YAPC Talks

• The Lies We Tell, a 20 minute talk on the lies that Perl advocates sometimes tell. Presented in 1999.
• Stages of a Perl Programmer. Tom Christiansen posted an excellent analysis of the 7 stages that Perl programmers go through. This 3-hour tutorial discusses the stages, explaining what you need to know to progress to the next level. Presented in 2000.
• Why Perl is Special. I got to thinking: why does Perl not have some of the things that other languages have. This 20-minute talk presents my thinking on the matter. Presented in 2000.
• Be an Advocate, Not an Asshole. A 20-minute talk on how to advocate Perl, why to advocate Perl, and how to be a better representative of Perl. Presented in 2000.
• A Day in the Life of p5p. A 5-minute Lightning Talk showing a day in the life of the perl5-porters mailing list. (Will be added after it is given).
• What is it with those Python fucks anyway?. A 5-minute Lightning Talk. This is a humorous rant in the style of Dennis Miller, but without my delivery it could easily be seen as abuse. I don't want Python users (against whom I bear no grudge) to take offence, so I'm not posting the text.
• Idioms. Excerpt from a class for Tom Christiansen Perl Consultancy, based on Tom's "Perl Idioms" talk at an earlier TPC.
• Apprenticeship Project: Code Analysis Tools. First of my contributions to Adam Turoff's Perl Apprenticeship Project: develop a suite to analyse other language's code.
• Apprenticeship Project: Competitive Intelligence. Competitive Intelligence: what cool toys can we steal from other languages?
• Python Friendship Project. We're not enemies, make a Python Friend today.
• Perl Documentation Project. Help build some new types of Perl documentation.
• Damian Conway's Projects. Not mine, I just put them on the web for him.
• Slides for Simon Cozens' internals tutorial. Don't blame Simon for how crappy the tutorial was--all my fault. It's nowhere near complete--nothing on perl.c, threads, the macros used to prototype functions, naming conventions, symbol lists .... This was the second most harrowing tutorial I've ever given.
• Web Services and P2P
• The 80/20 Rule and Language Design (listen to the mp3 here)