This screencast shows how you can build an Ember.js application without using Ember Data. It starts off simple and then shows how to build advanced stuff like an identity map yourself.

It assumes some knowledge of Ember. The guides and docs for Ember.js are available at:
http://emberjs.com/guides/

To install NodeJS go to:
http://nodejs.org/

The excellent ember-cli is available at:
http://iamstef.net/ember-cli/

And finally the code created in this screencast can be found here:
https://github.com/eviltrout/emberreddit

Thanks to Stefan Penner, Jo Liss and the Ember Core team for making this amazing framework and tools. Also thanks to Erik Bryn for showing me a few tips about the model hook!