From daerr, a cute slideshow about Perl 5.10.

Maybe a little too cute, though. For the love of gord: don't compare your project to "Star Wars: Episode 1" in the first five slides. You are basically saying "Yay lightsabers Ha ha ha :( fuck we're doomed". *slap* Snap out of it ( Read more... )

This snuck up on me. It's near North Station this time, 6 to 10, and they're promising a better venue, and a free beer.

I'm of two minds about it right now... my main motivator is just to passively troll for follow-up conversations from my May talk, and just staying reasonably plugged in to the local scene. But I don't have any active agenda.

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Seriously considering applying to ETech 2008's CFP. In fact, I have already written my (exactly) 100-word bio first, which with my ego is basically like eating dessert first:
( Cut for flagrantly rampaging ego )

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This is the five-minute presentation that I gave at Ignite Boston last week. Here's a photo by Brian Jepson of me giving it. I am not making a questionable gesture or anything, despite appearances ( Read more... )

For Volity, it was a win. The audience was quite large (given the venue of a pub's second-floor function room) and I'm pretty sure I succeeded in keeping its attention for the whole four-and-some minutes of my talk. There was much enthusiastic cheering, and I got some nice compliments about it, chatting with lots of folks afterward. These included ( Read more... )