I make a few IT related demos and presentations, and Camtasia has been my tool of choice. I record a 1024×764 movie of a Remote Terminal, synchronize my voice over afterwards and encode it as a WMV file.
A 10 minute file takes about 10MB of space, and the quality is great.
I was happy to see [...]
Archive for June, 2008
CamStudio vs Camtasia
June 30, 2008Prisoner’s Dilemma
June 5, 2008The Prisoner’s Dilemma was an interesting problem I spent time on back at university. Cool to see that it is being covered now by Freakonomics:
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/19/prisoners-dilemma-contest-whats-the-one-question-youd-ask-if/
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/vote-now-on-the-prisoners-dilemma-contest/
It can be taken as a logical issue, in which case computer simulations would find that cooperation is always the answer. Taken as a social issue, it becomes far more complex [...]
Is C required to be seen as a developer authority?
June 2, 2008I like Jeff Atwood’s blog. He writes about all kinds of technical subjects in an accessible way, and although I don’t read every one of his posts in depth I’m always happy to see something that brings up or challenges an assumption I had.
Alastair Rankine has some criticisms of Jeff’s blog. Jeff’s admission of no [...]
