Tracker integration. | 9/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | VideoSemantic Logging with Splunk | With Splunk, developers can create sophisticated analytics for their system without the typical RDBMS and data cube. Rob Das from Splunk discusses what semantic events are, how Splunk works, and the best practices in creating semantic events. | 9/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 32 | VideoSencha Touch | Sencha Touch is an open-source javascript app framework for building web apps for HTML5-capable touch devices. It has an object-oriented design with a rich event-handling system and pre-built UI components like carousels and scrollable lists. | 9/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 33 | VideoDiaspora | Diaspora is the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network. Diaspora aims to put users back in control of their data and privacy, and to make sharing between the people they care about easier and more meaningful. | 8/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 34 | VideoEnough Design | There is tension in the agile world between the ultimate flexibility that agile proposes and the need for coherency and excellence that great design provides. This talk helps designers and developers ask themselves: "What is Enough Design?" | 8/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 35 | VideoIndexTank: Full-text Search as a Service | Diego Basch and Santiago Perez Gonzales of Flaptor demonstrate their new product IndexTank, a hosted, scalable, real-time search solution. They demonstrate the API and show how to migrate a ThinkingSphinx-based solution to IndexTank. | 7/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 36 | VideoAgile the Pivotal Way | Ian McFarland, Principal and VP of Technology for Pivotal Labs, reprises his popular RailsConf 2010 talk. Ian describes the technical and social aspects of how Pivotal practices agile software development. | 6/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 37 | VideoManaging Application Ecosystems | Daniel Lieberman of BitPusher says current trends in automation, reliability engineering, and cloud computing will combine and mature into a nearly-commoditized blend of operations and infrastructure. He describes ops practices during the transition. | 6/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 38 | VideoHTML5 and CSS3 | Pivot Ryan Dy leads a discussion on upcoming HTML5 and CSS3 features. Ryan talks about how best to take advantage of the new features in the most modern browsers. Slides available at http://ryandy.com/html5 | 5/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 39 | VideoCappuccino | Cappuccino is an open source framework for building browser-based apps. It is designed exclusively for building apps, not websites, which lets the framework focus on high-level tasks and specialized performance optimizations. | 4/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 40 | VideoDesigning a Live Communications Platform | Jose de Castro uses Rails and Sinatra to demonstrate the Tropo API for building real time communications apps. He discusses how media servers, SIP Servlets, and JRuby are used to create a standards-based stack for cloud communications. | 4/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 41 | VideoTop Seven Recipes for Confusion | John Boykin teaches us to recognize the seven most common sources of confusion and how to avoid them. Using case studies, John dissects each pattern, proposes a redesign to reduce confusion, and offers guidelines for making your website more intuitive. | 3/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 42 | VideoTypekit | @font-face in CSS creates new possibilities for web typography but there are technical and legal hurdles. Ryan Carver describes Typekit, a service addressing the problems with a centralized, updateable font-serving platform and web-savvy licensing model. | 3/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 43 | VideoOperational Metrics: Justifying Continuous Deployment | John Allspaw often sees stability and productivity benefits from deploying small code changes more frequently. This talk describes how to determine the right balance for your environment, as well as how effective your current operational processes are. | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 44 | VideoMaking Stuff People Love | Making truly awesome stuff is hard. Pivot Carl Coryell-Martin proposes we identify common physiological responses and condense their design solutions into a pattern language. He presents a draft set of patterns in the context of crafting an iPhone app. | 3/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 45 | VideoScala and Lift: Quite a Pair | David Pollak maintains Lift, a Rails-like app framework for Scala. In this talk, he and Martin Odersky, author of Scala, live-code a 30-line, real-time, web-based chat application and discuss the Scala constructs that allow for such concise apps. | 2/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 