Archive for February, 2007

New Python ShowMeDo: ShowMeDo’s Presentation to PyCon

Monday, February 26th, 2007

“Doug asked us to prepare a talk for the 2007 PyCon plenary sessions to explain our goals. Kyran and I talk about why we started ShowMeDo and how we want to help keen Python (and Open Source) users to share knowledge and education.” - 1 video, 4 minutes, Ian Ozsvald, Kyran Dale

ShowMeDo Wallpaper

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

Would you like some wallpaper? Over in the wiki we have some sample images, including this rather nice 800×600 alpha-background logo that you can use as a background to your own ShowMeDos:

Mini ShowMeDo logo

200,000 tutorials served!

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Yesterday we served our 207,987th tutorial video and at least half of these have been Python tutorials. This is a great milestone to pass, Kyran and I are very pleased with the site’s growth (to all our visitors and commenters - thank you!).

Next milestone - 500k tutorials - how soon can we get there? PyCon - can you and the Python community help?

Here’s a graph (click to expand) of our downloads to date:

207,987 Tutorials Served

New Python ShowMeDo: PyCon-Tech 4 - Schedule App Part 1a

Monday, February 19th, 2007

“We pick up right where we left off with the PyCon schedule app and look at the use of the Dojo javascript toolkit.” - 1 video, 12 minutes, Doug Napoleone

New Python ShowMeDo: PyCon-Tech 3 - Schedule App Part 1

Monday, February 19th, 2007

“In this instalment we look at the PyCon schedule app from a client perspective.” - 1 video, 26 minutes, Doug Napoleone

New ShowMeDo: PyCon-Tech 2 - Django plus PHP

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

“We dive into the source code behind the PyCon web site and how we integrate the PHP based PMWiki with Django using a custom Template Loader.” - 1 video, 24 minutes, Doug Napoleone

New German Screencasting ShowMeDo: Screencasts erstellen mit Gobby

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

“In diesem ShowMeDo geht es darum, wie man mit Hilfe von Gobby, Skype und Pamela Screencasts kollaborativ über das Internet erstellt.” - 1 video, 16 minutes, Lucas Holland and Marius Meinert

Translation request - this video is in German, we’d love to have an English version or an English audio track - can you help?

New Python ShowMeDos: Funktionen (1 video, 5 minutes)

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

“In dieser Episode geht es um Funktionen, also um das Gruppieren von Code zu Einheiten, die wiederverwendbar sind.” - 1 video, 5 minutes, Lucas Holland and Marius Meinert

New Python ShowMeDo: PyCon-Tech Introduction

Monday, February 12th, 2007

“PyCon-Tech is an initiative started by A. M. Kuchling to create an integrated set of tools for running the PyCon conference. In this introduction we give an overview of the PyCon web site public interfaces (wiki, talk archive, schedule) and the technologies used to implement them (pmwiki, zope, django). The technologies are fully integrated into a (mostly) seamless site.” - 1 video, 13 minutes, Doug Napoleone

New ShowMeDo: Move Vista’s Quick Launch to Side of Screen

Monday, February 12th, 2007

This is our first Windows Vista screencast, we’re hoping that this is the first in a series of tutorial ‘casts from David Kirk over at the excellent tech-recipes.com tutorial site.

“In Vista you can no longer move your quick launch toolbar to the side of the screen. For users who have been running XP for a long time, this can be quite painful. Here are the instructions. The original author of these instructions over at tech-recipes is hack_vista.” - 1 video, 3 minutes, David Kirk