The PERL Conference

TPC (the PERL conference)

Yikes, this group is skewing old.  Even with the young folks that my work forces to learn PERL, the crowd was looking pretty gray.  Had some distopian daydreams about how we could revitalize the community.

Even considering men and women, this was pretty dark

Had to jettison that one pretty quick. The next one was a little bit better(?)

Who doesn't have fond memories of The Dark Crystal?

Bonus fact, after draining the essence of interns, is that their willpower is gone and they would probably be easy to convince to work on POD documentation

Anyhoo, this is where I will place the TPC slide deck when I'm good and ready, dammit.

OpenWest 2018

Had a presentation at OpenWest again this year. I really dislike the South Towne Exposition Center as a technical conference hall. Don't know if it's the location or public interest that is waning, but I hope they can inject new life back into it because it felt worn out. Anyways, here is a link to the Prezi that I made for my discussion on Event Driven Architecture I enjoy making presentations in Prezi. You can build a dynamic deck, but it's really not suited for coding presentations. You need to subscribe to a premium tier to embed video and even then it's only YouTube and not something that can simulate entering code and running it. Speaking of tired venues, I subscribed for a trial version of Prezi so I could embed an old video of Meredith Burgess Burke's Law: Who killed 711? and his 'do nothing' machine, but when I got to my 'room' for the presentation, I found out that there was no microphone or even sound. Perhaps that was purposeful since these were just curtained enclosures in the cavernous main hall, but seemed disrespectful of the time that I put in to make a presentation for their conference. I should learn not to include the word 'PERL' in my RFP response.