A short sleep later and it's time for the third day of talks at YAPC::Europe 2011 in Riga, Latvia.
The attendees dinner yesterday was great fun - hundreds of Perl programmers at Lido in an underground cavern with a wide spread of food and beer. Today I attended:
Perl 5.16 and Beyond where Jesse Vincent explained the development of Perl and his vision for an exciting future of Perl. Andy Lester ="http://perlbuzz.com/2011/08/the-futu…
A short sleep later and it's time for the second day of talks at YAPC::Europe 2011 in Riga, Latvia.
(Re)Developing in Perl 6, where Damian Conway showed us how to convert some of his Perl 5 modules into Perl 6 code. He was amusing as always and it was very impressive how some of his modules, such as Smart::Comments will involve much less code in Perl 6 (when the implementations are finished). "CPAN is an enormous Borg cube".
T…
Today was the first day of talks at YAPC::Europe 2011 in Riga, Latvia. I arrived a few days ago and Riga is a beautiful town to walk around, full of restaurants and squares with outside tables to drink beer. I enjoyed walking around the main market, which is housed in ex-Zeppelin hangers.
The pre-conference meeting on Sunday was great, we slowly took over the main square here. It was nice to meet new people and see old faces.
This morning started with a quick walk through the park to get my ticket scanned and a ba…
Léon Brocard (aka acme) is an orange-loving Perl eurohacker with many varied contributions to the Perl community, including the GraphViz module on the CPAN. YAPC::Europe was all his fault. He is still looking for a Perl Monger group he can start which begins with the letter 'D'.
