So I've finally got some free time in between jobs. Now that the job hunting is over, I have some time to find better ways to keep myself trained and up to date in complement to just reading books and online articles.
It's been quite some time I've been using a great little application called
Miro. It's basically a RSS reader coupled with a download manager, a video player and a media manager. The result is very elegant and very easy to use, specially in it's recent 2.x release which polished the interface quite well. Until now I've been using it to watch channels from it's integrated guide which allows you to search and click to add new feeds. These feeds are checked in regular intervals and the contents downloaded for easy viewing.
Wanting more than best-of-Youtube kind of content, like .Net related goodness, I set myself to seek out some good feeds that would teach more about all things .Net, more specifically feeds that provide direct links to videos. Once I have the link to the RSS feed it's very easy to add it to Miro and
voilà, I have a self-updating stream of .Net-related tutorials, discussions and demos. Miro tells me when something new has been downloaded and manages my files by flagging what I've watched and what I haven't. It even cleans up old videos I've seen after a few days unless I mark them for safekeeping.
The only effort is locating the right feeds and unfortunately the Miro guide doesn't have much .Net related content... yet.
