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Dexter Season Five Sneak Peak at Comic-Con

nobody@example.com (bryanmckay) — 2010-07-23T19:01:15Z

Dexter fans get sneak peak in San Diego.

Jessi Slaughter on Good Morning America

nobody@example.com (bryanmckay) — 2010-07-23T18:50:35Z

Jessi Slaughter and her father appear on Good Morning America to discuss cyberbullying.

Jimmy Kimmel Interviews Double Rainbow Guy

nobody@example.com (bryanmckay) — 2010-07-23T18:44:27Z

"Bear" Vasquez sits down with Kimmel to discuss internet superstardom.

GETTING HOUSED: Eviction and a Head of Household Spoiler on Big Brother

nobody@example.com (gfuentes) — 2010-07-23T17:04:37Z

The results of the Head of Household competition and why Rachel is terrible.

Health Care Mandate That's "Not A Tax" Defended As A Tax

nobody@example.com (deucefive) — 2010-07-23T15:34:33Z

The health care mandate is not a tax, but it is. Somebody needs to make up their mind.

When The Nation Came Together: Shirley Sherrod Part 2

nobody@example.com (amohit) — 2010-07-23T15:33:22Z

President calls Shirly Shroud to express regret

The CARD Act - Does It Deserve a 10?

nobody@example.com (holliskc) — 2010-07-23T15:12:25Z

Grading the CARD Act effectiveness a year later

24/7 Wall St. Morning Market Roundup

nobody@example.com (247WallSt) — 2010-07-23T15:06:41Z

Technorati's new business feature, covering all you need to know to know what's going on in the markets.

Print Media Czars Struggle With Digital Upsurge

nobody@example.com (ecothrust) — 2010-07-23T14:58:15Z

Print media icons are struggling to monetize their digital avatars as rising costs and competition are taking its toll

Yet Another Massive Oilspill

nobody@example.com (yihyeewong) — 2010-07-23T14:02:49Z

China now requires all its ports to revise their operations to better prevent oil spills

On tour: Open Source Bridge, YAPC::NA and other fun things (2010.07.20 21:30)

nobody@example.com (jarich) — 2010-07-21T01:30:30Z

After the fun I had at OSCON last year, it was no effort at all for pjf to convince me to spend June and July in the USA this year, conferencing.

Portland, Oregon

I arrived at midnight on the 31st May and was met at the airport by Schwern, pjf and Nadia, who took me onwards to donuts and pies. Having traveled for something like 30 hours at the time I was rather wiped out and probably not as appreciative of this as I should have been, but I soon got to bed and slept very soundly.

Schwern warned me ahead of time that he was going to be a busy, and thus less friendly host, and that he and his housemate Nick had been a little guested-out due to an almost endless procession of house-guests. He must have exaggerated. Between them, Schwern and Nick took us to the local farmers' market, to a parade, to numerous dinners and drinks out, and more. Schwern helped us get to the conference location, and also accompanied me home most nights.

Open Source Bridge

The conference was Open Source Bridge; and it is unlike any community-run conference I've ever attended. It was extremely professionally run, with copious amounts of information, high quality keynotes and speakers, an excellent feedback system... big and little things that the conferences I've been involved with are still struggling with after 6+ years and this was only OSB's second year! My talk was very well received, I was spoiled for choice for every single session and the unconference at the end really just capped things off. It was good to see so many familiar faces, and I caught up with some Australians, and Australian-expats that I hadn't seen for quite some time.

If you get to choose the geek conference you go to next year; make it Open Source Bridge!

More Portland, Oregon

The following two weeks, Sherri and Christie kindly hosted Paul and I. When I ran into some personal issues, I could not have hoped for more generous hosts. Sherri made sure I got out of bed each day, and many days Schwern and others made sure I got out of the house. Apparently we were lovely guests, but really Sherri and Christie were excellent hosts. Sherri cooked copious amounts of extremely yummy vegan food, and let me eat it for breakfast and lunch. They took us strawberry picking, to a great Ethiopian restaurant, and took me to an amazing vegan cafe for breakfast on my last day in Portland.

YAPC::NA, Columbus, Ohio

Next up was YAPC::NA in Columbus, Ohio. Very much like YAPC::EU I felt completely at home in this crowd. It was great to know that I could walk into any conference talk and have a pretty good idea of the topic matter. It did feel a little strange that many of the big names, and the people I view as particularly important knew me, but many of the regular people neither recognised me nor my "handle", but I suspect I shouldn't have been so surprised.

My tutorial was very well received, I met a whole lot more people, learned a bunch of new things, and got all fired up about finishing writing our Enterprise Perl course and documenting perl5i. It was really, really awesome to catch up with Karen, Jesse and Piers again, specifically.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Milwaukee wasn't originally on my list of places to visit, however a friend online invited me to drop by and visit, and I had a few days free, so why not? My friend, Jordi, and Sarah, invited me to stay with them. Jordi is an astrophysicist who spent some of the first afternoon explaining to me how it is that neutrinos do in fact mutate. Which was actually much more interesting than I think he thought I'd find it.

We walked the riverfront, found great restaurants, saw the music festival from afar, went to a nearby Strawberry festival (yum!) and spent time playing with the newly arrived arduino set. I've been wishing I could get involved with arduino for years, but also never been into electronics. Jordi and I worked through the basic tutorials with his board, and I found the whole thing very cool!

To top the trip off, Jordi and Sarah invited me to hang out for drinks with some of their colleagues one evening (they all work at the nearby university). I had a thoroughly good time, and felt I fitted in just fine, even though most of them use Python. :) After drinks there was dinner (with 3 free drinks for the ladies) and then Tron. Ah, good times.

New York City

My next scheduled stop was the big apple. While at YAPC::NA I discovered that a fellow Melbourne Perl Monger (Patrick) had recently moved to New York, and he insisted that we should stay with him. I had some minor adventures getting to his place, but received a very warm welcome, and was glad to take a cold shower. That was the first summer-like weather I'd seen for my whole trip thus far.

While in New York, I explored the New York Public Library (and saw the Rose Room), had a tour of Google with lunch (thank you to Tom Limoncelli), caught the Staten Island ferry, saw the Statue of Liberty, walked down Wall Street (and saw the cordoned-off outside of the New York Stock Exchange), checked out the Empire State building, the Sex Museum, Times Square and the Rockerfella(?) building. Much touristy stuff.

Patrick and Helen were lovely hosts, and it wasn't their fault at all that the temperature refused to drop to something reasonable for the whole time I was in town. ;)

Minneapolis, Minnesota

My last touring destination was Minneapolis where Steven Levine arranged an amazing weekend of activities to keep me busy. I did my best, but arrived with the start of a sore throat and fever. I arrived on a Thursday afternoon and first up was dinner with Matt and Deb followed by a scotch tasting. Even though I'm not a scotch drinker, I wished I was well enough to participate, but having already had some paracetamol, I dared not. It seemed like a lot of fun though.

On Friday, Steven took me out to a favourite breakfast location (which we did every day, actually), and then later to a wedding of two of his dear friends (Denise and Jim), neither of whom I knew. Both bride and groom sought me out and told me how glad they were that I could come. There was shape-note singing, morris dancing and contra-dancing and a fantastic time was had by all - especially me! I also got to meet more lovely people including a sweet, sweet gentleman by the name of Mal.

