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fleetfootmike) wrote2008-06-26 09:54 pm
fleetfootmike) wrote2008-06-26 09:54 pm
Mike's US Tour '08 (Part 2: YAPC::NA)
And off we go: heres part 2. Part 1 is here.
Arrived at IIT in time to check in to my somewhat spartan room, and make it downstairs in time for the mass exodus up the Red Line to a bar just a couple of blocks from Wrigley Field for the pre-arrival drinks and buffet
High spot of THAT was definitely watching the US Open with Larry Wall :) And having a long chat with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
victorthecook...
After that, back to IIT for an early and predictably uncomfortable night.
Decent breakfast at the McCormick Student Center, on to the main auditorium for the introductions and Larry Wall's keynote, which was... um. Dense. It appeared to involve using Perl5 to parse the Perl6 grammar that defines... Perl6. Which was kinda scary.
Lunch withvictorthecook and Mike Schilli from Yahoo! US, an attempt at a nap, and then a couple of panels which... hrm. Didn't actually teach me anything new, which was disappointing. Quick bite of supper at the Student Center, and back to the room to write an abstract for Yahoo!'s internal tech conference, which was due by midnight and I'd forgotten about. Made the more exciting by having left my laptop charger in the conference centre, so under double time pressure. And thence to uncomfortable bed.
Breakfast, and to the auditorium in time to rescue the charger before the two talks that basically beat my 'Perl Is' talk to the punch and into the schedule. Mine's targetted really at Perl sceptics, so Michael Schwern's "Perl Is unDead" was the better talk to hit the Perl community. The following one was a rerun of Tim Bunce's "Perl Myths" talk by someone else. which I've seen on Google Video anyway.
Almost fell asleep in Stevan Little's talk on Moose, which the excellent talk didn't deserve. I blame the auditorium - decamped to one of the other rooms for an excellent rant on coding round timezone issues.
Lunch, and then an afternoon sat in back of Matt Trout's talk on the Catalyst web framework - wasn't expecting to learn much new, but very keen to see how he presented it. (Answer: with entertaining use of the f-bomb!).
Thence to the conference dinner and auction - good food, amusing auction (Uri's not as good asbillroper, bedlamhouse, markbernstein or Roger Robinson, but he parted folks from $500 for lunch with Larry!). Mildly unimpressed with Matt T and a bunch of folks who legged it before the function was an hour old to find better beer elsewhere. More amused when I got back to find a note on my door from Matt saying "Can I borrow your UK charger, please?"...
Spent latter part of evening being introduced to Fluxx :)
Delivered promised wake-up call to Matt for his 0815 talk :) Which was on the more interesting bits of DBIx::Class, and Very Useful. Followed with his talk on the new Reaction framework (built on Catalyst). Even more sweary than his Catalyst talk, but the nature of Reaction's genesis /almost/ made that necessary, as it's to a large degree scratching a bloody big itch.
Couple of excellent talks rounded out the morning, then lunch, then the lightening talks. I didn't manage to come up with a five minute talk in time for this, but they were variously funny, useful, neat and... eye-searingly horrific (about which I am sworn to say no more for the sake of my and everyone's sanity :) ).
After the closing stuff, I took me a walk the two blocks to US Cellular Field (Comiskey Park), home of the Chicago White Sox, and spent a pleasant three hours watching them beat the Pirates. Came back to a pleasant couple of hours drinking beer with various folks, then bed.
Cab to O'Hare, flight to Newark. Even scored exit row again.
Next? Contata.
Sun 15 Jun
Arrived at IIT in time to check in to my somewhat spartan room, and make it downstairs in time for the mass exodus up the Red Line to a bar just a couple of blocks from Wrigley Field for the pre-arrival drinks and buffet
High spot of THAT was definitely watching the US Open with Larry Wall :) And having a long chat with
victorthecook...After that, back to IIT for an early and predictably uncomfortable night.
Mon 16 Jun
Decent breakfast at the McCormick Student Center, on to the main auditorium for the introductions and Larry Wall's keynote, which was... um. Dense. It appeared to involve using Perl5 to parse the Perl6 grammar that defines... Perl6. Which was kinda scary.
Lunch with
victorthecook and Mike Schilli from Yahoo! US, an attempt at a nap, and then a couple of panels which... hrm. Didn't actually teach me anything new, which was disappointing. Quick bite of supper at the Student Center, and back to the room to write an abstract for Yahoo!'s internal tech conference, which was due by midnight and I'd forgotten about. Made the more exciting by having left my laptop charger in the conference centre, so under double time pressure. And thence to uncomfortable bed.Tue 17 Jun
Breakfast, and to the auditorium in time to rescue the charger before the two talks that basically beat my 'Perl Is' talk to the punch and into the schedule. Mine's targetted really at Perl sceptics, so Michael Schwern's "Perl Is unDead" was the better talk to hit the Perl community. The following one was a rerun of Tim Bunce's "Perl Myths" talk by someone else. which I've seen on Google Video anyway.
Almost fell asleep in Stevan Little's talk on Moose, which the excellent talk didn't deserve. I blame the auditorium - decamped to one of the other rooms for an excellent rant on coding round timezone issues.
Lunch, and then an afternoon sat in back of Matt Trout's talk on the Catalyst web framework - wasn't expecting to learn much new, but very keen to see how he presented it. (Answer: with entertaining use of the f-bomb!).
Thence to the conference dinner and auction - good food, amusing auction (Uri's not as good as
billroper, bedlamhouse, markbernstein or Roger Robinson, but he parted folks from $500 for lunch with Larry!). Mildly unimpressed with Matt T and a bunch of folks who legged it before the function was an hour old to find better beer elsewhere. More amused when I got back to find a note on my door from Matt saying "Can I borrow your UK charger, please?"...Spent latter part of evening being introduced to Fluxx :)
Wed 18 Jun
Delivered promised wake-up call to Matt for his 0815 talk :) Which was on the more interesting bits of DBIx::Class, and Very Useful. Followed with his talk on the new Reaction framework (built on Catalyst). Even more sweary than his Catalyst talk, but the nature of Reaction's genesis /almost/ made that necessary, as it's to a large degree scratching a bloody big itch.
Couple of excellent talks rounded out the morning, then lunch, then the lightening talks. I didn't manage to come up with a five minute talk in time for this, but they were variously funny, useful, neat and... eye-searingly horrific (about which I am sworn to say no more for the sake of my and everyone's sanity :) ).
After the closing stuff, I took me a walk the two blocks to US Cellular Field (Comiskey Park), home of the Chicago White Sox, and spent a pleasant three hours watching them beat the Pirates. Came back to a pleasant couple of hours drinking beer with various folks, then bed.
Thu 19 Jun
Cab to O'Hare, flight to Newark. Even scored exit row again.
Next? Contata.