Collecting talks

A much younger Dave speaking at a Perl conference

I gave my first public talk sometime between the 22nd and 24th September 2000. It was at the first YAPC::Europe which was held in London between those dates. I can’t be any more precise because the schedule is no longer online and memory fades. I can, however, tell you that the talk was a disaster. […]

Slideshare Stats

For many years (since the end of 2007, apparently) I’ve been uploading the slides from my talks and training courses to Slideshare. This morning I got an email from them, telling me that they had made their analytics pages freely available. I don’t know if this is a permanent change or a special offer, but […]

Talks from Kiev

It has only been a few weeks since YAPC::Europe in Kiev and already all of the videos are available on YouTube. Here are the recordings of my three talks. On the first day I spoke about “25 Years of Perl”. Later that day I was one of the lightning talk speakers. My talk starts at […]

Speaking at the LPW

I gave three talks at the London Perl Workshop yesterday[1]. That wasn’t the original plan, but I kept coming up with talks that seemed to be good ideas. The last one was on 25 Years of Perl was a bit of a failure as I broke the second rule of presenting (always plug in your […]

Blogging By Proxy

I’ve been too busy to write anything here for a while, but here’s the next best thing. A few months ago I gave a talk on Unicode Best Practices to the Perl team at Net-A-Porter. And now Adam Taylor has written up that talk on their new technical blog.