After asking around twitter, I had a number of people recommend TechSmith's Jing for doing screencasts. These are the same guys that do the masterful Camtasia which is a more full featured, i.e. expensive, solution. Jing does a good job at capturing my screen and audio. It's limited to 5 minute videos, but give that my main purpose is to share quick ideas with my blog readers, I think that's fine.
So here's my first screencast test. I'm showing the current state of my "Eclipse OS", i.e. Fedora minimal install + X + Chrome Browser + OpenJDK + a standalone Equinox app server. There's not much new here. But I'm really just learning how to use this media. One thing I learned as you'll hear half way through, is that my laptop fan kicks in. Drives me nuts, but anyway. Expect a lot more of these in the upcoming weeks. And hopefully, I'll improve the quality as I go to (like talking louder :).
Update: uploaded to Youtube which gives a much better viewing experience, especially in fullscreen mode.
Update 2: Planet Eclipse seems to filter out the embed object. Click on the title to come to blogger to see the real thing.
Cool demo, Doug! I look forward to seeing where this goes.
ReplyDeleteCool stuff Doug. Are you using GWT in the Equinox App server yet? If so, is there a good example of how this can be done (e.g. is there a gwt feature?). Also...don't forget ECF for Google Wave protocol support and other things in app server :). And have you looked at the Palm WebOS stuff? (it seems to be the same basic architecture...i.e. web appserver underneath browser...all running on phone).
ReplyDeleteThanks, Andrew. Me too :).
ReplyDelete@Scott: yes, it is with GWT with the server side running as servlet registered with the http.registry. The gwt-user.jar is placed in it's own bundle so it can be reused. I started with what Ian Bull did and modernized it a bit. One of the upcoming screencasts will be on how I did that.
I still need to get my head around Google Wave. Might have to wait for Sept for that.
Is WebOS using an app server? I thought it was mainly done in the WebKit browser with JavaScript running there getting access to the underlying system. But I could be wrong. I haven't looked too closely at it.
Cool stuff! Looking forward to the upcoming posts.
ReplyDeleteReg. the fan: I used to have the same problem on my Thinkpad. Designing the laptop so that the microphone is close to the fan is not very wise. However a cheap headset will fix this and also make the typing clickety-clack less audible.
Kind regards,
Elias.
Thanks, but I was using a cheap headset.
ReplyDeletenice. this reminds me of old times playing with Linux From Scratch how-to. but who would think then to at first install java! :-P
ReplyDeleteDoug, I have different approach for my ojitha.blogspot.com blogger. I can use BB Flashback or CamStudio both has no limitation for 5min. My latest blog I create the avi file from BB Flashback and uploaded the video to vimeo website.
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