I would like to find out from other's experience what is the best way to capture screencasts that include code and cuts to the program in action, and then present those screencasts online so that the code is still legible, and ideally making the most efficient use of display real estate. What capture tools work well for this? I've trie...
If we put aside the rights and wrongs of putting demo data into a live system for a minute (that's a whole separate discussion!), we are being asked to store some demo data in our live system so that it can be credibly demonstrated without the appearance of smoke + mirrors (we want to use the same login page for example) Since I'm sure ...
Hi, I studied computer engineering 10 years ago and i know all the basics of object programming. I didn't write any code for 5 years but actually I'm thinking to go back to this business for a specific need : Now I'm a mathematic teacher in a secondary school and i want to develop a little software that help students to organize their g...
I studied computer engineering 10 years ago and i know all the basics of object programming. I didn't write any code for 5 years but actually I'm thinking to go back to this business for a specific need : Now I'm a mathematic teacher in a secondary school and i want to develop a little free software that help students to organize their ...
Consider having an unstable, incomplete, and not completely tested system. Then consider needing to demo it to the customer. The system being unstable, incomplete and not completely tested because an external supplier was not delivering what they promised and when they did deliver it is really bad code. After pushing back, and pushing b...
Does your company have customer-facing engineers, or do you have marketing departments that exclusively give demos to the outside world? Do you train your software engineers on how to give software demonstrations? (arguably requires additional training on top of standard presentation skills) Most importantly for my current needs: How d...
I have a demo that runs off of a USB drive and I would like to prevent the simple case where some one copies the demo. I was thinking that I could just get something specific about the USB drive like manufacture,size, firmware version and or identifier. Since we are putting the demo together and sending it out it could be tied to a spec...
My boss tasked me with finding a sort of system for a customer to be able to log into a website and view their website as a work in progress (so employees would obviously have to be able to upload their work). All communication would be handled through this website. It sounds like a forum, but customers would not be able to see each oth...
I would like to give a presentation for my co-workers that will show off some amazing things that Perl can do, things that would make programmers and non-programmers alike say to themselves, "WHOA you can do that?!" I really want to turn heads, since many are of the mindset that Perl is a dying language, but also be fun and entertaining...
I am looking to do a presentation at work to our development team. I was wondering if their is any new tool which would be easy to demonstrate. It is just an after work thing for talking about new technologies. Thanks ...
When giving demos of ongoing projects to management or users, it would be nice to have a systematic way of directing their attention to a specific region of the UI. One thing I would really like is a tool that I can install in the background, activate with some customizable key sequence (ctl-meta-hyper whatever) and then draw regions of ...
If I'm presenting code usually I show it in a syntax-highlighting text editor. But I've been doing more "live coding" in some presentations recently where it's important to show off some IDE tooling. How should I set up Eclipse when preparing for a presentation or demo? Is there a way to save and switch out presenter settings? Is the...
So i've been asked to demo a windows service to customers, but i'm clueless on how to go about doing so. I've demo'd a web/windows based ap before by just bringing up the application and going through each screen, but with a windows service it isn't the same. Can anyone point me in the right direction? All the service does is downloads ...
I was wondering if there's anyway to layout what I want to code before I code it. Instead of drawing your ideas on a piece of paper, is there a program that lets you build a little demo or something before you start coding? ...
I'm looking for some software to create a flash demo 'tour' of a website I've created. FOS would be preferred but commercial is ok so long as not too expensive (I'm probably going to use this just the once). Ideally something programmable to I can edit the demo and insert text, overlays etc. I'm also not interested in adding sound. ...
I'm trying to put together a presentation for my local .NET user group on NHibernate. I want to demonstrate how one might convert an existing application's data access layer to use NHibernate, but first I need an application to convert. What would be a good example domain that would allow me to demonstrate the main features of the ORM...
Sometimes you need to create a very simple single file application in Qt4. However it's problematic since you are always doing the CPP/H separation, and then the main() is in another file... Any ideas how to do this in a single file? As quick as dirty as possible. ...
So maybe some of you read the great in-depth article on snow leopard on ars technica. On one of the pages the author displays a demo video (external link, I know :/) how Grand Central Dispatch works, which I really liked. Do any of you know a software which can used to create such animations? Thanks, Henrik ...
I want to demonstrate a product to a potential new customer. The best source data comes from an existing customer. I want to use the existing customer's data for the demonstration, but without compromising confidentiality in any way. The best solution I see is to run a script that replaces all of the names, addresses and locations in ...
Hello all, I've built a web app that I've shared with some companies in my area. However, there are now some companies that are out of my region who are interested in looking at my web app. Before, I was able to go on site and show-off the app. However, this is not possible any more. What's the best way to 'share' a web app over the ...