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Damian Conway

Damian Conway
CEO and Chief Trainer, Thoughtstream

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Damian Conway is an internationally renowned speaker, author, and trainer, and a prominent contributor to the Perl community. Currently he runs Thoughtstream, an international IT training company that provides programmer training from beginner to masterclass level throughout Europe, North America, and Australasia. Most of his spare time is spent working with Larry Wall on the design and explication of the Perl 6 programming language. He has a PhD in Computer Science and is an honorary Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University, Australia.

Sessions

8:30am Monday, 07/21/2008
Programming Vim
Emerging Topics, Tutorial
 Location: Portland 252 Level: Intermediate
Damian Conway (Thoughtstream)
Average rating: ****.
(4.77, 35 ratings)
The Vim editor incorporates a full programming language, with which you can reconfigure just about any aspect of its interface and functionality. This half-day tutorial explores the core syntax and semantics of that scripting language. If something about the way Vim works has annoyed or frustrated you, you'll leave this tutorial with the knowledge and understanding needed to fix it. Read more.
8:30am Tuesday, 07/22/2008
Perl Worst Practices
Perl, Tutorial
 Location: Portland 252 Level: Intermediate
Damian Conway (Thoughtstream)
Average rating: ****.
(4.70, 46 ratings)
SelfGOL is a transdimensional, self-aware, multipurpose, viral meta-quine written in under 1000 bytes of standard Perl, without using a single control statement or module. By exploring the advanced programming techniques, and numerous lesser-known Perl constructs, that SelfGOL uses, this tutorial illustrates over a dozen vital Software Engineering principles...mainly by ironic counter-example. Read more.
9:00pm Tuesday, 07/22/2008
Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming In Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Timespaces...Made Easy!
Keynote
 Location: Portland Ballroom Level: Novice
Damian Conway (Thoughtstream)
Average rating: ****.
(4.45, 31 ratings)
Coming soon. Read more.
1:45pm Wednesday, 07/23/2008
Perl 6 Update
Perl
 Location: Portland 256 Level: Novice
Damian Conway (Thoughtstream), Larry Wall (The Wall Nuthouse)
Average rating: ****.
(4.37, 19 ratings)
Larry Wall and Damian Conway will present the latest features of Perl 6, and discuss the transition from design phase to full implementation of the new Perl. Read more.
11:35am Friday, 07/25/2008
The Twilight Perl
Perl
 Location: Portland 256 Level: Intermediate
Damian Conway (Thoughtstream)
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 20 ratings)
You unlock this door with the key of a hash. Beyond it is another dimension—a dimension of strange constructs, a dimension of improbable behavior. You're moving into a land of both weird syntax and unlikely semantics, of unintended features and unexpected beauty. You've just crossed over into...The Twilight Perl. Read more.
OSCON 2008