RIA & Web Podcasts
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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: #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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Railscasts: #248 Offline Apps Part 2
Learn how to make a site usable offline with HTML 5 localStorage. This last part of the series covers jquery-tmpl and jquery-offline.
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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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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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dnrTV - .NET Rocks Screencasts: Chris Pels on jQuery
While at the Boston Code Camp 2010, Carl talked to Chris Pels about jQuery. Chris talks about how jQuery works, and how to use it in any web app.
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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: #220 PDFKit
Generating PDFs in plain Ruby can be a lot of work. Instead, consider generating PDFs from HTML using PDFKit.
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OnMicrosoft from InformIT: Learn to use the Javascript Client Object Model
Scott Hillier shows SharePoint developers how to use the JavaScript Client Object Model.
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OnSoftware from InformIT: Learn to use the Javascript Client Object Model
Scott Hillier shows SharePoint developers how to use the JavaScript Client Object Model.
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dnrTV - .NET Rocks Screencasts: Colin Melia on OData with Silverlight
Colin Melia is back to show how you can take advantage of OData with a Silverlight client.
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Web Design TV: Flash Catalyst CS5
This great new bit of kit from Adobe will make an interaction designer out of anyone. Paul Wyatt shows you how!
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Railscasts: #205 Unobtrusive Javascript
Keep JavaScript out of your HTML content with unobtrusive JavaScript. Here I show how Rails 3 works with this best practice.
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Railscasts: #197 Nested Model Form Part 2
Add and remove nested model fields dynamically through JavaScript using either Prototype or jQuery.
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OnMicrosoft from InformIT: Silverlight 4 with Scott Guthrie
Scott Guthrie provides an overview of his keynote at PDC 2009. Learn about Silverlight 4 new features. Get an inside developer perspective on Silverlight 4.
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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: #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: #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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Chris Hay's Screencasts: Multiple Http Requests in Silverlight
In this very quick screencast, Chris Hay reminds you that Silverlight is a browser technology and is subject to the limits that the browser imposes, and shows this with multiple http requests
Featured Podcast Show
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Rails Envy Podcast
Last episode 11 years ago on www.railsenvy.com
The Rails Envy podcast is a weekly newscast by Jason Seifer and Gregg Pollack about what's new in the Ruby and Ruby on Rails worlds.