Most developers know the term DRY, don’t repeat yourself. To code monkeys, it is second nature. What’s funny is it can be applied to everything, not just coding. Most developers don’t get this.
Today, one of my team leads did a tech talk for his team. The talk was an intro to MVC, specific to their project. It was awesome. You might be thinking, MVC is second nature to me. I have been using MVC for years. Any noob should know what MVC is. That’s not true.
At Mailtrust, the vast majority of our developers come from the coolest school across the street, Virginia Tech. Many of them didn’t learn MVC in school. Even if they did, they have never used it in an enterprise environment working in a team.
Camtasia to the rescue. For this tech talk, we did our first screencast recording. Now we have a reusable, applicable, and awesome training tool. The next time someone asks what MVC is, they won’t get the 5 minute high level talk that leaves them more lost than before. They get an hour long presentation, with full demo and discussion. Sweet. No more repeat training sessions.