46 | VideoContextually Remarkable: RSpec Testing Tools | Pivot David Stevenson introduces RSpec tools Remarkable and Contextually. Remarkable makes testing ActiveRecord and ActionController more declarative. Contextually simplifies testing the behavior of controllers against a variety of roles. | 2/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 47 | VideowebOS Dev Camp | Pivot Davis W. Frank presents Pivotal's experience writing apps for Palm's webOS. Including a live test-driven coding exercise, Davis covers agile development practices, our testing framework Pockets, and good development patterns. | 1/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 48 | VideoDemystifying Online Billing | Isaac Hall of Recurly.com describes many of the hidden challenges in managing recurring billing online. He offers step-by-step tips, tricks, and firsthand experience on how to better architect and more easily deploy billing in your application. | 1/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 49 | VideoMongoDB | MongoDB is a scalable, high-performance, open source, schema-free, document-oriented database. Mike Dirolf of 10gen, the company behind MongoDB, will discuss the features that make it an interesting choice as a datastore for web applications. He will give examples of how to interact with MongoDB from Ruby and discuss how MongoDB's auto-sharding allows it to provide infinite scalability. | 11/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 50 | VideoAristotle and the Art of Software Development | Jon Dahl ponders the big questions. What can programmers learn from the thought of Aristotle, Kant, and Mill? More than you might think. He links philosophical ethics and ideas to the processes, tools, and methodologies of software development as we discuss a critical question: is successful development primarily a matter of finding the right rules, creating the right outcomes, or cultivating the right virtues? | 11/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 51 | VideoEDD: How TDD and BDD Miss the Point | Terralien Founder Nathaniel Talbott introduces Experiment Driven Development, or EDD. Exclusive focus on TDD and BDD can miss the bigger picture and drive optimizations that negatively impact the business as a whole. Part business talk and part technical talk, Nathaniel discusses what EDD is, why you should be doing it from day one, and what cool Ruby tools you can leverage to make it happen. | 10/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 52 | VideoBuilding User Trust | Carl Smith, founding member of nGen Works, breaks down the steps to understanding, building and keeping trust with your users. Trust is becoming vulnerable based on a positive expectation. It's about the promises you make in subtle and obvious ways. | 10/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 53 | VideoGet Angular | Pivot Adam Abrons and partner Misko Hevery introduce Angular, a platform for building data-backed applications with browser technologies. Applications are written in HTML, javascript, and CSS, and then Angular connects up a JSON database in the cloud. | 10/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 54 | VideoGit for Newbies | In a special evening event, Scott Chacon from GitHub gives an excellent overview of Git for developers, with a lively back and forth from the audience. | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 55 | VideoExtending Rails 3 | Yehuda Katz, member of the Rails core team, describes the many new ways to extend Rails 3, including the overall philosophy of extending ActionController and how to use ActiveModel to better integrate your non-ActiveRecord Ruby objects and Rails. | 9/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 56 | VideoTwilio: Telephony in the Cloud | CEO Jeff Lawson introduces Twilio, a cloud-based pay-as-you-go HTTP API platform that allows web developers to build scalable, reliable voice applications without dedicated hardware or the complexities of PBX scripting. | 8/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 57 | VideoFull Text Search with Rails | Wolfram Arnold shares his experiences implementing full-text search in a Rails-based translation application. The searching had to support multiple languages and matching on common word roots. | 7/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 58 | VideoAn Introduction to Palm's webOS | Palm's Jesse Donaldson intros Palm's webOS showing the architecture and lifecycle for a simple app. Pivot Davis W. Frank shares Pivotal's experience writing webOS apps using agile practices. Slides: http://bit.ly/EMj6a and http://bit.ly/axfsd | 7/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 59 | VideoRightScale: Cloud Computing Management | Ed Goldberg of Rightscale discusses and demonstrates their AWS cloud management offering, with tuneable dynamic instance scaling both up and down, GUI administration, and a library of custom config scripts. | 7/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 60 | VideoThe Engine Yard