Registration for YAPC::NA 2012 is now open. You can buy badges for the conference, the hackathon, the Zero to Perl Workshop, the Testing Workshop, or the Spouses Program. In addition, you can make Friend of Perl and Future Friend of Perl donations. 

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We’re having 5 simultaneous tracks at YAPC::NA 2012. The fifth track is for mini-workshops and hackathons. For example, brian d foy is considering running a workshop on how to publish to CPAN. ActiveState is considering running a workshop on using their Stackato platform. We’d love to see lots of others giving on-going mini-workshops and hands-on hackathons. If you need the space, we’ll make sure you have it. 

This is a map of the Lowell Center. The Lowell Center is one half of our meeting space for YAPC::NA 2012. Here you’ll find the registration desk, the main hall where we’ll hold the opening ceremonies, plenaries, and the lightening talks. In addition, the Lowell Center contains 100 hotel rooms if you choose to stay there. 

Chris Nehren will give a talk at YAPC::NA 2012 that he describes as:

I like Perl. I like tabletop RPGs (especially tabletop RPGs whose mechanics are licensed under the OGL, like D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder). I like Unix. And I like running games.

But I’m lazy. And running games is a *lot* of work. What’s a lazy GM to do? Solve the problem in as generic a way as possible, of course! I’ll give the computer some data and some instructions about how to do the tedious stuff (managing initiatives, monster health, co…

i-nigma is one of the better QR Code readers for Windows Phone. Most importantly, it handles vCards. Since we’re using a lot of QR Codes at YAPC::NA 2012, do yourself a favor and get i-nigma, if you’re a Windows Phone user.

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Submit a talk for YAPC::NA 2012. We’re especially interested in talks on real-world Perl apps and quintessential Perl 101 talks, but we’re open to any ideas you have. 

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Ricardo Signes will give a talk at YAPC::NA 2012 that he describes as:

Year after year, Perl continues its steady march towards greater and greater Perlishness. Ancient mistakes are slowly sloughed off and long dreamed-of features are added. If Perl is evolving, toward what? Is it just a random collection of mutations, as desperate Perl hackers struggle to remain fit enough to survive, or is there an intelligent design behind the way Perl is changing?

In this session, Ricardo Signes (rjbs), the Perl 5 project le…

Mark Allen will give a talk at YAPC::NA 2012 he describes as:

This talk presents the Dancer web framework beginning with “Hello World” and progressing through a couple of easy to digest introductory applications.  All of the primary Dancer features are presented including URL routing, writing handlers, and output templating.  A selection of useful and common Dancer plugins will also be covered.  This talk is best suited for beginning and intermediate Perl programmers.

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I’m pleased to announce that Grant Street Group has decided to sponsor YAPC::NA 2012. Here’s how they describe themselves:

Grant Street Group is a Software as a Service pioneer. In 1997, our company hosted the world’s first online bond auction for the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Since this first auction, over 3,100 clients have used our software to process f…

I've just released a new module called iTransact::Lite. It's just a simple wrapper around the iTransact XML Connect payment gateway web service.

It does all the hard work of signing, serializing, and submitting your requests to their web service. However, I call it "Lite" because it doesn't do any document formatting or response handling. Therefore it still requires knowledge of the web service documents. Luckily, those are well docum…

We’ve opened up the schedule for YAPC::NA 2012 so you can view the talks we approve as we approve them. In addition, we’ve opened up the wiki so you can start planning your BOFs and other activities. 

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Ricardo Signes will be giving a talk at YAPC::NA 2012 that he describes as:

There are almost twenty thousand lines of documentation describing what has changed since perl 5.8. Those docs are where you can find out that the // operator is awesome, or that the “r” flag on substitution is going to save you typing and bugs, or that you can stop worrying so much about your exception handling. Unfortunately, they also contain a lot of talk about things like GSVS_mg_SLOPPY or engine derecursivisation or what happens now if…

Mike Friedman will be giving a talk at YAPC::NA 2012 that he describes as: 

At SocialFlow, we initially built a simple job queue system using a relational database and a daemon for running workers. While this model is sufficient for a relatively small volume of jobs, an increase in scale resulted in problems with concurrency, failover, and efficiency. This presentation examines the process and design that we used to move our jobs system to the Redis structured d…

Robin Darby will be giving a talk at YAPC::NA 2012 described as:

Basics of developing web based services for communication with iPhone and Android apps (including sending ‘alerts’, managing updates).