On Saturday we drove off to a little township which has a cafe in a cave, explored some antique stores and enjoyed the river before going to the arts museum (very cool) and then saw a documentary about Joan Rivers (fascinating) and finishing with dinner at Pizza Luce's (with a fun story attached).

Sunday was July 4th. So we started the day with a traditional block party at Matt and Deb's with a children's bike parade (or race), more morris dancing, a jazz band, singing and much neighbourly entertainment. I also managed to squeeze in a chance to run off and meet another friend, Yevgeny, for coffee where we talked about scuba diving and the Con I hadn't made time to attend). We ended the day with dinner with Michael and daughters followed by fireworks. By this point I was taking painkillers every 4 hours just to be able to talk, so I was getting a bit worried.

Monday we'd planned to go to the Taste of Minnesota festival, but I asked instead if I could go to a doctor (after talking with my travel insurance people first). The doctor was lovely, ran some tests and advised me to take various over-the-counter drugs. They helped immensely, and made it possible for me to attend the sea shanty singing that evening (although the drugs weren't quite good enough to allow me to sing).

The next day was a day of sad farewells. I felt so welcome and adopted into Steven's crowd that I would have loved to stay in Minneapolis for another month! However, it was time for my next adventure, so Steven drove Mal and I to the airport and he headed off to work. Mal I and had some minor fun getting through security, caught our planes in different directions, and thus far, lived happily ever after.

Two weeks on, and I might be over whatever it was that made me sick, too.

Happy 10th anniversary, Perl 6 (2010.07.18 15:34)

nobody@example.com (masak) — 2010-07-18T19:34:37Z

On this date exactly 10 years ago, Jon Orwant threw coffee mugs against a wall during a meeting. Wikipedia chronicles the announcement of Perl 6 as being on July 19 ten years ago... but the throwing of mugs on the 18th can be said to spark the birth of Perl 6.

Why did he throw mugs? Larry Wall's own explanation covers it in sufficient detail:

We spent the first hour gabbing about all sorts of political and organizational issues of a fairly boring and mundane nature. Partway through, Jon Orwant comes in, and stands there for a few minutes listening, and then he very calmly walks over to the coffee service table in the corner, and there were about 20 of us in the room, and he picks up a coffee mug and throws it against the other wall and he keeps throwing coffee mugs against the other wall, and he says "we are fucked unless we can come up with something that will excite the community, because everyone's getting bored and going off and doing other things".

And he was right. His motivation was, perhaps, to make bigger Perl conferences, or he likes Perl doing well, or something like that. But in actual fact he was right, so that sort of galvanized the meeting. He said "I don't care what you do, but you gotta do something big." And then he went away.

Don't misunderstand me. This was the most perfectly planned tantrum you have ever seen. If any of you know Jon, he likes control. This was a perfectly controlled tantrum. It was amazing to see. I was thinking, "should I get up and throw mugs too?"

When I thought up this blog post, I knew about the incident but wasn't sure when it had happened. I made some Internet research on my own, and couldn't really find a source mentioning the day of the mug throwing.

I did find this email, which outlines the participants and the number of mugs thrown.

In the end, I asked Larry Wall on IRC about the date. The ensuing pun-ridden discussion is quite typical of #perl6.

<TimToady> masak: btw, the mugs were the day before <jnthn> mugs? I thought it was just one mug! <masak> jnthn: five. <masak> jnthn: only one broke, though. <masak> TimToady: thanks. still time to prepare for an anniversary blog post, then. <jnthn> masak: Smashing. <TimToady> I wish I'd collected the broken mug <masak> "Perl 6: breaking mugs and backwards compat since 2000" * pmichaud fires up photoshop, looks to cafepress <masak> pmichaud: "Perl 6: the greatest language ever to emerge out of the shards of a mug." <pmichaud> "Break mug in case of language stagnation." <jnthn> "Perl 6. It's Perl 5 with a cupple of improvements." <pmichaud> "Perl 6 mugs -- another lucky break!" <masak> "if $mug === all @shards { say 'We need a break from all the mug puns!' } <jnthn> Oh, you can handle it. :P * masak shatters from laughter <TimToady> "Why's Jon throwing donuts?" --topologist <masak> :P <TimToady> "This is a broken mug. <mug> This is your brane on broken mugs. <camelia> Any questions?" <masak> "Perl 6: seeking the holy grail after accidentally smashing it ten years ago." <jnthn> "How is mug re-formed?" <masak> They need to do way instain Jon Orwant. <jnthn> Who harms 5 mugs that cannot frigth back! <masak> My pary are with the cleaner. <masak> "Perl 6: poculum iacta est."

By now, Perl 6 has a 10-year history. I thought I'd spend the rest of the blog post recounting it from (mostly) my perspective. With this I hope I will manage to convey not only the actual sequence of events, but also some of my enthusiasm about the project, and why I think Jon Orwant's broken mug kicked off one of the coolest projects in modern programming language history.

The early years

Perhaps you've heard about the RFC process. This was right at the beginning of Perl 6's life, when even Larry Wall wasn't sure which direction to take Perl 6, and a system was created wherein people could send in their proposals for language features. Something on the order of 20 or 30 RFCs were excpected before the closing date.

361 RFCs were sent in.

Not only were they many more than expected; they were all over the map, mutually inconsistent, and overall each of them advocated one feature without much concern for the rest of the language. Had we somehow decided to go right ahead and just make a language of all those RFCs, we probably would have ended up with something very much like this famous parody of Perl 6.

There was also little concern for how the proposed features would be added. Mark-Jason Dominus wrote in his Critique of the Perl 6 RFC Process how a large part of the RFCs neglected to consider the implementation of the proposed features:

It leads to a who-will-bell-the-cat syndrome, in which people propose all sorts of impossible features and then have extensive discussions about the minutiae of these things that will never be implemented in any form. [...] It distracts attention from concrete implementation discussion about the real possible tradeoffs. [...] Finally, on a personal note, I found this flippancy annoying. There are a lot of people around who do have some understanding of the Perl internals.

In the end, Larry Wall took on the work of triaging the RFCs and distilling them into a coherent whole. He did this in the form of Apocalypses, which collected the RFCs in different categories and commented on them one by one. The RFCs were either accepted with different amounts of caveats, or rejected. The Apocalypse numbers were based on different chapters in the Camel book; for example, chapter 3 of that book describes operators, so Apocalypse 3 talks about operators in Perl 6.

Here are all the Apocalypses that were published:

Apocalypse 1, May 2001
Apocalypse 2, May 2001
Apocalypse 3, Oct 2001
Apocalypse 4, Jan 2002
Apocalypse 5, Jun 2002
Apocalypse 6, Mar 2003
Apocalypse 12, Apr 2004

In other words, the whole period 2001-2004 can be seen as the period when Perl 6 was still being distilled from the various wishes people had about it.

Along with the Apocalypses were published same-numbered Exegeses, by Damian Conway who also had a central role in designing Perl 6. Where the Apocalypses were geared towards explaining language decisions for and against features, the Exegeses set out to showcase the new combinations of features, and to explain to Perl 5 programmers the improvements introduced in Perl 6.

Reading the Exegeses today, what's especially noticeable is the sense of Perl 6 as a variant of Perl 5. Sure there are lots of little tweaks and changes, but as Damian notes after writing a rather elaborate script in E02, "In fact, that's only 40 characters (out of 1779) from being pure Perl 5. And almost all of those differences are @'s instead of $'s at the start of array element look-ups. 98% backwards compatibility even without an automatic p52p6 translator...pretty slick!".

