Daily Archives: Thursday, 22 July 2010

OSCON 2010: State of the Onion

The Thursday sessions are over, but before I head out to the parties, I’m attending the 14th State of the Onion address. This is the always well-attended update on the universe of Perl. I immediately noticed that Larry is surrounded … Continue reading

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OSCON 2010: Awesome Things You’ve Missed in Perl

Paul Fenwick (Perl Training Australia) Ever since I saw An Illustrated History of Failure two years ago, I’ve made it a point to see @pjf‘s talks. That’s how I find myself in his mid-afternoon session, Awesome Things You’ve Missed in … Continue reading

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OSCON 2010: 21st Century Systems Perl

Matt Trout (Shadowcat Systems Limited) The full title of this session is, 21st Century Systems Perl – the New Perl Enlightment for sysadmins Introduction While Perl isn’t dying, “PERL” most certainly is dying. This is a good thing, because it … Continue reading

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OSCON 2010: Dist::Zilla

Ricardo Signes (Pobox.com) The full title of this talk is, Dist::Zilla – Maximum Overkill for CPAN Distributions. Every CPAN distribution contains a significant amount of crap. It’s infrastructure used for the distribution tools. ExtUtils::MakeMaker has been the traditional way to … Continue reading

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OSCON 2010: Thursday Plenary Session

This morning’s plenary session, based on the scheduled speakers, is focused on the nebulous cloud. The cloud is what everyone in technology talks about, but everyone defines differently. It’s the section of the flow chart where magic happens. Somehow, we … Continue reading

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OSCON 2010: Hands-on Cassandra

The second tutorial I attended on Tuesday, and the last one of the conference, was Hands-on Cassandra. Actually, I missed the first half of this tutorial, for reasons which I explain in my Tuesday recap post. I’ve been told by … Continue reading

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