My question is: how are they made? Keynote, Powerpoint, HTML...? Are they made with the help of a graphic designer? They look completely outside of the reach of the average technical developer. Or do they use a pre-made theme?
In fact, this slide deck was extremely reminiscent of his style, down to the font and some other details. I wouldn't be surprised if the person who designed this deck was influenced by some of Holman's previous presentations.
author of the talk/slide-deck here. I make all my slide decks with Keynote, primarily because it has the best font rendering and presenter display out of the options available on OS X. They do not use a pre-made theme but I'm always looking for inspiration from other presentations and websites.
Might be out of reach for the average technical developer but that's just because the average developer does not do slides. That stuff can be practiced. My slides got considerably better (I think at least) the more presentations I did.
http://www.slideshare.net/jessedee/steal-this-presentation-5...