Linode has blown my mind again by increasing their sponsorship of YAPC::NA 2012 to the Platinum level. I can’t say enough good about them, not only as a sponsor of YAPC, but also as a great hosting company. Thank you Linode!
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I’m grateful that Liquid Web Inc. has become a sponsor of YAPC::NA 2012. They’re a great hosting company with reasonable prices. They do a full range of both dedicated servers and VPS.
…Andy Lester will give a talk at YAPC::NA 2012 described as:
We all love open source software, but to many it seems you have to be a rock star programmer to contribute to your favorite projects. In reality, most projects are easy to join, if you know where to look.
In this presentation, I’ll deal with the common questions and problems of those looking to help out on projects:
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.
[From the YAPC::NA Blog.]
Jeffrey Thalhammer will be giving a talk at YAPC::NA 2012 described as:
The CPAN provides a wealth of open source software for Perl developers. But the CPAN model can be used for distributing proprietary software as well.
In this talk, we will explore some of the challenges and benefits of creating private CPANs. In particular, we’ll show how to use the Pinto tool suite to create and manage a private CPAN, and how to incorporate a private CPAN into the typical development cycle.
Along the way, we wil…
Mike Schilli will be giving a talk at YAPC::NA 2012 described as:
Deploying releases to tens of thousands of hosts reliably while only disrupting a limited number of busy production servers at a time in different colocations is impossible to manage manually.
Pogo is a distributed deployment engine written in Perl that solves this problem. It’s an open source project on Github, written by Yahoo’s deployment tools engineering group. It enables one-button deployments in large infrastructures at Yahoo! every day…
Daisuke Maki will be giving a talk at YAPC::NA 2012 described as:
STF is a distributed object store that is used in Livedoor (NHN Japan)
The idea is the same as mogilefs, but it was built with open protocols (HTTP, PSGI) and commodity tools like Apache/Nginx, MySQL, and Q4M.
It serves several hundred million files (mainly image files) and a few million b/sec for our blog, photo share, geo-location, and other services.
In this talk I wi…
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.
…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.]…
We’d like to do a BioPerl track at YAPC::NA 2012 this year. We’re looking for contributors willing to give a 20 or 50 minute talk about some aspect of the BioPerl ecosystem. The things people do in BioPerl line up very nicely with our “Perl in the Wild” theme.
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I’m very pleased to announce that Double Prime has decided to sponsor YAPC::NA 2012. Here’s how they describe themselves:
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I’m pleased to announce that pair Networks has decided to sponsor YAPC::NA 2012.
pair Networks first went online in January 1996 and has experienced strong growth…
Now would be a great time to schedule some time off from work so you can come to YAPC::NA 2012. It’s going to be June 13-15 in beautiful Madison, WI.
While you’re at it, tell your spouse to block off some time and come enjoy our Spouses Program.
[From the YAPC::NA Blog.]
It’s Valentines Day, did you remember to get your significant other something special? How about bringing him or her with you to YAPC::NA?
…Matt Horsfall will give a talk at YAPC::NA 2012 described as:
Dyn (better known as dyndns.org) is an organization built from the beginning on Perl.
While we’ve incorporated many other languages and technologies into our platforms since then, Perl is still the number one language of choice for development and is at the core of many of our key products.
In this talk I’ll give a brief overview of what we do and how we use Perl to do it. From support management tools, to customer
APIs and UIs, to…
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.
[From the YAPC::NA Blog.]
The University has opened the reservation process for dorms for YAPC::NA 2012. You can simply visit the reservation web site to make your reservation. You can stay from Monday, June 11th though Saturday, June 16th (leaving Sunday) or anywhere in-between. A single occupancy room is $62.95 per night, and a double occupancy room is $42.10 per person per night. You must register before Monday, May 14th, as reservations will be closed on that date.
…Tracy Ragan will give a talk at YAPC::NA 2012 described as:
Defining a build to deploy process that can easily be passed between development operations can be a challenge with the “one off” script. The scripts designed for the developers purpose do not meet the production control needs. Developers are looking for speed and agility, while production looks for audit and control.
This talk reviews how OpenMake Software leverages Perl to create a Smart Scripter language that can auto-generate build, test …
From guest poster brian d foy:
…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.
…chromatic will be giving a talk at YAPC::NA 2012 that he describes as:
Perl 1 was a quick and dirty tool intended to solve problems with minimal ceremony. Perl 5 continues that proud tradition and extends it with our amazing CPAN.
Yet sometimes our amazing tools aren’t what we need. Sometimes we make more work for ourselves. Sometimes the monolingual purity of our conventional orthodoxy gets in the way.
Sometimes solving a problem the best way (performance, ease, simplicity, safety, schedule) m…
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[From the YAPC::NA Blog.]
Why are you using QR Codes at YAPC::NA 2012?
Will QR codes be the only way to get info at YAPC?
No. We'll, of course, share the URLs and other info contained within them as well.
Will QR Codes be optional on my badge?
Here's how you opt out of a QR Code on your /users/jt_smith/2012/02/index.html
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.
[From the YAPC::NA Blog.]
There are 100 rooms available for YAPC::NA 2012 wishing to stay at the conference facilities. These rooms have all the comfort of a high-end hotel, for only $89 per night for a standard room or $105 for a deluxe room.
Use the group code of: YAPC
You can check in as early as J…
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