I am actually a lot more of a proponent of videos for one-offs that doing something on a recurring basis. But there is often just so much that needs to be covered that a single 1-3 hours talk has never been enough.
FWIW, I wasn't originally thinking that individual developers would > create videos. More along the lines of a tech lead recording for an > hour per release. Super-high level stuff. Michael, I understand you were talking about tech leads, but my worry about doing videos on a recurring basis is more to do with the effort involved in producing it - which is why I am suggesting individual developers doing a little something (and somehow giving them an incentive to do the work). re: Lucene project. I will write more offline (since this involves > commercial software), but those diagrams look interesting to me. I > think using an open-source project like Lucene is a clever idea. Do feel free to send feedback for the commercial side of things, but we are beginning to focus more on the needs of the open source community (and users of open source projects). As I think about it, the real problem is candid architecture comments. > It is hard to capture, via a diagram or doc, the following: "Our > client layer is tight. The server layer is mostly ok, but because of > X,Y,Z, our domain model is split between legacy objects and new clean > POJOs. The legacy objects have a ton of dependencies on A,B,C but we > hope to remove them over the next few releases". Great point. Perhaps we need some kind of a chat / IM like lightweight discussion tool as opposed to something that (to me atleast) feels heavier like videos. Ofcourse, making such chat logs easily available with the code/project is another challenge. - Vineet (Founder, Architexa) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
