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JT Smith was at the Windy City Perl Mongers last night giving his The Game Crafter talk as an exemplar of the talks he wants at YAPC in Madison. It's more about his application of Perl to one of his businesses than just explaining another module or framework.
After the talk when JT and I were headed back uptown, we started talking about achievements for YAPC. You do somet…
If you're going to YAPC::EU, why not take another couple days for a Perl class as Kloster Eberbach? You might have already seen this Cistercian abby in The Name of the Rose with Sean Connery (and a very young Christian Slater).
I've taught Perl classes there as part of Big Nerd Ranch, although this class would be an independent offering in the same model. You spend three or four days onsite, with room and all meals provided. In the middle of the day, we stop the class to take an easy hike in the …
OSCON Call for Participation ends a bit earlier this year. You have until 11:59PM PST on January 12 to get your proposal in.
I have some advice I've given in previous years that's still good this year:
We're always interested in new subjects and new speakers. If you're a bit nervous about giving a talk at OSCON, you can try out a talk at YAPC::NA in Madi…
I took over maintenance of Pod-Perldoc, and with the help of a lot of people, I'm ready to merge it into the perl sources. There aren't major new features or a change in structure. I applied a lot of patches. Pod-Perldoc-3.15_12 is on CPAN so you can play with it. This next release fixes 15 old RT tickets, some of them major problems but most of them quick fixes that I merely needed to apply. This week is a good time…
JT set up a Mob Rater instance for YAPC::NA at ideas.yapcna.org. You can suggest ideas for YAPC and vote on what other people have suggested. This isn't a commitment to act on any of the ideas, but it's a great way for organizers to see what people want and how many people like the idea.
This doesn't have to be suggestions for new things, either. Don't like something? Maybe everyone else does too. Tell Mob Rater you want to get rid of it. See what other people think.
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I'm the author of Mastering Perl, and the co-author of Learning Perl (5th Edition), Intermediate Perl, and Effective Perl Programming (2nd Edition).