Back In Town

I just returned from the Orlando Perl Workshop. The conference was on the smallish side but I enjoyed the day of talks. My two went well and I got to spend some time with friends that I'd either never physically met or that I hadn't seen in quite a while.

The highlight of the weekend was probably hanging out at a pub that promised live soccer: Harry Rambsbottom's. We caught half of the Hull v Arsenal game and helped to run their cask of Old Thumper dry. If we weren't at the venue or on a go-kart track then we were at Harry's.

The conference gave us a bit of time to talk about Enlightened Perl. I had some good conversations about QueryLog, Perl performance and various other tidbits. One of the things that I got from the conference was the desire to talk a bit more about how Magazines.com — and less so, me as a manager — get things done. I'm going to start this week by writing out some of the stuff I've been doing in my spare time then working my way toward how out systems work. This came up a few times during the weekend and I'm interested to hear how others do things.

So check back in a few days, I'll have some thoughts up.