At one of the Toronto Perl Mongers meetings Olaf was demonstrating something or other and during the demonstration he used Alfred to search metacpan. I’ve been a LaunchBar user for a long time, but the Alfred plugin offered auto completion, something my LaunchBar search didn’t have. He proceeded to show a couple of the other plugins (which I don’t recall at this point) and I decided I needed to try it out too.
This week has been The Perl Conference in Pittsburgh or TPCiP (a tough acronym for the forearms to write). For some reason flights from Toronto to Pittsburgh all require a layover somewhere, and the shortest flight is 7 hours. Of course this does not include the time it takes to get to and from the airport, nor customs and security clearance. The drive is only 6 hours.
The Sessions # I always intend to take notes as the presentation are happening. This rarely happens as I get more drawn into the presentation. It’s either pay attention or take notes, and I’d rather pay attention.
My first Perl Toolchain Summit has come to a close and it was amazing and productive. I spent a lot of my time containerizing MetaCPAN, talking and helping other groups with Docker solutions for their projects, and laying out future work and directions. All of which would have been difficult if it weren’t for the summit bringing everyone together.
A workflow to create base level images was developed with automatic generation and uploading to docker hub via Travis and Docker Hub. These details were shared with all in attendance who were interested.
It’s with great honour that I will be attending the Perl Toolchain Summit in Marlow England. Taking place from April 25 to 28.
Olaf, Leo and I have been discussing MetaCPAN infrastructure and with the work that’s been done in getting docker containers running for developers migrating that to running containers on the existing infrastructure.
Images will be maintained using the combination of GitHub, Travis, and Docker Hub as outlined in this blog post by Vaidik Kapoor on Medium.
DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop has come to a close and the organizers should be proud of what they accomplished. The comment was made at the after conference dinner that they make it looks easy when really we all know it’s not.
I spent a lot of the hallway track talking to different people about technologies that weren’t perl but shared amongst us all, and a lot of time talking to @genehack. Getting out and talking geek was my intention for this conference and for that to me made it successful.
Today I’m heading to the DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop. This conference has been on my list of wanting to go to for years. With DC-Baltimore hosting TPC two years ago, they didn’t have the workshop and then skipped last year but as soon as I heard they were hosting it again this year I jumped to attend.
Unfortunately some of my friends that would normally make this event aren’t going to make it this year but I will catch up with them at TPC in Pittsburgh.