OSCON for fun and profit

Last night was the end of OSCON for me.  I had a good 2 and a half days there, and met some really great people (damn, too many people, well here's Lisa from 6A (couldn't find Garth, though) and Sam, a perl hacker) while I was there.

Some of the highlights were talking with Apress about a Catalyst book, battling the WiFi at the Oregon Convention Center and hanging out with my house guests Matt Trout (cpan: MST) and Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (cpan: miyagawa).

It was nice that Catalyst was getting some attention (aside from Apress) and Perl generally had a large and dominating presence at OSCON.  While the books are still more in favor of Ruby, Python and Java it seems that the resurgence of Perl is underway.  I'm very pleased to see that, and I'm quite happy to be joining into the community.

I have to say thanks to Six Apart for sending up Brad Whitaker, Lisa and Garth and giving talks on scaling and TheSchwartz, as it was very helpful for me to hear.  I feel like we have very similar architectures, so being able to see how they handled their growing pains is incredibly useful.  It's really nice to hear a company talk about this stuff, rather than keep it a secret for a competitive edge.  It always gets solved, it's just how it gets solved that matters.  That and TheSchwartz just rocks, so they get major points for that.

My goal now is to get a few hundred CPAN modules out so I can compete with ~miyagawa.  WWW::SmugMug::API is coming up next, but I haven't settled on a final name.
 - WebService::SmugMug
 - Net::SmugMug
 - WWW::SmugMug::API (like WWW::Facebook::API)

Suggestions welcome :)

[Update: I found Garth! Hi Garth! (And I just realized most the people I meet are connected on Vox now.)]