[Phoenix-pm] Andy Lester to Phoenix for "Technical Debt" talk

Scott Walters scott at illogics.org
Sat Jul 1 22:47:18 PDT 2006


Here's a sample of Andy's writing:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/06/spreading_knowledge_through_ta.html

On  0, Scott Walters <scott at illogics.org> wrote:
> Hi Perl Mongers,
> 
> If we're willing to pay airfare, we can get well-known Perl personalities as 
> speakers.  In the past, we've had Randal Schwartz out of luck and Dan Sugalski
> as part of the Perl 6 world tour, but if we get about 17 people to pony up 
> $20, we can do fun things like this a lot more often.  Andy Lester has already
> offered to come out.  Andy Lester did a "Get out of Technical Debt" talk at
> YAPC.  There's a description at 
> http://www.yapcchicago.org/the-schedule/monday/m-abstracts#em1420 .
> That's the talk we'd probably get.  
> 
> Andy Lester wrote WWW::Mechanize and _Pro Perl Debugging_ for APress.
> 
> Here's what I want:  Respond with a "me too" if you're willing to commit a
> $20 to flying in a speaker and Brock and I (hi Brock) will handle the rest.
> Consider asking your employer to sponser part of the cost, too -- especially
> if an employer is willing to pay for hotel, we'll have a much more attractive
> proposition.
> 
> -scott
> 
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