Taking a page out of Don Stewart’s book I’m planning to release a project to the Internet every week or two. Most, if not all, of them will be open source and hosted on Github. I’ll be posting blurbs about them on this blog filed under a new category – Projects. Feel free to follow along or fork away.
Deck.js is a very cool project that provides a set of CSS and JavaScript templates that let you create clean, elegant slideshows using HTML. I’m becoming increasingly attracted to HTML as a general purpose documentation format so seeing like deck.js makes me really happy.
I’m currently using deck.js to put together a presentation for a class I’m taking, but while at it I thought I’d do some reorganization of the deck.js codebase to make things a little easier. The files that you need to include to use deck.js are currently spread out between a number of different folders meaning that as a user it might take you a while to figure out where everything is and what you need to include. So in the spirit of open source I decided to fork the repo on Github and create a ‘lite’ version.
This version (also available on Github under the same license) packs all the files into a single folder, shortens some names and paths and removes some things (tests and SCSS files) that users might not care about. I’ve also updated the introductory presentation to point to the new files so you can use that as a template for making your own slides. I’ve been talking to deck.js’ creator, Caleb Troughton and I plan to keep the ‘lite’ version in sync with the main repo so that you’re always using the latest and greatest.
If there’s anything else you’d like to see in a lite version (or just in deck.js in general) please let me know. I think the best days of the web are just ahead and having web-native slideshows is definitely a step in the right direction.
PS. In case you’re wondering: no, The ByteBaker is not going to become just an announcement board for my projects. However, graduate school is taking up a lot of my time and energy right now. Also I think it’s important that I keep to releasing one project a week. The best I way I can think of keeping to that is by documenting my progress online. Normal programming will resume soon.
