In no particular order, I learned...
- to love the new features in ACT, especially the "Personal Schedule" and the fact that the regular schedule now defaults to the current day. (act_hackers)++
- how to cheat^Wdeal with code that cannot be covered, by inserting special comments.
- that it's better to only do the one talk you really care about than to submit (and even hold) boring old talks.
- that the BBC has way too much money, so the need to spend it by blowing up cars after launching them a few hundred meters into the air on some rockets.
- that there are places in Copenhagen where the beer is even more expensive (and where oversized urinals are considered art (as seen in the courtyard of Den Tatoverede Enke))
- about
load_namespaces and restrict with object
in DBIx::Class
- how to set up the 3GB flat fee no roaming umts card koki lend me, to get network despite flaky wireless (and how get into the office vpn over umts)
- that other people are also suffering from updating database schemas
- how to smuggle a few bottles of coke into the attendees dinner
- that other people are also suffering from the fact that firefox 3 resets you zoom-level after opening a new page, which really sucks if you present HTML slides (BTW, because of this I had to use firefox 2, which is very broken on my laptop. Of course it crashed during one of my presentations. At least the resume-feature worked, so I hadn't have to click through hundreds of slides again..)
- Perl is used to (re)write history (at least the history of the ~11th century(?))
- that to set up a login system re-using PAUSE accounts is nothing more than a dirty little hack involving https and LWP (but why was I not surprised by that?)
And of course, I was again reminded that the Perl community is a bunch of lovley and brilliant people, and that YAPC is one of my favourite times of the year.
A big THANK YOU to the orgas, the sponsors, the speakers, the attendees, and to Larry Wall, how started it all!
P.S.:
If I was cog, here are a few more things I'd say during the opening talk, How to get the most out of a YAPC:
- Besides beer, another good way to make friends is by bringing an extension cord with multiple power plugs. Share electricity!
- Don't hang around (only) with your local pm group. You see them all the time, anyway. Meet new people!
If you were cog
cog on 2008-08-17T12:58:17
If I was cog, here are a few more things I'd say during the opening talk
I'll keep this in mind :-)
$@ / DESTROY issue
Burak on 2008-08-17T22:59:30
I missed YAPC::Europe, so, making slides avaliable is nice
:) That $@ resetting issue in DESTROY seems to be a nasty bug to me
:p
