Day 1 Wrap-Up The opening talks went very well. Larry Wall gave an interesting talk
about building open-source communities. There was also a good talk about the
"State of the Carrot". Though, I was disappointed to find that pair was not
mentioned at all this year. This comes after last year, where we received two
different thunderous applause during the Carrot speech. I attended a few talks today but my concentration was mostly on giving my
talk at the end of the day. There was a talk in the morning about tools for
writing tests for your code. It was good, but also mostly review. There was
also a talk about mod_perl 2.0, which seemed interesting, but dealt with a lot
of things that I didn't have much experience with. My talk went very well. The place wasn't exactly packed. But the people
that did attend seemed to enjoy the talk. I was generally pleased with the
way things went. Immediately after my talk, Meng Wong of pobox.com got a group of people
together for a tour of the city on Segways. I have some pictures stored on my
phone, which I will post when I get home. We found a place that rented out
Segways and took people on tours. Afterwards, we had a really nice dinner in
an old building that was used 130 years ago to store Whiskey at a refinery. I
enjoyed this day a lot. Now with the fretting about my talk out of the way, I can enjoy the rest of
the conference.
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Slides for my talk. Slides for my talk today are now available here both in PDF and
HTML versions.
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