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Leon Brocard (aka acme) is an orange-loving Perl eurohacker with many varied contributions to the Perl community, including the GraphViz module on the CPAN. YAPC::Europe was all his fault. He is still looking for a Perl Monger group he can start which begins with the letter 'D'.
TPC5: Day 4
The keynotes today were by Craig Mundie from Microsoft and Michael Tiemann from RedHat. Craig was obviously not prepared for a big room full of geeks, while Michael went for the easy points he knew we'd all agree with. There was a roundtable discussion with Tim asking the best questions. Interesting, but nothing we haven't seen before.
I went to lenzo's "Perl and Speech" talk - which was about using Festival and Sphinx to do cool stuff with Perl. I'm definitely going to play with this some more... Ziggy's "Extensible POD" was next, where he walked a fine line between keeping it simple and having decent structure.
"Use Python" by
lathos
was next, where he described the scary things he's been doing with
B::Generate. Very cool. We just need some more spare time for finish
the Python/Ruby/Java/C#/C to Perl compilers...
I then sat in
Randy's
"XML-RPC with Perl and Apache" talk, but didn't learn a great deal.
I think web services are cool, but how come there aren't any?
Michel
presented his
Perl Geek Code, which was very cool.
And I don't only mean that for CO++++
The afternoon had a "what's happing in Perl" theme, with Dan presenting all his cool new ideas for the Perl6 internals and Jarkko showing us all the cool new stuff in Perl 5.8.
A quick stop for some cool #perl photos and then to the bar for a Template Toolkit 3 BOF and off to the ActiveState party with more Danger Mouse and Monty Python.
Beer foamy...
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
