It’s basically assumed that if you’re going to be giving a presentation, it’s likely going to be accompanied by slides from some sort of presentation software. And if you’re giving some type of technical presentation, it’s reasonably expected that you’re going to share your content with the rest of the world.
Sites like Slideshare and Google Docs make it pretty easy to get your slide deck on the web, but I’ve just recently discovered Slippy and think it’s definitely worth considering.
It’s got some solid features, but a few of them are definitely geared toward us developers.
Slippy is a presentation application that’s written in jQuery and requires basic HTML files for the slides.
There’s several features that I really dig about this particular utility. It only requires HTML for the slides:
It’s got a built-in syntax highlighter for your code:
If you’re giving a presentation on JavaScript, it can execute the code from within the presentation
And for those of you that are strict about where you keep your files, you will be able to share this on any of your own web servers without having to upload to a third-party provider.
If you’re interested, you can grab the full source code on GitHub or check out more demos here.
Phillip Gibb says
that is way cool 🙂
way better than the iG:Syntax Hiliter I tried to use on some of my posts.
this slide thing would have been much cooler.
I wonder if one could easily jump into and out of the presentation, or if it would be better as a popup, hmm
tom says
I don’t think the “jump out feature” is built-in, but being an all client-side application, I bet it’d be pretty easy to implement with a few JavaScript functions.