Tag: yapceurope

  • YAPC::Europe Report

    It’s nearly three weeks since I got back from Riga. I should probably tell you a bit about what I did. I flew over on Saturday and on Sunday I gave my “Introduction to Modern Perl” talk. There were nine people on the course and they all seemed to find it useful. The conference itself…

  • YAPC::Europe Preview

    Earlier this year I met Josette Garcia at OpenTech and she told me about her new blog Josetteorama. She asked me if I’d like to contribute a few articles about Perl to the site. I agreed and then promptly forgot about it for a couple of months. But I remembered my promise a week or…

  • Training in Riga

    YAPC Europe is getting closer. We’ll all be heading off to Riga in about six weeks. As has become traditional, there are a number of training courses being held both before and after the conference. This includes my Introduction to Modern Perl course on Sunday 15th August. The course is a one-day overview of many…

  • 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 them and they decided to do it a week earlier. Yesterday I got email telling me that some of my talks had been accepted and the list of…

  • YAPC::Europe Talks

    The Call for Papers for YAPC::Europe closes in four days. If you’re thinking of giving a talk in Pisa then this weekend would be a very good time to give it some serious thought. I proposed four talks last night. I’m hoping that the organisers won’t choose more than two of them, but I like…