News - Blog - Jordi Boggiano

Introducing Slippy - HTML Presentations

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:54:34 +0200

Slippy is a HTML Presentation library written with jQuery, it takes a html file in and plays it in any browser.

It is optimal for programming-related talks since it includes a syntax highlighter and is very easy to use since it's just standard html markup with a few classes to enable specific functions.

If you are making a talk about Javascript, it can even execute your code samples live and displays alert() boxes nicely instead of using the ugly browser dialog, which -I tried it today- works quite well to prove your point interactively.

You can find the sources on github, view the example slide deck which includes some documentation or view the slides for the small talk I gave today about Javascript Events on my Slippy slide repository.

Obviously feedback is very much welcome and even though it's not perfect yet, I hope it'll be useful to others. More docs and styling fixes (the dark grey background wasn't too visible on a projector, my bad) should come soon as I have more talks planned, and the slide repository page will receive some love as well when I have time.

Project management in PHP with Arbit

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:21:03 +0200

I would like to attract everyone's attention on the 0.3-alpha release of Arbit.

For those that do not know Arbit yet, it is a project management and issue tracker build in PHP. It uses CouchDB as a storage backend by default but work to support RDBMS via PDO is in progress.

Interestingly, it also provides experimental support for continuous integration, also fully PHP-based, unlike other popular solutions. This is not enabled by default in this release since it isn't fully ready but feel free to stop by the irc channel (#arbit on freenode) to know more.

The full announcement contains details about what we fixed and implemented in the 0.3.

Get involved!

As all open source projects, Arbit needs your help, I joined the project early this year and we have had a few contributions from other people since then, but we can always use more help. Therefore if you are interested and wish to take part by developing new features, fixing bugs or at least reporting them, please don't hesitate and get in touch! And as Elizabeth Naramore's article recently pointed out most people are afraid to contribute, I would like to say that no matter how skilled you are, contributions are welcomed. We will provide assistance if needed.

New design

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 18:29:03 +0200

In recent news, this site got a new design, I thought I could make the content more readable and accessible, so I killed my old templates and style sheets and started from scratch, without photoshop this time.

There is also mobile browser (android/iphone) support which is by the way achieved with this very interesting CSS media instruction:

This means any device with a monitor less than or exactly 800px wide will load the mobile.css file on top of the default one. Note that using media="handheld" is not working for recent smartphones that consider themselves greater than old school internet-enabled cellphones, so this is the only way to do it.

Any feedback, especially bad, is appreciated.

PHP RSS Generator

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:44:43 +0100

As part of my work on my CMS (and website as this site is running on it), I decided to code a RSS feed builder. This could easily be made as a standalone class so I thought I would share it.

The package is made of two files, one being the feed and the other one representing an item (i.e. an article). It works nicely as you can see from all the feeds I set up in here, and it supports the RSS2.0 standard entirely.

The Renewal

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:30:34 +0100

After some months of heavy procrastination, I finally took the time to put my new website online, so here it is, although it's still quite empty as of today.

Hopefully I will have time to complete what needs to be done soon.