Perl Best Practices Course

The busy month continues. A few weeks ago I was able to participate in a very interesting BarCamp Portugal (see more here and here) where I spent a weekend sharing and learning among a group of very talented people wanting to do and show their stuff. I hope we can repeat it soon.

In the next 2 days I’ll be in a course on Perl Best Practices given by Perl architect, author and lecturer Damien Conway. Besides the well known contributions to the Perl community, Damien is the author of Object Oriented Perl and Perl Best Practices, two reference books to the people who use Perl.

Perl Best Practices

I have Perl Best Practices in my library so I’ll just take it with me tomorow as a course manual.

September 11, 2006 | Tags: , , | Leave a Comment 

BarCamp Portugal this Saturday

BarCamp Portugal will take place this Saturday and Sunday in Coimbra. BarCamp is sort-of-a-conference and this specific one will evolve around the topics of Web 2.0 and Innovation.

BarCamp Portugal

There are around 50 people subscribed to go to BarCampPortugal but only 8 presentations so far. Fred that we are all being shy. I think that when the time comes we’ll (maybe) be more motivated to present a topic.

Information
Date: 2-3 September
Location: Coimbra, Portugal - Dep. de Engenharia Informática, Universidade de Coimbra
Discussion topics: Web 2.0, Innovation, Demos

August 31, 2006 | Tags: | Leave a Comment 

SHiFT is only a month (and a few days) away!

I’m back from the holidays. Preparing myself to attend the (busy) September events. SHiFT and BarCamp Portugal. Lots of new information for both but let’s start with SHiFT.

SHiFT it!
(picture taken in london - not a SHiFT poster - but I thought it was funny anyway)

The program is online and with lots of interesting information. Here are some of the talks:

- Thomas Madsen-Mygdal (Reboot creator) will be talking about social objects in Wear - Learn from wear of objects in the the physical world
- Euen Semple will present The quiet revolution - How social computing will change the workplace forever
- Laurent Haug (LIFT creator - check it, LIFT07 is on the works!) will speak about his experience at CoComment.
- Stowe Boyd (one of my Social Web references) will be presenting We Shape Our Tools, And Then They Shape Us.

For those of you that (like me) are interested in design and usability there’s lots of interesting stuff too:

- Bill Scott (from Yahoo!) will be talking on The Shift from the Page to the Application.
- Peter Merholz (from Adaptive Path) will talk about the new role of design on the new type os systems we work with
- Luke Wroblewski (author of one of my favourite books) will be talking about how the role of design is changing dramatically from mere styling to a core ingredient of product strategy and innovation.

Workshops
There’s one more thing. Actually two more. If you think it couldn’t get better you haven’t read about the workshops. On the day before the conference two workshops will take place. A Creativity Workshop given by the ladies (Dannie Jost & Henriette Weber Andersen) and a workshop on Application Development with Ruby on Rails by Nathaniel Brown.

Are you interested ? So go on and register yourself to get access to all this!

August 24, 2006 | Tags: , , | 1 Comment 

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