[LRUG] More showing off

[Paul Campbell]

Joel,

I'm gonna give showoff a whirl tonight, giving an intro to Rails. I
wasn't at LRUG, but I was inspired by this thread!

—P

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Joel Chippindale
<joel.chippindale at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11 February 2010 16:36, Scott Chacon <schacon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hey,
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Roland Swingler
>> <roland.swingler at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Was curious as to why it required Sinatra rather than just static html
>> > - surely all the magic is in javascript and css on the front end?
>> >
>> > Roland
>>
>> The real reason is that eventually, I want this software to be
>> dynamic.  Right now it sort of is in that you can change the markdown
>> sources and then just hit 'r' on the presentation to dynamically
>> reload the slides
>
> Yes I should have mentioned before, this is invaluable when putting
> your presentation together.
>
>> the next stage will
>> be allowing the audience participate in the presentation interactively
>> (assuming you're on the same LAN as the audience)
>
> I look forward to seeing an example of this in action.
>
>> Turns out Keynote is not extensible and a few
>> days of work gave me software that can do everything I use Keynote
>> for, plus be a Sinatra app so I can do whatever I want with it :)
>
> For those of you who missed my talk, I think this is the key reason
> for using showoff over something more polished like Keynote.
>
>> I hope you find it useful
>> software.
>
> Absolutely, it will be my weapon of choice for the next presentation I
> give. Thanks.
>
> J.
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