Despite my being on the other side of the world, I hope to remain at least somewhat as productive as if I was at the actual event itself (even if this is not particularly achievable).

I've made it something of a tradition for myself that I use time spent in airports to work on modules and algorithms that make it easier to write programs that deal elegantly with being offline, or being in nasty network environments.

This year I've been revisiting one of my biggest successes in this area, LWP::Online.

I originally …