Showoff: the best damn presentation software a developer could ever love
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| 2010 | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2011 | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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Showoff Has Moved
Puppetlabs is now maintaining Showoff. I keep this repo here only to preserve the issues and whatnot. Puppetlabs maintains the Gem and is now the parent of this network.
Thanks!
Scott
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13 sourcesI'm sorry. The presentation was built with Scott Chacon's showoff library (https://github.com/schacon/showoff), which I assumed would handle cross browser issues well. I don't have an iPhone or a Mac, so I couldn't test it there.
In The Development of SequelHe used Scott Chacon's excellent ShowOff:
https://github.com/schacon/showoff
In How Heroku is using Redis in distributed Erlang systemsJust curious, but why link to that fork rather than the creator's main branch[1]? (I'm genuinely curious: maybe ownership has changed?)
[1] https://github.com/schacon/showoff
In Shower - nice cross browser presentation templateI used LibreOffice Impress over Ubuntu for that presentation.
I try to use the best tool for the job though.
Two weeks ago I had to make a code-based introductory presentation and I used showoff instead ( https://github.com/schacon/showoff ) since it comes with syntax highlighting and the slides are just a text file. It took me maybe a couple hours to learn the ins and outs, but then it was easy.
I've heard that the Mac app is good, too, but I haven't used it yet.
In How to make awesome diagrams for your slidesBTW I have found an awesome software for presentations by Scott Chacon called Showoff: https://github.com/schacon/showoff
In Ask HN: How do you prepare and do a technical talk?This is a presentation created with https://github.com/schacon/showoff. You could add scroll or other bindings to the code, if you want.
In Vim: Walking Without CrutchesThis is nice, although it's pretty similar to Showoff. https://github.com/schacon/showoff
In Cook up presentations with GitThere's Scott Chacon's interesting approach to presentations called ShowOff: http://github.com/schacon/showoff
In What Does HN Recommend for Presentation Slide CreationI would highly recommend using an MIT license - I think everyone working at GitHub uses it for all of our OS work.
http://github.com/schacon/showoff/blob/master/LICENSE
It is very open and people that are interested in learning from or using your code don't have to worry about licensing issues. If you are a hard-core copyleft advocate, then great, use the GPL - if you don't care, please use MIT. It makes people looking at your code not have to worry about exactly how they're using it and it makes sure they don't have to beg you to ask permission in case they want to use snippets in a non-GPL program.
In Ask HN: Releasing code as open sourceScott Chacon's (of GitHub fame) ShowOff is also nice:
http://github.com/schacon/showoff
it uses markdown for the, er, markup. :-)
In Slippy - HTML PresentationsShowoff (http://github.com/schacon/showoff), Markdown > HTML/PDF.
In Ask HN: Presentation Software?Showoff: Presentation software for software developers
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