Programming Videos - WF
I am spending the afternoon watching videos on how to program using Windows Workflow Foundation, not ever known as WWF which seems to be an awfully popular acronym that no one can use except the World Wildlife Fund, or whatever it is called. Not wrestling, not Microsoft, ha ha the pandas win.
But shall we iterate again - videos, on programming. They're actually pretty good videos about this new technology one can use for programming workflows, ie. sequences of actions, events and data transfer, without having to write the actual sequencing bit yourself. You specify the workflow (simply put: the flow of work) and the conditions for transitioning between events, and you specify what actually happens at various stages, ie. what work is actually done, but you don't have to handle the flow yourself; you specify the parts and when you would like them to happen, but you don't need to make them happen. It's hard to explain what I'm talking about if you don't already know.
However, no matter how good or useful or even fun (there is a graphic designer for the bit where you specify the sequence where you can drag and drop activities and conditions and it puts in little arrows and boxes and it is like you are doing work but really you are drawing a fun little colourful diagram of what you want it to do) the process might be, listening to some American guy talk about it while viewing powerpoint slides and action shots of him looking at the code while talking about it - just isn't that engaging after a while. Especially not after an hour. It is 100 times better than Microsoft's written documentation on it though (at least what I've found), so I have to watch it because if I don't I have to read all that other stuff with all the marketing mixed in. Microsoft also has this strange habit of repeating some simple things over and over with a big explanation each time, and explaining briefly more complicated concepts with the effect that you have a similar feeling to being in an advanced calculus lecture where you don't understand much but the lecturer keeps going into a detailed explanation of basic addition every time it is even tangentially relevant. But not a detailed explanation in that he is explaining the fundamentals of numbers and mathematics and counting, just an explanation of how 2+2=4, which is where you take 2, being 1 more than 1, and another 2, also being 1 more than 1, and then add them, which will then make 4, which is the sum of the two things you were adding - which appear on the left-hand side of the question. Like that. Oh yeah.
Anyway, programming videos. You just think about that. Several hours worth.
But shall we iterate again - videos, on programming. They're actually pretty good videos about this new technology one can use for programming workflows, ie. sequences of actions, events and data transfer, without having to write the actual sequencing bit yourself. You specify the workflow (simply put: the flow of work) and the conditions for transitioning between events, and you specify what actually happens at various stages, ie. what work is actually done, but you don't have to handle the flow yourself; you specify the parts and when you would like them to happen, but you don't need to make them happen. It's hard to explain what I'm talking about if you don't already know.
However, no matter how good or useful or even fun (there is a graphic designer for the bit where you specify the sequence where you can drag and drop activities and conditions and it puts in little arrows and boxes and it is like you are doing work but really you are drawing a fun little colourful diagram of what you want it to do) the process might be, listening to some American guy talk about it while viewing powerpoint slides and action shots of him looking at the code while talking about it - just isn't that engaging after a while. Especially not after an hour. It is 100 times better than Microsoft's written documentation on it though (at least what I've found), so I have to watch it because if I don't I have to read all that other stuff with all the marketing mixed in. Microsoft also has this strange habit of repeating some simple things over and over with a big explanation each time, and explaining briefly more complicated concepts with the effect that you have a similar feeling to being in an advanced calculus lecture where you don't understand much but the lecturer keeps going into a detailed explanation of basic addition every time it is even tangentially relevant. But not a detailed explanation in that he is explaining the fundamentals of numbers and mathematics and counting, just an explanation of how 2+2=4, which is where you take 2, being 1 more than 1, and another 2, also being 1 more than 1, and then add them, which will then make 4, which is the sum of the two things you were adding - which appear on the left-hand side of the question. Like that. Oh yeah.
Anyway, programming videos. You just think about that. Several hours worth.
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