The video library grows...

The video library idea is working out so far (see previous post). With a little practice I can get a new video up in about 10 minutes. I think this makes it a viable method for explanation, collaboration, demonstration, etc. with the remote teams. Lets see how it evolves as the library grows.

Video library

I'm a big note taker. I like to keep records of almost everything. I almost believe that if it isn't written down then it doesn't exist. Extreme, yes. Too much falls through the cracks when things aren't written down, agreed? The research projects that I manage need to be able to collaborate, so I have them use a wiki. This is useful. But even reading and searching text can be too much. I'm thinking less text and more video. My current strategy is YouTube (hosting,indexing,playing), Ubuntu (jaunty makes me happy), Recordmydesktop (screencasting to ogv), Devede (to convert from ogv/ogg to avi), no audio, don't worry about small mistakes, and keep the videos short. Lets see how far we can get.

I was going through some information about deploying to the central maven repository:

1. Maven local and remote repository introduction:
http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-repositories.html

2. Putting your properly metadata'd jar in the Maven Central Repository:
http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-central-repository-upload.html

3. The central repository in all its glory:
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/

10% of the work takes 90% of the time

And 90% of the effort for that matter. Banging out code is easy. I helped write a workflow system in 6 weeks that "worked". But that word is meaningless without measurements, reviews, testing, documentation, and more. Completing (most) of those tasks for the workflow system took another 9 months or so. The interesting part is that the demo for the 6 week old system and the 10 month old system didn't really change. The demo part of "worked" is unimpressive. Demos don't have much to do with changing the life of analysts... where the code meets the road so to speak.