How Perl Changed My Life

Gosuke MiyashitaYAPC::Asia Tokyo 2012

Technical Managerat

paperboy&co.

University student

cpan:mizzygithub.com/mizzy

mizzy.org@gosukenator

I’m basically not a programmer

I’m a software engineer

(Better at OS and middle ware layers)

I met my wife on a web chat in 1998

Yui Chat

It’s a Perl CGI script

Now I have five children

Thus Perl changed my life

My jobs as a technical manager

Technical things related to all over

the company

Arrange and develop internal systems and

develop environments

Engineer HiringEngineer Evaluation

Technical Architectand

Implementer

Introduce new technologies, tools,

and so on

Pick up technical problems and solve

them

And so on

How Perl affectsmy jobs

Perl + Catalyst

CatalystPerlbal

MogileFSGearman

TheSchwartz

qpsmtpdHTTP::Engine

YAPC::Asia Tokyo 2009How Perl is used in

paperboy&co.http://slidesha.re/BaRa2

Perl is not used

But most of members are Perl Mongers

Engineer evaluation system of

paperboy&co.

How Perl Changed My Life

1995

Met World Wide Web and Perl CGI

1998

Yui Chat

Customize PerlCGI scripts

Write my own CGIor utility scripts

2004

Met “Sledge”

Sledge told me how fun programming is

Began to use Bloglines for getting Sledge information

2005

Wrote Bloglines Mobile Gateway

Customized WebService::Bloglines

and sent a patch to Miyagawa san

Began to write my blog with blosxom

Wrote blosxom plugins

Became CPAN AuthorCGI::Application::Plugin::

FormValidator::Simple

2006

Plagger

YAPC::Asia Tokyo 2006

Plagger ConferenceLT Speaker

Shibuya.pmLT Speaker

2007

YAPC::Asia Tokyo 2007

Speaker

2008

YAPC::Asia Tokyo 2008

Speaker

2009

YAPC::Asia Tokyo 2009

Speaker

2012

Sapporo Ruby Kaigi 2012

Speaker

YAPC::Asia Tokyo 2012

Guest Speaker

What I got from Perl

Job

Position

co-workers

@hiboma

@kyanny

@lamanotrama

@hsbt

@kentaro

@kentaro

@kentaro

@kentaro

@kentaro

@kentaro

@kentaro

Other things I learned from Perl

Shut the fuck up and write some code

Openness is our driver for excellence

Confucius said, “To like is better than to

know. To enjoy is better than to like.”

子曰知之者不如好之者好之者不如樂之者

Thanks to Larry Wall

Thanks toTatsuhiko Miyagawa

Thanks to Perl Hackers all over the world

Thanks to JPA and YAPC staffs

Thanks to Perl Mongers here and not

here

Thus Perl changed my life

Please tell me what changed your life

Thanks