Re: WWDC video concordance?
Re: WWDC video concordance?
- Subject: Re: WWDC video concordance?
- From: Ken Thomases <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 18:38:45 -0500
On Oct 8, 2013, at 10:05 AM, Fritz Anderson wrote:
> Many a time, I see answers on Apple lists that refer the OP to a WWDC video, often with the specific time code that meets the OP's specific question.
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> For example, Ken Thomases' helpful answer to the thread "Question about menuHasKeyEquivalent:forEvent:target:action:," in which he referred to the number and time code for a session held four conferences ago.
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> I have a migraine, so my Googling skills are under a cloud, but I don't see any reference to an index of subtopics (or even topics, really) of the videos. I have a hard time believing that the responders have an encyclopedic knowledge of what was said at sessions going back years, down to the second. Nor do I credit that they run the entire stream just to get a time hack just to answer one question on a mailing list.
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> 1. Such people have access to a detailed subject concordance for WWDC videos.
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> 2. Such people had researched the same question some time in the past, and kept detailed records.
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> I'd hope for access to (1), and find (2) hard to believe, to the point of clinical interest. What's the trick?
Um, no trick. When WWDC videos are released each year, I browse the subjects looking for ones which interest me. I download and watch them. Some of them have information that I find very useful, like the one I referenced in that thread. I've had occasion to re-watch parts of that one several times over the years since it was released. When I went to reply to that thread, I opened it up and scrubbed it to find the timestamp of the part that was relevant. (They are downloadable, though iTunes U if nowhere else. So, I don't need to stream them each time. Also, watching downloaded files rather than streams lets me set the playback speed to ~1.75x, allowing me to get through them faster.)
I certainly couldn't pull up a reference to any or all WWDC videos that might be relevant to a particular subject. It's just that I happened to be familiar with that one. Perhaps it seems that "the community" is able to do that because each individual member has a different small subset of videos with which he or she is familiar.
For a list of the videos, I just go to Apple's site: <https://developer.apple.com/videos/>. For older WWDCs, take the link to view all videos in iTunes.
Cheers,
Ken
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