| Name | Mr. Brent Laabs (labster) |
| City | Ventura, California |
| Country | United States |
| Company | Perceptyx Inc. |
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I, Brent "labster" Laabs, am a meteorologist from California. I currently work full-time for Perceptyx, Inc. as a Perl programmer
I started using Perl for work in 2000, went to university and got stuck using FORTRAN and Matlab, before coming back to Perl in the end. I've been submitting modules for Perl 6 (that now need updated), and I contributed much of the IO::Path/IO::Spec code in the Rakudo compiler. Some day, I hope to get back to that.
Other than programming, I'm interested in board gaming and tabletop RPGs, anime, writing fanfic. In my spare time, I write features for Mediawiki (unfortunately in PHP).
I started using Perl for work in 2000, went to university and got stuck using FORTRAN and Matlab, before coming back to Perl in the end. I've been submitting modules for Perl 6 (that now need updated), and I contributed much of the IO::Path/IO::Spec code in the Rakudo compiler. Some day, I hope to get back to that.
Other than programming, I'm interested in board gaming and tabletop RPGs, anime, writing fanfic. In my spare time, I write features for Mediawiki (unfortunately in PHP).
Attending talks
- Battling a legacy schema with DBIx::Class
- Beginner Track Lightning Talks Day 2
- Basic OO in Perl 6
- Introducing Prancer, a Web Framework for Perl 6
- Hands-on RapidApp: from bootstrapping to dockerized deployment
- Modern Perl for the Unfrozen Paleolithic Perl Programmer
- Perl 6 and the Zen of Erlang
- Test2 for test writers
- Stranger in a Strange Land: PostgreSQL for MySQL users
- Open Street Maps with Perl - DeLorean Dashboard Pt. II
- Finding dead code, the quick and easy way, with Devel::QuickCover
- Perl 6 - Why did they do *that*?
- TPF year in review.
- State of the velociraptors
- Keynote address
- The Ongoing Disaster That Is Perl 5
- The Dark Art of Boatbuilding and Project Management