Welcome to Slide Show (S9)

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What's Slide Show (S9)?

A Ruby gem that lets you create slide shows and author slides in plain text using a wiki-style markup language that's easy-to-write and easy-to-read. The Slide Show (S9) project also collects and welcomes themes and ships "out-of-the-gem" with built-in support for "loss-free" gradient vector graphics themes.

Getting Started in 1-2-3 Easy Steps

Step 0: Install the slideshow gem

$ gem install slideshow

Step 1: Author your slides in plain text using a wiki-style markup language

Slide Show uses Textile that lets you author your slides using a wiki-style markup language that's easy-to-write and easy-to-read. Let's create some slides about best practices for web services using REST (rest.textile): 
h1. Web Services REST-Style: Universal Identifiers, Formats & Protocols

Agenda

* What's REST?
* Universal Identifiers, Formats & Protocols
* The Holy REST Trinity - Noun, Verbs, Types
* REST Design Principles 
* Architecture Astronaut REST Speak

h1. Representational State Transfer (REST) - Meaningless Acronym? Wordplay?

rest - n. - peace, ease, or refreshment resulting from the insight that the web works

No matter what vendors tell you - no need to "Light Up the Web" - relax - built on
an *open architecture using universal identifiers, formats & protocols and _evolving_
open standards* - no need to reinvent the wheel and sign-up for single-vendor offerings.

h3. Broad Definition

* Best Practices for Designing Web Services for a Unified Human and Programable Web

h3. Narrow Definition

* Alternative to BigCo Web Services (SOAP, WS-STAR) and RPC-Style Web Services (XML-RPC)
Use h1. to start a new slide. That's it. For more formatting options see the Textile reference.

Step 2: Generate your slide show using the slideshow gem

Run slideshow to generate your slide show. The slideshow gem expects the name of your slide show source document (e.g. rest) without the .textile ending and will generate a web page (e.g. rest.html) that is an all-in-one-page handout and a live slide show all at once. 
$ slideshow rest

=> Preparing slide show 'rest.html'...
=> Done.

Step 3: Open up your slide show in your browser

Open up your slide show (rest.html) in your browser (Firefox, Safari, Opera and others) and hit F11 to switch into full screen projection and hit the space bar or the right arrow, down arrow or page down key to flip through your slides.

That's it. Voila.

Bonus: Try some more slide show samples

What's Textile? What's Markdown?

Textile is a wiki-style markup language that's easy-to-write and easy-to-read and that lets you author web pages in plain text. More:

Markdown is yet another wiki-style markup language that's easy-to-write and easy-to-read and that lets you author web pages in plain text. More:

What's S5? What's S6?

Simple Standards-based Slide Show System (S5) is Eric Meyer's (of CSS fame) public domain (free, open source) slide show package inspired by Opera Show and others that works in all modern browsers without any plugin required because it includes its own slide show machinery in JavaScript. (Use the --s5 option to create S5-compatible slide shows.)

S6 is the rewrite of Eric Meyer's S5 using the jQuery JavaScript library - offering easier to understand and easier to extend code. Add plugins, effects and more. Contributions welcome!

Keyboard controls:

Action Key
Go to next slide
  • Space Bar
  • Right Arrow
  • Down Arrow
  • Page Down
Go to previous slide
  • Left Arrow
  • Up Arrow
  • Page Up
Go to first slide
  • Home
Go to last slide
  • End
Toggle between slideshow and outline view (Ø)
  • T
Show/hide slide controls (Ø « »)
  • C
  • Move mouse to bottom right corner
What's FullerScreen? What's Opera Show?

FullerScreen is a free Firefox browser addon that turns your web page in a full screen slide show without requiring any JavaScript. (Use the --fullerscreen option to create FullerScreen-compatible slide shows.) More:

Opera Show is the slide show projection machinery built-into the free Opera browser. Slide Show (S9)-generated web pages using the --fullerscreen option are compatible with the Opera Show Format (OSF) and, thus, your slide shows will work with the Opera browser "out-of-the-box" without requiring any plugins (just press F11 to get started and page up/down to flip through the slides).

About - Questions? Comments?

Gerald Bauer designed and developed the slideshow gem. Thanks to zimbatm for contributions on fixing the gem exectuable on Unix and getting started with code syntax highlighting using the Ultraviolet gem. Questions? Comments? Send them along to the Free Web Slide Show Alternatives (S5, S6, S9 And Friends) Forum/Mailing List. Thanks!