Slides - MMU talk - February 29 2008
Friday, 29. February 2008, 13:05:04
I did a talk on Opera, future web standards and how to get hired in the web industry at Manchester Metropolitan University on Friday Feruary 29th 2008. I was fairly pleased with how it went, considering that it was my first ever talk to an external crowd (ie outside Opera!) and everything that could have gone wrong did so, pretty much! The projector unit would not recognise my Mac at all, for no apparent reason, and the default computer attached to the projector wouldn't let me install any files on it or download Opera. In the end I had to put my slides up on my blog and show them using IE - oh the irony! And of course they looked crappy because my Opera Show format wouldn't work on IE, and IE wouldn't run any of the examples hardly, being that they were CSS3, SVG, and other interesting stuff.
Anyhow this is making me sound horribly bitter and ungrateful, so I'd like to say that it still seemed to go down fairly well, and give a big thankyou to everyone who attended, especially Martin Stanton, who organized the do.
E-mail me if you'd like a copy of the slides - cmills [at] opera [dot] com.
Anyhow this is making me sound horribly bitter and ungrateful, so I'd like to say that it still seemed to go down fairly well, and give a big thankyou to everyone who attended, especially Martin Stanton, who organized the do.
E-mail me if you'd like a copy of the slides - cmills [at] opera [dot] com.
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Thanks for the talk, shame it didnt go quite as planned. Would loved to have seen Opera's ability to convert web pages to a slideshow.
Tar,
Dominic Green
http://ctrl-alt-die.blogspot.com
By domgreen, # 29. February 2008, 17:33:45
I think I'll bring a backup next time ;-)
By chrismills, # 1. March 2008, 15:04:57
Well, if you don't want to hassle Chris for the slides, you could also visit the Opera Show tutorial.
Just press F11 to view the page in slideshow mode.
Of course, you'll need Opera to view it as an Opera Show (which is why it was the presentation was not a slideshow in the first place
Those needing Opera can find Opera 9.26 and Opera 9.50 Beta at the links provided.
By Moesring, # 1. March 2008, 20:53:56