Rails - Jan 2005 - Announcing SoapBX.com a new Rails App for making presentations

I got an idea less than two weeks ago and now as a testament to the
power of Rails I have released the first initial beta version of
SoapBx, with less than 20 hours of programming involved so far.

SoapBX is an application to create css based presentations and uses
Erik Meyer''s cool S5 css and js code:
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/

With SoapBX you can use basic Textile and a simple web app to create
presentaions.

What are my priorities with this righ now?

* Improve the user account management screens (there aren''t any right
now)
* Create more themes (right now only the standard S5 theme is used)
* Allow users to create their own themes
* Integrate with Flickr for image management
* Add a blog and a forum

Please let me know what you think so far. I''m likely to be updating it
daily for a while so keep coming back.

Regards
Pelle

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Damn Pelle,

You got me hands down here :-) I got the same idea instantly after I 
learned about S5 (and Rails, but that was already a bit earlier). This 
is a great tribute to the efficiency of Rails development. I didn''t get
further than to the idea stage when someone already handed me an almost 
ready system. I already tested your system and it looks very good 
indeed. Can''t wait for the xmlhttprequest editing of the slides ;-)

Excellent!

//jarkko

On 6.1.2005, at 09:59, Pelle Braendgaard wrote:
> I got an idea less than two weeks ago and now as a testament to the
> power of Rails I have released the first initial beta version of
> SoapBx, with less than 20 hours of programming involved so far.
>
> SoapBX is an application to create css based presentations and uses
> Erik Meyer''s cool S5 css and js code:
> http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
>
> With SoapBX you can use basic Textile and a simple web app to create
> presentaions.
>
> What are my priorities with this righ now?
>
> * Improve the user account management screens (there aren''t any
right
> now)
> * Create more themes (right now only the standard S5 theme is used)
> * Allow users to create their own themes
> * Integrate with Flickr for image management
> * Add a blog and a forum
>
> Please let me know what you think so far. I''m likely to be
updating it
> daily for a while so keep coming back.
>
> Regards
> Pelle
>
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On Jan 5, 2005, at 11:59 PM, Pelle Braendgaard wrote:
> SoapBX is an application to create css based presentations and uses
> Erik Meyer''s cool S5 css and js code:
> http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
>
> With SoapBX you can use basic Textile and a simple web app to create
> presentaions.
Fantastic. I''ve been wanting something exactly like this for years. 
Seriously, years.

http://soapbx.com/viewer/show/5

Thanks for it and let me know if there''s anything I can do (besides the
obvious using of it).

- - J

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On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 08:59:28AM +0100, Pelle Braendgaard
wrote:
> I got an idea less than two weeks ago and now as a testament to the
> power of Rails I have released the first initial beta version of
> SoapBx, with less than 20 hours of programming involved so far.
> 
> SoapBX is an application to create css based presentations and uses
> Erik Meyer''s cool S5 css and js code:
> http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
>
> [...]
This is beyond sweet, good show!  I saw S5 a while ago and was
impressed, this is a magnificent application of it.  The only thing I
wasn''t sure of was how you can get back to the main page from the end
of
a presentation.

Very cool
-Scott

Pelle Braendgaard wrote:
>I got an idea less than two weeks ago and now as a testament to the
>power of Rails I have released the first initial beta version of
>SoapBx, with less than 20 hours of programming involved so far.
>
>SoapBX is an application to create css based presentations and uses
>Erik Meyer''s cool S5 css and js code:
>http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
>
>With SoapBX you can use basic Textile and a simple web app to create
>presentaions.
>
Just out of curiosity, would you be willing to share your source or is 
this proprietary?  I would like to check it out merely for educational 
purposes.  I''m still learning rails.

Thanks,
Carl

> Just out of curiosity, would you be willing to share your source or is 
> this proprietary?  I would like to check it out merely for educational 
> purposes.  I''m still learning rails.
Yeah, it would be great to add another open project to the list of 
project repositories on documentation.rubyonrails.com. Getting a Trac 
running would be preferable ;)
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David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
>> Just out of curiosity, would you be willing to share your source or is 
>> this proprietary?  I would like to check it out merely for educational 
>> purposes.  I''m still learning rails.
> 
> 
> Yeah, it would be great to add another open project to the list of 
> project repositories on documentation.rubyonrails.com. Getting a Trac 
> running would be preferable ;)
Also, why not just send Eric Meyer a mail, see if you can get him to 
post something about it on his weblog. I bet he''s interested in it.

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According to Carl Youngblood:
> Just out of curiosity, would you be willing to share your source or is 
> this proprietary?  I would like to check it out merely for educational 
> purposes.  I''m still learning rails.
I''d be interested too.  Like I wrote on 43things, I''m still
trying to wrap my
mind into the Rails mindset...  I feel many things are done right in RoR but
I''m not there yet :)
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Slightly off topic but does anybody know why 
Opera is the only browser that doesn''t render S5 presentations
properly?
IE and Firefox seem to handle it ok.

