[OSDC Israel] feedbacks from the conference

[Yuval Kogman]

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 13:39:22 +0200, Levenglick Dov-RM07994 wrote:
> Since you asked:
> 1. All Perl 6 related talks (Larry, Audrey, Yuval etc.) gave my some insight in to the (new ?) language, but actually stressed how much I have to learn Perl (again!).

Join the #perl6 channel on irc.freenode.org... Most of us went
through this "relearning" process *VERY VERY* quickly.

> 3. Alon Altman's talk on CGI pushed me to finally learn the module (that and the fact that I now have an autographed book from the auction on the subject). Unbelievable as it is, until now I wrote all my web pages manually. And to make things worse, I am the department webmaster :(

BTW, While CGI's html generation can be convenient, the code itself
is horrible to read (CGI.pm guts). There are a few modules inspired
by CGI's generation stuff.

Also take a look at Template Toolkit... I think dave.org.uk had a
nice talk on that at the Italian Code Jam, but i have no idea where
it is.

> 5. Peter Gordon's talk about wxWigits reminded my both why I had once wanted to learn how to use them and why I gave up (too complicated and no real use for me).

There was a GTK talk in YAPC::2003 which made it look pretty good =)

> 
> 6. The auction took up waaaaaaaaaay too much time. 

Ugh, agreed... but they always do.

This sholuld be more "loungy", as in - people can walk around, eat,
drink, get drunk, spend more money.

-- 
 ()  Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch at woobling.org> 0xEBD27418  perl hacker &
 /\  kung foo master: /me does not drink tibetian laxative tea: neeyah!

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