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Learning the easy way with screencasts
Since last year I've been watching more and more screencasts. By screencasts I mean short videos, usually one hour long, focusing on one specific technique. I found that screencasts are an amazing way to get up and running on a given topic. I thought I would share this here.
I currently know about two great publishers (please comment if you know others).
"PeepCode":http://peepcode.com/ is a place with a lot of Rails and RSpec related-content, but you will also find things that could be relevant to .Net, depending on what you're currently experimenting:
* "Ajax with Prototype.js":https://peepcode.com/products/ajax-with-prototypejs
* "Javascript with Prototype.js":https://peepcode.com/products/javascript-with-prototypejs
* "Benchmark with httperf":https://peepcode.com/products/benchmarking-with-httperf
* "Git":https://peepcode.com/products/git - if you're into decentralized version control
* "CouchDB":https://peepcode.com/products/couchdb-with-rails - CouchDB is a nice document oriented database; great to handle semi-structured data for instance.
These screencasts are priced at 9$ each (at time of writing).
"The Pragmatic Programmers":http://www.pragprog.com/screencasts also propose a series of screencasts, including episodes on "Erlang in practice":http://www.pragprog.com/screencasts/v-kserl/erlang-in-practice or "Writing your first iPhone application":http://www.pragprog.com/screencasts/v-bdiphone/writing-your-first-iphone-application.
h3. Yourself as an internal publisher
Finally, some "friends of mine":http://clt-services.com/ have "started using screencasts inside their company to share knowledge":http://evolvingworker.com/2008/10/13/using-screencasts-to-share-knowledge-inside-a-company. I believe it is a very interesting practice.
Do you know other interesting screencasts publishers ? Please comment!
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http://envycasts.com/
They also mention some others in their blog:
http://www.railsenvy.com/2008/8/26/now-announcing-envycasts-com
I think that new technologies offer incredible perspectives of training such as Learning with screencasts.
It seems this post is a Little marketing therefore I would like to explain that ISV such as Omondo can also provide added value services using screencast for support and training purposes.
For example if you buy one EclipseUML Studio 2008 license then you get for free as many as needed hours of online training:
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Please note that even beginners after less than 3 hours of online training can start to model and use Eclipse in their project. It means that if you have a new member coming in your team at 9:00, he will be immediately efficient at 12:00 and start codding after launch time :-)
Courses are provided in English and French.
You can also see for free our online training sessions at: http://www.tutorial-omondo.com/live_EclipseUML2008_demo.html
This is my penny to this post.
Vlad Varnica
Omondo
UK
As well, this (small) site has screencasts with some JRuby + Swing material: http://screencastic.com
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