I'm doing something similar with all my personal projects, but not quite a live video, more a time lapse style so a picture every 30 seconds. It's not for overcoming procrastination for myself, but to focus me & stop me instinctively browsing my regular sites when a difficult section arises.
It's also prompting me to become more efficient as I know when the project is finished & the video compiled it will be watched by my peers who will hopefully provide some insightful feedback!
Right. I haven't tried recording my development, but I'd imagine that this really focuses you.
It reminds me of pair programming -- you're not going to just stop in the middle and go look at HN or go down some man page rat hole tweaking something that isn't going to help you achieve the larger goal that you sat down to reach when you have another developer looking over your shoulder. Shame and ego are such great motivators. :)
I need to give this technique a try, even if I have no intention of every posting any videos.
I hooked up my brain to my iMac combined with an algorithm reading my code productivity so it selects the best song to play next to increase code awesomeness.
Nah. It is actually the kind of music I listen to most and my library is full of it! But, it is a live (repeating) stream from a Dutch radio show I am a big fan of: 538 Dance Department. Check it out at http://www.538dancedepartment.nl/ and http://nederland.fm/.
You can also find the iTunes playlist link I was trying to find in the video ;)
Absolutely no idea why. I can't think of anything I did wrong with this post. Except maybe, responding to some comments in a short time window. I hope my comments will appear soon!
And made his page look just like all the other bootstrap pages? Why not just use LibreOffice and save the document as html? Better yet, advance to microsoft frontpage or something.
Really enjoyed this video, one tip I could offer though is to setup snippets for HTML when creating divs. Speeds up development time a lot when you just have to write div+tab and then add your class/id.
Thanks for sharing, the shadow-box trick it really enhance the page. I don't know if you use it, but LiveReload (livereload.com) can help speed up the refresh page each time that you change something (html, css).
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It reminds me of pair programming -- you're not going to just stop in the middle and go look at HN or go down some man page rat hole tweaking something that isn't going to help you achieve the larger goal that you sat down to reach when you have another developer looking over your shoulder. Shame and ego are such great motivators. :)
I need to give this technique a try, even if I have no intention of every posting any videos.
Nah. It is actually the kind of music I listen to most and my library is full of it! But, it is a live (repeating) stream from a Dutch radio show I am a big fan of: 538 Dance Department. Check it out at http://www.538dancedepartment.nl/ and http://nederland.fm/.
You can also find the iTunes playlist link I was trying to find in the video ;)
Edit: Seems you can actually bump to 1080p in the embedded player also, my mistake.
Rails with the asset pipeline and the gems does make it very easy to just kick off with HTML/CSS/jQuery.
Appears to be the original author, somebody should probably unban him.
For other situations, Bootstrap rocks :)