Steve's Open Source Screencasts

About this original series

This show is about open source software on the Java Virtual Machine, focusing on the course management platform Sakai, and it's intersection with the evolving ecosystem of programming languages that target the JVM.

# Episodes
9 episodes
Rating
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Episodes of Steve's Open Source Screencasts

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  Screen Magnification USB Updates
  
  This shows a small demo of plugging in a USB Stick with your preferences (in this demo just screen magnification factor), and watching those preferences instantly take place. What's happening here is: 1. The USB Stick is detected by our rules and script in /etc/udev/rules.d 2. The USB device addition triggers our rules script, which looks for the presence of our named preferences file. 3. Finding that file, it gets the contents of the file, and does an HTTP PUT with that file to an endpoint on...
  - Release date
    
    Feb 26, 2012
  - Runtime
    
    01:45
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  Nakamura JS Trimpath Rendering
  
  Small prototype of using the same rendering framework we use on the client side, but running in Rhino on OAE/Nakamura/Sling in the JVM.
  - Release date
    
    Feb 17, 2012
  - Runtime
    
    08:46
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  node.js and gsettings prototype
  
  Quick prototype of updating user metadata stored in gsettings from: 1) A node.js express app with a c extension to read/write from gsettings. 2/3) A couple gtk+ client apps in C and Python 4) The dconf-editor
  - Release date
    
    Feb 5, 2012
  - Runtime
    
    00:19
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  Quick look at Software Center waiting for Synaptic
  
  This is a quick look at why we may want more of an upfront notification Ubuntu Software Center if it's waiting on another apt client to finish, since it appears to be working, but is just spinning waiting for you to close the other clients.
  - Release date
    
    Jul 19, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    02:39
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  Etherpad in Sakai
  
  First draft prototype of Etherpad in Sakai 2 and 3. ; Integration done by BLTI-izing Etherpad.
  - Release date
    
    Jun 16, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    02:17
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  Sash 0.1.3
  
  Demo of vi support added in Sash 0.1.3
  - Release date
    
    Oct 24, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    05:59
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  Fluid Widgets in Asnn2
  
  This is a short screencast ( ~ 2 min ) showing how we are beginning to use some Fluid widgets in the Assignments 2 app in Sakai. This shows the pager, reorderer, renderer, and inline edit.
  - Release date
    
    Aug 14, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    02:02
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  Sakai / Google Docs Integration Sprint
  
  Josh Ryan and I did a Sprint this week on Google Doc integration with Sakai. The focus is on Resource's integration and some upcoming Assignments 2 integration.There are still some issues with the exports of this video, the video jogs everytime the screen switches from screencast to video. For some reason Screenflow and the quicktime codecs are acting up.
  - Release date
    
    Sep 18, 2008
  - Runtime
    
    07:53
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  SAK-13987 for Sakai 2.6
  
  This is an overview of SAK-13987 for Sakai which adds a warning dialog when your session is close to timing out. It would be a swell consideration for inclusion in Sakai 2.6.Recorded in a cubicle in the middle of the work day so it's a bit dosile. You probably will have to hit the Fullscreen Toggle in order to see the text. Read more about the focus of this episode here: http://jira.sakaiproject.org/jira/browse/SAK-13987
  - Release date
    
    Aug 28, 2008
  - Runtime
    
    10:16