I've been using slid.es for a few things recently. It's really well-made, gives you a workable GUI with the option to edit HTML directly, gives you free cloud storage for your presentations, and is a nice change of pace and extra bit of glitter compared to Powerpoint. A job very well done.
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#22I ended up presenting my PhD with this and a mix of d3.js and inkscape-generated svg. You can do a lot with this, especially if you tune down the transitions, colors, and fonts a bit.
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#23+1 for reveal.js. In a talk I gave recently about a PHP dep management tool, I used reveal.js (+fragments) + `script` command + ansi2html.sh to create colorized, step-by-step terminal demos without running it in the console.
Nice cuz a) no live coding, no risk there b) dep tool requires network access for most operations; bad wifi at conference = "oh no" c) ppl can follow along at home or go over the steps themselves d) not an image so you can select/copy text.
Here's an example: http://sequoia.github.io/composer-talk/#/7/1 (press spacebar to advance). I plan to write a blog post about my strategies for avoiding live coding in presentations... one of these days :p
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#24I looked at Reveal recently (the Google Chrome DevTools guys use it for all their demos) for a presentation but ended up using Bespoke.JS instead (which oddly enough the Mozilla folks have been using recently): The following presentation gives a good overview of the differences between Bespoke and Reveal: http://markdalgleish.com/presentations/bespoke.js/ (keep pressing forward...it gets more interesting as you progr…
I'm confused- you stuck with Bespoke, right? It looks cool, but what recommends it over reveal.js? Did you try reveal or just look at it? I'm a reveal.js user but I'm not married to it.
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#25For those of you wondering what we've changed in reveal.js since it was last on HN, have a look at https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/releases (everything since 1.2.0 is new). Changes include support for RTL, MathJax, Multiplexing, Leap Motion and much more. I'm also working on making reveal.js available to folks who don't know HTML. Give it a go at http://slid.es/
Yay .stretch! I was resizing & using negative top margin to fit big elems onscreen- it really didn't work very well :p
http://sequoia.github.io/composer-talk/#/5/2
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#26For a cool example of using Reveal.js, check out my Haskell Lectures http://shuklan.com/haskell/lec01.html
Not sure what's cooler — presentation itself or the topic.
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#27For those of you wondering what we've changed in reveal.js since it was last on HN, have a look at https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/releases (everything since 1.2.0 is new). Changes include support for RTL, MathJax, Multiplexing, Leap Motion and much more. I'm also working on making reveal.js available to folks who don't know HTML. Give it a go at http://slid.es/
Just used it in my presentation for uni! via slid.es However, the computer I used only had IE. So no cool animations, but I was happy with the fallback result (scrolling)!
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#28Reveal.js is great.
Up until recently, I was putting slides together using Google Docs (ugh!), and thought there had to be a different way so I started looking around. Reveal.js looked the best to me, but I wanted two things:
1) It running on a server reading new slideshows automatically, and
2) To write the slides in pure markdown (like how some others use `---` for slide separation).
I ended up hacking together a quick Erlang-based slideshow server called Sliderl[1] that lists all slideshows (showing a quick preview of the first slide), and has a simple text-search. And of course, all the slideshows are rendered with Reveal.js.
1) Make sure Erlang is installed
2) clone the repo
3) put your slideshows in its "slideshow/" directory (slideshows must end with .markdown)
4) make
5) make run
6) Open browser to http://127.0.0.1:8000
I suppose it's simple if you have Erlang installed already, but if you don't have Erlang installed, you probably don't want to install it just to show some slides. A running example with some of my slide decks is at http://slides.sigma-star.com/
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#29I am using impress.js for all my presentations: http://bartaz.github.io/impress.js/
I use it here and there as well. I combined it with meteor to give a presentation without having to screen share. https://github.com/phillc/meteor-impress Example: http://phillc-cd.meteor.com/ Open in multiple tabs and click the following button in the top left and move around.
Hey this is pretty cool. Not having to use additional screen share software is nice.
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#30Being on the low end of computing power, every time I see a reveal.js based presentation I cringe. I'm not embracing the trend for fancy transition in presentation, content first I guess. Maybe there are ways to gracefully degrade slides to avoid lagging ?