Cloud: A Programmable Deployment Platform | Ezra Zygmuntowicz of Engine Yard details their new Flex cloud hosting product, including the extensive use of Chef for automated deployment. Ezra also discusses the feature roadmap for Flex. | 7/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 61 | VideoAgile Management: Advice for Entrepreneurs | Drew McManus of Road 3 shares his advice on managing agile projects. Drew describes when and how much to plan, the right way to share the plan, and how to keep the product and the engineering team properly focused while not losing the grand vision. | 6/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 62 | VideoExploratory Testing, Live! | Elisabeth Hendrickson of Quality Tree Software demonstrates live exploratory testing on Pivotal's own Tracker application. | 5/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 63 | VideoScaling a Rails App with Postgres | Pivots Josh Susser and Damon McCormick share their experiences scaling a Rails app with a Postgres backend. Learn optimization techniques and how Postgres differs from MySQL when tuning a Rails application. | 5/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 64 | VideoUsing Web Hooks | Web Hooks evangelist Jeff Lindsay describes the powerful simplicity of integrating web hooks with your application. The canonical example is a post-commit hook for source control, but Jeff shows many other ways to allow programmers to chain functionality without building an entire API. | 4/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 65 | VideoUnison: A Relational Modeling Framework | This talk introduces two symbiotic libraries that leverage properties of the relational algebra to enable elegant client/server web applications. On the server, there's Unison, with an API similar to ActiveRecord's, but more general. In addition to has_many and friends, Unison adds relates_to_many and relates_to_one, allowing custom associations to be constructed through the composition of relational operators. For the browser there is June, which offers a JavaScript version of the same API, along with a relational object-store, through which clients can securely pull arbitrary datasets from a Unison-based server, treating it like a relational database. We'll also explore the nexus of the relational model with event-driven programming and the actor model of concurrent computation. | 4/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 66 | VideoArduino is Rails for Hardware Hacking | Just as Rails did for web development, the Arduino project combines powerful layers of abstraction with sensible defaults, making it easy to build hardware devices that sense and manipulate the physical world. So easy that artists, social workers, scientists, and even simple web programmers who lack electrical engineering degrees can do it. The Ruby Arduino Development project attempts to extend these virtues by bringing the beauty and power of Ruby to the Arduino platform. RAD compiles Ruby scripts for execution on the Arduino microcontroller development board. In addition to the syntactic elegance and simplicity gained by getting to program in Ruby instead of C++, RAD provides a set of declarative Rails-like conventions and helpers that reduce boilerplate and simplify often-byzantine hardware APIs. | 4/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 67 | VideoGoGaRuCo Lightning Talks | Lightning talks emceed by Bosco So. Presenters: Jeff Smick - Blather: simple XMPP; Tim Connor - Rack Middleware; Wolfram Arnold - Cache Money; Yehuda Katz - Moneta; Andy Delcambre - DataMapper adapters; Erik Michaels-Ober - Merb admin console; Mislav Marohnić - autotest and rspactor; Bryan Helmkamp - Rack::Bug; Pat Nakajima - Slidedown; Chris Lee - Floxee; Max Horbul - PiMP | 4/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 68 | VideoWebrat: Rails Acceptance Testing Evolved | Webrat, a Ruby DSL for interaction with web applications, changes the acceptance testing ROI equation. By implementing an invisible, fast browser simulator you can use from within your test framework of choice (Test::Unit, RSpec, Shoulda or Cucumber), it sidesteps most of Selenium's drawbacks while retaining the coverage value. This talk, delivered by the maintainer of Webrat, will describe the value of acceptance testing for Rails apps, common pitfalls, and Webrat's solutions. We'll look at techniques for writing maintainable acceptance tests, and maximizing their value over the lifespan of an application. Finally, we'll explore advanced techniques like applying Webrat to ease some of the pain of in-browser testing when it can't be avoided (JavaScript/AJAX, primarily). | 4/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 69 | VideoUsing Ruby to Fight AIDS | In August of 2008, Jacqui Maher visited Baobab Health in Lilongwe, Malawi. Baobab is a dedicated group of programmers, clinicians and administrators developing public health and patient data administration systems. They use a variety of hardware and software technologies, but their main