YAPC 2006 Day 1 recap. Today was the first day for YAPC::NA
2006. I went to five different presentations today. Some of the talks, like the talk on
Sub::Exporter, and the talk on using AJAX with Perl were very informative.
I got a number of ideas from these talks, and I'm looking forward to playing
around with them to see what I can do. These are the kinds of talks that make
conferences like this useful. On the other hand, some of the talks were not so good. I had a number of
people ask me why I didn't give a talk this year. The reason was simple: I
didn't have anything new to say. Some of these talks that I go to are the same
thing year after year after year. And while I can appreciate that a lot of
the people that come to each YAPC are new and haven't heard the talks yet, I
think there has got to be a limit to how much repeat material goes into a
conference like this. Otherwise, the reasons to come back next year just
reduce with every year I go. Several of the talks I went to today seemed to revolve around the speaker
more than the subject they were speaking about. I really hate these talks.
It reminds me of politicians repeating popular thinking, like "crime is bad",
but not really providing any solution to the issues they are brining up. Tonight, I have some free time to sit back and relax. I'm going to try to
work on some Perl code tonight and get ready for tomorrow.
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