YAPC::NA 2008 Day 3
I didn't wake up in enough time to make the very first talk. I checked out of the hotel. I will not stay there again. It was way over priced and no one bothered to call me back to find out if the wi-fi got fixed (it didn't) even after several inquiries on my part. It was just way over priced - but from what I hear, it beat the dorms.
I did make it to chromatic's Rescue Your Doomed Project. It was great. The slides were 1 liners and the rest was speaking. For each warning sign, there was advice on how to recognize it in others, how to recognize it in yourself, and some things you might do to address them. It was a bit biased towards Parrot - but it made sense for chromatic to draw experience from that. The part it didn't cover was was how to recognize when reversing the sinking ship was impossible and when to jump ship. I had an opportunity to talk to him afterwards and was going to mention this but it seemed like we were swarmed with people and I had to make arrangements for lunch with Larry.
Larry was very accommodating. No one could really agree on a time or a place but he was very gracious and we all appreciate that. Lunch was at a sub shop (that thankfully had lettuce wraps). There was no place to sit inside with all of us, so we sat outside and chatted for about 20 minutes before heading back to the lightening talks. Several people showed up that were not PerlMonks (yay Larry). That was good, because we made sure they promised to sign up.
I had to leave for the airport fairly soon but I did want to catch a few of the lightening talks.
The zeroth talk was by Frag on "What I learned at PyCon". He experienced technical difficulties and left the stage.
The first was Jerry building a brand new language targeting Parrot in only 5 minutes using the Parrot Compiler Toolkit. The second was Jeff getting that new language working on mod_parrot in 5 minutes. He fired up Apache and the browser and showed it working live. There were many ooohs and aaaahs.
Frag's technical difficulties were over and he came back to the stage. This was a very highly entertaining and informative talk. I am glad he had the stones to come back given how bad we all gave him a hard time originally.
I headed for the airport - good thing I did too - traffic was bad. I felt very sick in the car but was fine by the time I got to the airport. The lines were long but fast and the flight left on time. I got home around 9:30PM and gave my wife a big hug and kiss.
It was VERY VERY good but I am happy to be home.
I did make it to chromatic's Rescue Your Doomed Project. It was great. The slides were 1 liners and the rest was speaking. For each warning sign, there was advice on how to recognize it in others, how to recognize it in yourself, and some things you might do to address them. It was a bit biased towards Parrot - but it made sense for chromatic to draw experience from that. The part it didn't cover was was how to recognize when reversing the sinking ship was impossible and when to jump ship. I had an opportunity to talk to him afterwards and was going to mention this but it seemed like we were swarmed with people and I had to make arrangements for lunch with Larry.
Larry was very accommodating. No one could really agree on a time or a place but he was very gracious and we all appreciate that. Lunch was at a sub shop (that thankfully had lettuce wraps). There was no place to sit inside with all of us, so we sat outside and chatted for about 20 minutes before heading back to the lightening talks. Several people showed up that were not PerlMonks (yay Larry). That was good, because we made sure they promised to sign up.
I had to leave for the airport fairly soon but I did want to catch a few of the lightening talks.
The zeroth talk was by Frag on "What I learned at PyCon". He experienced technical difficulties and left the stage.
The first was Jerry building a brand new language targeting Parrot in only 5 minutes using the Parrot Compiler Toolkit. The second was Jeff getting that new language working on mod_parrot in 5 minutes. He fired up Apache and the browser and showed it working live. There were many ooohs and aaaahs.
Frag's technical difficulties were over and he came back to the stage. This was a very highly entertaining and informative talk. I am glad he had the stones to come back given how bad we all gave him a hard time originally.
I headed for the airport - good thing I did too - traffic was bad. I felt very sick in the car but was fine by the time I got to the airport. The lines were long but fast and the flight left on time. I got home around 9:30PM and gave my wife a big hug and kiss.
It was VERY VERY good but I am happy to be home.
Leave a comment