applications are written in Ruby on Rails. | 4/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 70 | VideoUsing Shoes to Have Fun | Shoes is a tiny graphics toolkit that embeds ruby. It allows you to do anything. You can draw squares and circles and they can move about and say "Good Morning" when they chance upon each other. Shoes lets you add layouts to your applications with ease. It borrows ideas from Processing, Lua, and HTML to make an intuitive language to convert your ideas into programs that you can share with your friends. | 4/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 71 | VideoCloudKit: Hacking the Open Stack with Ruby and Rack | Learn about the architecture and construction of CloudKit, an Open Web JSON Appliance. Along the way, see how the emerging Open Stack — including OpenID and OAuth+Discovery — can be used to build open and discoverable web services in Ruby. Other topics of exploration will include cooperative Rack middleware stacks, non-relational storage with Tokyo Cabinet, new IETF drafts covering HTTP Discovery, online/offline synchronization with plain old HTTP, and more. | 4/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 72 | VideoHypertable and Rails: DB Scaling Solutions with HyperRecord | Every site based on a RDBMS will eventually hit a database scalability bottleneck. In this session we will introduce Hypertable, an open-source implementation of BigTable, and HyperRecord, an extension of ActiveRecord using Hypertable for storage. We will demonstrate Zvents' use of these technologies to scale a high-traffic, data-intensive consumer web application, writing billions of cells daily. | 4/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 73 | VideoMagic Scaling Sprinkles | Building a massively scaled, fault tolerant web service isn't easy, but it's definitely easier if you know which architectures work and which don't. In this talk we'll survey the architecture and complexities of a scalable web service including edgeware, middleware, message systems, load balancing, cache hierarchies, queueing theory, coordination primitives for distributed computation, designing for latency, inter-process communication, load balancing versus locality, write versus read throughput, non-relational datastores, database replication topologies, logging distributed computations, fault tolerance, deployment at scale, forensics, and the merits of suicide. | 4/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 74 | VideoWriting Fast Ruby: Learning from Merb and Rails 3 | It has been said that Ruby is a slow language, but that is not true. Numerous Ruby projects have shown that it is possible to write fast, scalable software using Ruby. Merb, for instance, is faster than any major PHP web framework. In this talk, Carl will show how to take the many available tools, such as ruby-prof, RBench, and kcachegrind, and turn any old Ruby into a speed machine. The tips and processes will be demonstrated with real world examples of optimizations that have been done to the Merb and Rails 3 projects. | 4/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 75 | VideoDiscussion Panel: Ruby Application Frameworks | Many of us discovered Ruby because of Rails, but there are many more frameworks for both web development and other application domains. We have assembled authors and contributors from six of the major application frameworks written in Ruby: Rails, Merb, Sinatra, Adhearsion, RAD and Shoes. We'll get to hear what they have to say about what makes Ruby good (or bad) for building frameworks, and what opinions they have of other frameworks. Come with your questions, and demand answers! | 4/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 76 | VideoBuilding Custom Web Proxies in Ruby | A high-performance proxy server is less than a hundred lines of Ruby code and it is an indispensable tool for anyone who knows how to use it. In this session we will walk through the basics of event-driven architectures and high-performance network programming in Ruby using the EventMachine framework. | 4/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 77 | VideoThere Will Be Ruby! | Have you ever tried to catch a train running at a million miles an hour? Jumping into the traffic stream at Wikipedia is an insane adventure I've been going through. Exactly how do you launch a new platform that could instantly have millions of hits in a few hours? How do you do that and not spend 3 years researching? A fun tour of how I got Ruby at Wikipedia and did it with confidence, bravado, and alcohol. There will be cussing and lots of funny stories that should be highly educating and an insight into my technical philosophies. | 4/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 78 | VideoTrustTheVote: Open Source Digital Voting | This talk will present the TrustTheVote project and the "I count!" movement. It will cover the technology roadmap, progress so far, and next steps, including expansion of development efforts and opportunities for involvement in design and construction of trustworthy voting technology that everyone will be able to see, touch, and try—technology that will be fully federally certified and have the endorsement of the States' elections directors through a unique approach that can ensure widespread adoption. If you have ever wanted to know what you can do to make a difference in our electoral process, then this talk is for you. | 4/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 79 | VideoPlaying With Fire: Running Uploaded Ruby Code in a Sandbox | In this session, David Stevenson explores how to run untrusted code inside a ruby application using a sandbox. With this powerful technique, users can upload code that integrates as part of a larger application, making it ideal for custom business rules, dynamic games (think SecondLife), and science/math applications. Ruby's english-like syntax and ease of creating DSLs makes it a good scripting candidate for non-technical people. | 4/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 80 | VideoSinatra: The Framework Within | Sinatra has been getting a lot of attention lately as the next great (micro-)framework. In writing apps, diving in, and contributing the reasons for its existence have become more clear. Sinatra is not just a toy or a neat trick, its the best way to create simple and non-obtrusive web interfaces to sit on top of a new or existing Ruby codebase. I'll walk through the whats, whys, and tools for getting started with Sinatra. | 4/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 81 | VideoMacRuby and HotCocoa | MacRuby is an implementation of the Ruby language that runs on the Objective-C runtime under OS X. MacRuby is based on Ruby 1.9 but contains substantial modifications including the merging of object models, using the Objective-C 2.0 generational garbage collector, moving core types atop their Objective-C counterparts and replacement of standard libraries to more optimally integrate with OS X. MacRuby also includes a new library, HotCocoa, a thin, idiomatic Ruby layer that sits above Cocoa and other frameworks. This talk introduces MacRuby and HotCocoa and demonstrates how to use them to quickly build OS X desktop applications with Ruby. | 4/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 82 | VideoManaging Git Resources with Coral | Author Mislav Marohnic discusses Coral, a way to pull in and organize Git repositories that extends and partially replaces RubyGems. Although still in the early stages, Coral aims to brings sanity to maintaining your own third-party forks across projects. | 4/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 83 | VideoCreating Unobtrusive Stylesheets Using Compass and Sass | Compass author Chris Eppstein describes a new trend in the stylesheet framework world towards adhering to semantic markup and maintaining the separation between content and style. He shows how Compass and Sass can untangle stylesheets and allow reusable styles, classes, and designs without imposing on the markup. | 3/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 84 | VideoIntegrating Performance Optimization with the Rails Development Process | Lew Cirne, CEO of New Relic, outlines how they use their own RPM product to maintain and improve the performance of their application, which processes billions of transactions per month with the average response time under 40ms. | 3/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 85 | VideoSinatra Overview | Blake Mizerany of Heroku talks about building lightweight RESTful web services with his Ruby framework Sinatra. | 3/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 86 | VideoParselets and SelectorGadget | Andrew Cantino and Kyle Maxwell talk about Parselets.com, a cross-language toolset for developer-generated APIs, and SelectorGadget, their bookmarklet that finds the minimal CSS selector for elements on the page. | 2/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 87 | VideoHoptoad: Ride the Toad | Tammer Saleh of thoughtbot demonstrates Hoptoad, their Rails exception notification service. By aggregating repeat error notifications Hoptoad stops the email onslaught from a production bug while still providing appropriate notification and escalation. | 2/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 88 | VideoEngine Yard Solo | Ezra Zygmuntowicz of Engine Yard demonstrates Solo, their new cloud offering for the deployment and management of lightweight Rails, Merb, or Rack apps. | 2/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 89 | VideoMaking a Case for Cucumber | Pivot Jeff Dean describes the technical and process benefits offered by the functional testing framework Cucumber, a replacement for Story Runner. | 2/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 90 | VideoConsistent and Effective CSS | Pivots Ryan Dy, Chris Tong, and Corey Innis lay out the current conventions and standards for CSS and introduce some organizational techniques and recipies for common tasks. See code examples at http://pivotallabs.com/labs/css. | 