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summary: In which I went to the Belgian Perl Workshop.
title: Belgian Perl Workshop 09
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last weekend my co-workers and I went to the [Belgian Perl Workshop 09](http://conferences.mongueurs.net/bpw2009/). I attended the following presentations:
* [KiokuDB](http://conferences.mongueurs.net/bpw2009/talk/1720), by nothingmuch. Slides are available [here](http://www.iinteractive.com/kiokudb/talks/bpw2009.xul). We were able to talk with him during the afternoon, we might we use it at [$work](http://rtgi.fr).
* [Painless XSLT with Perl](http://conferences.mongueurs.net/bpw2009/talk/1740), by andrew shitov. Was interesting, even if I don't do any XSLT anymore. Again, some ideas might be used for work.
* [What are you pretending to be ?](http://conferences.mongueurs.net/bpw2009/talk/1792), by liz. That's a hell of a hack. The module is available on the [CPAN](http://search.cpan.org/~elizabeth/persona/).
* [Regular Expressions and Unicode Guru](http://conferences.mongueurs.net/bpw2009/event/473), by abigail. Feel better to know that I'm not the only one suffering with unicode in Perl ;). Learn some stuff like how to create a custom character classe, etc.
* [Catalyst](http://conferences.mongueurs.net/bpw2009/event/474), by matt trout. Ok, we're using Catalyst at work for our webservices. So we allready know about catalyst, but we were curious. And as i was hoping, we learn some nice tweaks. We discovered [Catalyst::Model::Adaptor](http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Catalyst::Model::Adaptor), so we don't have to do some horrible stuff in our Controller any more, and some other interesting stuff were put in this talk. And matt is a really good speaker, manage to keep an audiance amused and interested.
* [Catalyst & AWS](http://conferences.mongueurs.net/bpw2009/event/476), by matt trout. Once again, a really good talk by matt. Some good advices, and a lot of fun.
We didn't stay long for the social event in the evening; we had booked a hotel in bruxelles. But i'm glad that we were able to get to this perl workshop, it was well-organised, good talks, meet nice people, and learn some stuff. All in all, a good day :)
