RIA & Web Podcasts
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Railscasts: #174 Pagination with AJAX
Learn an easy, unobtrusive way to add AJAX functionality to an existing set of pagination links using jQuery.
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Railscasts: #180 Finding Unused CSS
Over time a CSS file can become large and filled with unused selectors. In this episode I show how to use the Deadweight gem to determine which CSS selects you can remove.
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Railscasts: #175 AJAX History and Bookmarks
Browser page history and bookmarks do not usually work with AJAX requests, but in this episode I show you how to remedy this problem using a simple jQuery plugin.
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Railscasts: #258 Token Fields
With the jQuery Tokeninput plugin it is easy to add an autocompleting list of entries for a many-to-many association.
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Railscasts: #169 Dynamic Page Caching
Use JavaScript to allow dynamic content in a page cache. In this episode I show you how to insert the user-specific content into a page through JavaScript.
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The SitePoint Podcast: Responsive Web Design with Jeremy Keith
Published 9 years ago, running time 0h37m
Episode 111 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict) talks with Jeremy Keith (@adactio), a UK-based web designer and author of several books on web design. We talk about responsive web design, and how Jeremy feels it's making now an exciting time to be a we.
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Stack Overflow Podcast: Stack Overflow: Podcast #38
This is the 38th episode of the StackOverflow podcast, where Joel and Jeff discuss YSlow optimizations for large websites, the value of unit testing, and the hidden pitfalls of asking questions to programmers. Joel notes that simply paying attention to what your coworkers are doing is an effecti...
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Railscasts: #266 HTTP Streaming
HTTP Streaming allows the browser to start processing the HTML response while the Rails app is still processing the rest of the request.
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Railscasts: #268 Sass Basics
Sass extends CSS with variables, nesting, mixins and more. Here I show how to convert plain CSS to SCSS in a Rails 3.1 app.
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The SitePoint Podcast: CSS Tricks with Chris Coyier
Published 9 years ago, running time 0h42m
Episode 127 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week our regular interview host Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict) interviews Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) who works for Wufoo and runs the website CSS-Tricks.com. Listen in Your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser — just click th.
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Railscasts: #229 Polling for Changes
If you have frequently changing data on the server side, it's helpful to automatically display this to the user as well. Here I show how to accomplish this with polling in jQuery.
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Railscasts: #257 Request Specs and Capybara
Request specs in RSpec are a great way to ensure the entire application stack is working properly. Here I also show how to use capybara with integrated JavaScript testing using Selenium.
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The SitePoint Podcast: HTML5 is a (Beautiful) Mess
Published 11 years ago, running time 0h48m
Kevin Yank is joined by Opera Software’s Bruce Lawson, SitePoint author Ian Lloyd, and Kyle Weems, creator of the CSSquirrel web comic, to discuss the latest uproar from within the W3C HTML5 Working Group. Is progress towards the HTML5 standard at risk of derailing, or is this just par for the co.
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GoingDeep: Expert to Expert - Erik Meijer and Lars Bak: Inside V8 - A Javascript Virtual Machine
Lars Bak is a virtual machine master. He and team have created a Javascript VM, V8, that takes Javascript syntax and produces optimized machine code directly. The result is very performant execution of Javascript. How does V8 work, exactly? What are the basic design decisions that have gone into ...
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Railscasts: #246 AJAX History State
The new pushState function in JavaScript allows us to change the full URL with AJAX. This means the back button, reloading, and bookmark support can be easily added.
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The SitePoint Podcast: WordPress with Matt Mullenweg
Published 11 years ago, running time 0h35m
This week Brad Williams interviews Matt Mullenweg, the creator of popular blogging software WordPress, to ask him about writing themes, social media, WordCamp, and the future of WordPress.
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The SitePoint Podcast: 7 Deadly Sins of Landing Page Design
Published 11 years ago, running time 0h51m
Matt Mickiewicz has just returned from Affiliate Convention where the most popular presentation was about landing page optimization. If you're not thinking about how your client's web sites perform, then you really should be. No related posts.
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Railscasts: #247 Offline Apps Part 1
Learn how to make a site usable offline through an HTML 5 cache manifest. This first part of the series covers rack-offline and problems you may run into.
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Stack Overflow Podcast: Stack Overflow: Podcast #50
This is the 50th episode of the StackOverflow podcast, where Joel and Jeff sit down with Steve Yegge of Google and the most excellent Stevey's Blog Rants. This episode was recorded on site at the Kirkland, Washington Google office, where Joel gave a talk earlier in the day. A b...
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Railscasts: #77 Destroy Without JavaScript
If the user has JavaScript disabled, the "Destroy" link might not work properly. In this episode I will explore a number of ways to work around this issue.
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Sparkling Client
Last episode 11 years ago on www.sparklingclient.com
An audio podcast about Silverlight, ASP.NET AJAX, Flash and other rich web-client technologies. If you're interested in writing next generation web applications, this is the podcast for you. There's a new information-dense show each week.