In this episode Oren shows Rob how to do the basic database administration tasks: datafile management, database management, backups, restores, exports and imports and scheduled tasks. Along the way we meet The Smuggler and watch as Oren forgets to create a database for his MVC app...

Released on February 14 2012 - 12 minutes

In this episode Oren shows Rob how to snoop on RavenDB when working with an ASP.NET MVC3 application using its built-in profiler. Then, Oren shows how RavenDB snoops on you with built-in safety measures preventing things like SELECT N+1 and Unbounded result sets.

Released on February 14 2012 - 12 minutes

Demos are fun to watch and it's easy to get excited about the promise of a tool... and then you try and deploy it. Installation, security issues, configuration - it can be a major PITA to get it setup correctly for production use. In this episode, Oren shows 4 different ways to deploy RavenDB to production... in 12 minutes.

Released on February 10 2012 - 12 minutes

In this short episode we explain how documents are named with RavenDB - and why.

Released on February 09 2012 - 5 minutes

Querying a document store is unlike querying a relational system - it's a lot simpler and a lot more fun. In this episode Oren shows Rob how to harness the power of Raven's underlying query engine: Lucene...

Released on February 09 2012 - 13 minutes

We've all heard of NoSQL and Document Stores - so it comes as no surprise that many get rather bored of Yet Another Document Store. In this episode, we try to tackle that issue head on - showing you what RavenDB is, how it works, and why you should care.

Released on February 09 2012 - 20 minutes

In this episode Oren shows Rob the easiest way to use RavenDB in an ASP.NET MVC 3 application and we take some detours into various architectural approaches that Raven might fit into.

Released on February 09 2012 - 20 minutes

RavenDB's indexes help you query your document store effectively - but unlike relational systems, RavenDB allows you to build and use an index while it's being created. Indexing effectively is at the core of what RavenDB is all about and if you don't do it, Raven will do it for you...

Released on February 09 2012 - 18 minutes

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.

Released on January 18 2012 - 38 minutes

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

Released on January 06 2012 - 50 minutes

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

Released on January 06 2012 - 59 minutes

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!

Released on December 19 2011 - 75 minutes

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

Released on December 09 2011 - 80 minutes

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.

Released on November 20 2011 - 58 minutes

In this episode Jon wraps up the previous discussions on Lambdas, Extension Methods and Expressions - showing you how they are used in LINQ - .NET's Language INtegrated Query feature. This is not a full dive into LINQ, just the mechanisms that make it run.

Released on November 08 2011 - 44 minutes