last weekend my co-workers and I went to the
[[http://conferences.mongueurs.net/bpw2009/][Belgian Perl Workshop 09]].
I attended the following presentations:
- [[http://conferences.mongueurs.net/bpw2009/talk/1720][KiokuDB]], by
nothingmuch. Slides are available
[[http://www.iinteractive.com/kiokudb/talks/bpw2009.xul][here]]. We
were able to talk with him during the afternoon, we might we use it
at [[http://rtgi.fr][$work]].
- [[http://conferences.mongueurs.net/bpw2009/talk/1740][Painless XSLT
with Perl]], by andrew shitov. Was interesting, even if I don't do
any XSLT anymore. Again, some ideas might be used for work.
- [[http://conferences.mongueurs.net/bpw2009/talk/1792][What are you
pretending to be ?]], by liz. That's a hell of a hack. The module is
available on the
[[http://search.cpan.org/~elizabeth/persona/][CPAN]].
- [[http://conferences.mongueurs.net/bpw2009/event/473][Regular
Expressions and Unicode Guru]], 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.
- [[http://conferences.mongueurs.net/bpw2009/event/474][Catalyst]], 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
[[http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Catalyst::Model::Adaptor][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.
- [[http://conferences.mongueurs.net/bpw2009/event/476][Catalyst &
AWS]], 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 :)
