YAPC Europe 2013 Day 2

The second day of YAPC Europe was enjoyable and informative.

I learned about ZeroMQ, which is a bit like sockets on steriods. Interesting stuff. Sadly Design decisions on p2 didn't quite qualify as interesting.

Matt's PSGI archive is a project to rewrite Matt's infamous script archive in modern Perl. Very promising, and a bit entertaining too.

Lunch was very tasty, more so than the usual mass catering. Kudos to the organizers!

After lunch, jnthn talked about concurrency, parallelism and asynchrony in Perl 6. It was a great talk, backed by great work on the compiler and runtime. Jonathans talk are always to be recommended.

I think I didn't screw up my own talk too badly, at least the timing worked fine. I just forgot to show the last slide. No real harm done.

I also enjoyed mst's State of the Velociraptor, which was a summary of what went on in the Perl world in the last year. (Much better than the YAPC::EU 2010 talk with the same title).

The Lightning talks were as enjoyable as those from the previous day. So all fine!

Next up is the river cruise, I hope to blog about that later on.