Several O’Reilly Perl authors will be at Powell’s Technical Books (the one at 33 NW Park Avenue) in Portland, Oregon this Saturday for a book signing and Q & A session. Come meet:

• Allison Randall (Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials)
• Randal Schwartz (merlyn) (Learning Perl, Intermediate Perl, Perls of Wisdom, Effective Perl Programming)
• Tom Phoenix (Learning Perl, Intermediate Perl)
• brian d foy (brian_d_foy) (Learning Perl, Intermediate Perl)
• chromatic (Perl Testing: A Developer’s Notebook, Extreme Programming Pocket Guide)
• Curtis Poe (Ovid) (Perl Hacks, out May 1).

If you don’t have these books already, you can buy them at Powell’s! There may be other ad hoc goings on afterwards, too.

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