Where can I find good technical video podcasts or videos for download?

Question

When I'm eating, or generally feeling bored, I like to watch a TV-series or something for entertainment. However, being somewhat of a geek, I was wondering if there were any technical video podcasts out there that I should be subscribing to? Any site that provides programming or technology-related videos for streaming or download will do. A good example of the kind of videos I am looking for are Apple's video lectures for the iPod SDK.

Does something like "Slashdot video" exist?

Note that stuff like Strong Bad is fun the first few times, but it's not really the kind of thing I'm looking for. I want to learn something (useful) while eating dinner!

Update

You don't say which technology you're particularly interested in [...]

I am actually not looking for videos about a specific technology or implementation language, but rather general topics such as design patterns, object-oriented design, usability, parallel computing, distributed systems, networking, databases, development processes, tools and techniques, methodologies, design principles, best practices and agile development. (I realize the iPod SDK videos may have been a bad example, as they are very specific.)

In short, my topic of interest is how to become a better programmer and software developer. That being said, I mainly develop in Java, C, C++ and Python for Windows and Linux platforms. What I am not looking for are tutorials on how to do X in language Y with framework Z.

Answer 1

http://channel9.msdn.com/

Answer 2

try http://www.dimecasts.net/Home and http://www.dnrtv.com/

Answer 3

There's a host of videos from TED conferences and every one of them is worth watching. I can strongly recommend the talks by Richard Dawkins, Craig Venter, Hans Rosling and many others.

Also, Google has some very good talks (my favourite being Randall Munroe)

Answer 4

You don't say which technology you're particularly interested in, but if you have any sort of interest in Ruby on Rails then Railscasts is a must. They're free screencasts that are published once a week (sometimes more often) and cover a specific topic in nice bite-size chunks.

There's also an an archive of 123 previous episodes which should keep you going for a while!

Answer 5

Google Tech Talks are amazing and while they are not a video podcast, you can make it into one by using the YouTubePodcaster.

Answer 6

I find that as I use mainly Adobe technologies that Adobe TV has some good video casts on there.

Answer 7

YUI Theater: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/ has awesome presentations available for download. They are mostly web-specific. Douglas Crockford's presentations on Javascript (actually all his presentations) are awesome, you'll have a new appreciation for the language after watching them.

Answer 8

Google hosts a series of talks on different subjects but one channel is named 'Google Tech Talks'. They include guest lecturers on a variety of subjects and new research in Computer Science. On YouTube there is a channel called Google TechTalks that has all these videos.

Answer 9

http://www.bestechvideos.com/ is a good site. Specifically, I have perused some of the testing videos and found them relevant. Of course, as mentioned previously, TED and Google Tech Talks are great resources too.

Answer 10

The sites that I have found are:

• Free Science Online
• Free Video Lectures
• LectureShare
• SICP Lectures
• Video Lectures.net
• LectureFox
• Free Streaming Audio and Video Lectures

I really recommend the first site in the list, so if you only check out one of them, take that one.

Answer 11

parleys.com is a very good place to start, check out their app. Download or watch presentations online, very slick!

Answer 12

If you're interested in learning about SQL Server, try www.sqlservervideos.com.

The site is still relatively young, but there's an RSS feed you can use to be updated when new videos are released.

Answer 13

http://www.dnrtv.com/

From the site:

dnrTv is a fusion of a training video and an interview show. Training videos are typically sterile and one-way. Let's face it, you can only take so much. But you need to see the code! In this format, you get the spontaneity of an interview talk show, and the detail of a webcast or training video.

Carl Franklin is the host of the wildly popular mp3 talk show .NET Rocks!, which he started recording in August, 2002. dnrTV launched on January 12th, 2006, the same week as .NET Rocks! show number 159!

We see dnrTV as a natural adjunct to .NET Rocks!, allowing more technical topics to be explored in detail. As always, Carl keeps the atmosphere light and conversational, which makes for a nice way to spend your lunch hour!

Answer 14

IT Conversations is a great service that has been around for quite a while. No videos, just audio, but it has a lot of excellent content.

Answer 15

Hanselman Minutes is another good podcast.

Answer 16

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

The entire video lectures for the classic CS intro class at MIT.

Answer 17

Software Engineering Radio goes into general concepts rather than any technical implementations of such.

Answer 18

There is an interesting directory of software development videos at SofDevTube.com

Answer 19

Academic Earth has video lecture series on Computer Science from schools such as MIT, Stanford, and Harvard.

Answer 20

Many local technical groups are videotaping their meeting presentations, which give a very wide range of interests.

Some of the notable ones are mentioned by Make magazine, but you can also find software specific groups by searching for "C# user's group", LUG, PUG, etc.

You can see a range of interesting videos I've taped for a local group here:

http://vimeo.com/videos/search:gotech

It's more geared towards general geekery than software alone - so you might find a pneumatic video next to an RFID operated door lock (with truly embedded RFID chip ;-).

These types of videos, however, have low production standards, so they make you work harder to consume information - but a lot of them have information you won't get anywhere else.

Answer 21

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Answer 22

Best Tech Videos is a user driven social content website dedicated to finding the best educational videos for developers, designers, managers and other people in IT. You can search there for Forth tagged videos and include the ones you cited. Is located at http://www.bestechvideos.com/

http://videolectures.net/Top/Computer_Science/ includes more than 1700 lectures on computer science, very well organized in categories like Algorithmic Information Theory, Algorithms and Data Structures, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Cryptography and Security, Databases, etc.

A great collection of academic lectures is located at http://www.academicearth.org/

LectureFox is a valuable resource with a lot of videos: http://lecturefox.com/computerscience/. Also physics, chemistry and mathematics are topics covered by this website.

Answer 23

Check out www.gogogh.com

It is a new technical training community with great content.

It is free to join.