Not much remains of that idea today; if you'd step into the channel and ask "is Perl 6 like Perl 5?", we'd tell you that while the general goals and ideas can still be discerned, the syntax is so different that it's probably better to start learning it than try to code Perl 6 like one would code Perl 5.

In 2004, the Apocalypses were summarized down into Synopses, which contained the decisions from the Apocalypses without all the explanatory monologue. The Synopses would form a specification for Perl 6 the language, and were directed towards language implementors. They're fairly dense, but still a good read for anyone seriously interested in the language. The synopses are still normative and kept up-to-date. At the time of writing, I count 33 synoptic documents at perlcabal.org. Synopses 2 through 6 tend to be fairly stable, although changes still occur. The remainder of the synopses are still drafts for the most part, awaiting more feedback from implementations and language use.

During all this, efforts to start implementing Perl 6 were planned, started and abandoned. Already before the mug throwing and the RFCs, Chip Salzenberg started developing a project code-named Topaz in C++, which was slated to grow into Perl 6. The Topaz project, a rewrite of Perl 5 internals, was eventually abandoned. I asked Larry why, and he replied that "reimplementing insanity is insane". (Meaning "don't try to extend the Perl 5 internals into Perl 6".)

There was also a one-week exploration project called Sapphire; another rewrite of Perl 5 internals in September 2000, shortly after the announcement of Perl 6, Sapphire was mostly intended to be a sort of tracer bullet to learn things about an eventual real implementation.

Finally, Parrot was a fledgling virtual machine created with the express purpose to be good at running dynamic languages; especially Perl 6, the dynamickest language of the bunch. Ponie was an attempt to drag the Perl 5 internals, kicking and screaming, into the Parrot Virtual Machine and have them run there. The Ponie project, as can be read here suffered from a too-low bus number as well as Parrot's relative immaturity; Ponie was ultimately "put out to pasture" in 2006. An early implementation of Perl 6 on Parrot was also developed at this time, but by 2004 it had also proved to be unworkable.

As someone on the outside looking in, I knew of Parrot, but not of the other projects. I didn't know about the Perl 6 project that already existed on Parrot, only about the Apocalypses and the Exegeses, all of which I had read with interest. What happened now? Would this programming language ever become a reality? No-one seemed to know. And nothing exciting seemed to happen.

In early 2005, a certain A. Tang made an entrance, posting a short announcement on the perl6-all list of a "side-effect-free subset of Perl6". (Notice the parallels between the tone of this email and Linus Torvald's famous "nothing serious like GNU" announcement.) Before I knew it, the side-effect-free subset of Perl 6 had mutated into something called Pugs, a full-fledged implementation.

Pugs: The golden age

I remember stumbling into the #perl6 channel on freenode, still fairly dazed by the fact that someone was taking the Synopses and implementing them. Add to this that Audrey Tang turned out to be a frighteningly productive hacker with a magnetic personality which drew other people into the project like nothing I or many others had ever seen. Being on the #perl6 channel was like standing close to the eye of a hurricane; things just magically happened, either because Audrey had just landed another set of commits, or because someone had started a cool side project and was hacking on that, all the while bringing interesting ideas and thoughts into the channel.

And we were all running (an early version of) Perl 6! Operators, subs, classes, operator overloading... one by one, the cool features we had anticipated started working. We introduced bots to be able to run Perl 6 code right in the channel. Audrey threw out commit rights to the Pugs repository to anyone who made as much as a peep about possible improvements. And it worked! Hundreds of people were given commit-bits, and rather than seeing a massive amount of vandalism like you would on a wiki, we saw a great number of these people contributing constructively to the project. The slogan at that time was to "trust the anarchy", a seriously scary notion. A happy Audrey stood in the middle of it all, guiding the various efforts along, blogging almost daily, contributing insane amounts of code herself, and injecting steam into an ever-more concrete Perl 6 community.

Pugs is written in Haskell, and many of the cultural traits at the beginning came from the Haskell culture. Pugs hackers went by the moniker "lambda-camels". There was an unusually high amount of references to comp.sci. papers, and books about Haskell, and esoteric books about programming in general. A representative list can still be found in Pugs' READTHEM file. The humor was intelligent and often riffed off of some computer topic or other.

<audreyt> Alias_: my eyeglasses has style="border: none" <Alias_> doesn't matter <Alias_> optical edge cases at the boundaries create border: solid 1px #99999 <audreyt> true <audreyt> though it's more like ridged in my case * audreyt sighs at the general geekiness

<audreyt> apparently malaire++ is to blame <audreyt> I mean, to praise <audreyt> or to annotate

The predominant interjection was "woot!". The predominant user of the interjection "woot!" was Audrey. Karma points were the new currency, and bots roamed the channel keeping track of the karma points, or handing them out while emitting real-time commit messages.

Let me be clear about one thing: at that point on the #perl6 channel, I was a groupie. I didn't contribute significantly to Pugs, or to the discussion around the Synopses or the language itself. I did try my best to contribute to the jokes.

In March 2005, I had made enough silly noise to get a commit bit:

<autrijus> welcome aboard! <masak> thx. i could hardly sleep last night because of pugs :) <autrijus> all excited? <masak> overly so <autrijus> I know that feeling :)))

Audrey kept up a high development tempo, often leading to jokes about her productivity:

<autrijus> I'll brb -- shower & <geoffb> So the rumors of autrijus ircing in the shower appear to be false . . . . <geoffb> or maybe he just lurks, with the laptop right outside the curtain. <autrijus> yup. <autrijus> that's usually the case. <autrijus> to avoid damaging the keyboard I usually type with a toothbrush or so. <geoffb> LOL

<Juerd> Every *book* about Perl 6 is outdated. <Juerd> They are outdated two hours after they are pressed. <Juerd> By the time they are in stores, they are a month behind <Juerd> And by the time you buy and read them, an entire perl 6 interpreter was written by autrijus :) <mauke> while he was sleeping! <castaway> autrijus sleeps? <nothingmuch> castaway: sometimes he claims that * castaway doesnt believe it <mauke> maybe his computer has a neural interface and he codes in his dreams <castaway> this would not surprise me :) <Juerd> castaway: Well, he sometimes says he's off to bed, and then after a few hours you see a huge commit in the logs. So I don't believe it :) <castaway> hehe <castaway> from what I figure, he sleeps only in max. 30 min chunks, or something <Juerd> I think he hyperthreads

Audrey was once found saying "People think I'm this awesomely great coder, but it's really Haskell and Parsec [a parser combinator library for Haskell] that do all the magic". I didn't see people stop commenting on Audrey's prolificacy because of that, however.

Somewhere in 2006, Larry Wall joined the channel. He never really left.

<avar> ?eval <good fast cheap>.pick(2) <evalbot_r16148> ("good", "cheap") <TimToady> that's us all right...

We did lose Audrey, however. After her gender change, she continued work at an unabated pace; but then she was hit by a serious hepatitis infection, and disappeared in 2007 in the middle of a tough refactor of Pugs, never to return. Pugs ground to a halt. The channel became a lot quieter after she was gone.

