Hi All. I just put the presentation on slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/semuelf/c-to-perl-binding
See you around, Shmuel. On 16/10/2010 15:18, Shmuel Fomberg wrote: > Hi All. > > A bit longer report from the YAPC: > > It started on Thursday evening, with social gathering - that actually > meant lectures on social networks websites and programming against / for > them. And there were beers outside. > I have brought my wife and son to this gathering, because I though that > it will be like YAPC::EU's social gathering. I was wrong. > > Anyway, the lectures were in Japanese, and I could not see them anyway > because my son demanded attention. > > Another difference between the YAPC EU and that one is that in Pisa > groups of programmers setteled in corners and started spontaneous > hackingtons. there was a feeling in the air of 'start coding, now'. > In Tokyo it had more company-like feeling. At the maximum someone sat > alone and worked on something. no more then that. > > Of course, everyone twitter / bloged in the event. later I found a > complete translation of my slides in Japanese on the web, apparently > made on the fly. > > Almost all the people of the conference were Japanese. there were a few > foreigns who living in Japan, and just two people from outside - Larry > Well and another one. It was no mode YAPC::Asia as the conference that > Gabor did in Israel is YAPC::MiddleEast. but whatever. > > The day of the conference itself, started with an introduction of the > conference, (we have 500 people! YaY! whatever.) and the a presentation > of Larry Well about languages and of course he had to show a few lines > in Perl 6. (he took some examples from the rosetta stone, and show the > difference between languages) > > After that the different presentations started. Btw, it seen that the > fashion today is presentation of white text over black background. > Most of the presentations were of course in Japanese, and I struggled to > understand what they are talking about. But when I did, it was quite > interesting. > > And then the time for my presentation come. I got the small room, (there > was the huge auditorium, the very big room, and the small room that can > barely fit a hundred people, I think) luckily. > There was a break before my presentation, so I had time to connect my > laptop, calm myself, be ready for it. and then thirty seconds before the > start, Larry Well entered. Oh shit. > > Actually in the presentation itself we wasn't seen so interested, and > mostly played with his laptop. he was probably there just because it was > in English, and was already tired of incomprehensible presentations, but > still. > > Beside him was Dan Kogai (the guy that do Perl's Unicode), and one > weired guy who was dressed as Ninja and collected signatures from CPAN > Authors. Over-all I think there were about fifty people. > > Of course I was stressed and finished in about half an hour. (I had > forty minutes) > > After the presentation I went to another one (about writing parsers in > Perl) and then went home, as Shabbat was drawing near. > > Well, that's it. > See you around, > Shmuel. > _______________________________________________ > Perl mailing list > Perl@perl.org.il > http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl > _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list Perl@perl.org.il http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
