a wrap?
Well as far as actual working days goes today was my last “pencil up” day of work. Tomorrow I will be starting a short holiday out of province to visit friends and attend a wedding.
recording begins
Well after almost a full weeks worth of meddling, script writing, and the addition of wormholes to RIsk I’ve finally managed to begin filming my screencasts. As things turned out I quickly realized how useless my scripts actually were, and quickly reverted to “winging it.” Since I intend to down the screen captures I don’t exactly need to worry about screwing up, simple pause, and start again. I have to admit how alien producing a screencast feels for me in general and as part of GSoC. Today I managed to record my advanced screencast and my map making screencast. Since the train is now rolling I see no problem in recording my basic screencast tomorrow. For everyone’s entertainment I have uploaded to youtube the uncut/unedited recording of my advanced screencast; please let me know if the panning is too jumpy, the recording is short enough I can redo it with some different configuration to clean that up.
Other than that I am a little confused about how good the screencast needs to be. I don’t want to seem like a schmuk getting tongue-tied on film, but does the odd slip-up here and there ruin the entire paragraph? Please let me know what you think…
EDIT: OK, so the audio is pretty quiet, and it sounds like I’m blasting off to somewhere. I’ll probably rerecord the audio with better audio, unless I can clean it up.
back at it
Well it is my first day back at work without family meddling around the house. It is a lot easier to get, well, anything done. I spent some time today playing around with clients and finalizing my plans for the screencasts. I’m very glad to have wormhole support as I now no longer need to explain why it is so darn difficult to play Risk :P. Since adding wormhole’s to the Risk ruleset it is now impossible to play Risk without a fully up-to-date client (including libtpclient-py and libtpproto-py). I’ve had some difficulty getting a client up and running again in OS X but things have been a breeze on linux. Hopefully the version number of tpclient-pywx can be incremented to force upon everyone Risk compatibility. Other than that I have little today to talk about. My foray into screencasting should begin tomorrow; I’m sure I’ll have lots to say about that!
