I demonstrated how to make AJAX requests with raw JavaScript. In today's screencast, we'll take things a step further as we use PHP to query a database, convert it to the JSON format, and use Javascript to asynchronously request this information and display it on the page..

In this episode we will continued our dive into how to use NHibernate.

we'll discuss some of the types of collections (bag, set, and list), some of the features NHibernate offers for loading, sorting, and pre-filtering collection data, and how cascading and transparent lazy loading works w...

n this episode, you will learn about the reasons why you might use an Object/Relational Mapper (ORM). You will also hear why NHibernate is a particularly good ORM, when it is appropriate to use NHibernate and when it is NOT appropriate to use NHibernate. Finally, you will hear why you might choose NH...

In this episode we will walk you though how to do list conversion using Linq.

We will walk though the various ways in which you can perform list conversions.

Guyren Howe has considerable experience with both MySQL and PostgreSQL. He discusses the myriad technical and other advantages to using PostgreSQL inst...

Taylor Weibley is the director of support at Engine Yard, where he's seen plenty of poorly scaling Rails applications. In this first interview he lets us know about three things we can do today to help our application performance. After his interview I go through some common ways to Scale your Data...

When you start caching html content which depends on data in your database, what happens when that data changes? You're going to need to expire that cache, and in this episode, we show you how Rails makes this quite easy

Will believes that CouchDB, and other document databases, are going to continue to grow in popularity in the future, and it's important that we as deve...

Ruby In the Clouds is about the challenges and results I've faced bringing Ruby and Rails to the 10gen cloud computing platform. It will most definite...

Sebastien Lambla demonstrates how to create a simple database with Fluent NHibernate. Some of the key facts about Fluent NHibernate, which are also a part of the talk are: Fluent NHibernate is XML free. All property references use the actual class instead of strings. A testing framework that provides...

Rob Purcell and Manoj Bajaj of UBS will give a talk on, reliable database/messaging transactions without 2PC

Dominic Damian talks about the different options available to you when deploying a Rails application. He covers areas such as servers, caching, databas...