Archive for January, 2007

New navigation feature - tags

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

We’ve been hard at work adding some new features to ShowMeDo, the first (just released) allows you to navigate between videos by Tags. See Steven Devijver’s first Perl video, scroll under the video and you’ll see ‘Tags: Perl(4) Linux(12)‘. All videos have tags, let us know if we should add more. More features to come…

New Python ShowMeDos (German): Einführung in die Programmierung mit Python

Monday, January 29th, 2007

Lucas and Marius have created two new videos in their German Python series, this time covering “Das print-Statement” and “Kommentare, Variablen und Datentypen”. The series is now four videos long.

New Ruby ShowMeDo: Build a Full Rails Server on Ubuntu

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

“This 10 minute demo shows how easy it is to install Ruby, Rails, Apache, Mongrel, Subversion, and MySQL on an Ubuntu server. Capistrano and the deprec gem (deployment recipes) are used to automate the installation process with only a few commands. It finishes with a deployment of a Rails app to the newly built server!” - 1 video, 10 minutes, Geoffrey Grosenbach

Ryan Carson asking about web-app experiences

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

Ryan Carson has posted an entry asking for start-ups to blog about their founding experiences and a number of small companies are posting details.

If you want about how ShowMeDo started, see my comment over on Ryan’s post. Dary, down the road at timetotrade.eu, has also commented about his experiences.

New Python ShowMeDo (German): Das print Statement

Saturday, January 13th, 2007

In der zweiten Episode geht es um ein wichtiges Grundwerkzeug eines jeden Python Programmierers: Die Benutzung des print Statements.” - 1 video (of 2), 3 minutes, Lucas Holland and Marius Meinert

New ShowMeDo: Arrays and Loops in Perl

Saturday, January 13th, 2007

“This fourth showmedo covers arrays, ranges, the foreach loop statement and the scope of variables.” - 1 video (of 4), 8 minutes, Steven Devijver

New ShowMeDos: pyGame Basics

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

“The aim of these videos is to convey basic pyGame programming knowledge to you.” - 3 videos, 24 minutes, Florian Mayer

New ShowMeDos: Interactive Flash

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

“Aaron Fay introduces ActionScript - covering basic interactivity, a user-defined class and the use of built-in classes.” - 3 videos, 20 minutes, Aaron Fay

New ShowMeDos: Rasters vs Vectors in PhotoShop

Monday, January 8th, 2007

“Discover the difference between raster graphics and vector images as Aaron shows you the pros and cons of each.” - 2 videos, 17 minutes, Aaron Fay

New Python ShowMeDo (German): Einführung in die Programmierung mit Python

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

“Diese erste Episode einer ganzen Reihe von ShowMeDos zeigt grundlegende Konzepte der Programmierung auf.” - 1 video (first in a series), 3 minutes, Lucas Holland and Marius Meinert