John Montgomery’s series of 10 ShowMeDos introducing Java Applet programming is now complete, we’ve just uploaded the 6th to 10th parts. Here John shows how to write a classic Mandelbrot Applet, featuring colour, movement, fading and zooming.
You can see some extra information in this wiki entry wiki(JavaMontgomeryAppletSeries). You can vote for this video over at dzone.com and digg it too.
John’s 4th and 5th videos are up. The series was originally for 5 videos, John has now recorded another 5 to extend the set - these will be posted during September. These videos cover animation in an Applet and pixel-level rendering. Please leave a comment for John if you like the videos! You can vote for them at dzone.com.
After our recent traffic spikes (Makezine, DZone, Delicious and O’ReillyNet in order) and the heaps of positive feedback that we’ve received, we know that we’re providing something that is seriously useful to many people.
Jeremy Jones is looking to make a worked-example ShowMeDo for Django, as is Ian Maurer and Ian Holsman. Nadav Samet plans to do the same for TurboGears. Web frameworks are naturally big right now with the forthcoming v1.0 releases for TurboGears and Django - and these contributions will be great to learn from.
However - we don’t want to lose sight of other areas where tutorial videos would be very important, namely:
To get an idea of how well our programming videos are being received, see the votes for some of our programming series over at DZone.com.
Do you have a topic that you’d like to contribute? Could you help us solve some of our user-requests (how about looking at them in reverse-date-order?)? We’ll help you every step of the way - just get in touch (ian@showmedo.com) and we can talk through your ideas. With the right ideas your ShowMeDos could contribute back to the community for a long time to come.
Don’t forget that we are building towards paid-for videos, giving established ShowMeDo-authors the option of making high-quality tutorial series that are available for a fee. Of course, this option will only apply to authors who have demonstrated their knowledge via freely available ShowMeDos first of all!
With the paid-for video option, we’re hoping to be able to contribute back to the underlying open-source projects behind the videos…more on that later as we figure out the details.
Wow, so not only do we have the spike from StumbleUpon today - we also get Jeremy Jones writing some very kind words about us on the O’ReillyNet blog. Many thanks Jeremy!
We’re seeing a huge spike in StumbleUpon.com traffic - welcome in! I’m not a part of the StumbleUpon system…could someone fill me in on how we became so popular? Crikey - this spike is even larger than when we hit the del.icio.us front page.
Kyran and I have updated the site, you should notice some small UI improvements. The most obvious improvement will be the ‘All’ category, listing all of our 58 videos, you can see it here.
Our users are submitting an increasing number of requests, here you can see the most popular for Django, TurboGears and IPython.
The Django crowd have certainly welcomed the request (Google Groups), and Kevin Dangoor has just made a mention on our behalf (and a blog entry).
John Montgomery has created a series of five ShowMeDos showing you how to write Applets with Java using Eclipse. The first two videos are on-line, the next three will be posted during September. Please leave a video-comment for John to show your appreciation!
You can also vote for this series over at this dzone.com page.
It seems we’ve hit gold, we fell into delicious/popular and we’re still in delicious/popular/video. Talk about a traffic spike!
Feel free to get in contact, leave a blog comment, use ‘notify me of new videos’ for email updates, and most importantly - please show your appreciation to the author of videos you like by leaving them a video-comment. Enjoy the videos!
I’ve syndicated our New Java ShowMeDos stream to JavaBlogs.com, and that in turn got picked up by DZone. I see that John’s link has 99 296 clicks and +4 +5 votes - very cool.
These links are for John’s original four Java/Ecplise introductory videos. John has a new set of five videos on the way for writing an applet - I should get the first two up over the weekend.
