On: Rich Hickey: "Simple Made Easy" from Strange Loop 2011 [video]

[abscondment]

For some reason, these slides are only available in a flash widget that's synchronized with the video. Here's a little script to grab the flash and build a PDF for yourself.

ImageMagick and swftools required.

  #!/bin/bash
  for s in {1..39}; do wget http://www.infoq.com/resource/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/en/slides/$s.swf; done
  for swf in *.swf; do swfrender $swf -o $swf.png && rm $swf; done
  convert `ls *.png -x1 | sort -n | xargs echo` slides.pdf
  rm -f *.swf.png

[Edit: required packages]

[markokocic → abscondment]

I agree with "teach a man to fish ...", but you know, some people are far away from the sea (linux) so just providing them with the fish (pdf) is also a good option.

[malkia → markokocic]

This is in no way Linux specific - most likely OSX can do it, and with enough time cygwin too. Probably BSD's and others...

[jules → markokocic]

Copyright.

[malkia → abscondment]

That was Easy! (pun intended)

Great talk by Rich Hickey, and thanks for the script.