I have turned on javascript so that''s not it.

A few more projects like this an I will have a case at the office...

Hi Nikos,

Opera was the company that "invented" the projection media type, which
S5 is based on (see  
http://my.opera.com/community/dev/operashow/documentation/ 
doc_fileformat.html). Other browsers don''t support that type and  
therefore S5 uses other means to get the needed functionality in them.  
In Opera, however, S5 falls back to projection media type.  
Unfortunately Opera Show (which is used to display projection-type html  
documents in Opera) doesn''t support all the features of S5. For more  
information read the S5 introduction at  
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/s5-intro.html.

Cheers,
Jarkko

On 6.1.2005, at 21:58, Nikos Polizotis wrote:
> Slightly off topic but does anybody know why
> Opera is the only browser that doesn''t render S5 presentations  
> properly?
> IE and Firefox seem to handle it ok.
>
> I have turned on javascript so that''s not it.
>
> A few more projects like this an I will have a case at the office...
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Very good point. I shall add that immediately. 


On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 08:27:38 -0500, Scott Barron
<scott-HDQKq3lYuGDk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 08:59:28AM +0100, Pelle Braendgaard wrote:
> > I got an idea less than two weeks ago and now as a testament to the
> > power of Rails I have released the first initial beta version of
> > SoapBx, with less than 20 hours of programming involved so far.
> >
> > SoapBX is an application to create css based presentations and uses
> > Erik Meyer''s cool S5 css and js code:
> > http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
> >
> > [...]
> 
> This is beyond sweet, good show!  I saw S5 a while ago and was
> impressed, this is a magnificent application of it.  The only thing I
> wasn''t sure of was how you can get back to the main page from the
end of
> a presentation.
> 
> Very cool
> -Scott
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I probably wont share the code, at least not yet. However I will try
to help document Rails with examples from my code, just like David
does. If there are any bits of my code that I could see would be of
use, I will definitely submit it either as patches to rails or open
sourced external libraries.

-P

On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 08:58:50 -0800, Carl Youngblood
<carlwork-0CEYHQKyN7s@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Pelle Braendgaard wrote:
> 
> >I got an idea less than two weeks ago and now as a testament to the
> >power of Rails I have released the first initial beta version of
> >SoapBx, with less than 20 hours of programming involved so far.
> >
> >SoapBX is an application to create css based presentations and uses
> >Erik Meyer''s cool S5 css and js code:
> >http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
> >
> >With SoapBX you can use basic Textile and a simple web app to create
> >presentaions.
> >
> Just out of curiosity, would you be willing to share your source or is
> this proprietary?  I would like to check it out merely for educational
> purposes.  I''m still learning rails.
> 
> Thanks,
> Carl
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I''ve been planning on that. Will drop him a line tonight.

-P


On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 18:46:36 +0100, Marten Veldthuis
<marten-bhBtkFhEHeMTIWBel16Y73nhMCiq3JZZ@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
> >> Just out of curiosity, would you be willing to share your source
or is
> >> this proprietary?  I would like to check it out merely for
educational
> >> purposes.  I''m still learning rails.
> >
> >
> > Yeah, it would be great to add another open project to the list of
> > project repositories on documentation.rubyonrails.com. Getting a Trac
> > running would be preferable ;)
> 
> Also, why not just send Eric Meyer a mail, see if you can get him to
> post something about it on his weblog. I bet he''s interested in
it.
> 
> --
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I found it kind of works if you put into full screen mode. I''m not
sure why you cant see it in the normal browser window.

-P


On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 21:58:46 +0200, Nikos Polizotis
<npolizotis-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Slightly off topic but does anybody know why
> Opera is the only browser that doesn''t render S5 presentations
properly?
> IE and Firefox seem to handle it ok.
> 
> I have turned on javascript so that''s not it.
> 
> A few more projects like this an I will have a case at the office...
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On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 00:23:20 +0100, Pelle Braendgaard
<pelleb-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I found it kind of works if you put into full screen mode. I''m not
> sure why you cant see it in the normal browser window.
> 
> -P
> 
> 
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 21:58:46 +0200, Nikos Polizotis
<npolizotis-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Slightly off topic but does anybody know why
> > Opera is the only browser that doesn''t render S5
presentations properly?
> > IE and Firefox seem to handle it ok.
> >
> > I have turned on javascript so that''s not it.
> >
The S5 actually takes advantage of the Opera Show feature that has
been available in opera for a while now. The nice thing in S5 is that
this feature also works in other browsers.
When Opera gets into Opera Show mode it loads the stylesheets defined
with media=projection and that happens when you go into fullscreen.

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