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Torsten Raudssus will give a talk at YAPC::NA 2012 described as:

Talk about DuckDuckGo and Perl. The application and infrastructure of DuckDuckGo and about the Open Source and GreyPAN movement. Also giving an overview how to contribute to DuckDuckGo. Good for beginners to dive into Perl and contribute to a real world service directly.

[From the YAPC::NA Blog.]

I may be the last person to do this, but I finally put all of my conference slides, and a few of my presentation notes, on slideshare.net.

It was fun going through my old slides. I started giving presentations at ApacheCon in 2000, where I gave a talk with Bill Hilf about our work building eToys with Perl and open source tools. The article version of that is online, and the slides add very little, so I skipped that one.

I also skipped my Perl ORM talk from 2005, because the tools I covered are not really relevant anymore. I would advise people to look at Rose::DB::Object and DBIx::Class now, not Class::DBI, SPOPS, and Tangram.

Unfortunately, I can't see a way to sort the presentations so that the newest ones are first. If anyone knows how to do that, I'd like to hear it.

One amusing thing I've discovered: putting the word "scalable" in your title seems to draw in a lot of viewers!

Can anyone tell me how can I write a script to automate results downloads from a page.

If you requested a payment from the Perl Foundation recently, you may have noticed a little bit of lag in receiving your check. Or, a very few of you were even unfortunate enough to have received a check and then asked not to cash it. Here's what happened...

I’ve worked out a deal with University Housing for the dorms for YAPC::NA 2012. They’re now accepting reservations for Sunday, June 10th in addition to the weekday reservations. This should help those of you who are coming in for the workshops or hackathon. Register for your dorm now, or update your existing reservation.

[From the YAPC::NA Blog.]

A week ago or so, I wrote about the new Role::REST::Client.

This is just a short note to tell that it now does basic authentication.

"Much of what looks like rudeness in hacker circles is not intended to give offense. Rather, it's the product of the direct, cut-through-the-bullshit communications style that is natural to people who are more concerned about solving problems than making others feel warm and fuzzy." - Eric Raymond

http://catb.org./~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#keepcool

http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/talk/3316

Every time I use perldoc for any term slightly unusual, I struggle. Have you tried to use it to find UNITCHECK? Now you can. Instead of remembering which of these to use (and none of these will find UNITCHECK):

• perldoc MODULE
• perldoc -f FUNCTION
• perldoc -v VARIABLE
• perldoc -q FAQKEYWORD

You can just type:

perlfind --all UNITCHECK

In the last case above, the --all is needed to do a brute force search. Ordinarily, you just do perlfind searchterm, regardless of whether it's a module name, function, variable, or faq keyword and it will return the first result found (searched in the order I just mentioned). Otherwise, it will tell you to use --all if you really want a brute force search to find out where that term is used.

Here's a gist I tossed out there. Patches welcome. I should bundle this up and put it on the CPAN (and handle older perldoc versions).

Graham Knop will give a talk at YAPC::NA 2012 described as:

In this talk I’ll talk about the massively multi-player video game written in Perl known as The Lacuna Expanse. I’ll talk about how and why it was built (some Perl internals). And I’ll also tell you a little bit about Lacuna’s achievements. 

I also hope to unveil a big surprise.

[From the YAPC::NA Blog.]

I mean creepy in the sense that results slowly creeping in. People who follow my tweets know that 2 smaller milestones are achieved: predefined subrules and regex quantifier are now all in place (in Index A and B). This was of course a byproduct of my upcoming Perl 6 Regex and Grammar talk.
So we not far away from 700 items in Index A (50 more than last time). Some bits other were done.

Hope you guys are not to impatient but since im doing this thing for years and still on it, its not far fetched that one day im ready with it. It's also like writing a book, which, when taken seriously, needs constant improvement. The quality and consistency of the entries grew all the time. They also explain some of the terms like LTM, role, runtime and so on. if you think that doesn't have to be in an index, please let me know.

When it comes to user experiences with Marpa, I confess to being a highly biased source. I hope the following observations will be useful nonetheless. (Marpa, for those new to this blog, is a new, powerful and fast parser and parsing algorithm. To learn more, check out its web page.)