Pugs was (and is) still around, but it had stopped evolving, and it wasn't a full Perl 6 implementation yet. The community still existed, but the central person to hold it together was manifestly missing. Not knowing what the future would hold, I longed for more Pugs.

(The reason for Audrey's disappearance didn't surface until two years later, when she made a tentative blog post about it.)

Rakudo: The silver age

Pugs sort of let the genie out of the bottle. Once Audrey had created a "rogue" project that just took off and increasingly embodied the Perl 6 idea, several other people started making "little" implementations, too. Between 2005 and now, about a dozen "little" implementations sprang into existence, several of which are still active today. Their respective goals range from exploring to actually implementing the whole language. I call them "little" mainly because they have few developers and a small user base.

While Pugs arrived with a bang and went dark just as quickly, work continued on implementing Perl 6 on top of Parrot. Progress came much more slowly here, because Parrot was an immature platform and needed a toolchain and compiler ecosystem in order to build Perl 6. Starting in 2005, Patrick Michaud began writing a grammar engine (PGE) and compiler toolkit (PCT) for Parrot. These eventually led to a fledgling Perl 6 implementation in 2007, which in early 2008 was given the name "Rakudo Perl 6". To be honest, I didn't pay much attention to it before it got the Rakudo name.

Patrick had a vision that a Perl 6 implementation needs to have a decent Perl 6 grammar engine at its foundation, followed by a good compiler-building toolchain. Once those bits were in place, Patrick turned to the actual Perl 6 compiler and runtime. An intrepid guy named Jonathan Worthington had in an unguarded moment promised Patrick to implement junctions (only to realize that junctions required multi-dispatch, which required the type system, which required much of the OO system to work...).

Together, Patrick and Jonathan put in feature after feature during the first half of 2008.

Things were happening again. It didn't look playfully effortless like with Audrey and Pugs; the features I picked up and tried out invariably broke. But things were happening again. Between Pugs, a relatively featureful project which no longer responded to pings, and Rakudo, a slow-moving but active project which could one day be made to do the things Pugs did, I gradually turned my attention to Rakudo.

The summer of 2008 is a bit of a blur. We (viklund and I) wrote a wiki engine in the not-yet-housebroken Rakudo. It was just a wacky idea we had. If we succeeded in any sense of the word, we said, we'd go to YAPC::EU and present it all in a lightning talk.

Well, we eventually made it, and we went to YAPC::EU, and we thrilled at the audience reaction upon hearing the news of someone writing a web app in Perl 6. But, um... the corners we cut on the way there. The workarounds for missing features we invented. The bugs we discovered. And it wasn't like we could just pop in on #perl6 and haul out some failing piece of code from our secret project. No; the code had to be scrubbed clean of all wiki-ness first. It was during this time I learned the value of golfing bug reports.

I submitted many bug reports that summer. All of them scrubbed. It became a bit of a thing, like when little kid starts collecting bottle caps. And it wasn't like Rakudo had a shortage of bugs. For a while, it felt like Rakudo was mostly built out of bugs. This is not meant to be a slight towards Patrick and Jonathan; they were, and are, doing an excellent job. But every project needs to be tested out in the field, and no-one had done that until viklund and I came along. I made field-testing and bug reporting into a sport, going round in a never-ending cycle of doing something new with Rakudo, seeing it break, and submitting a bug ticket about it.

It felt pretty good to be not so much of a groupie any more, and more of a contributor. Since then I've written a lot of Perl 6 code, and even gotten a Rakudo commit-bit... but I suspect I will remain "the guy who submits all the bugs" for a long time hence.

The current cultural references seem to lean heavily on lolcat references, exotic smilies, and other contemporary internet memes. Makes for a light-hearted atmosphere, and the contrast between lolcats and compiler guts is often quite refreshing.

<pmichaud> good morning, #perl6 <jnthn> morning, pmichaud <PerlJam> greetings pm <colomon> o/ <mathw> o/ pmichaud <moritz_> /o/ <mathw> \o\ <jnthn> \o/ |\o/| o< /o\ <jnthn> ;-) <mathw> aaaaargh * mathw hides <okeCay> o/\o !

As Rakudo keeps maturing, the Synopses change with it. This is scary to some. How can one start learning a language that keeps changing? Why won't the specification keep still? I can only speak for myself on this issue: I wouldn't want the specification to be "locked down" or "frozen", not as long as the changes going into it are ever-smaller adjustments, most of them responses to insights gained from implementations like Rakudo. On the one hand, the Perl 6 specification changes more than for any other language I know; on the other hand, it's becoming more stable by the day. We call it a kind of "whirlpool development", where later steps in the process are allowed to affect earlier ones, but things are successively centering on one single point.

IRC can be quite a brusque and unforgiving place, but the #perl6 channel has a reputation as one of the kindest places on the Net. A huge amount of time is spent answering newcomers' questions, helping sort out people's syntax errors, clarifying language terms and design decisions to outsiders and to ourselves, reviewing code, reviewing each other's blog posts, and generally making people feel welcome and cared for on the channel. #perl6 almost never sleeps entirely nowadays, since it has active participants from all over the globe. While we do feel that we have a really cool language to showcase to the world, we're also quite proud over the quality of the Perl 6 culture.

The story with Rakudo since 2008 is that it's slowly established itself as the front-runner among implementations, even surpassing Pugs in most areas. Rakudo now has most of the operators and control structures in place, excellent regexes and grammars (thanks, Patrick!), excellent OO and multi dispatch (thanks, Jonathan!), and many other very solid features. There are many other smaller implementations which help drive the spec and scout the solution domain in various ways; but Rakudo is the one with the most person-tuits put into it by far nowadays. The list of contributors in the monthly release announcement usually lands at a couple dozen people. Perl 6 is again arriving a little more every day. Life is good. I'm still submitting about one rakudobug a day, but the things submitted are increasingly more high-level and less and less about glaring omissions.

The action in the past year has been a pretty huge refactor, first of the grammar subsystem, but then of various other subparts that needed ripping out and rewriting. Inwardly, this has been known as a number of smaller projects all being part of a big Rakudo refactor. Outwardly, it has been known as the imminent release of Rakudo Star.

Rakudo Star: Perl 6 takes off

Ok, so this part of history hasn't happened yet. But it's about to. On July 29, the Rakudo team is releasing Rakudo Star, the first distribution of Rakudo Perl, a Perl 6 implementation. (Info links here, here, and here.)

I find it quite fitting that 10 years and a couple of days after the Jon Orwant mug that started it all, the Perl 6 people come forth and say "Here. We made this, and it's at a first stage of ready. We've been tinkering with it for quite some time, fixed a lot of bugs and polished the pearl to a relative shine. We'd like you to try it out and make something cool with it."

I, and many people with me, have been excited about this porcelain descendant for many years now. It's time to let a bigger circle of people in, and let them get excited as well.

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Tony's Blog: Delicious links 13 Jul 2010

nobody@example.com (Tony Kennick)

Modern Perl at OpenTech - I mentioned a few months ago that I'd be running an "Introduction to Modern Perl" training course at YAPC::Europe this year. But in the interests of speaking... Help: Inside guardian.co.uk blog | guardian.co.uk ...

Nestoria sponsor di YAPC::EU 2010 a Pisa

nobody@example.com (unknown)

Siamo piu' che felici di annunciarvi che e' ufficiale la nostra sponsorizzazione per YAPC::EU 2010. YetAnotherPerlConference e' il piu' grosso evento su Perl in Europa. Quest'anno YAPC::EU si terra' a Pisa, dal 4 al 6 Agosto, ...

