SlideShare will be hosting the next Fluentd meetup July 8th at our San Francisco office.
Fluentd is an open-source program that we have been using for the past year and a half that helps us with log management, carrying them from point A to point B in a fast and reliable way.
Among a lot of good things about Fluentd, here are the three we like the most:
- Everything that goes in and out of Fluentd is JSON.
- Fluentd is written in about 2,000 lines of open source Ruby code. When you have an issue, you can just read/patch the code.
- There is already a huge plugins library — about 150 — that allows you to import, filter and export your data into a variety of systems.
If you want to know more about how we are using Fluentd, please have a look at one of our projects in which we are using it, and join us on July 8th!
[Reposted from http://blog.slideshare.net/2013/03/19/whats-cooking-in-our-labs-slideshare-handsfree/]
Clicking through presentations can be cumbersome, especially when you’re talking through them with a live audience at hand. You have to find the right key on your keyboard, or move your mouse to the correct button, often halting the flow of your speech. What if you could just flick your finger in the air, indicating movement to the next page?
Our engineers are on it. We figured if you could play motion-sensing tennis on the Nintendo Wii, couldn’t you at least flip thought SlideShare presentations with the wave of a hand? Here’s a preview of what we’re working on:
And here’s what the engineer himself,
Shirsendu Karmakar, had to say about developing it (yes, he’s pretty cool!):
If you have used/seen
flutter, you wish you could use it on websites too. A few days back, I saw
an interesting Chrome Experiment. My initial reaction: SlideShare “Minority Report” style! I started working on something similar for SlideShare. After an hour or so, with JavaScript as my weapon and some simple techniques and approximations, SlideShare presentations were gestures ready. It took me around 30 lines to code to make SlideShare work via my gestures.
Whats happening behind the scenes.
- webRTC has made it possible to access the web camera directly from the browser. No Flash required!
- A image is snapped at regular intervals.
- HTML5 canvas is used to draw the current image.
- The movement delta = The difference between the last image and the current image is calculated.
- Depending on the value of delta, we try to detect which movement was done. Currently only for basic movements are supported: left, right, top, bottom.
- Each of the directions are mapped with the SlideShare’s player API functions. Whenever, a movement is detected successfully, the player executes the mapped action.
What are other features you’d like to see us develop in SlideShare Labs?
We know that at times it becomes difficult for you to keep up with our API documentation, which results in failed attempts at testing out an end point, and in turn results in loss of productivity. To solve this issue, we created SlideShare API Explorer, which helps you get started with our API, and makes it super easy to test out an API endpoint.
Just follow the simple steps below:
1. Apply for an API key (requires a user account)- You’ll get the API credentials on your registered email address.
2. Go to apiexplorer.slideshare.net and fill in your credentials which you have received in the email.
3. Now select an endpoint to test, fill in test parameters and click on ‘try it’. It will query our endpoint and show the generated query string, response headers and response body.
We are constantly working on making the API development workflow a seamless experience for you, and would love to hear your feedback/suggestions on this, feel free to share your comments below.
Announcing DevelopHer Hackday Delhi at SlideShare’s New Delhi office. First of its kind event! Same dates as DevelopeHer Hackday in the Bay Area organized by LinkedIn. Come on women geeks and hackers.. this is your stage! Form a team, code all night, create something awesome, and present it to the judges to win prizes.
Dave McClure (silicon valley guru, investor & founder of 500startups) and Rashmi Sinha will be judging the event. Participants in the winning team get an Apple Macbook Air each. Participants in the team winning the Second Prize get Apple iPads.
Are you ready? If you have not registered yet, hurry and register at http://hackday.linkedin.com/developher/delhi for the Hackday on Saturday, June 30th and Sunday, July 1st.
DevelopHer is being organised by LinkedIn at its Mountain View office. DevelopHer Hackday Delhi is a parallel event being organised by SlideShare (which is a part of LinkedIn now) at their New Delhi office
[Reposted from the SlideShare Blog http://blog.slideshare.net/2012/02/17/designer-dream-job-in-delhi/]
Are you passionate about digital design? Do you dream of working at one of the world’s fastest growing startups? If you are an experienced web or interactive designer, come work with SlideShare in our New Delhi office. You’ll be collaborating closely with our software developers, product managers, and analysts to build products that reach millions of users.
Here’s what we’re looking for
- 1 to 5 years experience in similar role at a software, Internet or Web design company.
- Strong information and interaction design skills
- Proficiency in using common design tools like Photoshop, Illustrator, Balsamiq
- Understanding of interface and interaction design principles as they relate to web sites, tablets, and handheld devices.
- Proven skills with XHTML (handcoding), and CSS.
- Excellent understanding of Web 2.0 design patterns
- Excellent collaboration, communication & writing skills
- Use of quantitive and qualitative feedback to make a design better. At SlideShare we use a variety of methods: A/B testing, viral loop tracking, user testing with tools like Google Analytics, Kissmetrics, CrazyEgg, Mixpanel, UserTesting
- College degree in Web design, Graphic Design, Interaction Design, HCI or Software Engineering
Show us what you’ve got
Be prepared to show us examples of:
- Your ability to conceptualize low-fidelity wireframes & mockups (using Powerpoint/Balsamiq/Photoshop), convert these into high fidelity prototypes and then handcode into HTML/CSS.
- Your strong visual design abilities: with web pages, microsites, marketing collateral, logos whatever you have designed.
- Wireframes, mockups and final designs that reflect rigorous attention to visual, interaction & usability details.
How to apply
Send your resume, with work samples and/or a link to your online portfolio to [email protected].
So we got one of those awesome thinkgeek toys a couple weeks ago … a huge remote-control fish. Amazingly, it propels itself by swimming … it doesn’t have a propeller or anything. As a result it looks amazingly realistic and is a lot of fun to drive. Here’s a video of it in action.
Of course we broke it within a couple of hours. But the kind folk at thinkgeek promise that spare parts should arrive any day now, so the fun will continue. We’re thinking of getting a great white share to go along with it, or possibly some remote-control piranhas!
