Sponsors
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  • Microsoft
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  • Disney
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  • XAware
  • ZDNet

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Ricardo Signes

Ricardo Signes
Research & Development, Pobox.com

Website | @rjbs

Ricardo Signes was thrust into the job market with only a rudimentary humanities education, and was forced to learn to fend for himself. He is now a full-time Perl programmer, maintainer of the Perl Email Project, and frequent contributor to the CPAN.

Sessions

11:35am Wednesday, 07/23/2008
Perl 5.10 for People Who Are Not (Totally) Insane
Perl, Programming
 Location: Portland 256
Ricardo Signes (Pobox.com)
Perl 5.10 is the first major release of Perl in five years, and brings dozens of new features and significant improvements. This talk provides a guided tour of features that can benefit everyday users of Perl, not just the frightening C programmers who make Perl itself go. Read more.
OSCON 2008