The Perl Foundation is great ;)

nobody@example.com (mdk)

This year it is being run by the EPO for YAPC::EU. In January I was approached by Karen Pauley of the TPF to ask if they minded if the TPF ran a scheme for YAPC::NA along the same lines. I of course said that I didn't mind, ...

Bug 1635 - Eduroam (EAP-TTLS+PAP) WiFi auth

nobody@example.com (dev@midgard-project.org (Midgard Administrator))

Thanks to this bug I could not use my N800 tablet at YAPC::EU::2009, the european conference for Perl developers. The conference was at the university of science of Lisbon and wifi auth used EAP-TLS+PAP. The tablet is a very useful tool ...

Upcoming Events

nobody@example.com (Herbert Breunung)

Upcoming Events. Oslo Perl 6 Hackaton 2009 at the Nordic Perl Workshop; Nordic Perl Workshop 2009 April 18 and 19, 2009, in Oslo, Norway. Past Events Archive. YAPC EU 2008 Rakudo and Parrot Hakathon; (to be completed)

Sawyer X at blogs.perl.org: When Perl Met Android

nobody@example.com (Sawyer X)

If YAPC goes well, I'll try to make it to more YAPCs (such as those in the U.S.) and meet more people. I didn't see a way to view the submitted talks on the YAPC::EU website, nor a way to vote on them. I reckon it's some internal ...

Hague Grant Application: Perl Ecosystem Development Group - The ...

nobody@example.com (Karen)

2010.08.4-6 YAPC::EU, Pisa, Italy (Gabor on personal expense). 2010.08.21-22 FrOSCon, St. Augustin, Germany (Renee Baecker). 2010.09.2-3 WebGUI Users Conference, Madison, USA, Wisconsin (Gabor Szabo) ...

brian d foy at blogs.perl.org: I've uploaded my Mastering Perl ...

nobody@example.com (brian d foy)

... tutorial and we'll work something out so I can make it up to you. Besides, I was scheduled against Scott Chacon's Git tutorial, and even I was thinking about going to that. :). And, this shouldn't affect my YAPC::EU travel at all. ...

SMOP / Perl 6

nobody@example.com (Herbert Breunung)

A newer version of the talk presented at YAPC::EU 2008 is available. SMOP is an alternative implementation of a C engine to run Perl 6. It is focused in getting the most pragmatic approach possible, but still focusing in being able to ...

The handful of basic Perl concepts

nobody@example.com (brian d foy)

I'm also giving this talk in a one day format at YAPC::EU in Pisa on Aug 7. Most of the class goes back to the basics and re-learning the handful of underlying rules in Perl. These are the things that we don't get bogged down with in ...

Rakudo Perl 6 development release #23 (

nobody@example.com (use.perl)

The November 2009 release is codenamed "Lisbon" for Lisbon.pm, who did a marvellous job arranging thisyear's YAPC::EU.Shortly after the October 2009 (#22) release, the Rakudo teambegan a new branch of Rakudo development ("ng") that ...

Iron Mad

nobody@example.com (unknown)

I do have a cunning plan with respect to clothing but making that work is going to take me until the two primary renditions of this talk, at YAPC::NA 2010 and YAPC::EU 2010 - I'd say watch this space for updates but, well, I'm not going ...

YAPC::EU::2010 - Rewriting Documents Talk Approved

nobody@example.com (Alberto Simões)

Then, today I would like to talk a little about one of the two talks I submitted to YAPC::EU::2010, the one that got accepted (for now), about rewriting documents. Perl regular expressions are powerful. I think we can't call them ...

Muito obrigado

nobody@example.com (melo@simplicidade.org)

YAPC::EU raised the bar on so many levels. But we don't live without CPAN, and so we acknowledge the PAUSE and CPAN teams, and all individuals that keep the mirror network up and running. Finally, to those teams that make my day-to-day ...

Getting slightly lazy with Beamer

nobody@example.com (Chisel)

I've managed one company-internal presentation so far, and intend to write my YAPC::EU 2010 presentation using it. Being inherently lazy, I got bored manually running the voodoo required to regenerate the PDF from the .tex file(s). ...

Captain Coconut at blogs.perl.org: The "M" word is the wrong word.

nobody@example.com (Captain Coconut)

For now, however, I remain in thought at the junction of put up or shut up. I will consider what I can achieve and ask the community for help with the rest. Perhaps I should look at talking to people at YAPC::EU in a few weeks? ...

Bewerbung um die YAPC::EU 2011

nobody@example.com (ReneeB)

Sooo, noch gute 4 Stunden Zeit, bis die Deadline für Bewerbung zur Ausrichtung der YAPC::Europe im nächsten Jahr. Frankfurt.pm hat sich schon vor rund einem halben Jahr dazu entschieden, sich zu bewerben. ...

Conferences in 2010

nobody@example.com (karen)

This means I won't be going to OSCON and I won't be able to attend YAPC::EU. I'm disappointed that I will miss YAPC::EU as I've been to the past 9. As for the rest of the year I haven't decided yet. There's been noises made about a ...

YAPC::EU::2010 Newsletter #05 2010/06/28 - OH MAH, WE HAS TALKZ!

nobody@example.com (peppe)

Un saluto dalla quinta newsletter di YAPC::Europe 2010!

Github Poster

nobody@example.com (franck)

French Perl Workshop; Belgian Perl Workshop; YAPC::EU. so if you are interested in buying a poster and contact me early enough, I'll print it and bring it with me. The cost should be between 35 and 50 euros per poster (this is the raw ...

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nobody@example.com (admin)

http://www.pjcj.net/yapc/yapc-eu- Το Σεπτέμβριο θα κατατεθεί το νομοσχέδιο για τη βελτίωση του φοροεισπρακτικού μηχανισμού προανήγγειλε από το βήμα συνεδρίου της Eurobank ο υπουργός Οικονομικών Γ. Παπακωνσταντίνου. ...

Rakudo Perl 6 development release #23 ("Lisbon")

nobody@example.com (masak)

year's YAPC::EU. Shortly after the October 2009 (#22) release, the Rakudo team began a new branch of Rakudo development ("ng") that refactors the grammar to much more closely align with STD.pm as well as ...

Perl 6 and Perl 5 training classes around YAPC::EU in Pisa

nobody@example.com (Gabor Szabo)

Just a reminder that there are going to be a number of training courses on the days before and after YAPC::EU. (2,3 and 7 August). The detailed list can be found on the web site of YAPC::Europe as linked above. ...

The terrible things (3): Daisy, meet daisy, meet…

nobody@example.com (mdk)

Speaking of conferences, there is also the announcement about YAPC::EU::2010 and this year's European Perl conference in Pisa commented on here. Lastly I should just put a shout out about my good friend (and business colleague) Matt S ...

brian d foy at blog.perls.org: My YAPC::Russia 2009 (May Perl 2) trip

nobody@example.com (brian d foy)

Since the visas are expensive, a YAPC::EU in Moscow probably won't happen any time soon. Several people mentioned trying a YAPC in Ukraine, which requires no visa and has cheaper flights. I really want to go to Kiev, so I'm hoping that ...

