http://ianozsvald.com My thoughts on life and high-tech entrepreneurship Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:28:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've spent the last two days creating this 57 second intro to the Django web-app framework, after three years of development they've released the shiny, new and supported v1 version. The screencast covers how to get started, example sites, documentation and where to get it - everything a new user needs ... http://ianozsvald.com/2008/09/04/django-in-under-a-minute-screencast/ Last week I recorded a new screencast demonstrating Internet Explorer 8 (beta 1) vs Firefox 3.0.1.  The demo highlights some of the shortcomings of IE8 beta1 and generally works to show the viewer why Firefox is the better choice. Annoyingly this week Microsoft released beta2 which fixes several of the short-comings ... http://ianozsvald.com/2008/09/01/ie8-vs-firefox-3-screencast/ I've just completed a new screencast for Inuda's HowSociable.com brand-measuring site.  I show the social services (e.g. Flickr, Facebook, Ning) that are used to measure a brand's visibility on the social web and tell the viewer why they will want to sign-up for monthly updates. This is the first piece of ... http://ianozsvald.com/2008/08/20/new-procast-for-inudas-howsociable/ I've just spent 15 minutes trying to figure out an odd behaviour in CamTasia v5.1.0.  The documentation (great video demo) explains that a call-out can be added, and then by dragging the call-out we can change the length for its display. Only...it seemed that you couldn't drag the length.  You can ... http://ianozsvald.com/2008/08/19/camtasia-tip-increasing-the-call-out-length/ To develop my professional screencasting site ProCasts.co.uk I chose to out-source development via eLance.  Knowing that out-sourcing smaller, easily-defined jobs is likely to become common-place as time passes, I figured that diving in and working with someone elsewhere on the planet for my new site would prove to be an ... http://ianozsvald.com/2008/08/14/successfully-using-elance-for-static-website-design/ I'm very pleased to say that the first version of ProCasts, my professional screencasting site, is now on-line.  I'm taking the professional screencast activity that I performed for three years under the older ShowMeDo Services site and building it up as my own activity. The site has one screencasting example by ... http://ianozsvald.com/2008/08/11/procastscouk-first-version-on-line/ Every now and again it is useful to look back at what's been achieved - ShowMeDo started three years ago and we considered ourselves lucky if 1 Python video was contributed a month.  Now we get several whole series each month!  Often each series is information-laden and created by a ... http://ianozsvald.com/2008/07/30/learning-python-via-showmedo/ Emily has started blogging on RoboChick, she's talking about the Herbie the Mousebot birthday prezzie I bought her (pcb + parts + motors == hours of fun), one of the two wheeled robots that I thought would make for cool projects.  I hope she gets the pictures up soon...Robot pictures ... http://ianozsvald.com/2008/07/27/robochick-emilys-first-post/ I've posted a job into eLance for the first time - I figure it is time to experiment with remote web design and CSS implementation.  Now this might seem odd given that I live in web-designer-rich Brighton... I'm a believer in building on-line marketplaces where we can remotely trade our skills ... http://ianozsvald.com/2008/07/09/experimenting-with-elance/ What a fab night!  I counted 46 people which makes this possibly the largest event we've thrown - thanks to all for attending.  Sponsored beer, live Qik video, 6 great talks and lively post-event pub conversation - who could ask for a better evening?  Josh made this rather excellent panoramic ... http://ianozsvald.com/2008/07/09/5-app-write-up-6-demos-at-our-demo-camp/