Presentations? We don't need no stink'n Powerpoint!

Posted by Doug Wed, 01 Mar 2006 22:51:06 GMT

I gave a “bootcamp” style presentation today at work on Test Driven Development on Rails. I was struggling to figure out what tool to use to actually compose and give the presentation. S5 is a tool from Eric Meyer that uses XHTML, Javascript, and CSS to make a web-based presentation. It’s really cool. Rather than all the typing needed to write valid XHTML, I wrote a Ruby script to convert Textile to S5. I’ve included the Ruby code needed and my TDD presentation.

BTW, you can view the live presentation here

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  1. Dave Minor said about 3 hours later:

    oh, and I get no props for encouraging you to use S5?? cool about writing it in textile. You’re like a textile FREAK! :)

  2. Doug said about 4 hours later:

    Yea, I suck. I couldn’t remember how/who pointed me to S5. Thanks, Dave.

  3. Shane said about 20 hours later:

    I remember looking at the XHTML needed for S5 and thinking that there needs to be a better way. I opted for PowerPoint but you went a step further. Thanks!

  4. Chris said 1 day later:

    For my last presentation (on Ajax), I made a javascript-heavy web presentation and went through it on full screen with Safari. For my next presentation, I’m definitely gonna use S5 (with Textile). Thanks for the tip.

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