I'm hoping to do some screecasts on various technical subjects. As I do them, they will appear here.

Posted Saturday evening, September 12th, 2009
Posted Friday evening, July 11th, 2008
Posted late Monday night, November 27th, 2007

This 15 minute screencast builds on the first, showing how to use a setup file to make ikiwiki support web edits via CGI, and how to use git with ikiwiki.

This is a bit out of date now; ikiwiki's tutorial explains a more automated way to set up a wiki or blog.

ikiwiki cgi and git.ogg (8 MB)

Posted late Monday night, November 27th, 2007
Posted Monday night, November 26th, 2007

This 10 minute screencast demos how to set up a simple wiki and blog using ikiwiki.

This is a bit out of date now. The syntax for preprocessor directives has changed. Also, ikiwiki's tutorial explains a more automated way to set up a wiki or blog.

Apologies for the slow typing in places; I did this without a script! (I'm a two finger typist, if you must know. ;-)

ikiwiki blog.ogg (6 MB)

Posted Monday evening, November 26th, 2007

So far, I'm using byzanz to record my screencasts as animated gifs (which are then converted to ogg theora).

Handy command reference:

byzanz-record --cursor -w 640 -h 480 screencast.gif --duration=3600
mkfifo stream.yuv
mplayer -vo yuv4mpeg -ao null -nosound screencast.gif &
ffmpeg2theora stream.yuv