ShowMeDo Blog

Kyran and I are very happy to announce a new release of the site - this time we add author-photos, videos-by-author, a ‘graphics‘ section and some improvements to the comments. On the front-page we will feature some of our recent authors, to give their photos an airing.

Note that you may need to do a hard-refresh when you next visit the site to get the updated CSS (that’s Ctrl-F5 in most browsers).

We are really happy with the addition of photos, it gives the site a much more personal feel. Do please remember to leave positive comments for our authors, everyone loves to know that their effort in making the videos is appreciated.

To see an author’s list of videos, click on their name. For example, from my recent Python Newbies on XP series, you can click on my name and you’ll see a list of all my videos and my picture too.

Next, we’ll be working to add user-logins as we begin to let you customise the site to your preferences…

“Mikel introduces the OpenStreetMap web-based editor, a prototype piece of software by Steve Coast. Learn how to easily add new streets to the OpenStreetMap project by tracing over Yahoo aerial data and submitting nodes, segments and ways, recorded using some data near Clapham Common in the UK.”, 1 video, 4 minutes, Mikel Maron

“Jesse introduces Firebug 1.0, the live CSS editor which runs inside Firefox. See how you can easily identify elements by rolling the mouse over them, select them, see the html and see which rules apply to the segment (or those that have been over-ridden). You can also edit the html and css in-place and monitor and debug AJAX calls - this is an awesome tool, all web developers need to know about it.”, 1 video, 3 minutes, Jesse Newland

Lucas and Marius have completed the 5th and 6th parts of their brilliant Python Introductory series. Now, learn about Operatoren und Datentypen and the excellent Objektorientierte Programmierung (OOP).

I recently asked our authors to explain how they made their videos. The result so far is a great forum discussion on the different techniques we’ve all used.

The discussion covers the tools everyone has used on different platforms (including CamStudio, Camtasia, iShowU and xVidCap), approaches to planning and recording and post-production. Lucas and Marius gives some details of their excellent distant-recording technique, they are geographically distant so they use a multi-user editor (Gobby), Skype and Pamela to extract the audio - a great and innovative approach to group recording!

Do you want to learn about how to make videos? Drop into the discussion and post your own questions, we’re here to help.