We are working hard in Mashape to allow, as soon as possible, more alpha users to play with our platform. One of our main focuses is the documentation.

Yeah, it could sound weird, but we need really good documentation. And it’s really hard to write it down. Harder than code.

But, one of the main bonus, of creating documentation vs writing source code, is that you can use different tools and create it in different formats. For example screencasts.

I’m just trying recordmydesktop to record screencasts:

michele@erakis:~$ recordmydesktop –no-sound  –v_quality=50

The output is a file called out.ogv. Then I’ve encoded it using ffmpeg (video codec mpeg4 and avi container) just to upload it on Vimeo

michele@erakis:~$ ffmpeg -i out1.ogv -f avi -vcodec mpeg4 -an -b 2742k video.avi

Yes, I love the command line..