Feeding the Cloud: List of Open Source Conference Management Systems

nobody@example.com (François)

A Conference Toolkit, YAPC::Eu, Artistic License · Perl · ConMan · Utah Open Source Conference, Texax Linux Fest · GPL · Python (Django). Open Conference Systems, various academic conferences, GPL · PHP ...

events

nobody@example.com (renee.baecker@hidden (updated by James Michael DuPont))

2010.08.4-6, YAPC::EU, Pisa, Italy. 2010.08.10-13, eth0 summer event, Wieringerwerf, The Netherlands, ~250, Outdoor hacker camp. 2010.08.10-12, LinuxCon USA, Boston, USA, Massachusetts. 2010.08.21-22, FrOSCon, St. ...

Rakudo Star / Perl 6

nobody@example.com (chromatic@wgz.org)

To almost quote Patrick Michaud, who came up with this idea at YAPC::EU in Lissabon: "whatever will be there in spring 2010, will be released". While the original release plan was for late April 2010, a family crisis for Patrick Michaud ...

Now's the chance for North Americans to easily get to a Nordic ...

nobody@example.com (brian d foy)

I started this idea in a use.perl post about holding a YAPC in Iceland. After YAPC::EU 2008 in Copenhagen, Josh McAdams, Adam Kennedy, and I hopped over to Iceland to meet with Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason and Tryggvi Björgvinsson to ...

YAPC::EU 2011 Call For Venue - The Perl Foundation

nobody@example.com (Josh McAdams)

is time for the YAPC::Europe Foundation (YEF) to look for suitable sites for the 2011 conference. Any dedicated group interested in hosting YAPC::Europe 2011 should send a brief statement of intent to venue - at - yapceurope.org. ...

Re: Functional-style pattern matching by Timothy S. Nelson

nobody@example.com (unknown)

(I remember discussing this during YAPC::EU 2007). We have considered > several things including XPath/XSLT but haven't come to any viable > conclusion. I'm planning to write a Tree module, but I'm waiting for Rakudo to ...

Nice people I met at YAPC::EU

nobody@example.com (Lech)

On the YAPC::EU this summer I met a few nice people.Here is a short list, just a few form many nice people: I was honoured to meet Larry Wall, who told me to have “appropiate amount of fun” on my presentation about WTFs. ...

an annoying meme

nobody@example.com (PerlPIlot)

Off the top of my head, there are 3 YAPCs (Yet Another Perl Conference): YAPC::NA, YAPC::EU, YAPC::Asia; The Perl Conference; The Nordic Perl Workshop; Frozen Perl. There are probably several I've forgotten or just don't know about as ...

YAPC Europe Foundation financial reports

nobody@example.com (admin)

YAPC Europe Foundation is nonprofit organisation, helping with organisations of YAPCs and Perl Workshops in Europe. They help by giving kickstart bonuses for conferences, workshops, hackathons and provideing payment processing. ...

Nice people I met at YAPC::EU – continued

nobody@example.com (admin)

... Suggest to Techmeme via Twitter Technorati Twitter Twitthis Yahoo! Bookmarks Yahoo! Buzz. See also: Nice people I met at YAPC::EU; Having nice background colors in Spreadsheet::WriteExcel; My presentation at YAPC::EU::2009 was graded.

Perl 6 in shops near you

nobody@example.com (brunorc)

In case you didn't know it yet – Rakudo Star will be released soon. Well, actually you can know exactly the day when Rakudo Star will be released. So prepare your browser, download it, try it and then go to YAPC::EU 2010 in Pisa. ...

Conferências: JSConf.eu, CSS Summit e YAPC::EU::2009

nobody@example.com (jac)

Na passada Quarta-feira tivemos mais três apresentações: a JSConf.eu, o CSS Summit ea YAPC::EU::2009. JSConf.eu O Diogo Antunes foi a Berlim participar na JSConf.eu, a conferência europeia de JavaScript, e falou-nos sobre algumas das ...

My first Perl6 regexp grammar in Perl5

nobody@example.com (Jozef Kutej)

After Damian talk at YAPC::EU::2009 I really wanted to try out the Regexp::Grammars. Finally I found some time during the Christmas and here is the result: use Regexp::Grammars; use re 'eval'; my $parser = qr@ ...

YAPC::EU 2010 - Send-a-newbie

nobody@example.com (Renée Bäcker)

Nach dem großen Erfolg im letzten Jahr, gibt es auch in diesem Jahr wieder ein "Send-a-newbie"-Programm für die YAPC::EU. Mit diesem Programm wird Personen die Teilnahme an der Konferenz ermöglicht, die ohne die Unterstützung nicht ...

Perl 5 Wiki

nobody@example.com (System User (updated by Etienette Ossian))

YAPC::Europe Talks Accepted; Perl 6 Design Minutes for 02 June 2010; Links for 2010-06-21; Capture-Tiny 0.08; Jay Earley's Idea; Perl 6 Design Minutes for 26 May 2010; When Perl Met Android; Parsing with Ruby Slippers ...

Uma bateria, quando descarregada totalmente, é de mais difícil ...

nobody@example.com (mktspace)

http://www.pjcj.net/yapc/yapc-eu-. É uma grande verdade, por vezes nem se dá conta que estamos completamente sem energia, continuamos, prosseguimos o caminho, forçamos o que de mais valioso temos, o nosso corpo. ...

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nobody@example.com (FunkyMoneky)

http://www.pjcj.net/yapc/yapc-eu-. Links: imdb TV.com. Alias.S03.DVDRip.XviD-FoV XviD 640 x 368 | MP3 VBR | 350 MB x 22. Megaupload. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9F7I4L8Q · http://www.megaupload.com/?d=P04U28PL ...

lichtkind at blog.perls.org: bla bla bla bla bla

nobody@example.com (lichtkind)

yesterday I also submitted my talks to YAPC::EU. it's the same 3 I held in schorndorf, just the one about rebol / language design will get longer. the basic idea behind it is to use the new Perl 5 api to make DSL like in Rebol. ...

A Week in the Life of Perl Community Volunteer

nobody@example.com (karen)

I'm on the YEF venue committee and at this time of the year we work on choosing the venue for next year's YAPC::EU. We have two proposals this year and I spent an hour or so on each, going through them to see if I had any queries about ...

Nestoria Sponsors YAPC::EU 2010

nobody@example.com (astle)

Nestoria is again a proud sponsor of YAPC::EU, Europe's biggest and baddest Perl conference. This year, the event will be held in Pisa in August and the theme is “The Renaissance of Perl”. A few members of the engineering team will be ...

Sawyer X at blogs.perl.org: Is it just me?

nobody@example.com (Sawyer X)

My Perl Android talk was accepted to YAPC::EU 2010 (!!!!) and I want to book the room reservation for my girlfriend and I. Unfortunately, the hotel (MyHotel - where the conference is taking place) only accepts the credit card details ...

Summer Travel

nobody@example.com (karen)

Registration has opened for YAPC::NA and I do plan to attend. I have also been trying to work YAPC::EU into my travel plans. That's proving a lot harder as I have visitors this summer. I'm trying to decide if it will be worth attending ...

