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Re: [PLUG] Fred Stluka's giving a talk on Cloud Computing Mon 11/16 7-9pm...
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Fred:
I had figured it out... it's pretty slick!
Questions: Where do you store the text for the slides? Is that in the
JavaScript? I'm curious because I use "slidy" from W3C for some
presentations and all the slide content is in the main html file. It's
"okay" to create the file that way but I'd like something that used a
markup language more like a wiki than the html markup.
Tnx
Eric
fred@bristle.com wrote:
> PLUG members, Cloud Computing fans, and Local Friends of Fred,
>
> Havong trouble getting to the next slide in my slideshow?
>
> Several of you have tried to view the slideshow, but been unable
> to get past the first slide, or past the first slide that was less
> than a full screen. Here's the secret to advance to the next slide:
> - Click on the text of a bullet, not on blank space
> - Or hit Enter
> - Or use the right and left arrow keys on the keyboard
>
> Sorry about that! At first, I advanced to the next slide on any mouse
> click, but that meant that it advanced even when you clicked the scroll
> bars, so I changed it to advance only when you clicked on the slide
> content, but now it fails to advance when you click on blank space among
> the content. New version coming soon. Meanwhile, use the arrow keys
> or Enter, or click on text each time.
>
> --Fred
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Fred Stluka -- mailto:fred@bristle.com -- http://bristle.com/~fred/
> Bristle Software, Inc -- http://bristle.com -- Glad to be of service!
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> From: fred@bristle.com
> List: Stluka_Cloud_Computing_List
> List: Stluka_Local_Friends_List
> Subject: Re: Fred Stluka's giving a talk on Cloud Computing Mon 11/16 7-9pm...
>
> PLUG members, Cloud Computing fans, and Local Friends of Fred,
>
> Here are the slides I showed at the Cloud Computing talk this
> evening. Thanks to all of you who attended and contributed to
> the conversation. Any further feedback is welcome (questions,
> comments, criticisms, whatever, about the subject matter, my
> presentation software, my speaking style, my hairdo or body odor,
> or whatever :-). Thanks!
>
> The exact slides from tonight's talk (driven by the exact software
> I used tonight) are at:
> http://bristle.com/Talks/CloudComputing/frozen/20091117_PLUGWest
>
> For your convenience, there is a single file copy of the entire
> presentation (easier for printing than one Web page per slide) at:
> http://bristle.com/Talks/CloudComputing/frozen/20091117_PLUGWest/OneFile
>
> The latest evolving set of slides (using the latest presentation
> software) are always at:
> http://bristle.com/Talks/CloudComputing
> and
> http://bristle.com/Talks/CloudComputing/OneFile
>
> The latest evolving presentation software is downloadable from:
> http://bristle.com
> I've already fixed the problem that we saw tonight, where highlighting
> text to point it out to the audience and then releasing the mouse was
> advancing to the next slide. Now it advances on mouse up only if no
> text is selected. Any more suggestions?
>
> --Fred
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Fred Stluka -- mailto:fred@bristle.com -- http://bristle.com/~fred/
> Bristle Software, Inc -- http://bristle.com -- Glad to be of service!
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> From: fred@bristle.com
> List: Stluka_Cloud_Computing_List
> List: Stluka_Local_Friends_List
> Subject: Fred Stluka's giving a talk on Cloud Computing Mon 11/16 7-9pm...
>
> Cloud Computing fans and Local Friends of Fred,
>
> I'm giving a talk on "Cloud Computing" Monday 11/16 7-9pm.
>
> It is a repeat of the guest lecture I gave to a computer class at
> Penn State last month. However, this is not just for tuition-paying
> students. It is free, and open to the public if you want to attend.
>
> Even if you're not a computer person, you may enjoy the talk. I'm
> pretty sure that every single person receiving this message is already
> using Cloud Computing in one form or another (at least Google search,
> Google mail, Yahoo mail, Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, Google Maps or
> Google Docs, if not any of the more advanced forms). And your employers
> will be using it more and more in the next year or two, for virtual
> desktops, virtual servers, etc. Come out and learn more!
>
> The talk is at a meeting of PLUG West (the West branch of the Philly
> Linux Users Group). We'll probably meet at the usual location at a
> company in Malvern near Rtes 29 and 30, but may need a bigger room,
> depending on the number of people attending, so I'll save the location
> details for later.
>
> Please reply if you would like to attend.
>
> As always, there is no charge for the PLUG West meeting. No food
> is provided, so feel free to bring your own drinks and such. Also,
> we often go out for a beer, wings, or dinner afterwards.
>
> If you want a sneak preview of the slides, let me know. I'm still
> working on them, but they are posted to my Web site. I can send you
> the URL.
>
> BTW, since I've never been a fan of PowerPoint, I wrote my own
> HTML/CSS/JavaScript-based PowerPoint-like software the other day,
> and I'm using it for this presentation. Really simple approach.
> You can use any HTML page as a slide, and you just include a list
> of the slide URLs in the master page where you specify the header,
> footer, background colors/images, etc. It automatically shows
> slide number and count, positions the footer at a fixed location
> at the bottom of the page, can skip the footer on the first page,
> etc. Next/previous via mouse click, or Enter, or arrow keys or
> Home/End, etc. Slide files can be as simple as:
> <h1>What is Cloud Computing?</h1>
> <ul>
> <li>Next big thing</li>
> <li>Old technology</li>
> <li>Broadband</li>
> <li>Distance is irrelevant</li>
> </ul>
> or as fancy as you want, even including their own JavaScript, Ajax,
> etc. Long slides scroll, instead of being truncated like PowerPoint.
> People in the back can't see? Just hit Ctrl-Plus a few times, and
> the browser scales the fonts and the lines wrap around so nothing
> goes missing. If necessary, scroll down via the arrow keys to see
> the stuff that gets pushed off the bottom. You can have a single
> CSS file that sets the fonts, colors, background image, etc. for the
> entire series, or you can have have every slide different. Still
> some work to do, but I've used it once already. Works like a charm!
>
> Let me know if:
> - You'd like to attend
> - You want to see the slides on the Web
> - You want a free open source copy of the slideshow software.
>
> --Fred
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Fred Stluka -- mailto:fred@bristle.com -- http://bristle.com/~fred/
> Bristle Software, Inc -- http://bristle.com -- Glad to be of service!
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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# And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings...
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