Perl Conference 2.0, Continued

Recap

The Perl Conference was a great opportunity to learn some new tricks I can apply in my own programming and system-building. It was also a chance to meet the people who've written a lot of the software I use in my own work. If you're looking for a fairly technical conference full of theory and code snippets to help you get your Perl programming jobs done, you should consider attending next year. While there were some job boards at the conference, and the Perl Mongers (a group dedicated to supporting local groups of Perl programmers) was out in force, I would not call this a networking conference. In the Perl community, after all, successful networking consists not so much of who you have met face to face— it's more about what you've provided (in the way of code and support) to the community.

• Talk about Perl in the discussion forums.
• Browse resources on Perl in the Web Index.
• Find books about scripting and programming in the bookstore.

Edward Piou is an Anchor producer and runs ep Productions, a Washington, D.C.-based development company.

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