You know what I would find useful?

Paul Watson

It is a good idea. Would you ever be willing to pay for on-demand tutorials or would you rather it were ad. supported? You could do it through YouTube as suggested but, and it is a big one, the quality of YouTube is pants. Screencasts need to be shown at the res. they were recorded at.

regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

Shog9 wrote:

And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...

megaadam

Yeah but a can Yank tell the difference ? Disclaimer: The above statement is purely intended as a joke. Any applicability to real life observations are purely coincidental.

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led mike

That sounds like a great business for Second Life.

led mike

Tim Carmichael

I agree with you, 100%. Having said that, I think that the list can and should be expanded beyond 'emerging technologies'. Whether we like to admit it or not, there are many people who could benefit from tutorials on items that are even a few years old... For example, I recently had to find a way to get a .NET 2.0 component to work with a legacy application... I'm sure that many people have already surmounted this hurdle and now think of it as child's play or simply pan the idea in favour of moving the entire app to a new platform. Wish lists are wonderful, but when they run smack dab into business realities, they often fall by the wayside. Tim

Shog9 0

Paul Watson wrote:

the quality of YouTube is pants

You know, it just struck me - the perfect use for those flexible LCD screens, should they ever actually be manufactured in quantity: video trousers! :D

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Ennis Ray Lynch Jr

Only if they took out the sales element. There is nothing worse than watching a tech demonstration from a salesmans perspective.

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Ryan Roberts

Like www.dnrtv.com[^]? They do some really handy screencasts.

Rocky Moore

It would not actually require hosting on CP servers, there are plenty of hosts out there such as youtube, google video, msn video, etc that host videos for free. All CP needs is a section to index all those videos out there that members submit to CP. So, the video itself could even be a channel 9 video, but CP would give a detailed description (provided by the CP member suggesting the video be added to the index) to the video and a link. This allows CP to index and catagorize the videos allowing cp members to vote on them. Another nice plus to a CP index, is that search engines cannot index the content in a video, but they can index the descriptions, which means CP can receive even greater hits from search engines.

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Paul Watson

Mrs. Shog9 from outer space: Baby, show me what is in your pants... *Shog9 from outer space turns on his video trousers*

regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

Shog9 wrote:

And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...

Shog9 0

Ah, well... Hey, how do you know about those videos?! :suss: ;P

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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.

--Raymond Chen on MSDN

Lost User

You've been listening to the american idea of an english accent!

The tigress is here :-D

Marc Clifton

Richard A. Abbott wrote:

Video tutorials hosted on CP servers.

Well no, I wasn't thinking CP would do this.

Richard A. Abbott wrote:

but when you consider that many readers of CP do not use any form of english as their primary language, this is a hurdle that might be insurmountable.

Well, there's no reason why someone shouldn't be able to put a video together in their own language, or even provide an audio dub. Marc

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lost in transition

You done forgot about Bad English.

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Marcus J Smith

You mean all those English sounding people I hear, Ian McKellan, Maggie Smith, etc.. are really American actors?

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Ed Poore

This is a repost from a while ago in a ways (in the suggestion forum I think). Chris wouldn't buy it because of the bandwidth but an alternative suggested was a site which people could simply link or add stuff to a directory. The videos could then be hosted somewhere else, e.g. Googtube.

Dan Neely

hook, line, sinker. :)

-- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.

Shog9 0

dan neely wrote:

hook, line, sinker

Hey! Keep your mind off my tackle. ;P

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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.

--Raymond Chen on MSDN

SchaeferFFM

[Modified] This was supposed to be a reply to Ryan Roberts. Quoth Ryan: Like www.dnrtv.com[^]? They do some really handy screencasts. BTW: why the heck can't i quote somebody whilst doing a modification? [/Modified] Thanks for the link! They allow content to be downloaded (zipped or torrent) :cool: I'm interested in Sahil Malik's shows on SharePoint 2007 and in the current WPF feature.

-- Oliver

Lost User

Marc Clifton wrote:

audio dub

Just like some TV programs and films. They are worse than useless in my opinion.

Mark_Wallace

Don't tell us, tell Google. Give 'em the idea, and let 'em run with it. If they set up a dedicated area just for product-demo movies, companies will fall over themselves to get their demos in there.