ShowMeDo Blog

We created our requests page a year ago when we started the site. Here our users can vote for video requests to show our authors what will be popular.

We have had hundreds of votes per request, and authors are using this list as a guide for what to create. We have had three of these requests turned into series this year and I’m recording these fulfilled requests in the wiki.

Please get in contact with your own requests, and don’t forget to vote for what you want to see!

Fulfilled requests:

• Blender Introductions, by Glen Moyes
• Perl Introductions, by Steven Devijver
• A Car Maintenance series, by David Rawlinson

“Next come simple arithmetic operators and conditional statements in Perl.” - 1 video, 12 minutes, Steven Devijver

Dear everyone, Kyran and I send you happy Christmas wishes. We’re taking a break for a few days, then from next week we’re back to growing the site at a newly-increased pace. Expect lots of interesting things to happen next year.

You may have experienced some down-time with our site recently, it seems we’ve hit a limit with our SQLite database (it really wasn’t designed to handle concurrent writes) so we’re replacing it with MySQL in a few days. Sorry about that, we’re on the case and it will be solved soon.

In the meantime - if you are thinking of making some videos to share your knowledge over the Christmas break, just drop me an email and I’ll give you all the help I can.

Merry Christmas, Ian and Kyran.

“This may come as a shock to you: you can actually run Linux as a Windows application! This ShowMeDo series shows you how to do that in easy steps with freely available tools.” - 2 videos, 17 minutes, Steven Devijver

Bart over at BlenderNation has written a wonderful piece on us:

“There’s a new video site on the block and it’s called ShowMeDo. It’s not another Youtube or Google video; instead they focus on videos that teach the viewer. At this moment they have seven categories, Blender being one of them. Currently, they host an exceptional series of video tutorials by Glen Moyes, who made these for his Blender workshop.”

Welcome everyone from BlenderNation!

“In this second ShowMeDo on the Perl programming language Steven introduces how simple variables work in Perl.” - 1 video, 14 minutes, Steven Devijver.

“This video show you how to make an installable Debian package (”.deb”) out of a python program. The example program to demonstrate this technique is a little python game called “rock, paper, scissors”.” - 1 video, 23 minutes, Horst Jens.

Martin over at GHacks.net has just published a glowing little review about us. Thanks Martin

“If ShowMeDo manages to gain some momentum and exposure on the internet [then] they surely will make their way as a great niche movie website that is able to survive amongst the big players.”

“Welcome to the Flash Shapes Basics video 1. In this video we will discuss creating raw shapes in the Flash IDE and discover how manipulating shapes in Flash is different (and often confusing) compared to other vector manipulation programs. This is part one of a five part series.” - 5 videos, 20 minutes, Aaron Fay.

“From the basic terms employed in the field of 3D modelling to the creation of complex scenes, Glen Moyes guides you gently through Blender’s wonderful world.” - 6 videos, 77 minutes, Glen Moyes.