i’m a lumberjaph

Today I presented a talk about Moose at OSDC.fr. The slides are available here.
And big thanks to my friend Morgan for his illustration of the batmoose :)

RTGI will be one of the sponsors of the French Perl Workshop 2009. I (or Camille, not sure yet) will also give a talk about the Perl and CPAN community on the web. Camille (for sure this time) will also give do this talk at the YAPC::EU at Lisbon this summer (and in english this time).

last weekend my co-workers and I went to the Belgian Perl Workshop 09. I attended the following presentations:

• kiokudb, by nothingmuch. Slides are available here. We were able to talk with him during the afternoon, we might we use it at work.
• Painless XSLT with Perl, by andrew shitov.
  Was interesting, even if I don’t do any XSLT anymore. Again, some ideas might be used for work.
• What are you pretending to be?, by liz. That’s a hell of a hack. The module is available on the cpan.
• Regular Expressions and UniCode Guru, by abigail. Feel better to know that I’m not the only one suffering with unicode in Perl ;). Learn some stuff like how to create a custom character classe, etc.
• Catalyst, by matt trout. Ok, we’re using Catalyst at work for our webservices. So we allready know about catalyst, but we were curious. And as i was hoping, we learn some nice tweaks. We discovered Catalyst::Adaptor, so we don’t have to do some horrible stuff in our Controller any more, and some other interesting stuff were put in this talk. And matt is a really good speaker, manage to keep an audiance amused and interested.
• Catalyst & AWS, by matt trout. Once again, a really good talk by matt. Some good advices, and a lot of fun.

We didn’t stay long for the social event in the evening; we had booked a hotel in bruxelles. But i’m glad that we were able to get to this perl workshop, it was well-organised, good talks, meet nice people, and learn some stuff. All in all, a good day :)

some photos are available on on my flickr account.