Wednesday November 16, 2005
Wednesday November 16, 2005 A ZFS Screencast for the ZFS Blog Carnival
Dan Price's gift of love to the ZFS BLOG CARNIVAL this morning is near and dear to my heart: a ZFS SCREENCAST. w00t!
Check it out! You do have to be a bit of a geek (it's good to know what a filesystem is) to appreciate it, but the simplicity of the administrative model should come through regardless...
I fell in love with the concept of an authentic voice, natural demo with both visuals and an audio track when I first saw Jon Udell's killer del.icio.us screencast. Jon later wrote an article titled, "The New Freshman Comp" (which is worthwhile reading, particularly for developers) which he concludes with:
"Writing and editing will remain the foundation skills they always were, but we'll increasingly combine them with speech and video. The tools and techniques are new to many of us. But the underlying principles--consistency of tone, clarity of structure, economy of expression, iterative refinement--will be familiar to programmers and writers alike."
I think Jon's right (as I've said before) and it's not a surprise to me that Dan is the one of the first in the Solaris (now OpenSolaris) engineering team to pave this screencasting path. Dan's always peeking around corners, looking for what's coming, critiquing how we approach problems and coming up with ideas for how to communicate and how to spread the word. In addition to doing his day job of engineering great technology.
In summary, I have 4 things to say:
1. Here is my Huge Welcome to the ZFS bits into OpenSolaris. This next-generation Zettabyte File System is sure to have a positive impact on the lives of system administrators - and the bottom lines of businesses. Congratulations to the fabulous team behind this great accomplishment.
2. Big thank you to Dan Price (and the other folks who helped him) for creating the First ZFS Screencast!
3. Please note that the ZFS bits are available in the OpenSolaris source code first - before showing up in a product anywhere. We really are serious about this open source and open development thing.
4. Thank you to Dave Johnson for giving a name (via Siflay Hraka) to what we're doing today (and what we did on the OpenSolaris Opening Day) - a Blog Carnival. I like it.
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