So I was putting together a presentation on Accessibility for my department. I knew very little about accessibility, so I read as much as I could and watched every youtube presentation I could find on the subject. A lot of them were total crap, but a few from some of the google io conferences were really great. They had working examples and code rendered inline to the slides.
I thought this was great so I went looking for what they did for this and found that (for at least the 2011 and 2012 io conferences) they have provided a slide template that is geared just for that.
The 2012 one is reasonably nice: https://code.google.com/p/io-2012-slides/
So I altered this, “forked it” and dumped it into my github: https://github.com/jazahn/axs-slides
That in itself is pretty cool, but then I thought, hey, I want to put these somewhere people can get at them. So originally I had them on my public web space for work, but it was sort of annoying to git commit, git push, log in to the server, git pull. Logging in can be an annoying step for my work if I’m not at work and need to VPN.
Artie had a cool idea of using github pages (http://pages.github.com/). Because these slides are all static, I don’t even have to worry about what server these are running on. All you have to do for this is create a gh-pages branch and anything in that branch will automatically be hosted. So what I did was create that branch, set it as the default branch, and removed the master branch (to avoid confusion and simplify). After altering my remotes, now I just have to git push from my dev environment and it’s automatically put on the server:
http://jazahn.github.io/axs-slides
Very cool.