Perl 6

nobody@example.com (Herbert Breunung)

Carl Masak: Weeks 6 and 7 of GSoC work on Buf -- roundtrip; Gabor Szabo: Perl 6 and Perl 5 training classes around YAPC::EU in Pisa; Gabor Szabo: How other languages do it? Gabor Szabo: First contact with companies regarding the Perl ...

puntoblogspot: Talk talk talk

nobody@example.com (raig)

Let's hope there will be recorded talks after summer. It seems this summer I'm not going to YAPC::EU neither, so I'll have to take my conference dose from somewhere else. Luckily, there are lots of good talks already recorded . ...

The awkwardness of socializing at conferences

nobody@example.com (Gabor Szabo)

When I went to my first YAPC::EU in 2002 I was extreamly lucky as I was in the same hotel as the French group. Driven by my foolishness I started to talk to them in the lobby. I think I asked the guy next to me if this is his first YAPC ...

Jesse Vincent: Pisa, Italy

nobody@example.com (Jesse Vincent)

Pisa, Italy from August 4th to 6th. YAPC::EU.

YAPC::EU::2010 Newsletter #02 - Call for Anything

nobody@example.com (peppe)

Un saluto dalla seconda newsletter di YAPC::EU::2010!

PS3のサインインエラーは8001050f｜PS3のエラーコード8001050fの最新情報

nobody@example.com (unknown)

Frozen Perl soon

nobody@example.com (admin)

... Suggest to Techmeme via Twitter Technorati Twitter Twitthis Yahoo! Bookmarks Yahoo! Buzz. See also: YAPC::EU 2009 in Lisboa (Lisbon, Lizbona)! Nice people I met at YAPC::EU – continued; Lisbon guide – taxis, traps, virtualtourist.

Nestoria patrocina YAPC::EU 2010

nobody@example.com (unknown)

Nestoria será de nuevo patrocinador de YAPC::EU 2010, el mayor evento europeo sobre Perl. Este año, la conferencia se celebrará en Pisa, en Agosto, y el tema principal a tratar se titula ”The Renaissance of Perl”. ...

brian d foy at blogs.perl.org: A new Student Workbook for Learning ...

nobody@example.com (brian d foy)

I have to make way for another book that I committed to doing starting after YAPC::EU! Note, however, that me finishing the book and it being available are different things. I can't make promises for O'Reilly. 0 comments ...

Alan Haggai Alavi at blog.perls.org: Introduction to Perl at ...

nobody@example.com (Alan Haggai Alavi)

It was my first BarCamp, and the first other conference/camp that I ever attended apart from last year's YAPC::EU::2009 (which was a great experience, by the way!). I was very interested in having Perl promoted among a community that ...

YAPC::EU::2010 Newsletter #01 - Quando, dove, chi... e alcuni ...

nobody@example.com (larsen)

YAPC::EU::2010 will be held from 4 to 6 August 2010. The conference theme is the Renaissance of Perl. This topic pays homage to Italy's role as the cradle of the Renaissance, and acknowledges how Perl is far from a dead legacy language, ...

Ada Lovelace Day: Jacinta Richardson

nobody@example.com (karen)

Last year I met Jacinta Richardson at YAPC::EU. I had heard of Jacinta's work. I knew that she had been awarded a White Camel award, I knew that she was a successful Perl trainer, and I knew that she wrote Perl Tips. ...

Nestoria Sponsors YAPC::EU 2010

nobody@example.com (unknown)

If you're interested in how Nestoria works then you might be interested to know that we use Perl. And if you're interested in that you might also be interested to know that we're proud to be sponsoring YAPC::EU – which our CTO describes ...

Send A Newbie

nobody@example.com (mdk)

The application process for the Send-a-Newbie initiative to allow participation at YAPC::EU::2010, which allows applicants who would otherwise be unable to due to financial constraints, is now open. ...

Send-A-Newbie

nobody@example.com (mdk)

The send-a-newbie was originally done for YAPC::EU and had three people sponsored to attend. This year the Perl Foundation (TPF) will also be organising a send-a-newbie for the YAPC::US and we wish them all the luck in their endeavours. ...

YAPC::EU 2010

nobody@example.com (Michael Lang)

Die europäische Perlkonferenz YAPC::EU 2010 wird wie geplant vom 4. August bis 6. August 2010 in Pisa stattfinden. Der Konferenzort liegt etwas ausserhalb vom Stadtzentrum in einem 4-Sterne Hotel. Einzelzimmer sind dort für ca. ...

Tony's Blog: Delicious links 21 Jun 2010

nobody@example.com (Tony Kennick)

YAPC::Europe Talks Accepted - The YAPC::Europe organisers said that they would tell speakers which talks had been accepted on July 1st. Well, it seems that the excitement was too much for... News Askew · Green Hornet #6 Arrives TODAY! ...

Nestoria Sponsors YAPC::EU 2010

nobody@example.com (unknown)

Nestoria is again a proud sponsor of YAPC::EU, Europe's biggest and baddest Perl conference. This year, the event will be held in Pisa in August and the theme is "The Renaissance of Perl". A few members of the engineering team will be ...

Nothing about perl today

nobody@example.com (Lech)

... MySpace Reddit RSS Slashdot StumbleUpon Suggest to Techmeme via Twitter Technorati Twitter Twitthis Yahoo! Bookmarks Yahoo! Buzz. See also: Nice people I met at YAPC::EU – continued; Frozen Perl soon; Utf8 in web perl application (LAMP)

Nestoria sponsert YAPC::EU 2010 in Pisa

nobody@example.com (unknown)

Auch dieses Jahr wieder sponsert Nestoria die YAPC::EU, Europas größte Perl-Konferenz. Der Event findet im August unter dem Motto "The Renaissance of Perl" in Pisa, Italien statt. Ein paar unserer Entwickler haben sich freundlicherweise ...

Selenium IDE quality testing

nobody@example.com (unknown)

http://www.pjcj.net/yapc/yapc-eu-2006-testing_web_applications/slides/images/selenium-ide.png...

Send-a-Newbie YAPC::EU::2010, allows applicants to attend who ...

nobody@example.com (dickturpin)

Send-a-Newbie YAPC::EU::2010, allows applicants to attend who would otherwise not be unable due to financial constraints. http://ping.fm/XyjZG.

YAPC::EU and course ideas

nobody@example.com (NPEREZ)

After spending time at OPW2010 with many wonderful people, I was exposed to the thought that YAPC::EU was in fact more better (double comparative), than YAPC::NA. So I decided to look into what exactly it would cost to spend a week in ...

Perl Ironman – what is going on?

nobody@example.com (Lech)

... StumbleUpon Suggest to Techmeme via Twitter Technorati Twitter Twitthis Yahoo! Bookmarks Yahoo! Buzz. See also: WTFish side of using Perl talk at YAPC::EU 2009 – slides; More on foreach localisation; Perl WTFs – last in function.

Alberto Simões at blogs.perl.org: Last day for YAPC::EU::2010 talk ...

nobody@example.com (Alberto Simões)

By Alberto Simões on June 15, 2010 5:18 PM under YAPC, YAPC::EU. Today is the last day for proposals for YAPC::EU::2010. I have already the travel tickets, I have already a room in the Hotel. Now, I need to make something to lower my ...

Perl optimization article

nobody@example.com (Brian Park)

This is the script for my talk at YAPC::EU::2002. It's not a transcript of what I actually said; rather it collects together the notes that were in the pod source to the slides, the notes scribbled on various bits of paper, ...

