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Perl Oasis: Summary and Conclusion

By Devin on January 17, 2010 12:28 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Perl Oasis was absolutely fantastic. Florida is such a pretty state. The weather was fantastic, and all the conference attendees were nice people.

I thought the talks went very well, although I feel I was a bit too nervous during mine. I survived though, and the slides are online. Of course, the best part was the gokarts with Jay Shirley and Cory Watson was fucking awesome. I wasn't aware that a PIT maneuver was possible using a gokart.

I learned a lot, Florida was as I said beautiful, and the entertainment was great. I'll definitely be attending next year.

Next: School!

Here's a link to the talk slides: Google: A Summer of Code

Perl Oasis: Summary and Conclusion

By Devin on January 17, 2010 12:28 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Perl Oasis was absolutely fantastic. Florida is such a pretty state. The weather was fantastic, and all the conference attendees were nice people.

I thought the talks went very well, although I feel I was a bit too nervous during mine. I survived though, and the slides are online. Of course, the best part was the gokarts with Jay Shirley and Cory Watson was fucking awesome. I wasn't aware that a PIT maneuver was possible using a gokart.

I learned a lot, Florida was as I said beautiful, and the entertainment was great. I'll definitely be attending next year.

Next: School!

Perl Oasis: Summary and Conclusion

By Devin on January 17, 2010 12:28 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Perl Oasis was absolutely fantastic. Florida is such a pretty state. The weather was fantastic, and all the conference attendees were nice people.

I thought the talks went very well, although I feel I was a bit too nervous during mine. I survived though, and the slides are online. Of course, the best part was the gokarts with Jay Shirley and Cory Watson was fucking awesome. I wasn't aware that a PIT maneuver was possible using a gokart.

I learned a lot, Florida was as I said beautiful, and the entertainment was great. I'll definitely be attending next year.

Next: School!

To Perl Oasis!

By Devin on January 15, 2010 3:13 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Sitting at my terminal at DIA waiting to get on my flight to Perl Oasis. I'm giving a talk on my Google Summer of Code experience and I'm pretty excited. It's going to be a great trip, I'm sure of it.

I will be updating this as I go, in case anyone is actually reading :-)

Visiting the Past

By Devin on January 14, 2010 2:55 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

So, I pretty much swore to myself I wasn't going to use this as a personal blog. But tonight I think I have a post that makes an exception to the norm.

On my way home from seeing my old room mate from UNC, I decided to take a bit of a detour and search for my old house. This is the house that my brother was last alive in. This is the house that my brother had his last conscious moments in before slipping across the vail, out of our reach, forever, in a cold, numbed emergency room in the small and virtuous city of Loveland, Colorado. This is the last place I remember ever seeing my brother alive.

It's been 18 years since Sean passed away. I didn't write him his usual Christmas letter this year. I guess I've moved forth and preserved his memory in other ways. But I felt tonight that I needed to see where all the memories took place, the simple, small cul de sac and house that I lived the first 4 years of my life in.

It's incredible how the memories and feelings come rushing back to you just by being near something like that.

I just wanted to get this out there. Maybe somewhere, somehow, Sean can look down on this and know I'm doing everything in his memory.

I love you Sean.

Catalyst::View::Email Ported to use Email::Sender::Simple!

By Devin on January 10, 2010 7:57 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

I finally made use of my co-maintanor bit for Catalyst::View::Email, and ported it over to using Email::Sender::Simple. It was pretty easy thanks to the great API design by Ricardo Signes (rjbs).

Pending a few more reviews, release will take place very soon.

Coming soon: Catalyst::Model::KinoSearch::Searcher, and Form::Sensible::Reflector(::DBIC). Also, any time now on DBIx::Class::Tree::MaterializedPath.

CPAN Mirror Up

By Devin on January 7, 2010 2:32 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

So, I've set up http://cpan.codedright.net as a little CPAN mirror. Check it out, let me know how it works.

Coming up is my workout tracker, Catalyst::Model::KinoSearch::Searcher, Fnargh and Form::Sensible::Reflector::DBIC. Oh, and wrapping up DBIx::Class::Tree::MaterializedPath.