Screencasts are...fun...

So I'm working on putting together the screen-casts for the tour/help section of the site. I bought some screen-recording software (quit nice stuff, actually. iShowU. If you're a mac person making scree-casts, I definitely recommend it). Despite the very nice software, there are some things that suck about making screen-casts, as it turns out. For example, I didn't know what I sounded like on my little USB head-set. Apparently like hell. I wish someone on one of the endless conference calls at work would have clued me in to that.

There are also just a bunch of little things, like the fact that things running over the interwebs are sometimes slow. But running code locally behaves slightly different. It sucks getting half-way through a recording and having a big error flash across the screen, and having to re-do the whole thing.

In the end, I spent 5 hours on screencasts, and almost have one done. Good lord! The good news is that now that I have the hang of all the little details, it shouldn't take too much longer for me to crank them out (the last good take only took about 5 minutes). Which means that all of you nice folks will be able to get a look into what's going on around here. Win-win!