JT Smith

I’m happy to announce that ActiveState has decided to sponsor YAPC::NA 2012.

We’ve got a start on a track about the Perl Data Language (PDL) at YAPC::NA 2012. This area of Perl is a great fit with our “Perl in the Wild” theme. So if you have some expertise using the PDL, by all means submit a talk about it. If we can get enough talks, we can put together a one day track about it.

I’m quite pleased to announce that Shadowcat Systems has decided to sponsor YAPC::NA 2012!

Thiago Rondon will give a talk at YAPC::NA 2012 described as:

Opendata is the idea that certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control.

In Brasil, we worked last year with some solutions with opendata, that government can be transparent and make a good comunication with society.

And the result of this work are three websites that use Catalyst, DBIx::Class and a lot modules of CPAN.

Steven Lembark will give a talk at YAPC::NA 2012 described as:

Graham Barr’s Scalar::Utils and List::Utils are proof that long-lived does not have to mean obsolete. The modules provide simple, clean, fast interfaces for managing and querying references, objects, and lists — and have saved us from countless re-invented wheels. 

This updated talk includes using the Utils with 5.10+ features such as smart matching.

[From the YAPC::NA Blog.]…