1/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 91 | VideoNext Generation Application Deployment | Heroku founder Adam Wiggins outlines their vision of next-generation application deployment architectures. He describes the challenges and choices Heroku has made and the upcoming technologies and capabilities that are exciting in their space. | 12/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 92 | VideoCooper Panel: Agile and Interaction Design | Alan Cooper, joined by three colleagues from his renowned design firm of the same name, discusses the challenges faced and lessons learned from their forays into using a more agile process for design consulting. Questions from the audience help drive the discussion towards topics of interest specifically to developers. | 12/10/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 93 | VideoProject Startup: Talent & Team | Hosted by Pivotal Labs and VentureArchetypes. Moderated panel discussion: Expectations and the evolution of a Founder’s role as the business grows; Becoming a magnet for top talent (especially on a limited budget); The role of recruiters, consultants, contractors and outsourcing; Setting and maintaining a strong company culture | 12/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 94 | VideoMagLev | Martin McClure of GemStone answers questions and gathers audience feedback about MagLev, a Ruby implementation based on the GemStone persistence engine. | 12/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 95 | VideoSauce Labs | Jason Huggins, Al Sargent, and Steve Hazel from Sauce Labs describe their Selenium-in-the-cloud testing framework, including integration with CI systems like CruiseControl. | 11/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 96 | VideoMeshing Gears | William Pietri and Amanda Willoughby revisit their Agile2008 talk "Meshing Gears: Real-world examples of how design and development integrate - and fail to" | 10/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 97 | VideoProject Startup: Competitive Strategy | Hosted by Pivotal Labs and VentureArchetypes. Moderated panel discussion: Competitive strategies & tactics (offensive vs. defensive…e.g., first mover vs. fast follower), Dealing with copy cats, both domestic and international, Standing out in a crowded space when resources are limited, Creative competitive research, analysis and tracking | 10/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 98 | VideoProject Startup: Early Adopters and Beyond | Hosted by Pivotal Labs and VentureArchetypes. Moderated panel discussion: Generating an early base of passionate adopters and evangelists, Ramping up and expanding your business into the broader market, Defining “what you stand for” and building a defensible brand without jumping the shark, Creative marketing tactics for a Web and social media-rich world | 9/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 99 | VideoFire Eagle | Seth Fitzsimmons and Blaine Cook talk about Fire Eagle, a location-awareness provider for online applications. Fire Eagle is a Yahoo! venture that gives applications and websites user-configurable information about the user's location. | 8/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 100 | VideoScrum | Christian Sepulveda gives an overview of the Scrum development process as it applies to software. | 8/13/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 101 | VideoHAML | Felix M. and Aaron Peckham talk about HAML. | 8/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 102 | VideoVertebra | Ezra Zygmuntowicz talks about Vertebra, Engine Yard's distributed cloud application programming platform. | 7/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 103 | VideoNew Relic | Lewis Cirne demos New Relic's RPM, a real-time Rails performance monitoring and analysis tool. | 7/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 104 | VideoDevver | Ben Brinckerhoff and Dan Mayer talk about Devver, their cloud-based test acceleration platform. | 7/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 105 | VideoRubinius | Evan Phoenix answers questions about Rubinius, a Ruby virtual machine and compiler written as much as possible in Ruby. | 4/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 106 | VideoDTrace | Brian Cantrill and Adam Leventhal from Sun Microsystems give a talk on the dynamic tracing framework, DTrace. | 4/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 107 | VideoJavascript Testing | Nathan Sobo, Brian Takita, and Nick Kallen discuss various testing methods for JavaScript, including JSSpec and JSpec. | 3/5/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 108 | VideojQuery | Yehuda Katz from EngineYard talks about using JavaScript development using jQuery. | 2/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 109 | VideoPlaxo | Joseph Smarr from Plaxo discusses the rise of the Social Web and the sites and tools that enable it. | 11/28/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 109 Episodes |
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