Sergio Pereira : Video

Talk: Stop Programming JavaScript by Luck

sergiopereira — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:07:00 GMT

Last Saturday I had the pleasure to present a JavaScript talk at the Iowa Code Camp. The talk was Stop Programming JavaScript By Luck and it tries to highlight some of the most puzzling differences from your mainstream programming language (read: C#, VB, Java.)

I'd like to thank all that came to the talk and the Code Camp organizers for inviting me. Here are the video recording and the slide deck.

The video

And the slide deck.

Video: WI-INETA JavaScript presentation

sergiopereira — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:17:00 GMT

I finally got around to properly record and publish one of those JavaScript presentations that I have been doing at local users groups. The video and the slide deck are available below.

The video

And the slide deck.

If you prefer, you can download the slide deck.

Taking PeepCode for a spin

sergiopereira — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:25:00 GMT

A rainy weekend and some brain hunger made me finally do something I had been meaning to do for a while. Once I posted about my interest in screencasts and their power to make information memorable. This last weekend I filled up my shopping cart over at PeepCode with a bunch of material that was on my to watch list.

GIT

This video was pretty interesting. It will definitely let you get off the ground quickly with git. I learned and still remember more from this screencast than from any other time spent on documentation and tutorials.

This is one of those screencasts where the author starts cranking out commands at the command line. If you can't stand the command line, you won't like this one. The advantage is that the command line is the same in all platforms.

My only negative comments, which is applicable to almost all the other videos I've watched, is that the author has the habit of clearing the screen way too early and often. At least it's recorded so you can rewind and absorb the information at your own pace.

GIT Internals (PDF)

While on my git learning mode, I went ahead and bought this PDF as well. Boy, this is money. If you're a sucker for internal details, this one is for you.

The PDF was written by Scott Chacon, who is very well known in git circles. The material is dense but is very well explained by Scott. Worth every penny.

The PDF ships with some videos from gitcasts and some handy shell shortcuts.

Rails from Scratch Part 1 and Part 2

I already have a reasonable level of experience with Rails. What made me buy these two episodes was to see a competent Rails programmer showing how he works. After watching both videos I was happy to see that I was not so far off. I know these screencasts are definitely simplified for the newbie and that a number of things changed in Rails since the first edition of this material, but the good advices on how to organize code and use the Rake tasks are still valid.

There's a whole lot more to Rails than it's possible to cram in 2h40 of screencasts but if you need to start somewhere, this is a good choice. I wish there was a little more ActiveRecord and plugins covered but, hey, it's still one of the greatest bargains out there.

Objective-C for Rubyists

I just started watching this one. My early impression (25 minutes in) is that its pace is a little too frantic. I don't buy the argument that knowing Ruby helps you learning Objective-C because of their SmallTalk heritage.

I've been trying to get into Objective-C from books and whitepapers but I had hopes a screencast like this would be more effective. I'm not too optimistic so far (I'll update this post if I'm convinced otherwise.)

Worth the investment

A good thing with the PeepCode episodes is that they are positioned at a price point (US $9.00) that doesn't let you feel too bad, even if you expected more of them. They have definitely been worth more than the sticker price.

I'm looking forward to a few more episodes later this year. RSpec and Haml are on my crosshair.

Video - Uncle Bob Q&A at Chicago ALT.NET

sergiopereira — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:24:00 GMT

After his presentation, Robert stayed a little more answering questions from the audience.

Video - XP: After 10 years, why are we still talking about it?

sergiopereira — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:06:00 GMT

Here's my small contribution to the current avalanche of Uncle Bob references in the .NET world.

This video was recorded at the February's meeting of the Chicago ALT.NET group. This is the presentation that he will be giving as a keynote speech at the SD West conference next month.

The Q&A part of the meeting has also been recorded.

Trying out a Randori

sergiopereira — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:50:00 GMT

Tonight's meeting of the Software Craftsmanship Group was led by Uncle Bob Martin.

This time around we tried a Randori-style coding dojo. The task was to build a clock and, although we fell short of the original goal of having a GUI, there was plenty to be learned in this process.

I felt it was an interesting way to learn about your own performance under a moderate amount of pressure. More importantly, at least for me, was getting exposure to BDD and pairing with other developers that are a few step ahead of me on that particular road.

Once again, because I'm not a Ruby developer by day, I felt a little bit uneasy taking my turn and going up there to code a little bit. But I would not pass the experience, otherwise why even bother showing up for the event at all.

The whole thing was captured on tape. ~~Hopefully the video will be made available and I'll come back and link to it here.~~

UPDATE: Doug has put some videos up.

Software Craftsmanship - Coding Dojo - Kata

Software Craftsmanship - Coding Dojo - Randori

Video - The Langston's Ant

sergiopereira — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:41:00 GMT

Remember one recent post when I talked about the Code Kata that I attended? Well, Micah prepared a screencast version of that Kata and that video is now available.

It's a short screencast (14') and even if Ruby is not your cup of tea, it's interesting to watch BDD being practiced.

Langston's Ant in Ruby Kata from Micah Martin on Vimeo.

Video - Core, an AOP Framework

sergiopereira — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:34:00 GMT

Wow, that took a long time to be published, but here it is. This video was recorded during the October's meeting of Chicago ALT.NET that happened almost just about a whole month ago.

The video shows Josh Heyse demonstrating and explaining the works of the AOP framework called Core. What the video doesn't show is who's that voice that also knows a lot about Core. That would be Anthony Green, who developed Core with Josh.

Video - ORM Discussion/Fishbowl

sergiopereira — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:11:00 GMT

After the IoC talk we had the monthly discussion. This time we tried the fishbowl format (or some approximation of that). The topic was ORMs.

Video - IoC with StructureMap

sergiopereira — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:47:00 GMT

I finally got some time to import and upload the videos of September's Chicago ALT.NET meeting that happened almost 2 weeks ago.

In this first video jdn shows how DI and IoC containers can be used to add flexibility to an application design.

Video - Aug 08 discussions at Chicago ALT.NET

sergiopereira — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:58:00 GMT

The second half of the meeting was an open discussion that revolved around practices of Agile teams. There's also an entertaining rant by I'm-still-Brad in the middle.

Video - ThoughtWorks Cruise at Chicago ALT.NET

sergiopereira — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:34:00 GMT

This video was captured at the Chicago ALT.NET August 13th meeting. This first video is the Cruise presentation.