YAPC Europe is finally here and we’re so excited to be able to attend such an awesome and large event.

Day one started perfectly with an amazing announcement. Drum rolls please...next year's edition of YAPC::EU will be in Amsterdam! We’re already excited about it.

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves, YAPC Cluj is just getting started. The venue looks amazing:

Representing Perl, of course

 

The Instagram frame and the photobooth are so awesome, you can have lots of fun during the talks, because let’s face it, YAPCs are always fun.

There are several boots, Perl 6 is here, Perl Careers, Eligo, Evozon, Capside. They have lots of cool stuff, but we’re especially impressed with the Perl 6 booth.

The schedule is packed, there are so many talks and presentation that it’s really hard to choose between them. Here is the complete lists of talks for day one:

Patrice Auffret (‎GomoR‎) - ‎The Metabrik Platform: Rapid Development of Reusable Security Tools‎

H.Merijn Brand (‎Tux‎) - ‎CSV with flexible headers (perl5 & perl6)‎

Diego Kuperman (‎diegok‎) - ‎Resque to the resque!

Erik Huelsmann - ‎BDD: webapp testing with Pherkin+Weasel (perl's Behat+Mink)‎

Alex Muntada (‎alexm‎) - ‎From Debian, with ♥‎

Miroslav Tynovsky - ‎Symbiosis of Docker and Perl

Sergey Aleynikov (‎randir‎) - ‎XS accessors under the hood‎

Mickey Nasriachi (‎Mickey‎) -‎PONAPI: let's REST

Rolf Langsdorf (‎LanX‎) - ‎Emacs as Perl IDE‎

steve mynott (‎itz‎) - ‎How to Lie With Benchmarks - Perl 6 is Faster!‎

Lee Johnson - ‎A few git bits‎

john napiorkowski (‎jnap‎) - ‎Building the Modern Perl Catalyst Application‎

DrForr - ‎Incepti0n in Perl 6: Design your own language‎

Sawyer X - ‎Ref::Util: more than you ever wanted to know about ref(

John Lightsey - ‎Vulnerability discovery, response and remediation for developers‎

Jose Luis Martinez Torres (‎JLMARTIN‎) - ‎How AWS REST APIs work, and how Paws is built‎

Rene Schickbauer (‎cavac‎) - ‎10 years of Maplat framework

Leon Timmermans (‎leont‎) - ‎Real-world parsing with Perl 6

Oriol Soriano Vila (‎Uree‎) - ‎From npm to 'Battle-tested'‎

Thomas Klausner (‎domm‎) - ‎How to write an API endpoint in 2016

Marco Masetti (‎grubert‎) - ‎Mir, a Media Information Retrieval System‎

Tina Müller (‎tinita‎) - ‎Writing command line tools made easy‎

Juan Julián Merelo-Guervós (‎jmerelo‎) -‎Quantifying creativity: using Perl to analyze the process of writing‎

R Geoffrey Avery (‎rGeoffrey‎) -‎Lightning Talks Day 1‎ 

As you can see there are so many different speakers, as far as we know there are participants from 36 countries so you have a wide array of views from perl people from all over the world. 

We loved two parallel presentations from DrForr and Sawyer, exciting to hear and see them both (although it was a bit of a challenge being in two rooms at the same time) at YAPC::EU. 

Day One was a blast, the presentations, the people (the food) and it will end with an awesome party at the Museum of Art. Day Two incoming!

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