Archive of month: 2009

19th £5 App Write-up

Last night’s £5 App went very well, below are the videos for Tony the electronics inventor, Seb the guaranteed-to-lose-money website creator for IWillPayYourParkingTicket and Rosie the flash-mob-tester via SoftwareTestingClub. £5 App #19 Tony Ellis as Electronics Inventor from IanProCastsCoUk on Vimeo. £5 App #19 Seb and Jamie with I Will Pay Your Parking Ticket from […]

£5 App Tuesday Night 8pm @ Skiff

Tomorrow night’s £5 App is all set. The 19th £5 App will feature a new fab speaker talking about his career as inventor, followed by Seb and Raul.  This will be our last £5 App for probably 2 months (due to conferences and John’s wedding), we’ll probably return in November. Hope to see you there! […]

MockupScreens and ECMerge Screencast Tours

I’m rather chuffed with our two most recent ProCasts screencam productions. For Igor of MockupScreens.com we’ve produced our first dual-narration screencast, this one shows you a typical use of his rapid UI mock-up tool.  Richard takes on the voice of the client, I take the voice of the contractor who is making the mock-up: For […]

£5 App August 11th, last for a few months!

The 19th £5 App will feature a new fab speaker talking about his career as inventor, followed by Seb and Raul.  This will be our last £5 App for probably 2 months (due to conferences and John’s wedding), we’ll probably return in November. The next event is Toy Maker – from Employee to Inventor, it’ll […]

The Micropreneur Academy

Rob Walling has been working to build the Micropreneur Academy – a focused site aimed at MicroISV’s who want to grow their businesses into high-value, fast-growth affairs (original May announce). He contacted me a few months back to ask if I’d like to contribute an article on how screencasts can boost sales of software products, […]

The Screencasting Handbook

I’m very pleased to say that my new screencasting book – The Screencasting Handbook – is now in production. The website went live this week and once one tiny bug is resolved (the title seems to float a bit weirdly) the site will be finished. The book’s goal is to present 4 years of my […]

£5 App #18 – A.I. controlled kites, bootstrapped start-up, geo-urls, robots

On Tuesday we had the 18th £5 App event, details of the line-up are here. Update – write-up by David Hawes on his talk. Allister Furey on A.I. controlled kites and live physics simulations for green power generation: £5 App #18 – Allister Furey on A.I. Controlled Kites v2 from IanProCastsCoUk on Vimeo. David Hawes […]

£5 App Tues July 14th @ Skiff – Kite power with AI, short geo-urls and safety training

Next week’s £5 App night is shaping up nicely, we’re mixing A.I., clean energy production, geo-urls and a safety-training start-up in 3 talks by new speakers.  I’ve cribbed the following from the 18th event description, sign-up on Upcoming to give us an idea of numbers please: Allister Furey will be talking about applying ‘bio-inspired’ AI […]

New ShowMeDo series – OpenOffice Calc transition series for Excel users

I spent the weekend cracking through the creation of a new 12-part tutorial  series for ShowMeDo, the result is OpenOffice Calc 3.1 for Microsoft Excel users.  The overview is embedded below, links to all the episodes are further down.  This series was created whilst wearing my screencast production hat for ProCasts. The goal is to […]

RobotBrighton this Thursday – Tony Ellis and Invented Robots and Toys

I’m looking forward to this Thursday evening‘s RobotBrighton night @ The Skiff.  Tony Ellis (AKA ToyMaker), creator of 45 licensed toys and electronic games, will talk on his boot-strapped history (note the £5 App connection to my excitement?) with some details about his latest project. Amongst other things he’s the creator of the rather cool […]