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Truthfully speaking, after taking an overnight flight back to Boston from California I really was in poor shape to actually get any real work done today.

I've recorded my experience installing the fresh release of SGE 6.2beta on my laptop. The video screencast itself is hosted over at a BioTeam site -- it's only fair because BioTeam is paying for the hosting costs as well as the screencast recording software!

The video screencast is linked off of this blog post:
http://blog.bioteam.net/2008/05/16/sge-62beta-unboxing-screencast/

I am still on the fence as to if this screencast stuff is actually useful. Maybe it's all just web-2.0 style style-over-substance crap. Comments appreciated and will help me figure out how much effort to put into video content vs. straight up blog or technical writing.

I'm doing a short "Intro to SGE" tutorial today as part of the Univa ClusterExpress tutorial that is happening this week at the http://www.opensourcegridcluster.org/ conference.

As part of general paranoia I recorded some screencasts of trivial SGE command line usage to play at my talk if my demo system goes unavailable. Just for the heck of it I uploaded some of these screencasts to my Flickr photostream and then added them to the conference group photo pool .

Please let me know what you think by leaving a comment here or dropping me an email. I don't think the quality is all that great as it is hard to see the text all the time. I may go back to producing screencasts with Camtasia Studio and hosting them over at http://www.screencast.com (if you see the videos in the lower sidebar, those are done in camtasia and hosted at screencast.com).