slides for my upcoming xmonad talk (draft)

Hi all, Here's a link to a first draft of the slides for my xmonad talk this Saturday. Doubtless they are too long/short, full of typoeos, and missing vital information. But I thought you might enjoy seeing what I've got so far, and if anyone feels like looking through them I'd welcome your feedback, whether positive or critical. All I ask is that you not distribute/disseminate this link, since these will probably change before the talk based on feedback and my own editing. I'll post the final version prominently after the talk. http://wso.williams.edu/~byorgey/xmonad-FringeDC-talk-draft1.pdfhttp://wso.williams.edu/%7Ebyorgey/xmonad-FringeDC-talk-draft1.pdf enjoy! -Brent PS It looks like the talk definitely will be recorded on video (knock on wood), so of course I'll post that afterwards as well!

Great stuff, Brent. Very nice slides. Only 2 points come to mind: * on the slide about laziness, it might be nice to mention that we can use laziness to trivially ensure workspaces are only created on demand -- no wasted "space" tracking workspaces you never use, as they come into existence when you index them * on the slide about pure versus IO, page 32, i'd wrap the IO partially around the pure layer, like a skin, or a topping on ice cream, to emphasise that IO doesn't make its way down into the core logic. Good work, again! -- Don byorgey:
Hi all,
Here's a link to a first draft of the slides for my xmonad talk this Saturday. Doubtless they are too long/short, full of typoeos, and missing vital information. But I thought you might enjoy seeing what I've got so far, and if anyone feels like looking through them I'd welcome your feedback, whether positive or critical. All I ask is that you not distribute/disseminate this link, since these will probably change before the talk based on feedback and my own editing. I'll post the final version prominently after the talk.
[1]http://wso.williams.edu/~byorgey/xmonad-FringeDC-talk-draft1.pdf
enjoy!
-Brent
PS It looks like the talk definitely will be recorded on video (knock on wood), so of course I'll post that afterwards as well!
References
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Brent Yorgey wrote:
Hi all,
Here's a link to a first draft of the slides for my xmonad talk this Saturday. Doubtless they are too long/short, full of typoeos, and missing vital information. But I thought you might enjoy seeing what I've got so far, and if anyone feels like looking through them I'd welcome your feedback, whether positive or critical. All I ask is that you not distribute/disseminate this link, since these will probably change before the talk based on feedback and my own editing. I'll post the final version prominently after the talk.
http://wso.williams.edu/~byorgey/xmonad-FringeDC-talk-draft1.pdf http://wso.williams.edu/%7Ebyorgey/xmonad-FringeDC-talk-draft1.pdf
enjoy!
-Brent
PS It looks like the talk definitely will be recorded on video (knock on wood), so of course I'll post that afterwards as well!
Looking great! One thing I've learned the hard way doing a few presentations is that many projectors are 800x600. Some of the images in your slides have already been shrunk enough to make it hard to make them out. Put them up on the wall in low DPI and 800x600, and they would be barely better than abstract colour blurs. Maybe put the images on their own slides? They're essential, especially the Xinerama one, and they should be as prominent as possible. Looking forward to seeing the video. Braden Shepherdson shepheb
participants (4)
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Braden Shepherdson
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Brent Yorgey
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Don Stewart
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Will Farrington