Rails Envy

Miss Railsconf this year? Thankfully I captured it here in a 36 minute video for you, free of charge. Just hit the play button and let the information flow directly into your brain. No podcast this week, enjoy the videos.

I also uploaded each of these clips separately, so feel free to re-post and embed to your hearts extent. The new MVC videos we premiered at the conference will be posted Tuesday morning, right here, so stay tuned!

Railsconf in 36 minutes from Gregg Pollack on Vimeo.

Below you'll find all the same clips in the video, but separated. You know, so if you really dig a certain clip you can embed it on your blog or what not.

• Justin Gehtland & Aaron Bedra giving summaries of their talks
• Amy Hoy giving a small rant
• Matt Wood talking about the human genome project using Rails
• Obie Fernandez talking about bad rails code
• Micah Martin summarizing what he hates about web apps
• Podcasters & Screencasters Gregg Pollack, Ryan Bates, Christopher Haupt , Michael Slater, Geoffrey Grosenbach, and Mike Clark
• Jeremy Kemper right after announcing Rails 2.1
• Chu Yeow from Living on the Edge
• Michael Koziarski talking about benchmarking rails
• David Heinemeier Hansson summarizing his keynote
• Bruce Williams talking about the big rewrite
• Ninh Bui talking about phusion passenger
• Jim Weirich talking about modeling systems
• David Chelimsky talking about RSpec stories
• Charles Nutter talking about JRuby
• Dave Fayram & Tom Preston-Werner talking about Fuzed
• Chad Fowler talking about nasty people and Rubyconf 2008
• Josh Susser talking about RSpec stories
• Evan Phoenix talking about Rubinius and git jour

Heh.. doing the whole video thing turned out a lot better then I could have expected. Maybe someone might be interested in hiring me to do video? You know, like Duncan Davidson does photography? Hey, I can dream, right? Oh, and if you're looking for additional Railsconf videos check out these guys here.

At the Orlando Ruby Users Group last month, I gave a talk on unobtrusive javascript. It gives a big picture overview of why you would want to code your javascript unobtrusively. If you haven't been exposed to unobtrusive javascript principles yet or would like to learn more, give it a download or watch right here.

Download Video: ~15 minutes
Download PDF of slides

Some topics covered in the video:

• A bit of history and how we got here.
• Semantic Markup
• Obtrusive Examples
• Benefits of coding unobtrusively
• Examples, specifically to Rails
• Guidelines and assumptions you should make when coding javascript
• Graceful degredation
• Namespacing

Special thanks to Gregg for editing the video. Also, if the above description isn't enough to make you watch the video, how about this screencap:

Here we are with the third commercial in the series(Part 1, Part 2) where we continue with the PHP guy. Apologies to all 3 of you who were hoping for Fortan.

Gregg Pollack and Jason Seifer from RailsEnvy present:

Ruby on Rails vs PHP - Organization - ad #3 of 4

We just wanted to say thanks again to Jason over at Make. Film. Work. for the great video work.

We're also really sorry but we had to turn on moderation for comments because of all the trolling. We're just having fun, guys, try not to take it too seriously. Except for the part where we say that Ruby on Rails can beat up your dad, because it can.

On a serious note, though, we're not trying to bash any frameworks or languages... We know PHP has frameworks that allow for organization like Rails as well as database abstraction and OR mapping. We believe in using the best tool for the job, what ever that may be. These videos are for FUN and are not intended to start language or framework wars. Which is why our next ones are going to be vi vs emacs. Totally kidding.