Marpa does the job

If you've read user's accounts of work with BNF grammars over the years (I have studied many), you know they follow a familiar pattern. The user has some BNF. He then tries tool X (for X substitute yacc, bison, PEG, recursive descent, etc.) and finds that it almost works. Almost, but not quite. The rest of the account describes the user beating up his grammar in an effort to make it fit the tool. Perhaps 50% of the time, he reports that his effort was wasted.

Hi Perl blogosphere. Yes, today I’m talking into the camera.

I’m very pleased to have had my Perl Foundation Grant to develop Alien::Base funded and I have redoubled my efforts.

I have high hopes for this module as a tool to help authors provide the C libraries they need through CPAN far more easily than hand rolling an Alien:: module. As such I feel a deep urge to ensure that Alien::Base is robustly tested.

Unfortunately I’m finding that testing such a module is rather hard. Alien::Base is a very abstract concept. It only makes any sense when it is used as the base class for some other Alien:: module, and futher, THAT module is only fully realized when it is used by some other module which needs that C library.

Nathan Gray will give a talk at YAPC::NA 2012 described as:

Some of the benefits of working with other programmers are being able to absorb best practices, avoid pitfalls, have more fun, and write better, more consistent code.

We will discuss what works and what to avoid, and how to interface with brilliant, introverted people who want to get their own work done.

[From the YAPC::NA Blog.]

This year's YAPC::Asia Tokyo is going to be happening at 9/27, 9/28, and 9/29.

We're expecting Tim Bunce, Adam Kennedy and Larry Wall as guest speakers! I think there's no need to introduce these guys here... :)

We just got started with the preparations, so there isn't much to see, but we have a minimal website up (yes, it's going to be updated soon ish). To get a taste of what YAPC::Asia is all about, please check out my entry for YAPC::Asia Tokyo 2011, checkout the videos, or checkout our photos.

We hope to see more foreign guests coming, please keep this in your schedule! And contact me should you need any help getting to/around Japan!

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With over 120 developers in our teams, based in London and Cluj, Evozon offers custom software solutions, business analysis and project management across the widest possible range of technologies and platforms for web and mobile. Our clients rely on us for innovative bespoke or platform-based solutions.

Of our over 120 strong team in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, over 20 are full-time Perl coders that have in-depth experience developing Perl – using a wide range of frameworks. These technologies include mod_perl, Mason, Catalyst, Moose, DBIx::Class and Class::DBI with MySQL or PostgreSQL all architected in a high availability and scalable model with the best practices one would expect. Evozon also supports Perl by sponsoring and participating in YAPC Europe, London Perl Workshop and some contributions to CPAN.

Juan Natera will give a talk at YAPC::NA 2012 described as:

Attending a live entertainment event is a social experience, but at Ticketmaster we decided to take it to the next level by integrating with Facebook on our Interactive Seat Map. This Allows fans to see where their friends are seating, helping them to get seats close to their friends. In this presentation I will discuss some of the challenges we faced with this project, what we did to overcome them, as well as a live demonstration of the product.

[From the YAPC::NA Blog.]

Test::Builder2 is now down to two issues.

1. The problem of using Mouse
2. The problem of backwards compatibility

The former is complicated, but suffice it to say TB2 cannot rely on Mouse or Moose or Moo. It's being solved by writing an OO compiler, something which will generate accessor methods and roles at build time rather than relying on a runtime compiler. This should also solve TB2's less than ideal startup time. It might be Mite or it might be Moo, but the problem is being taken care of.

The second is harder and is what I call "Test::Builder2 vs CPAN". Because Test::Builder has been around or so long, and so much depends on it indirectly, there's a lot of not entirely documented behavior being relied on. We've been using CPAN modules as a broad test suite right along for this reason. TB2 has the potential to seriously break a lot of module's test suites, so it's best to get it as right as possible before stable release.

How many faces do you count in this image?

Perl counts 44:

Calling whatever happens to be lying around on a particular date a "stable release" is a laughably bad idea (the "rhythm method" is also lousy birth control). A "release" is something you want lots of people to use; "the stuff in version control on the first of the month" is something else entirely.

Perl releases used to take awhile -- so do releases of POSIX, HTML, C, and C++ -- and that was not a bad thing. It's the difference between a platform and a fad.