Because I am a geek, I am sitting here in Monterey at the
Perl Conference
watching Office Space
in a room full of other geeks, writing up this report, downloading MP3s
(using the wireless LAN services provided by
Yet Another Society), etc.
There were plenty of cool tutorials today, like a session on wireless
LANs by Mark S. and Jo-Ellen F. Matthews. Tom Christiansen taught
advanced Perl, Tim Bunce taught advanced DBI, Lincoln Stein taught
advanced CGI, Randal Schwartz taught practical web programming,
Dan Sugalski taught PerlThreads, Mark-Jason Dominus taught regular
expressions, and Damian Conway taught his Parse::RecDescent module.
New O'Reilly books are on sale here, like
Perl for System Administration,
CGI Programming with Perl, Second Edition,
Perl Pocket Reference, Third Edition, and
Programming Perl, Third Edition.
A lot more is on tap for the next few days, so stay tuned.