ShowMeDo Blog

I have just added 5 new requests to the site:

• Patrick Kohler: It would be great to have a rapid introduction to Python
• Mike Cosby: I would like to see a full Python tutorial to accompany the one at python.org
• Yi Qiang: I would like to see a ShowMeDo on using the Python debugger (pdb) effectively
• Gavin Buttimore: Installing and running php/MySQL, probably in two parts
• Gavin Buttimore: Perl demos, perhaps ‘printing hello world’, ‘opening and reading a file’, ‘regular expressions’

Please Go Vote for the videos you’d like to see!

We have released a new version of ShowMeDo.com. The main changes are improvements to the Voting Page (the addition of filters) and improved rendering for IE 6.

We are developing and testing a new version of the site which will include video comments - just like comments on blogs, but these can be left for each video. We are hoping to see nice feedback for the ShowMeDo author and the sharing of knowledge. All comments will be filtered by Kyran and myself, so no spam will get through.

I’ll say more on this when we are closer to releasing the update. Please take a look at the new site and let us know what you think.

John continues the Eclipse series with a fourth on Using CVS inside Eclipse for version control, and shows how to use his Java Psion Link application.

Thanks John!

I have just posted our 30th video - Fabio’s PyDev ShowMeDo. So far we have 21 Python ShowMeDos, 3 for Java, 4 for Screencasting and 2 Miscellaneous. 30 is a great milestone to reach.

I also have two more Java videos to post over the weekend. In the works from three of our users we may have new ShowMeDos covering MatPlotLib, PAMIE and a whole set for car mechanics.

If you’d like notifications for new videos, don’t forget to email us (notifications@showmedo.com) or post your email address into the notifications widget on each video page (it comes to the same email address).

We will only use your email for new-video notifications, and I mail out roughly once a month. We won’t spam or do anything foolish with your email address.

Fabio Zadrozny introduces his free PyDev development environment for the Eclipse framework, and shows the PyDev Extensions tool.

Thanks Fabio!

We have two new ShowMeDos. Jeff Winkler shows you how to control a Windows application using pyWinAuto and how to use his Nosey tool for Python testing.

Thanks Jeff!