24 January 2005

I spent some time this weekend playing around with vnc2swf, and made some demos of simple activities in Beagle and Mono. These are demos I usually give at LUGs, conferences, etc, so it’s nice to make them available online where more people can see them.

I intended to demo the latest functionality in Evolution, F-Spot, Tomboy, Muine and Stetic, but I got lazy and so those will have to wait for another day.

VNC is a little slow and jerky, and sometimes a key gets “stuck” down, but otherwise they turned out pretty well, I think.

Beagle Demos

	Some simple searches in Beagle, using the “Best” user interface. 1 minute 24 seconds.
	A gripping demo of Beagle’s “live query” functionality. Jon Trowbridge guest stars in this one. 1 minute 43 seconds.
	A quick run-through of a few of the command-line tools that come with Beagle. 1 minute 27 seconds.
	We write a sample program that uses the Beagle APIs to perform a search over D-BUS. 2 minutes 31 seconds.

Mono Demos

	A demo of monodoc — Mono’s documentation browser — including the “Upload Contributions” feature. 2 minutes 48 seconds.
	In this demo I write a quick “Hello World” Gtk# application using Glade. 5 minutes 50 seconds.