This video covers the Zend_Session_Namespace class. It's a short introduction to how we can use this object to simplify passing data from Zend_Controller action to another during a user's stay on our web application.

Social interaction has become implicitly expected of modern web-based applications. Desktop applications, however, have yet to overcome the technical ...

Ajax makes it possible to communicate to the server out of band, giving rise to a number of novel interaction patterns, such as automatic updating of data, type-ahead suggestions and inline editing of data. While these are all useful idioms as far as the end-user is concerned, there is a danger that ...

In Rails 1.2 the default session store is file based. This is inefficient and difficult to maintain. In Rails 2.0 the default is now cookie based which has several benefits as you will see in this episode.

Be careful when storing a model in a session. It will behave differently than you expect and can easily get out of sync with the database. Instead of storing the model directly in the session, store the id to the model and use that to fetch it from the database.

Let Ryan Bates take you through a growing series of great Rails tips.