More nice people I met:
Gábor Szabó – no, not the hungarian guitarist, nor football player, but the guy who makes Padre and advertises perl so it does not die.
Three nice guys from Poland (okay, two, as I travelled with one): Maciej, Perl developer from booking.com, and the second I do not know much about 
And lots and lots more, but its no use to write about all
On the YAPC::EU this summer I met a few nice people.Here is a short list, just a few form many nice people:
I was honoured to meet Larry Wall, who told me to have “appropiate amount of fun” on my presentation about WTFs.
A few minutes earlier I met Damian Conway, whom I helped with aplying last-minute changes to conference schedule and putting in on conference room door, before I realised who he was.
Paul Fenwick dressed as Star Trek hero did presentation about klingon Perl programming. A bit earlier this day, Damian Conway did completely different presentation about klingon Perl programming, making with his voice sounds that soon made him thirsty.
to be continued…
I received feedback from conference attendees about my presentation at YAPC::EU. And it was very good
After the conference attendees are encouraged to express their opinions on presentations they attended and grade them. Then the aggregated grades and opinions are sent to speaker.
I was a bit nervous, but fortunately presentation about WTFish side of using Perl was graded between 7 and 10 (on a scale from 1 to 10), mostly 8-9.
There were also opinions – good and bad.
Bad: I could have been speaking louder and with better intonation and gestures. Slides also could be a bit better. Someone even wrote “Poor guy, it is hard to present in another language. I hope he isnt disheartened, his presentation is good”
Good opinions (quoted from the feedback I got):
- Covered well some common but not obvious traps in Perl for newbies. The material was good.
- Good title and subject – humourous way to present this sid of Perl. As a total beginner some parts I knew of and felt the same WTFness and it is nice to feel that it is as mad as I thought!
- This presentation pin pointed some of the things that regularly “bite” newbies, so it was most valuable. It had many examples, and I hope I can remember them all. [ note: there are slides available to download at this blog, so you don't have to remeber all - Lech ]
Poor guy, it is hard to present in another language. I hope he isnt disheartened, his presentation is good
Thanks for good opinions and also for bad – those taught me something about presentations. Next time it will be better
During the YAPC::EU 2009 conference in Lisbon, I heard many times that Perl is NOT dead. Interesting, I never considered Perl to be dead. It is funy thing about human brain, it skips the word NOT. So the message I got is: perl is dead. If so many people try to convince me that “perl is NOT dead”, there has to be a good reason that other people think it IS dead. What can this reason be? Old beliefs about perl? Rise of new languages like python, ruby, groovy?
And, more important for myself – what should I do?
There are several things:
- spread the word that perl is great and not dead, by for example joining ironman blogging chalenge
- wait, and do nothing – if perl is good then it may defend itself without my help
- learn a new language, to be safe. Or brush up old good java or C-something.
What do YOU think about it?
I did my talk about WTF in Perl at YAPC::EU 2009 at Monday, August 3rd. It was a bit stresfull experience for me. Especially that my laptop did not want to show presentation on the projector. I turned out that I do not know my own laptop. Right, I use it rarely. Hopefully presentation was not bad, I received some positive feedback. People were clapping too. Nice One person asked me for slides. So here they are:
Feedback about my talk is appreciated, use comment field below
The YAPC EU in Lisbon is coming. There was a discussion on mailing list about TAXIS in Lisbon.So, here you have some info on a useful site about Lisbon (and about tourism on the whole world):
Useful site:
http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/Portugal/Distrito_de_Lisboa/Lisbon-286122/TravelGuide-Lisbon.html
The Perl conference YAPC::EU (Yet Another Perl Conference) is coming – in 42 days!
Tenth Edition of the european Yet Another Perl Conference will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, 3-5 August 2009.
The conference website is here: http://yapceurope2009.org/. There is also wiki and twitter
And I am going to be there http://yapceurope2009.org/ye2009/talk/1896