Ada Lovelace Day - 2010

nobody@example.com (unknown)

Listing all her achievements would take a LOT of screen space (and annoy the hell out of her) but, to name three, her TPF work, YAPC::EU organisation and involvement in more related FOSS communities than you can shake a stick at are no ...

Perl IRC Channel

nobody@example.com (Chad Brown)

... sheriff; MattGold; Skud; sungo; Tkil; uri; waltman; yrlnry. #perl Group Photos. There is a tradition at Perl conferences of the #perl group photo. Here they are: YAPC 1999 - The first group photo. YAPC::EU 19100; YAPC::NA::Boca 2003.

November / Perl 6

nobody@example.com (Herbert Breunung)

To learn more, please browse the slides from the YAPC:EU 2008 lightning talk: . November is free, released under the Artistic License 2.0, and available online: ...

Screencasts from the Italian Perl Workshop 2009 « Not this…

nobody@example.com (TimBunce)

I'm confident that YAPC::EU 2010 is in safe hands. I'm really looking forward to YAPC::EU. We're combining the conference with our family summer holiday. We'll be staying in a cottage in the village of Calci a few miles outside Pisa. ...

Alberto Simões at blogs.perl.org: YAPC::EU::2005 Proceedings

nobody@example.com (Alberto Simões)

Yes, I am talking about YAPC::EU::2005. This Yapc was organized in Braga, Portugal, and during this Yapc a proceedings book with some articles was distributed to all participants. It has 235 pages devoted to Perl, and I am sure some of ...

扶凯» [Perl]YAPC::Europe 2010 国外Perl 大会有Perl 的培训

nobody@example.com (admin)

今年国外的Perl 大会有收费培训课程可以上，课程的内容相当不错。国外真好,不知今年2010 的Perl 大会怎么打算的? We'll have training courses before and after the YAPC::Europe 2010. This will be run by world class Perl experts, and require a ...

Re: Functional-style pattern matching by Daniel Ruoso

nobody@example.com (unknown)

(I remember discussing this during YAPC::EU 2007). We have considered several things including XPath/XSLT but haven't come to any viable conclusion. > This is a contrived example of what I'm referring to: > sub traverse([Leaf $a]) { ...

YAPC::EU::2010 Newsletter #04 - We meet again, Dr. Jones!

nobody@example.com (peppe)

Un saluto dalla quarta newsletter di YAPC::Europe 2010!

YAPC EU 2010 is coming

nobody@example.com (Lech)

Some news about YAPC EU 2010: Tickets: Regular fee: 100 EUR; Student fee (for full-time students): 40 EUR; Corporate fee (invoice available): 250 EUR. All prices include Italian VAT (20%). For speakers free (lightning-talk speakers not ...

Perl, PHP, corporate – continued.

nobody@example.com (Lech)

... Slashdot StumbleUpon Suggest to Techmeme via Twitter Technorati Twitter Twitthis Yahoo! Bookmarks Yahoo! Buzz. See also: Perl as good as java, python and PHP way above; Perl job = high salary; Nice people I met at YAPC::EU – continued.

Perl 6 training course after YAPC::EU on 7th August

nobody@example.com (Gabor Szabo)

After hearing the talk of Patrick I decided to offer a Perl 6 training at YAPC::EU. The organizers were kind enough to accept my offer even though it is way after the dead line. So if you'd like to learn Perl 6, on the 7th August I am ...

Sawyer X at blog.perls.org: Perl, Dancer, Android, Haifa.pm!

nobody@example.com (Sawyer X)

I've also been contemplating on submitting a lecture/presentation to YAPC::EU 2010 on "When Perl Met Android", but it kind of scares me, I honestly don't think I'm good enough to go up on that stage. I might be some day though! :) ...

YAPC::EU:2010 Newsletter #03 - Here We Go

nobody@example.com (peppe)

Un saluto dalla terza newsletter di YAPC::EU::2010!

No OSCON for Me This Year

nobody@example.com (Ovid)

If you can't bring Ovid to Portland, bring Portland to Ovid. On the plus side, I think this means I'll be able to attend YAPC::EU in Pisa. It will be nice to spend a bit more time in that city. My Pisa photos are sorely lacking. ...

Mein Perl-Jahr 2009

nobody@example.com (ReneeB)

Und in diesem Jahr gab es erstmals einen Perl-Entwicklerraum. Der Platz hat sogar teilweise nicht ausgereicht. Nach dem Erfolg werden wir das wohl im nächsten Jahr wiederholen (wenn es nicht gerade mit der YAPC::EU zusammenfällt). ...

OSDC Australia: Keynote

nobody@example.com (karen)

The talk I gave, Understanding Volunteers, was a variant on one I had given at YAPC::EU and YAPC::NA earlier this year. The new version is longer. I added additional material on the need to belong and made sure I had examples of a ...

Belgian Perl Workshop 2010: Call for Papers and Attendees...

nobody@example.com (ddn123456)

Also it gives any speaker a very good opportunity to practise a talk for YAPC::EU 2010. ;-). The submission deadline for your 5, 20 or 40 minute talks is June 01, 2010. Lingua Franca for the talks is English (unless you manage to give ...

Alias S01 DVDRip XviD-DiME-VF | DLSiTE

nobody@example.com (FunkyMoneky)

http://www.pjcj.net/yapc/yapc-eu-. We did post an earlier release for Alias Season 1 back in November but that was released by VF only. This includes DiME's rips as well, which i think are better quality. And now the rest of Alias to ...

The Renaissance of Perl

nobody@example.com (Lech)

YAPC::EU::2010 conference theme will be: The Renaissance of Perl The conference theme is the Renaissance of Perl. This topic pays homage to Italy's role as the cradle of the Renaissance, and acknowledges how Perl is far from a dead ...

YAPC 10 Notes

nobody@example.com (Brad)

... traits (s12 & s14) parrot was spun off from tpf in march 2009 vienna.pm hosted yapc::eu::2007, surplus frm that (about 25k euro) goes to jonathan and patrick tpf is all-volunteer, time-constrained hague grant goes towards tpf work ...

Some DBIC::API changes in the pipe and other ranblings

nobody@example.com (NPEREZ)

In other news, it is starting to look like I will be attending YAPC::EU. It isn't final yet, but the finances are in place to execute. This means I need to get the ball rolling on writing abstracts, and doing talk submissions for both ...

Iniciativas na Graduação | Pauleira!

nobody@example.com (nuba)

Tive o prazer apresentar ao lado de Carol Cruz, que falou sobre o Show CompUFF (esse eu ajudo a organizar também) e Leonardo Freitas, que também foi parceiro na organização do YAPC::Brasil 2009, e falou sobre o Software Freedom Day 2009 ...

First of 2010

nobody@example.com (ammartins ( Tó ))

Dizem que cada um tem um que merece ( eu costumo dizer ), parece que não é bem assim, uns merecem mais do que outros. Para 2010? Eu sei o que quero, agora se é para acontecer :D oh well em 2011 eu aviso. ... Yapc:Europe:2009.

Presentations and Papers

nobody@example.com (joshua.mcadams (updated by peter kay))

Slides from YAPC::EU 2007; video and audio from YAPC::ASIA 2007; Links to slides from YAPC::NA 2007; Slides from YAPC::EU 2006; Video with synchronized slides from YAPC::NA 2006; OSDC::Israel::2006 Slides; YAPC::Israel::2004 Slides ...