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Day three followed day two, as it often does. Since day two ended off with a pub crawl, day three started off with me waking up at seven and then going back to sleep to wake up again at nine. This means I missed the Wednesday keynotes and the first session of the day. I ended up catching Peter Scott’s session titled “Mind Like Water: The Path to Perl Bliss”, which was quite good. It talked about the inner personalities of Perl programmers and how you have to both recognize them and allow them to take over at different times of your project’s lifecycle.

After that came the free lunch. Like last year, the sandwiches are made of rubber bread that make you work.

When that was over I attended “Rock Your Testing World With Devel::Cover“, given by Geoff Young. Another good seminar about how code coverage can help you not only check your code but also help you debug it when it goes wrong. That then took me into “Plagger: Pluggable RSS/Atom Aggregation” by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, which I didn’t pay much attention to, admittedly.

The last half of the afternoon was taken up by the “Perl Lightning Talks” hosted by Mark-Jason Dominus. As with most lightning talk sessions — which consist of mini talks that last five minutes or so — it was hit or miss. Audrey Tang was a hit, talking about ppencode. She also gave this talk at YAPC::NA, and part of it is on YouTube. Other hits included a talk about Perl::Critic and a bunch of people acting out the module installation process via CPAN.