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A free real-time Intro to Clojure webcast today at 10a PT/1p ET

45 points by jroes 14y ago

cassandravoiton 14y ago
Ha! I use it all the time. Just the other day someone asked what this mixed windowing system was - I just explained and they say Doh!
- cassandravoiton 14y ago
  Darn - commented in the wrong place - now I say Doh.
stevengg 14y ago
Do you have to watch it live or well there be a download / stream we can watch at our leisure?
- cemerick 14y ago
  Yes, it will be recorded. Of course, that won't help you troll me in Q&A, etc. ;-)
  - peedy 14y ago
    Thank you for getting it recorded.
  - dinedal 14y ago
    Sad I missed this, but was wondering when / where the recording will be posted?
- cemerick 14y ago
  FYI, I have published an equivalent video here: http://cemerick.com/2012/05/02/starting-clojure/ http://cemerick.com/2012/05/02/starting-clojure/
firesofmay 14y ago
What are the pre-requisites for this webcast? Setup etc? Thanks for sharing :)
fu86 14y ago
"We have detected that your operating system does not meet the optimal webcast specifications for listening to and/or viewing webcasts. We recommend the following operating systems: Windows 7 or Windows XP SP2, and Mac OS X 10.4. Please note that users with older versions of Windows (Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 95), Mac, Linux, and Unix operating systems may or may not experience difficulties listening to and/or viewing webcasts. Please contact your network administrator regarding any operating system upgrades." Is this just a relict from the past or is this a showstopper for me? (I use an Debian-based system)
- statenjason 14y ago
  I'm running Arch and received the same message. Ran the test video and it seems fine to me. Likely what they're saying is that they don't promise compatibility with Linux.
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jjwiseman 14y ago
The webcast is something of a flashtastrophe: * Chrome is not officially supported * Need to allow pop-ups * Chat widget does not do copy & paste * Chat widget takes 10 seconds to scroll * Shockwave Flash process using 350% of CPU * Webcast crashed and had to be restarted from the broadcasting-side * Chrome repeatedly asking if I want to kill unresponsive webcast tabs That said, they have a decently slick UI for handling screen sharing, slides & chat. It's just that the implementation is a nightmare. O'Reilly & on24 need to rethink this. [edited for formatting]
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darklajid 14y ago
Found it quite nice - the time was limited of course (and with some difficulties even more reduced), but I love to peek over peoples shoulders. And I respect the guts of doing this live in the first place.

45 points by jroes 14y ago

Ha! I use it all the time. Just the other day someone asked what this mixed windowing system was - I just explained and they say Doh!

cassandravoiton 14y ago
Darn - commented in the wrong place - now I say Doh.

stevengg 14y ago

Do you have to watch it live or well there be a download / stream we can watch at our leisure?

cemerick 14y ago
Yes, it will be recorded. Of course, that won't help you troll me in Q&A, etc. ;-)
- peedy 14y ago
  Thank you for getting it recorded.
- dinedal 14y ago
  Sad I missed this, but was wondering when / where the recording will be posted?
cemerick 14y ago
FYI, I have published an equivalent video here: http://cemerick.com/2012/05/02/starting-clojure/ http://cemerick.com/2012/05/02/starting-clojure/

firesofmay 14y ago

What are the pre-requisites for this webcast? Setup etc? Thanks for sharing :)

fu86 14y ago

"We have detected that your operating system does not meet the optimal webcast specifications for listening to and/or viewing webcasts. We recommend the following operating systems: Windows 7 or Windows XP SP2, and Mac OS X 10.4. Please note that users with older versions of Windows (Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 95), Mac, Linux, and Unix operating systems may or may not experience difficulties listening to and/or viewing webcasts. Please contact your network administrator regarding any operating system upgrades." Is this just a relict from the past or is this a showstopper for me? (I use an Debian-based system)

statenjason 14y ago
I'm running Arch and received the same message. Ran the test video and it seems fine to me. Likely what they're saying is that they don't promise compatibility with Linux.
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jjwiseman 14y ago

The webcast is something of a flashtastrophe: * Chrome is not officially supported * Need to allow pop-ups * Chat widget does not do copy & paste * Chat widget takes 10 seconds to scroll * Shockwave Flash process using 350% of CPU * Webcast crashed and had to be restarted from the broadcasting-side * Chrome repeatedly asking if I want to kill unresponsive webcast tabs That said, they have a decently slick UI for handling screen sharing, slides & chat. It's just that the implementation is a nightmare. O'Reilly & on24 need to rethink this. [edited for formatting]

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darklajid 14y ago

Found it quite nice - the time was limited of course (and with some difficulties even more reduced), but I love to peek over peoples shoulders. And I respect the guts of doing this live in the first place.