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Alexis Métaireau 9df3b183b6 Enhanced UI & UX; Added New ISBN Plugin.
- Added the ability to display book cover for the category "Lectures" if ISBN cover is available.
- Moved author's name into a small tag for better hierarchy and readability.
- Implemented a feature to indicate link sizes depending on the number of articles associated with a given tag.
- Implemented a mini footer element displaying an RSS feed icon.
- Improved category display using description dictionary.
- Added a new plugin "isbn_downloader" to fetch ISBN information when needed.
- Included the count of articles for each category.
- Implemented changes for better layout and readability of tags and categories.
- Adjusted the layout of the webpage, improving the overall look of the page.
- Included "requests" in the requirements.txt for supplanting dependencies required by the new plugin and/or features.
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# Use Restructured Text (ReST) to power your presentations
- date
2010-06-25
- category
tech
Wednesday, we give a presentation, with some friends, about the CouchDB
Database, to [the Toulouse local LUG](http://www.toulibre.org). Thanks a
lot to all the presents for being there, it was a pleasure to talk about
this topic with you. Too bad the season is over now an I quit Toulouse
next year.
During our brainstorming about the topic, we used some paper, and we
wanted to make a presentation the simpler way. First thing that come to
my mind was using [restructured
text](http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html), so I've wrote a simple
file containing our different bullet points. In fact, there is quite
nothing to do then, to have a working presentation.
So far, I've used [the rst2pdf
program](http://code.google.com/p/rst2pdf/), and a simple template, to
generate output. It's probably simple to have similar results using
latex + beamer, I'll try this next time, but as I'm not familiar with
latex syntax, restructured text was a great option.
Here are [the final PDF
output](http://files.lolnet.org/alexis/rst-presentations/couchdb/couchdb.pdf),
[Rhe ReST
source](http://files.lolnet.org/alexis/rst-presentations/couchdb/couchdb.rst),
[the theme
used](http://files.lolnet.org/alexis/rst-presentations/slides.style),
and the command line to generate the PDF:
rst2pdf couchdb.rst -b1 -s ../slides.style