I wrote a long email about wydiwys (What You Draw Is What You See, http://server-sky.com/wydiwys) but I should add a bit about my presentation philosophy:
Slides have pictures My mouth makes the words Reading slides is EVIL OK, I do have words on slides; labels and diagrams and such. I have been known to put lists on slides but I should be punished for that. Bullet points deserve hollowpoints to the brain. When I do put words on slides, I aim for 100 point, never smaller than 40 unless I am making a point about unreadability. 400 point is hard on audience members with weak bladders. Guy Kawasaki's rule - divide the age of the oldest person in the audience by 2, and never use a font smaller than that. If your business presentation has an old wrinkly guy in the room, he's the rich investor who approves the million dollar checks. Don't piss him off. Keith's rule - Paul Fenwick is a Presentation God. So is Lawrence Lessig. So are Larry Wall and Damien Conway. Thou Shalt Slavishly Copy every trick they use. Until you develop better tricks. Which you won't, fool. I don't run code in my presentations, mine usually are about hardware. There are web ssh clients, and bringing up an ssh text window to a server side bash process, with the command you want to type in ALREADY TYPED IN, is the way I would do that. But I would seriously consider capturing the output that I want as an animation instead, so that a canned web demo does not require human input, or a working connection to anything live, and the web demo doesn't open security holes. But I don't run code, so my opinion doesn't count for much. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
