If you don't care too much about the theory and just want to get up and running, you should read:

http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/papers/guide/guide.pdf

And libsvm is probably the most widely used svm library:

http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/

The author of the above paper and library is the same one giving the lecture in the OP's third link.