Podcasts
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Railscasts: #282 Upgrading to Rails 3.1
It is incredibly easy to upgrade to Rails 3.1, but if you want to take advantage of the asset pipeline you will need to put in some extra effort. Have no fear because I walk you through each of the necessary steps in this episode.
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Railscasts: #281 Foreman
Foreman can help manage multiple processes that your Rails app depends upon when running in development. It also provides an export command to move them into production.
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Railscasts: #280 Pry with Rails
Pry is an alternative to IRB and sports many great features. Here I show how to integrate it into a Rails app, and how it can aid in debugging.
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dnrTV - .NET Rocks Screencasts: Jon Skeet Looks Inside the Await Keyword Part 2
Jon Skeet is back to pick up where he left off with a behind the scenes look at how the new await keyword works.
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Railscasts: #279 Understanding the Asset Pipeline
The asset pipeline is probably the biggest feature in Rails 3.1, but it can seem like magic at first. Here I dive into exactly how the asset pipeline works.
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dnrTV - .NET Rocks Screencasts: Ayende Rahien on RavenDB
Ayende Rahien, aka Oren Eini, is back on dnrTV showing us his powerful RavenDB. Ayende steps through many demos and also opens up the hood for a look underneath.
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Railscasts: #278 Search with Sunspot
Sunspot makes it easy to do full text searching through Solr. Here I show how to search on various attributes and add facets for filtering the search further.
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Railscasts: #277 Mountable Engines
Engines are receiving a major update in Rails 3.1. You can mount them at any path, embed assets, run generators and more. See how in this episode.
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dnrTV - .NET Rocks Screencasts: Bill Wagner Offers C# Puzzles
Bill Wagner walks you through a small handful of puzzling C# code snippets. Can you guess what the results will be? Mark Miller makes a cameo. Will Bill stump the Millahnater?
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Railscasts: #276 Testing Time & Web Requests
It can be difficult to test code that deals with the current time or an external web request. Here I show you how to do both using the Timecop and FakeWeb gems.
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Railscasts: #275 How I Test
Here I show how I would add tests to the password reset feature created in the previous episode. I use RSpec, Capybara, Factory Girl, and Guard to make request, model, and mailer specs.
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dnrTV - .NET Rocks Screencasts: Miguel Castro on Extensibility in WCF
Miguel Castro is Back! Miguel guides Carl through several demos on using behaviors to extend your WCF services.
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dnrTV - .NET Rocks Screencasts: Steve Smith on Design Patterns in .NET Part 3
Steve Smith continues his series on patterns in .NET with a thorough exploration of the State Pattern.
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Railscasts: #274 Remember Me & Reset Password
It is easy to create authentication from scratch, but how do we extend it with more features? Here I add a "remember me" check box and a "forgotten password" link.
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Railscasts: #273 Geocoder
If you need to work with geographic data, Geocoder is an excellent gem for converting addresses and coordinates, finding nearby locations, determining distances, and more!
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dnrTV - .NET Rocks Screencasts: Jon Skeet Looks Inside the Await Keyword
Jon Skeet loves to hack .NET. He went spelunking into how the new await keyword (part of the new Async CTP) works with the Parallel Task Library in .NET 4.0 and came up with his own implementation of it. This is part one of at least a two-part series.
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Railscasts: #272 Markdown with Redcarpet
Redcarpet is an easy-to-use gem which interprets Markdown. Here I show how to customize it and add syntax highlighting through Pygments and Albino.
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dnrTV - .NET Rocks Screencasts: Udi Dahan on NServiceBus
Udi Dahan shows you how to use the fabulous NServiceBus to provide reliable messaging using both a request/response and publish/subscribe architecture. He shows how much easier it is to use NServiceBus than to use WCF for reliable messaging.
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Railscasts: #271 Resque
Resque creates background jobs using Redis. It supports multiple queue and comes with an administration interface for monitoring and managing the queues.
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dnrTV - .NET Rocks Screencasts: Colin Melia on Silverlight 5
Carl got together with Colin Melia at DevTeach Montreal for a peek at the new Silverlight 5 Beta. Colin demos a handful of new features.
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The SitePoint Podcast
Last episode 11 years ago on www.sitepoint.com
News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers. The official podcast of sitepoint.com.