Intro to Ruby
Chippew Valley Code Camp 2009 talk. Very similar to the slides from Twin Cities Code Camp 7.
View ArticleTesting Your Sites In English with Cucumber
Chippewa Valley Code Camp slides on my Cucumber talk
View ArticleStop Reinventing The Wheel - The Ruby Standard Library
My talk from Ruby Hoedown MMX. We talked about the Ruby standard library and how sometimes we reinvent things when we have perfectly good tools waiting for us to use them.
View ArticleWeb Development With Ruby - From Simple To Complex
Beyond the massive hype of Ruby on Rails, there's an amazing world of frameworks, DSLs, and libraries that make the Ruby language a compelling choice when working on the web. In this talk, you'll get...
View ArticleHTML5 and CSS3 Today
See where HTML5 and CSS3 are today and how you can use them in your projects.
View ArticleIntro To Advanced Ruby
Intro talks never let you learn about the things that make a language truly cool. In this talk we'll discover how advanced features of Ruby help us write cleaner more modular code.
View ArticleBuilding A Gem From Scratch
If you've ever looked into how to create Gems, you've probably seen a bunch of ways to do that. Project generators like Hoe, Jeweler, and the like offer some nice ways to get started, but they may...
View ArticleTesting Client-side Code with Jasmine and CoffeeScript
My Twin Cities Code Camp talk covers how to develop client-side code test-first with Jasmine and CoffeeScript.
View ArticleGrunt From The Ground Up
Modern web development requires managing CSS, JavaScript, HTML, and other assets, and things can get out of hand quickly. Grunt has become the standard for managing all of the tasks related to modern...
View ArticleRethink Frontend Development With Elm
Come explore Elm, a functional programming language for making web things. Elm aims to solve some of the same problems that Ember, React, and Angular 2 solve, but in a radically different way. Strong...
View ArticleGetting Started Contributing To Open Source
Learn to contribute to open source projects, or start your own!
View ArticleRealtime Web Apps with Elixir and Phoenix
Elixir and Phoenix are a winning combination when it comes to creating realtime web applications.
View ArticleDocker
Docker is an amazing tool, but unless you work with it every day, you're probably left with a ton of questions. What's a container? What's an image? What's the difference between Docker, Machine,...
View ArticleCreate Development and Production Environments with Vagrant
Need a Linux box to test a Wordpress site or a Windows VM to test a web site on IE 10? Creating a virtual machine to test or deploy your software doesn’t have to be a manual process. Bring one up in...
View ArticleAutomating the Cloud with DigitalOcean, Terraform, and Ansible
Need a web server? So did I. But setting everything up by hand is tedious. In this talk, you'll see how to build a load-balanced web server using Ansible, Terraform, and DigitalOcean, a cloud provider...
View ArticleCreating and Deploying Static Sites with Hugo
Most web sites don’t have data that changes, so why power them with a database and take the performance hit? In this talk we’ll explore static site generation using Hugo, an open-source static site...
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