So when we did the demos at the ApacheCon session last Friday, it was quite the experience. People's faces just lit right up!
The coolest thing was I just did them straight from the examples zip we make available on the website, including creating the Intellij projects on the fly, opening them up and running the example right there. Sort of a "nothing up the sleeve" approach so people could witness the entire process first-hand, download to run. After the first demo, some one said, "what about Web Services?". No problem, I said. Changed into the simple-webservice example, generated an Intellij project, popped it open and ran it. "Wow", was the reaction. After which came, "Well, what about WebService security?". Again, no problem. Changed into the "webservice-security" example, same process, same "wow" reaction. This happened a couple times and was quite fun. Since then I've been thinking some more screencasts would be great. Not long 10 minute ones with lots of talking, but rather super quick demos, aimed at 2 minutes or less. Who doesn't have two minutes? Not sure if it can be done in 2 minutes, but seems like a really fun idea. Inspired by the ApacheCon Lightening Talks, which are 5 minutes or less, I thought it would be fun to call them Lightening Demos. Maybe with the goal that each example page has a short "Lightening Demo" link. Thoughts? Been a while since we chatted about screencasts or did any. We got a license for ScreenFlow from telestream.net for doing screencasts. If anyone wants the key, just let me know. -David
