My customer wants me to record a video of how I develop his software product
This is something I actually offer to my clients, and I do it for fun.  I guess I was inspired by watching some of Notch's screencaps over a few days.<p>So I capture it with RecordMyDesktop (I run xubuntu), and run through an ffmpeg script (<a href="https://github.com/choptastic/watchmecode" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/choptastic/watchmecode</a>) that resizes the video to be the same length as an MP3, and makes an X minute screencap montage for the client.<p>Then it produces something like this, which I did while working on a specific feature[2] for my sports league management system[1]: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwn7mfmo0SQ" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwn7mfmo0SQ</a><p>In my experience, my clients basically find it interesting seeing a snippet of how a programmer works.  I had one client who would show the video around in his office like it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. At first, I thought the reaction was sarcastic, but I realized after the 3rd time showing another employee, and <i>his elderly father</i>, that he was just genuinely impressed by it.<p>THAT SAID, if a client <i>required</i> this of me because they wanted to <i>monitor</i> me (to make sure I'm working or whatever), I'd let them know that "sure, I can do it for the most part, but I have to disable it when checking my email, and any time spend curating the video due to privacy concerns will be billed to you as well."<p>But if a client asked it of me to satisfy their own curiosity of my workflow (which is unlikely, since I typically just volunteer it anyway), I'd be more than happy to do it.<p>[1] <a href="http://bracketpal.com" rel="nofollow">http://bracketpal.com</a> (homepage is still embarrassingly sparse, as I've been working one-on-one with customers, a landing page redesign and online customers are coming first).<p>[2] The video above is the screencap of the implementation of this feature: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxTfaSfa_dQ" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxTfaSfa_dQ</a>