the more extreme code talks tend to have really great slides - in this case slides are a better format than a blog post really because you can direct the audien

the more extreme code talks tend to have really great slides - in this case slides are a better format than a blog post really because you can direct the audience's attention through the important bits of the code with your slide transitions, as opposed to just throwing gists at them. here's an example from a talk i just gave, the slides came out well imo[1], its basically the material's i'd use to teach my colleagues this stuff. [1] http://www.dustingetz.com/2012/09/24/StrangeLoop2012-monads-for-normal-people-in-python-slides.html http://www.dustingetz.com/2012/09/24/StrangeLoop2012-monads-... really i think it comes down to, for a lot of talks, slides aren't value-add to the audience, they're just a loose outline for the speaker