On The Edge of Rails Performance

Published August 25th, 2010 Under Coding, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment

Since then more Rails applications have gone into production, additional techniques have been developed for optimizing performance, and more open source libraries have been published. In this talk I will first give a quick introduction for those just getting their feet wet with optimizing Rails applications. However, the majority of the talk will be spent looking at the most useful techniques for optimizations and some of the new libraries that have been released to make it that much easier.


Video Producer: Aloha On Rails

Go Programming

Published August 25th, 2010 Under Coding | Leave a Comment

The Go programming language was released as an open source project in late 2009. This session will illustrate how programming in Go differs from other languages through a set of examples demonstrating features particular to Go. These include concurrency, embedded types, methods on any type, and program construction using interfaces. Very little time will be spent waiting for compilation.

97 Things Every Programmer Should Know

Published August 23rd, 2010 Under Coding | 2 Comments

Nothing beats experience in software development and usually you learn the important things the hard way.  This presentation is based on an O’Reilly book with contribution from 73 different people and edited by Kevlin Henney. He presented for us 17 of them in his lively style. The full list of 97 things is available on http://tr.im/97tepsk. Read my review of this Jazoon session.

Understanding Folder Structure of ASP NET MVC Application

Published August 19th, 2010 Under Architecture, Coding | Leave a Comment

This screencast explains the folder structure of the ASP.NET MVC Application.

Producer: www.highoncoding.com

Java #11 – Writing a Text File

Published August 16th, 2010 Under Coding | Leave a Comment

This Java tutorial shows how to write a text file using a PrintStream object. Also demonstrates JFileChooser file save dialogs with a FileNameExtensionFilter. Download source code from http://java.martincarlisle.com

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