[This is my sixth YAPC / TPC—technically, my first TPC.  If you like, you can read about my other YAPC experiences: YAPC 2011, YAPC 2013, YAPC 2014, YAPC 2015, YAPC 2016.]

After missing a year last year, I came back to attend YAPC this year.  (Yes, yes: “The Perl Conference,” now.  But it’ll probably always be “YAPC” to me.)  And I actually spoke again (second time), this time on dates and my Date::Easy module.  If you missed it and are interested in watching it, the video is up.

This year was in Salt Lake City again, and, while I normally don’t like repeating cities (mainly because I like visiting new places instead), I do have to say the Little America Hotel is every bit the excellent venue that I remembered.  Plus it’s just barely close enough to where I live that I can drive there and take the whole family, and do a sort of “conferenscation.” Which is what we did.

My highlights from this year: