Curtis 'Ovid' Poe

In creating Tau Station, we're trying to do more than just create a text MMORPG in Perl. We're trying to create an online universe you can live in, complete with jobs, education, a social network, and, of course, galactic exploration. This talk will cover some of the fun things we've built to make this happen.

Perl 6 is generating a lot of positive buzz. Envious of the awesome features in other languages? You'll likely find them in Perl 6. The Perl 6 developers took the time to carefully integrate features that developers actually need and they've created a language with a great balance between evolutionary and revolutionary. Come find out what the excitement is all about.

With the complete failure of security forces to contain the impending threat of Perl 6, developers are beginning to investigate it themselves. Unfortunately, many of the combatants who wield Camelia are so enraptured that they post long sermons extolling the virtues of hyperoperators, meta-object protocols, and composable concurrency, scaring off the faithful. Those sermons are important. However, it turns out Perl 6 is actually a fairly easy weapon to use and for day-to-day use, it's simple. This talk will take things down a notch or three and show you how simple basic Perl 6 really is. The talk might even be less objectionable than this description.

People keep hearing about A/B testing, but not a lot of people understand it. Rather than focusing on what your software does, it helps you focus on what your customers do. This talk will introduce some basic concepts of A/B testing, explain some common mistakes people make, and (if I'm lucky), will introduce the first open-source A/B testing module for Perl (I've already written it, but it needs to be renamed and have a better interface).