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On day two of OSCON 2006 I attended Real World Web Services by Scott Davis and More Perl Best Practices by Damian Conway, both of which were good. In RWWS, I don’t remember seeing how to do authentication and authorization over REST, but it must be possible. Damian’s tutorial was a continuation of last year’s tutorial and was quite good as well.

Tuesday night there was reportedly a BoF named “Beers of a Feather”, where someone was apparently organizing a pub crawl, so some of us from IRC went. The lack of any organization didn’t stop us, and we started off in Kells Irish Restaurant and Pub. It was a good start to the evening, especially when the live talent (one guy with a guitar) played Spirit of the West’s Home For A Rest, whose chorus goes:

You’ll have to excuse me, I’m not at my best
I’ve been gone for a month, I’ve been drunk since I left
These so-called vacations will soon by my death
I’m so sick of the drink, I need home for a rest

The night proceeded from there, including hilights from a guy who rapped for us on the street, Chris forgetting his credit card at one of the bars, and a relatively seedy Russian-ish bar to close out the trek.

All in all, a good day.

Edit: I can’t believe I forgot the Tuesday Night Extravaganza! Larry Wall gave his annual State Of The Onion address, making it the tenth one now. It was a good talk about how Perl is growing up and will be ready to “set out on her own” when Perl 6 comes along. Kathy Sierra gave an engaging talk about creating passion in your users. And as always, Damian Conway was excellent with his parody titled “The Da Vinci Codebase”. A Perl one-liner that downloads an illegal prime and converts it into a gzipped program that can decrypt DVDs? Yes please!

Edit2: Flickr user ptufts uploaded a better picture of Damian Conway’s twisted twisted code.