... bueno, el gurú dice muchas cosas, pero en particular, César Ballardini acaba de inaugurar su propio blog, http://katra.blogsavy.com/
Ni idea de qué va a hablar, pero es una persona que programa Forth para divertirse, así que es seguramente algo interesante.
This post is in spanish because so is César's blog.
As a result of my playing with mootools and creating powerpoint-style slideshows on webpages from restructured text, I am pretty much decided about turning this into a standalone, real application.
I am doing a PyQt4 frontend, and restructured text addons to generate the slides.
The native file format is restructured text itself, and it supports basic transitions between slides.
It still needs a ton of work, but here is a video showing how it looks after a couple of days hacking. You can see the current UI, a document's source, and a demonstration using firefox (only because Konqy doesn't suppose opacity, the rest of the transitions work even better on Konqueror)
It's Ogg/Theora and 3MB (thanks openomy.com!): the video
...surely is a phrase I never expected to hear. But then the rats started laughing.
Check it out in this video (thanks Videosift!)
Now, I don't know if this is useful, but I do think it's way neat.
Inspired by S5, rst2s5, and mootools I took an hour (or two) and hacked this neat little slide tool.
The goals differ from S5 in that I intend to write a frontend, so that you have a sort of very-poor-man's powerpoint, but also in that the output should be simple to embed in other pages so that I can eventually make this a part of bartleblog.
Check it out (click to go to next slide, move mouse to the top of the slideshow for controls):
There may be an artifact when you slide out the syntax-highlighted boxes, but I have no idea how to fix it.
Also, I have not tested it at all in IE, so if it fails there, don't worry, that's to be expected!
Next time I speak in public, I may use this :-)
And, as a teaser... this is the source for the presentation you just saw:
Why use BartleBlog ================== (If you are a nerd) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ :author: Roberto Alsina <ralsina@kde.org> It's nerd-oriented ------------------ It's trivial to display source code, with proper syntax highlighting. .. code-block:: python from base64 import * def myFirstFunction(): print b64decode ('YnllIHdvcmxkIQ==') Even for things like shell sessions. Dammit, I am a nerd, I will try to add every nerd feature I deem cool. It does things simply --------------------- Wanna show a flickr photo? .. code-block:: rst .. flickr:: myPhotoTitle How about using openomy.com to share your files? And whatever else you can think of, it probably **can** be done. It's very easy to extend ------------------------ Really. It's simple python code. * The module to do syntax highlighting has 41 lines. * The module to do dynamic animated menus has 103. * The module to do calendars has 72. If there is a python module or web service to do what you want, hooking it into BartleBlog is simple. And it has kickass features --------------------------- Like online, embedded, animated slideshows! Like this one! Done with 65 lines of simple almost-plain-text markup! Ok, it's not fully implemented yet, because it needs some manual code, but the hard part is done! Or automatic SVN changelog display ( I admit that's *somewhat niche* ;-)) Now, who else has that kind of thing?
A new gadget: Mootools based menus.
It takes the same data format I used for the Yahoo UI menubar, and creates a dynamic, sliding, animated, pretty, works-on-lynx menu.
No screenshot because it makes no sense without the movement. You can see it at the top of the sidebar (click on the darker items, outside the links... that needs work).
And yes, that means this blog has, right now, two menus with exactly the same data in them. And on a non-JS browser both are fully expanded.
But that's just temporary ;-)