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Here's a very good example of how a video can be used to introduce the
usage of an application. It's very well done:<br>
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in lo-fi (94 MB)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://FASTLabInc.com/Siren/Siren7.5.Demo-lo-res.mov">http://FASTLabInc.com/Siren/Siren7.5.Demo-lo-res.mov</a>
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and
hi-fi (240 MB)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://FASTLabInc.com/Siren/Siren7.5.Demo-hi-res.mov">http://FASTLabInc.com/Siren/Siren7.5.Demo-hi-res.mov</a>
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Sebastian Sastre wrote:
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<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span
class="796030015-15052007">Hi there,</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span
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<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span
class="796030015-15052007"> I been thinking about the value of
blogs talking daily Squeak use. Squeak users/developers probably use
the squeak's environment in different ways according to what they
do/develop. And because Smalltalk was designed with the extremely
valuable feature of making possible to be all inteligible for one
individual, that sometimes could be a lonely task. That hasn't to be
bad until the developer starts to loose valuable experiences because of
that. For instance, if you are in pair programming, one developer could
learn about a new way to find a method faster or a different class
browser or a different subtle and clever way to use the browser, and so
on... </span></font></div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span
class="796030015-15052007"></span></font> </div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span
class="796030015-15052007"> That subtlelties that are easily
transmitted person to person so meetings, BOf's and educational
experiences are great to patch that, but what if your profile just
don't have access to that at certain moment to any of those?</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span
class="796030015-15052007"></span></font> </div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span
class="796030015-15052007"> I think, (and I may be right or not in
this) that there are lots of people that fits in this profile at least
for some time and there is a gap on support to those people. The result
of that gap is clear, or the person surpass it by itself or not. </span></font></div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span
class="796030015-15052007"></span></font> </div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span
class="796030015-15052007"> If is interesting to us that more
persons can surpass that gap and find the completeness of the squeak
experience I think that fact makes interesting to us to have vehicles
(blogs are the more feasible I think) with articles that friendly
introduces stories of developments that in fact are merely excuses to
comunicate tips that should be fulfilling the gap. Even when they may
seem to be silly for more experienced developers.</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span
class="796030015-15052007"></span></font> </div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS"><font size="2"><font><span
class="796030015-15052007"> I barely imagine a newbie's frustration
to understand the complete cycle experience of developing with squeak
because it happends to me the silly thing that I dicovered yesterday </span></font><font><span
class="796030015-15052007">the preferences browser after some years of
using squeak. Yes I know, I wasn't reading the menu and exploring that
option by myself, but maybe that shouldn't be the only access to that
information and access to information is what I'm talking about.</span></font></font></font></div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS"><font size="2"><font><span
class="796030015-15052007"></span></font></font></font> </div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS"><font size="2"><font><span
class="796030015-15052007"> Maybe universities and schools that
uses Squeak are aware and have taken measures about this, but I wanted
to put this here "just in case" and because I think that is valuable
for squeak and the whole smalltalk comunity that we have more bolgs
that concentrates the veteran squeakers virtual-environmental
experiences that acts as welcome and friendly "doors" to the knowledge
and people can have an emotionally smoother experiences surpassing the
squeak/smalltalk experience gaps and knowledge barriers.</span></font></font></font></div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS"><font size="2"><font><span
class="796030015-15052007"></span></font></font></font> </div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS"><font size="2"><font><span
class="796030015-15052007"> cheers,</span></font></font></font></div>
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