Clojure at Boston Lisp Meeting videos

[Rich Hickey]

Clojure at Boston Lisp Meeting videos are now up:

Part 1:

http://clojure.blip.tv/file/1313398

Part 2:

http://clojure.blip.tv/file/1313503

Note that this talk was for a crowd of experienced Lispers, so may not
be the best intro if you don't know some Lisp already.

Rich

[scottjad]

Part 1 is stopping after about a minute of playback. I'm not sure if
it's just my computer.

[Rich Hickey]

On Oct 2, 3:56 am, scottjad <jaderh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Part 1 is stopping after about a minute of playback. I'm not sure if
> it's just my computer.
>

Given that they are very long, it's often best to download the
screencasts first. Just select the .MOV format from the "Play episode
as" dropdown menu, then select "Download playing" towards the bottom
of the screen.

Rich

[markm]

What "Play episode as" dropdown menu?

[Paul Barry]

Another suggestion for Mac users, install Miro, it's free, and it
automatically downloads new videos, makes it easy to watch them in
fullscreen:

http://subscribe.getmiro.com/?url1=http://clojure.blip.tv/rss

On Oct 2, 7:51 am, Rich Hickey <richhic...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Rich Hickey]

When I nav through those URLs I get a screen with a player, below
which is a listbox labeled "Play episode as :" where the default says
"Select a format".

Rich

[markm]

Interesting,

Going to the top level url (from the screencasts link on the clojure
home page) doesn't offer that pulldown -- it just starts showing the
latest movie (in flash format); same thing after choosing any movie
from the list on that page.

[Brett Morgan]

Are you logged in? The file download links were dependent on being
logged in at one point...

> >
>

--

Brett Morgan http://brett.morgan.googlepages.com/

[Tom Emerson]

I didn't need to log in to download QuickTime versions of these. It
was really quite easy:

1. Go to the URL Rich gives in his message, e.g.,
http://clojure.blip.tv/file/1313398

2. Underneath the player is a drop-down titled, "Play episode as: "
with the dropdown first saying, "Select a format". Choose "Source ---
Quicktime (.mov)".

3. Scroll down a little bit (after the comments) and you will see
"Quick Links". One of these links is "Download Playing". Right click
on this and choose "Save as..." or "Save link as..." or whatever your
browser uses for saving the destination of a link.

Do this for both and you'll get two ~250MB QuickTIme movies of Cojure goodness.

I've tried this on Mac OS X and Windows XP with Safari and Firefox. Works fine.

-tree

--
Tom Emerson
trem...@gmail.com
http://www.dreamersrealm.net/~tree

[dherring]

Here are direct links.

http://blip.tv/file/get/Richhickey-ClojureForLispProgrammersPart1997.mov
http://blip.tv/file/get/Richhickey-ClojureForLispProgrammersPart2299.mov

I have no idea how stable they are.

[Tom Hickey]

I've transcribed the audience questions from Part 1 in case anyone
wants to follow along and is having trouble hearing them.

http://tinyurl.com/3p6rws

I missed some questions/words, so if anyone would like to help me get
those corrected it would be appreciated.

Cheers,
Tom

[Bjorn Ludvigsen]

> Note that this talk was for a crowd of experienced Lispers, so may not
> be the best intro if you don't know some Lisp already.

I knew no Lisp, and found this talk to be the best by far. More
enthusiasm and jokes, a smarter audience, and the faster speed and
greater detail suited the subject matter well. For people with some
programming experience this presentation is excellent. If you don't
know Lisp you can't always tell if the greatness of Clojure is really
the greatness of Lisp, but you still end up knowing why Clojure is
great.

-Bjorn