Here's a presentation with my development philosophy.

A bullet chart demo from MORE 1.1c, shipped in 1986.

We use the reveal.js toolkit by Hakim El Hattab. It creates really nice-looking, theme-able CSS and JavaScript-based presentations. As we found out with MORE, outliners make excellent authoring tools for presentations. As with MORE, all the technical details are taken care of by the software and a template. You get to craft your presentation in an outliner. You really can get the thought perfect, and the formatting "just works" -- takes care of itself.

Reveal.js also has themes, and we pass through that capability through attributes.

This adaptation took one full day. It's also a great demo of how much a platform we have for modern CSS and JavaScript, with the outliner used as the authoring, programming and design tool. This little project was a lot of fun for me. :-)

This will be deployed to all worldoutline servers when the feature is complete, which should be (knock wood) by Sunday. Of course any number of things could go wrong to make it take longer. There's a small chance it might take less time. :-)

For the rollout of presentations for the OPML Editor and server, I wanted to start with some of the sample files from MORE.

So far I have been frustrated in doing this. I haven't got a machine that can run MORE, since it's a "classic" app. And the only solid release I have is 3.1, and its files are binary. Also there's no clear example files folder. We worked really hard on having them for MORE 1.1c. And they were in a text format, so we would be able to read them now, even if we can't launch the app that created them.

It was lucky that my father kept all this stuff. He has over a decade worth of MORE files. But I can't read them. Who knows what's in them, but he appears to have written a lot. Some of this was before he was using the web.

I uploaded a copy of the file to my S3 bucket.

Later...

I found a readme file I wrote for MORE 1.1c in 1999. It has the prototype presentation we used for that release, Mel Singleton. Now I have to figure out how to read a .HEAD file in OPML Editor. It's also on S3.

With the help of a rescued script from 1999, I was able to read the example file and view it as a presentation. It works. Still a little cleanup needed. It's really nice to be able to use the sample presentation from 1986 in this release. Feels like a loop-close. 2012 - 1986 = 26 years. I'm almost like Bruce Willis in Looper re the young version of me who made this demo. :-)

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