Comments on: Help improve my PyOhio talk

By: Matt Wilson

Matt Wilson — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:49:56 +0000

Thanks David, I think I'll take that path.

By: Matt Wilson

Matt Wilson — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:49:56 +0000

Thanks David, I think I'll take that path.

By: David Goodger

David Goodger — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:16:32 +0000

The way I deal with resolution differences is to use the Firefox “Web Developer” extension. It has a “Resize” feature where you can specify what size you want. Open a new window for your slides, make it full-screen (F11), resize to 1024×768, then reload the slideshow (ctrl-R). You'll get exactly what you'll see from the projector.

By: Matt Wilson

Matt Wilson — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:13:27 +0000

Hi Kumar,

Yeah, I used rst2s5.py also. Problems surfaced when the projector had a resolution of 1024×768, which is smaller than my laptop's 1440×900 resolution.

I'm going to study that starscream slideshow app also.

By: Matt Wilson

Matt Wilson — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:11:53 +0000

Hi David, That is an approach I considered, but I really like the simplicity of a single presentation format. Less can go wrong.

I could do the whole presentation just from a single really-long text file, I suppose….

By: Kumar McM illan

Kumar McM illan — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:41:40 +0000

Hi Matt. As an alternative to Bruce you may want to check out http://code.google.com/p/starscream-slideshow/ (starscream). It's a set of extensions to s5 to do extra stuff. The best of course is source code highlighting which IMO makes for nice code in a presentation. I think s5 actually does a good job at working with screen resolutions. I did this with rst2s5.py and a custom rst directive for the code highlighting (more or less the same as how starscream does it) : http://farmdev.com/talks/unicode/

By: Matt Wilson

Matt Wilson — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:49:32 +0000

So, Bruce could really benefit from a hello-world example on the web page. You gotta do a little to entice people!

By: r1chardj0n3s

r1chardj0n3s — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:45:48 +0000

Keynote is great … if you have a Mac

Bruce will have a presenter view. It had one, but then it lost it during a refactoring. It does display the presentation source in the laptop screen, which also allows you to have notes displayed.

By: David Goodger

David Goodger — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:39:28 +0000

"A fair number of code samples had the last few lines truncated."

Truncated vertically or horizontally? If vertically, put less code on the slides. If horizontally, wrap lines (fewer columns).

Slides have limited space. You just have to deal with it. And slides aren't the end-all of presentations. If they don't work for you, do something else (even just for part of your talk).

If you have a lot of code to show, switch to an editor. Turn the font size way up, and turn on auto-wrapping. In an editor, you have the freedom to scroll around, select text, correct typos & bugs, etc.

By: Matt Wilson

Matt Wilson — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:50:04 +0000

Yep, you described the problems that kept happening last night. Gonna check out Bruce now.