Robby and Michael, thanks for your opinions. The Wicket Guest Book is my first screen cast. It's not a big challenge to create a screen cast but it's a form of documentation so the users are expecting clear information about Wicket. I understand your doubts.
I know that Java automatically calls toString method but I tried to follow the Wicket example. I will try to remake the narrations using the WMM and encode the screen cast again. Paul On 03/02/2008, Michael Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > On Feb 2, 2008 4:38 PM, Paul Filimon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I made a screen cast [1] for Apache/Wicket at GHOP. > > > > Please check it and send me your opinion. Probably I will have no time > > to receive your opinions and to improve it in time for GHOP, but if > > you have some time please share your thoughts. > > > > > > Since I am also a student participating in GHOP, I don't think my comments > have too much weight, but hopefully you will consider them nonetheless. Are > you on the list? (I'm not sure, so I've CCed you, but if you are, please let > me know that I don't have to.) > > > > > [1] http://paul.balaur.com/tmp/ghop_0001.wmv > > > > > > I think, overall, it's okay, especially considering how difficult > screencasts tend to be. Here are a few thoughts... > > - I didn't know you could click on the little icons to fix errors! That's > more of a "learning how to use eclipse" type thing, but it's still very > informative. That said, it's sometimes faster to use the automatic > completion (hit Ctrl-Space), so it might be useful to do that for later > parts of the video. (Explaining how to use auto-completion would be useful > to new eclipse users, though, so I guess it's a question of whether we are > targeting users who are experienced with eclipse and new to wicket, or new > to both eclipse and wicket.) > > - I noticed a few pauses where you weren't talking/explaining, and where you > weren't doing things... is that to let the user catch up and follow along, > or...? I was told that it's a good idea if you are talking with the video. > > - > > - There's a point at about 8:15 or so where you're adding the TextArea to > CommentForm... it appears to take fifteen-odd seconds for you to figure out > (after much clicking and attempting to be discreet at looking at what > Eclipse is telling you) that you need to add a semicolon to the end of the > line. This looks a bit odd. It is usually a good idea (if you have time) to > go through the actions a few times before recording the screencast. If you > go through it nearly flawlessly, you look more professional. (If you don't > have time to rerecord, you could have imported the video into some sort of > video editor and snipped this part out.) > > - It's hard to tell, but did you follow the example online[1]? I see parts > of it there, but it doesn't look like an exact match... > > - Since you were using Windows, have you considered using Windows Media > Encoder 9[2] to record your desktop? If you use the "Windows Media Video 9 > Screen" codec you might have a much smaller file size. (I'm not 100% sure, > though, because I didn't use Windows to create my screencast.) > > - Just so you know, Java automatically calls .toString() on most things when > you run them through print, so you don't have to. > > - It would be nice if you mentioned the wicket website at the end of the > screencast. > > Even if they don't make it into a submission in time for the GHOP deadline, > I hope you will take these thoughts into account. > > [1] http://wicket.apache.org/exampleguestbook.html > [2] > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/encoder/default.mspx > > -- > Michael Chang > > Please note that not all formatting may be preserved in > Office/Word/Powerpoint documents sent to me. Please use OpenDocument (not > Open XML), HTML, and RTF where possible. See > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > Thank you.