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Submit a talk for YAPC::NA 2012. We’re especially interested in talks on real-world Perl apps and quintessential Perl 101 talks, but we’re open to any ideas you have. 

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A while ago we put up the YAPC idea collector. You’ve given us a lot of great feedback so far, but keep those ideas for YAPC::NA 2012 coming, and keep voting on the existing ideas. 

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Pete Krawczyk will be giving a talk at YAPC::NA 2012 that he describes as:

This talk is intended for audiences who are familiar with Perl and have some experience with HTML and CSS, but little or no JavaScript/jQuery experience. Source code will be provided before the talk; attendees are encouraged to download and follow along.

We’ll migrate a to-do list app that allows adding, deleting and rearranging of tasks.We’ll start with a pure Perl/CGI/HTML4 implementation and migrate it to a dynamic Perl/jQu…

I’m very pleased to announce the Geoff Avery will be reprising his role as Lightning Talk MC for YAPC::NA 2012. Geoff does a great job organizing the Lightning Talk sessions at YAPC, and we’re so glad to have him come to Madison.

If you’ve got ideas for lightning talks, please feel free to submit them in advance.  

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As a response to our post on QR Codes at YAPC::NA 2012, oylenshpeegul came up with a way to read QR Codes with Perl.

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I hope you’re enjoying your New Year so far. Did you make a resolution to come to YAPC::NA 2012? 

The dates are June 13-15. The place is Madison, WI. 

And don’t forget to invite your spouse to attend our Spouses Program.

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As you know we’ve started the open call for presentations for YAPC::NA 2012. This year, we’re going to be approving talks using a new process.

At YAPC::NA 2012 we’re thinking about stealing a feature from PyCon they call Startup Row. In their exhibit hall they give away booth space to feature some up and coming new companies. 

Submit a talk for YAPC::NA 2012. We’re especially interested in talks on real-world Perl apps and quintessential Perl 101 talks, but we’re open to any ideas you have. 

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A lot of people have been asking lately, how much YAPC::NA 2012 will cost to attend, so I guess I’m a bit behind schedule on publishing that pricing. 

Qrafter is one of the better QR Code readers for iPhone and iPad. Most importantly, it handles vCards. Since we’re using a lot of QR Codes at YAPC::NA 2012, do yourself a favor and get Qrafter, if you’re an iOS user.

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QR Droid is one of the better QR Code readers for Android. Most importantly, it handles vCards. Since we’re using a lot of QR Codes at YAPC::NA 2012, do yourself a favor and get QR Droid, if you’re an Android user.

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This is a QR Code. We’re going to use QR Codes a lot at YAPC::NA 2012, so make sure you have a QR Code reader on your phone before you come to YAPC.

Gabor Szabo has generously decided to create a YAPC::NA Google Plus page and cross-post all of the YAPC::NA 2012 blog content to it as it comes out. Hopefully at some point there will be an easy way to just automate this, but for the time being this is the only way to get the posts out to Google Plus users. 

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We’d like to thank our sponsors for stepping up to support us. We really couldn’t do this without their support.

You too could sponsor YAPC.

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It’s the first Tuesday of the month, so that means it’s YAPC::NA Planning Meeting time. If you’re in the Madison area, or don’t mind a drive there is a YAPC planning meeting tonight at the Essen Haus at 7pm. As always the food and beer are sponsored by Plain Black, and the room is sponsored by Essen Haus.

We are now accepting talk proposals for YAPC::NA 2012. 

First, we’re looking for talks on Perl in the Wild. These talks are about businesses and individuals who have done great things with Perl. Perhaps you’ve automated your house with Perl, or built the latest and greatest web app. Or maybe you’re controlling Arduino b…

Welcome to 2012. You made it! Can you believe it? I can't believe it either, the way you partied last night. Have you no shame?

Well it's time to make a New Year's resolution. You're coming to YAPC::NA 2012 in Madison, WI on June 13-15. 

While you're at it, have your spouse or significant other make the resolution with you. Bring them to the YAPC::NA 2012 Spouses Program.