Coder To Developer 2009: 1 - Introduction

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The Guide

Mastering Git takes you deep into Git to give you the working knowledge you need to confidently use this system. Git is an amazing source control system and will change the way you work - we've devoted over 3 hours and hopefully you'll agree that Git's rockin.

In this series Ayende integrates NHibernate into Kona (the MVC Storefront) and during the process shows Rob how NHibernate works.

In this series I walk you through a "Day In The Life" as I build out my blog. This is less "instructional" and more watching me sling my way through creating a blog application, using what I've learned from the MVC Storefront series.

In this free Tekpub series we take a look at some of the practices and patterns being used by Microsoft developers today.

In this free Tekpub series I do a remake of Mike Gunderloy's classic developer book, Coder to Developer - but with an update for some of the practices used today.

In this series Justin Etheredge starts out by diving into the fundamentals of Linq, how it works, and the features added to C# 2.0 and 3.0 that make it possible (Episodes 1 & 2). Justin will then dig into all of the various Linq functions available and how each of them works. He will then touch on Parallel Linq and introductions to Linq to XML and Linq to SQL.

In this series Craig Shoemaker walks through the new ASP.NET Ajax Library. Craig will cover how to use the ScriptLoader, DataView Control, DataContext Control, Observer Framework, and how to work with WCF Data Services. Craig will cover how to use the library in pure HTML or with ASP.NET WebForms or ASP.NET MVC.

In this production Rob delivers more than 3 hours of content focused on getting you and your company up and running on Mercurial. Topics include the basics: adding, committing, cloning, and push/pull. More advanced topics include working the console commands for improved speed, setting up the built in Hg web server behind IIS with authentication, and importing from Subversion.

In this single-episode screencast I dive into the Ruby Meta Framework: Rack. If you do any Ruby web programming, an understanding of Rack and what it does is critical. It is the connective magic behind Ruby web frameworks such as Rails, Merb, and Sinatra.

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This series will introduce you to basic Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) concepts and quickly take you into the details of using Linq with Microsoft's latest data access strategy. The goal of this series is to focus on solving data access issues - not the theory surrounding it. Topics include ORM terminology, Linq, SQL, flexxing the EF mapper, and using Code-Only to keep your application as maintainable as possible.

In this series you will learn the basics of working with Silverlight, and then quickly transition to more advanced topics such as working with data, understanding XAML, and hooking into external services.

Rob Conery walks you through Sinatra, the lightweight Ruby web framework. Along the way you’ll get to know Vim, HAML, and MongoDB as Rob rebuilds the MVC Music Store completely with Sinatra. "Understanding Rack" is bundled with this production and is Episode 2.

This is the .NET Open Source channel where we do what we can to give back to the community. Project leaders can create screencasts for their projects, give them to us to polish and render, and we stream them from our streaming servers.

In this series Dave Ward (w/ James Avery) tackles questions submitted by viewers at http://vote.tekpub.com/forums/73709-ask-the-expert-dave-ward. This production will be covering topics like ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, ASP.NET Ajax, and much more.

In this production I set up a Linux server with Apache and Passenger, a module which allows Apache to process Ruby on Rails applications. This is an introductory series meant for folks unfamiliar with Linux, Apache, and Rails

In this series I build out the same blog engine that I created with ASP.NET MVC in our other series, Building My Own Blog. The idea with this series is a thought experiment - building two o the same application with different framework trying to use "best practices" in both cases.

In this series Steven Sanderson and Rob Conery take you from introductory level all the way through to advanced, offering real-world examples and industrial-strength tips and tricks, derived from years of work with the platform.

Mastering jQuery walks through the basics of using jQuery, the revolutionary JavaScript framework that makes writing client-side code fun and easy, and then dives into the details of writing AJAX enabled ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web Forms applications. We will also cover popular plugins and extending jQuery in future episodes.

Ben Scheirman shows you how to get your first iPhone application off the ground and into the App Store

In this series Donn Felker will walk through all the necessary steps to building and launching a sophisticated Android application.

In this production Craig covers all of the new features in ASP.NET 4.0 that you need to know about. This series is aimed at developers who are already familiar with ASP.NET and need to get up to speed on ASP.NET 4.0.

In this series Kevin Hazzard takes you deep into C#'s threading abilities, showing you how to handle things with groovy names like Mutex and Semaphor. In addition Kevin will dive into toolsets like PLINQ and Reactive Extensions with F#.

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