The Compiere team is trying to make ERP easier. I had a chance to catch up with Gary Wu, Di Zhao and Chris Sprague of the Compiere engineering team. We...

Mark Slee and David Reiss from Facebook explain the design and implementation details of the open source Thrift project. If you've never heard of Thrift it provides cross language web services for all of Facebook. Supports Java, C++, Python, Perl, Ruby, C#, PHP, OCaml, Erlang, Haskell, Cocoa and Smal...

In this brief 3-minute video, Yahoo! engineer and technical evangelist Julien Lecomte describes the rationale behind and philosophy underlying the new ...

There are some really helpful people in the Rails community, but I think you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who helps bunny and green coders more than Ryan Bates. Ryan's own site Railscasts.com is easily my favourite screencast - I like it better than my own!

I attended RailsConf 2007, w...

In the previous screencast David Heinemeier Hansson impressed upon me the importance of deciding what it is I want to build. It's difficult to learn programming in the abstract. By building something I need and care about I can learn piecemeal, asking just the questions I need to solve the next step....

This screencast is a pair programming session between David Heinemeier Hansson and myself (Miles K. Forrest). I'm new to web application programming and a "bunny hill" rails developer at best, so to have a world-class developer take the time to go over some basics on how to get started was very encou...