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New BartleBlog Feature: marketspeak!

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):

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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.

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?

.. 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?

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?
Paul Giannaros / 2007-04-13 00:25:

That slideshow is freakin' sweet. Very smooth and very konqi friendly :-)

Roberto Alsina / 2007-04-13 00:36:

Thanks :-)

For some reason it stutters on firefox, but works smoothly on IE and Konqi.

If I generate it standalone on a page, it works ok on Firefox, but I get artifacts on both Firefox and Konqi.

rami chowdhury / 2007-04-13 08:12:

Works like a charm on IE6, too... brilliant!

dAniel hAhler / 2007-04-14 01:37:

Very nice!

You might want to use
"cursor:pointer" for the links in the toolbar (so that the cursor changed to indicate a link).

Roberto Alsina / 2007-04-14 02:01:

Great idea, I didn't know how to do that!


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