Given an awful work/travel schedule that I couldn't handle in the last days, I wasn't able to get to Lisbon, Portugal to attend YAPC::EU, until today, day one of the conference, I was still looking forward to get a cheapish flight from Madrid, but it was just impossible, schedules wouldn't match with my work and vacation plans. Bummer. Because of this, I will not be able to give my talk Perl in the Time of Social Networks (that I had already revisited and improved) there as it was expected for tomorrow.

No YAPC Europe for me At least not this year, *sob, sob*

This is going to be a fantastic and exciting Perl summer.

During the last week, I received notification that the talk I've proposed for both YAPC::NA and YAPC::EU was accepted.

I will be talking about Perl in the Time of Social Networks, which is mainly two broad things: how Perl can actively power a modern social networking site (I'll be releasing a free -as in speech- social network website, similar to Lovd or RailSpace, built with pure Catalyst); and about high-load applications dealing with social networks' APIs and users (a Moose-based universal social network distributor), with Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Blogger, LastFM, and others. My current contractor has been sponsoring the development and research for this since almost two years now, and we believe it's ready to go public: there's a lot of work backing us up.

I'll be presenting the talk in Pittsburgh, PA, on June 23rd at YAPC|10. If you are around the area, come and attend the talk!

On YAPC::EU::2009, I will be presenting in Lisbon, Portugal, on August 4th, which is conveniently placed just after DebConf 9, which will happen in Cáceres, Spain the week before (I will also be there).