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Two years in the making, it’s the PeepCode screencast on jQuery, the popular javascript framework for developing web applications.
jQuery stormed out of the gate and quickly won the hearts of developers. Its design and implementation make it easy for you to accomplish basic tasks. Extendability is built in with its plugin architecture (you’ll write one in this screencast). You can organize code around native javascript objects (you’ll do that, too!).

Francis Hwang has been writing programs in the Ruby language since back before barely anyone knew what it was.
He co-founded the groundbreaking GoRuCo conference in New York City and is currently the CTO of Profitably, a financial analytics startup.
This screencast is part of a new series at PeepCode where we sit down with expert programmers and watch them work. The point isn’t to create a deployable product, but rather to discover workflow tips and development hacks that usually require years of experience to figure out.

Peepcode - this is a godsend for rubistov and ror-developers. In a short time, Geoffrey, and will explain in detail to you, a popular product or technology.
Screencasts are suitable for both beginners and professionals.
The topics: Ruby, Rails, Unit testing, Git, Objective-C, jQuery, Prototype, Vim, Emacs.
Included in the distribution of the book and the application PeepOpen.

PeepCode Meet jQuery quickly became our fastest-selling title of all time. In this screencast, we explore the Ajax features of the popular jQuery javascript framework.
We start simply with the transfer of HTML fragments in only one line of code. You’ll learn about the convenience methods in jQuery and then dive down into the details of the low-level Ajax method.

For many years, serious database aficionados have preferred the Postgres database system. It’s industrial strength – many installations store terabytes of data. It’s fully open source (not controlled by a predatory corporation). It’s fast and easy to use. Full text search is built-in. It’s the default database for all applications deployed to Heroku.