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I think code_swarm is the most awesomest thing I’ve ever seen. Go watch the Apache video. Seriously cool stuff.

Thanks to Jaime Thomas for pointing this out (and, generating an Ewl video).

The video from LayerOne has been posted to YouTube. For the one person that’s maybe, kinda, interested, you can see my Exploit-Me: Firefox Plug-ins for Application Penetration Testing. The slides in the video are a bit hard to read but you can grab a PDF copy off the LayerOne archive site.

Let me know what you think.

If you’re curious about this XSS and Sql Injection stuff take a look at the OWASP Top Ten they’re both in there.

I stumbled across PeepCode last night. While it looks like a porn site it actually isn’t. Well, maybe geek porn. They sell programming videos on various topics. I watched a few of the free snippets and they were pretty good so I picked myself up a 10 pack.

I’ve got six of them downloaded at the moment:

• Rails From Scratch part I
• Rails From Scratch part II
• Test-First Development with Rails
• RESTful Rails
• TextMate for Rails
• RJS Templates

I watched the TextMate for Rails video last night. The production quality is really good and he gets through a lot of the TextMate commands and features. I’ll have to watch it again as there are so many different TextMate keyboard commands.

The videos come without DRM and they provide normal sized (I watched them fullscreen on my laptop and there was no pixelization) and iPod sized if you desire. I love the fact that I can download them and store them on my server at home. No need to watch them on the site every time. They all come with full source code used in the video and some have extra little PDFs and resource link collections to give you more information on the subject.

So far, really well done. I’m just waiting for a few more to come out as I’ve got 4 credits remaining. (Although I’m considering getting the JavaScript with Prototype.js video.

As a side note, while I was watching the video I noticed a text editing program, which I can’t remember the name of in the background. The website for that editor pointed me to Scrivener which looks kinda interesting if you’re a writer.

I’ve seen a couple of good videos from the Google Tech Talks series that I thought I’d pass along. The first one is a presentation on DTrace by Bryan Cantrill. It’s a very good introduction to DTrace and, I’ve got to say, his presentation style is great. I like that there basically is no pre-set presentation. He just runs DTrace and goes to it. Anyway, see for yourself: DTrace Review.

The second one was posted by Nathan and is a really interesting talk on API design. Check it out: How To Design A Good API And Why It Matters.

There seem to be quite a few good videos coming out of the Google Tech Talk series. I just wish they were a bit higger resolution