Recently, a client wanted the slideshow to stop after one play and then rest on the last slide, but Nivo seems to be designed to return to the start slide on stop. It seemed like it was going to be a bit gnarly to fix, and did take a bit of effort/investigation, but here’s what I came up with, and it really works.

Mike Ilsley has come up with a couple of solutions that work, but both of them ran into issues in my particular case.

His “Solution #1″ headed back to the first slide, which was not what my client wanted. “Solution 2″ would interfere with the paging functionality my use case required.

This solution basically sets the startSlide parameter onLoad, and then beforeChange of the slide, inspects the current slide index. If the slideshow is at the final slide, you must change the settings of the slideshow to one greater than the number of slides in the slideshow.

Here’s how you do it


$(window).load(function() {
$('#slider').nivoSlider({
startSlide:0, //Set starting Slide (0 index),
beforeChange: function()
{
if($('#slider').data('nivo:vars').currentSlide == 9) // look at the # of slides and compare to total #
{
$('#slider').data('nivo:vars').settings.startSlide = 10; // increment # slides to length + 1
$('#slider').data('nivo:vars').stop = true; // tell it to stop
}
}
});
});


Suarez’s prose is ok, but I think it’s solid for a first book. My real attraction to this book was Suarez’s grasp of the potential of the technology we use today. He creates a crazy, scary and inspire world in which hackers, gamers and general lost souls can achieve their potential … a cultural meritocracy taken to the extreme, all powered by a distributed background process.

You should definitely check this out!

Now I am dying to read the sequel, Freadom™. It should be a wild one.

• Chrome is a must.
• If you have to do tech drawings, you need Omnigraffle.
• Definitely get Quicksilver.
• Things for GTD
• Pages & Numbers are good.
• For personal stuff, iLife is good.
• Evernote.
• Dropbox.
• Skitch for screen grabs.
• Acorn for image editing (tho omnigraffle is good for 90%).
• Yuuguu screensharing.
• Transmit FTP.

See, it’s a short list. There are a couple I forgot.

• Coda for writing code.
• Versions as a SVN client.
• Adium for IM.

Of course, there are more, but I think this is a great core toolkit to get people up and running on a Mac.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<con_todo>
  <noun>
    <agua_fresca/>
    <you/>
    <harveys>
      <keitel/>
      <oswald/>
    </harveys>
    <sun/>
    <dog_poop/>
    <ozonator/>
    <gmc_pickups/>
    <stop_signs/>
    <police/>
    <silk/>
    <fur_ball/>
  </noun>
  <verb>
    <stab/>
    <exit/>
    <cross/>
    <excise/>
    <bang/>
    <stroke/>
    <chew/>
    <fold/>
    <foil/>
    <blend/>
    <crosshatch/>
    <exercise/>
    <inject/>
  </verb>
  <action/>
</con_todo>

I thought that was pretty easy, but things just got even easier. There’s now a Blackbird Pie WordPress plugin that allows you to embed them using WP code.

Example*
blackbirdpie id="14778843741"

Rock on!

*Just put the WP Blackbird Pie code in square brackets…