In my previous post oalders (of Metacpan) asked me about how working on Windows influenced the process and in answering him i got a bit more wordy, so here's another post:

Video is a bit easier on Windows because, even if many of those are very amateur, it has a wider spread of tools available. However, that said, i still needed a bunch of linux tools (that i could luckily run on windows).

First issue was to free the stream from the Silverlight playe…

I wasn't able to attend YAPC::NA 2012.

Yet i was able to attent YAPC::NA 2012.

"Huh?" you say.

Simple, i was what is called a Remote Attendee. With #yapc on irc.perl.org, the con had an excellent and well-frequented IRC channel where both people that stayed at home, as well as physical con attendants mingled and talked about god, the world, con organization, the talks being given and software in general. Everyone was able …