Complexity

This was a live presentation done at the Melbourne XP Enthusiasts Group on 10th April, 2007. It describes issues around complexity in software development, including how it relates to agile development practices and techniques you can use to deal with it in your projects.

• low-res (512×384 resolution – 45mb) version.
• high-res (1024×768 resolution – 58mb) version.

Ruby Nuby Night

The Melbourne Ruby Group held a “Ruby & Rails Nuby Night” on 28th June, 2007. It consisted of lots of short presentations given by various people to cover different and interesting aspects of Ruby and Rails. We were there to capture screencasts of all of them.

• Ruby Nuby Night Intro – Pete Yandell.
• Ruby Overview – Pete Yandell.
• Blocks – Pete Yandell.
• Iterators – Steve Hayes.
• Mixins – Mark Ryall.
• Duck Typing – Mark Mansour.
• DSL’s – Dave Burt.
• Monkey Patching – Mark Mansour.
• JRuby & Rubinius – Marcus Crafter.
• Unicode Support – Pete Yandell.
• Rake – Justin French.
• Rails Overview – John Barton.
• Convention over Configuration – Marcus Crafter.
• Active Record – Marcus Crafter with John Barton & Ryan Allen.
• Migrations – Abhi Hiremagalur.
• Layouts & Views – Justin French.