Last week I had the joy to attend the first (and certainly not the last) MojoConf in Oslo Norway. It was an incredible experience! First and foremost I want to thank the Oslo Perl Mongers, the organisation and execution of the conference was first rate! I also want to thank Jan Henning Thorsen (batman), who graciously offered to host me. We had such productive conversations over evening congacs, both Perl and otherwise.

I will admit now, that had wondered if the community was large enough to support an international conference. I am quite happy to say that my fears were unfounded. We had attendees from all over the world, including the USA, France, Greece, Israel, the UK, Germany and others I’m forgetting I’m sure.

Glen Hinkle (tempire) gave a professional training, which was sold-out! When companies (and even a few individuals) are willing to pay real money for training, it goes a long way to prove that Mojolicious is the world-class framework that we know it is.

I was also impressed (as Glen was) at the talk given by Richard Elberger (riche) in which he touts his company and the success it is having replacing an enterprise Java application with a Mojolicious one. He shared the success of the transition, detailing how everyone from the developers to the development managers to the stakeholders have been impressed at the ease and power of Mojolicious and Perl! That is so encouraging to hear! He even had all those enterprisey words that I try my best to ignore at my $dayjob, but what a feeling to hear them spoken about Mojolicious!

From a personal standpoint, it was so much fun to meet all these wonderful people and programmers who I have interacted with online for so long. I love that I can hear Sebastian’s laugh when he writes “haha” on IRC now! I can see him and Marcus and Salve and Vincent and Nils and Jan Henning and Nicolas and Glen and Alexander and Dotan and Richard and all the others, as they were, sitting around their laptops at the hackathon, rather than just names scrolling along a chat window.

So now the conference is over, but my excitement for Mojolicious is still peaking. I got so many ideas and so much motivation last week that I’m almost not sure where to put my attention first. I can’t wait for the next MojoConf, it can’t come soon enough!

Exited edition: The people at Mojoconf 2014! #mojoconf2014 #mojolicious #perl #programming #oslo pic.twitter.com/Kxrt4tyH6N

— Björn Pettersson (@bjoernfan) May 25, 2014

See the presentation videos on the MojoConf YouTube channel!