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How are your speaking skills?

Tekpub is proud to present our latest production: The Art of Speaking: Scott Hanselman

Everyone needs to speak in front of a group at some point in their career. Whether it's your boss and a peer or a keynote at a huge conference: having a solid set of speaking skills can help you out. In this 80 minute production we pushed ourselves to produce the best-quality production we've ever made. We think you'll enjoy it as well.

Learn It Now - Don't Waste Your Time

Time is money - so why pay more for a HUGE tech book that will be obsolete within months? Our videos are produced when the technology happens - not months afterwards. The only way tech publishers can release a book at our speed is to start months before we do - working with pre-release software and rushing in changes prior to production.

Featured Productions

For this special production, we've teamed up with Peepcode to bring you this exceptional introduction to CoffeeScript. We're offering this production for free to all of our monthly and annual subscribers - but if you'd like to download it you certainly can over at Peepcode!

Our Full Throttle productions put you in a chair right next to an expert in the field, so you can see how they get their work done when confronted with a singular problem or task. These titles are free-form and uncut - we try not spend much time on explanations - just go Full Throttle to get the problem solved! Each Full Throttle production is a single episode which stretch a little longer than our typical stuff.

In this single-episode production, Rob dives into the various aspects of working with "modern" Javascript. Syntax rules aren't discussed in-depth as the focus of this screencast is to get you up to speed with what's happening in the Javascript world. If you're a web developer and only dabbled with Javascript - or if you're a .NET developer (*especially* if you're a .NET developer) - understanding Javascript is becoming increasingly important. That's the goal of this screencast: getting you up to speed so you can explore the Javascript world confidently.

Recent Episodes

Covariance and Contravariance

In this episode Jon melts Rob's brain as he tries to explain the new Covariance and Contravariance features in C# 4.0. This is a very advanced episode - you should be comfortable with generics, LINQ, and C# in general.

Episode 2 - Intermediate

Part I of the Vim tutorial series introduced you to the basics of Vim: installation, basic editing, operators, and file navigation. This sequel will teach you to productively use Vim’s text editing, movement, and manipulation capabilities. In this 59 minute advanced vim tutorial, you’ll learn from experienced Vim master Andrew Stewart (voiced by Internet celebrity Dan Benjamin).

Topics covered:

Precision movement
Movement, selection, and editing with marks
Text manipulation
Search, replace, and execute
Advanced configuration and abbreviations
Navigation and manipulation with folds
Auto-completion
Command recording and playback
Using and organizing plugins with Tim Pope’s Pathogen
Installation and basic usage of top plugins: Git & Fugitive, Surround, Ragtag, Endwise, Rails.vim, Snipmate, tComment
Reading, searching, and navigating the built-in documentation

Episode 1 - The Basics

In our 50-minute Vim tutorial, experienced Vim master, water polo captain, and former British intelligence officer Andrew Stewart teaches you the very basics of Vim. You don’t need any previous knowledge of Vim—we’ll take you from the beginning. You’ll learn to:

Install Vim for your platform
Use Vim for simple editing via SSH
Configure Vim with sensible defaults (basic and advanced configurations are included in the code download)
Use operators and commands to manipulate text
Work with files, windows and buffers
Install plugins

Meet CoffeeScript

The CoffeeScript Talk

Watch as Scott learns CoffeeScript and designs his slides, creates his demos and then delivers his talk.

Quick Start

In this, the only episode, we discuss why you should care about Javascript, some of the quirks of the language, good habits like unobtrusive Javascript, namespacing and the module pattern, and finally a bit of a teaser for CoffeeScript.

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Quick Hits

The fact that Rob Conery worked w ASP.NET ... comes very handy when he explains even non MS dev stuff... Love it :)
-- Mohammed Meligy

I've always been a SubVersion person, but @robconery and TekPub helped me see the light. Git simply rocks!
-- Philippe Leybaert

Ok, I get it now. Mercurial makes life easier. Working on upgrade plans. Also, thanks to @tekpub for helping me figure it out.
-- Jeff Fansier

Today's Awesomeness: I'm getting payed to watch the @tekpub videos I wanted to watch at home after work :D
-- Franscisco Noriega

Love the tutorial videos TekPub is putting out! I'm hooked- finally just signed up for a year subscription. Keep it up!
-- Michael Cox

Just have to say that the linq series by @JustinEtheredge on @tekpub is great. Session 1 is a great example of good teaching skills.
-- Rob Gillen

Watching TekPub [Mastering] C# 4! @jonskeet sure knows how to explain C#... really satisfied with my subscription.
-- Mikael Henriksson

TekPub ... is an amazing way to learn new programing languages and methods
-- Shahar Pitaru

Ok watching the TekPub rails 3 videos on the iPad on the commute home rocked hard!
-- Bobby Johnson

One of our ops guys wants to get into programming. He's just bought the mastering c# series on @tekpub. I'm excited for him :)
-- Johnno Nolan

Tekpub is an excellent source for video tutorials / information for different programming concepts. Love these guys.
-- Nathan Blevins