Tech Presentations

Google TechTalk about SVG format and Inkscape open source vector graphics editor that is based on SVG. Given by Ted Gould on June 19, 2006 (video, slides).

SVG made a very good progress since I checked it out last time a while ago - now editors and rendering tools seem to be ready for mainstream.

First introductory presentation “Ruby on Rails to Basecamp” given publicly by David Heinemeier Hansson at Computer Science Roskilde University on May 6th, 2004 (video)

Presentation about WSGI and Pylons framework by Ben Bangert from O’Reilly Media given on September 13, 2006 (video)

This is first of three excellent presentations about JavaScript by Douglas Crockford who gives very detailed introduction to the language.

Enjoy it:

• Embedded Yahoo! Video below
• Yahoo! Video 1, 2, 3, 4
• QuickTime 1, 2, 3, 4
• zipped PowerPoint slides

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Presentations in the series:

1. The JavaScript Programming Language
2. The Theory of the Dom
3. Advanced JavaScript

Joe Hewitt, Netscape and Firefox developer and co-founder of mysterious Parakey project (with Blake Ross) is talking about his new Javascript debugger extension that makes a huge leap forward comparing to previous tools.
Given on January 1^st, 2007 (Yahoo Video, Quicktime).