It’s 4:30pm on Thursday and that means it’s time for the Perl Lightning Talks. The crowd is excitedly gathering, but there are still plenty of seats as I write this.

Sorry guys, these are five minute talks. If I start summarizing, I’ll fall way behind. You’re lucky I even take the time to write this.

If you really want to know what’s going on, there’s a schedule.

For those of you still reading, here’s a bit of stream-of-consciousness for you. Note, if trying to match these up to the schedule, they are in order, but I didn’t comment on all of them.

Testing databases with TAP is cool. You really can test anything with it.

Nice to see The Perl Foundation get some slots in Google’s Summer of Code this year.

It’s interesting to see how much Perl is used to compile USA Today every day. Without Perl, it would be a very empty paper. Though I’m not convinced the content would be much different.

Schwern tells us that, in thirty years, time will wrap.

$time = 2**31 - 1;
print scalar gmtime $time;

Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038

$time = 2**31;
print scalar gmtime $time;

Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901

Wait, that’s not good. But he’s fixed it.

Sweet, Perl on Google App Engine!

Use autodie instead of Fatal. It’s better.

Also, Paul Fenwick is one of the best speakers I’ve seen in ages. I hope he becomes an OSCON staple.

F*ck, the F*cking thing is F*cked had the best slides.

IPv6Experiment.com (warning: there may be porn).

[tags]oscon, oscon08, oscon2008, Perl, lightning talks[/tags]