Giving You What You WantEclipseZone recently put together a 10-part
podcast series for the
Callisto release of Eclipse, covering a lot of the new features and
technology going into the release. We hoped you enjoyed this series and
are working on future podcasts covering more cool technology to
introduce you to, but that brought up an internal dialog that we would
like your feedback on. What form of media do you most prefer for
information like this? (Discussion) I personally love putting a bunch of tech podcasts
on my iPod Nano
and listening to them while I'm at the gym or jogging or something like
that. I've never been a huge music guy and doing it this way I feel
like I'm killing two birds with one stone. But from time to time,
especially when learning a new task, I have found that quick 10 minute
screencasts are fantastic for me getting farmiliar with a tool. Then
again, when walking through information-intensive tutorials screencasts
can be a real pain and you want something you can print out, copy and
paste from or just hold in your hand like a PDF or text tutorial with
screenshots. So given all the different options for how this
content can be
delivered what types of media do you prefer? Give us your top two picks
(or just top one if you only like your information delivered in one
way). This will help us decide which kind of content we should develop
moving forward. What we are shooting for is to expose the unlit
areas of Eclipse to
you in easy to digest ways. Wether that means introductions to new
frameworks that you might not be aware of (like the new Explorer work
in 3.2) or new features that you have never tried (Working Sets maybe?)
in a quick 5 or 10 min screencast, but ultimately we want to know if
this is what you all want as well. The trick for us is to keep the
information small enough that it can either be quickly digested or
thrown out, depending on if it applies to your situation or is
interesting. We also want to solicit suggestions from our
readers to see what
technologies they want to learn about. If we get a lot of requests in
to cover EMF in more detail (for example) then we would be more than
happy to put together introductions and learning tracks for this
technology for you guys. A lot of this work and more is already in the
pipeline and will get done, but as always we want to solicit you for
feedback to make sure we are hitting the mark as best we can. We always
welcome feedback, input and submissions from our readers and always
appreciate your contributions. We look forward to hearing from you, remember you
can use this
thread for your answers to our questions above and discussion of
this newsletter. Until Next Time,
Riyad Kalla
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