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Weiqi Gao

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Weiqi Gao is a Java programmer.
They Didn't Even Notice It Posted: Jan 15, 2005 8:41 AM
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I did a presentation about JMX and Java 5 Monitoring and Management Features at the OCI internal Java lunch yesterday. Brian's blog entry has links to more articles on this topic.

In typical developer fashion, I want to talk about the tools I used for the presentation: S5, MultiDesktop Manager, and nXML.


S5 (A Simple Standard-Based Slide Show System) is a slide show format based entirely on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript by Eric Meyer. I first learned about it from Eric Burke. It is indeed simple. Every slide is a <div class="slide">, and an <h1> inside it becomes the title, and everything else becomes the content. Including and positioning graphics is a breeze: just use the <img> element.

I don't think the audience noticed any big difference from PowerPoint, as most other Java lunches are in, during the presentation, except for people who already know about S5, as I used the default theme.

S5 did retire DocBook Slides for me, which I used for the JBoss presentation at the JUG a while back.


I learned about MultiDesktop Manager while reading weblogs. I forgot whose weblog it was. Once MultiDesktop Manager is installed and started, a Windows tray icon appears that has menu items for starting another Desktop and switch to it. The Control-Alt-LeftArrow and Control-Alt-RightArrow keys switches between the Desktops.

I started my presentation in full screen mode in one Desktop, and started the demo application (jconsole) in another. This saved me from having to get in and out of full screen mode for the presentation in front of the audience. The cut over between the presentation Desktop and the demo Desktop is very clean.

Drawbacks of MultiDesktop Manager include not being able to close the Desktops that are created, and not being able to remember the created Desktops on next startup.


nXML is an Emacs major mode for XML editing written by James Clark. I blogged about it 489 days ago. nXML has improved a lot since then. In my year end review I mentioned the download-install-forget cycle. Obviously, for me at least, nXML did not fall into that cycle.

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