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Do you still wonder if you should learn Perl? Do you know someone who is still undecided about it? Would you like to see the trainer before committing to the course?

In this interview John Anderson, the trainer of the Zero 2 Perl master class talks about his background as biologist. How he turned to be a sysadmin, then a DevOps engineer, before that was even called DevOps, and finally a programmer.

He even tells you when should you learn Perl.

Links and notes can be found on the Perl Maven site.

Sign up and pay now for the Arrival Dinner

http://www.yapcna.org/yn2013/wiki?node=ArrivalDinner

Sunday Night June 2 at 7PM, we’ve booked a Palapa Party at the Hula Hut. http://www.hulahut.com/  Located at The Lake Austin Dam, The Hula Hut is a unique Austin experience and worth the short drive out of downtown to get to it.

We’ll have our own area with its own alcohol bar for quick refills. Alcohol is on your own dime. Fountain drinks are $3 with free refills.

Due to the size of previous arrival dinners, we had to get a buffet style dinner for this. $23 dollars gets you a Fajita Bar, including Hula Hut Signature Beef and Chicken Fajitas. For the vegan crowd, there are also vegan fajitas. Queso, salsa and chips are served at the table.

Next Door is a coffee house with some nice dessert options for you to choose from, should you still have room in your belly when we’re done eating and drinking.

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We’ve reserved a space that can seat 120. This year, we’re going to try requiring payment in advance via ACT to reserve your spot. If you need to pay for more than 2 people, please just make an additional donation via ACT for $23 x head count and email admin@yapcna.org. We can also take credit cards for your additional head count when you get there but it is easier for all concerned if you pay in advance via ACT.

Fajitas:

Signature Beef, Chicken

Vegan Fajitas:

Tossed together in a plum sauce are: zucchini, squash, bell peppers, mushrooms, sprouts, carrots

Additionally, everyone gets these, most of which are vegan:

flour and corn tortillas
rice (non-vegan)
beans
pico de gallo / guacamole / jalapenos
The chips and salsa on the table are also vegan

We’re happy to announce Bronze Sponsor: Best Practical

Best Practical Solutions LLC are the creators of RT: Request Tracker, the leading open-source issue tracking system.

Best Practical was founded to deliver value to RT’s established base of users by providing custom development and user support for RT. We are fully committed to supporting RT as an open source technology, while providing the quality development and support necessary to operations in commercial enterprises and corporations

We’re happy to announce Bronze Sponsor: The Pragmatic Programmers

The Pragmatic Programmers is a company with a simple goal: we want to improve the lives of developers. We do this by creating timely, practical books, audio books and videos through the Pragmatic Bookshelf and working closely with the Pragmatic Studio to create the best developer training there is. The stuff we produce is timely and relevant because it is written by programmers for programmers.

We’re happy to announce Bronze Sponsor: eRubbermaid

Founded by two programmers hacking their way through life, eRubbermaid is a leading online provider of Rubbermaid Commercial Products. eRubbermaid has proudly grown to become last year’s highest selling distributor of Rubbermaid products within the Lagasse Sweet network. It has also become a goal to direct a percentage of our profits and marketing budget to non-profit organizations and events. They are pleased to be a sponsor of YAPC::2013 to assist in making it a fantastic conference.

We’re happy to announce Silver Sponsor: HostGator

HostGator.com LLC is a world leading provider of shared, reseller, VPS and dedicated web hosting. Founded in 2002, HostGator has grown from a small hosting company with just three servers into a world leading and industry recognized hosting provider with more than 12,000 servers under management.

As a technology and product innovator, HostGator is able to provide its more than 400,000 customers with innovative products and services designed to complement their existing businesses. HostGator serves customers ranging from individual freelancers to Fortune 500 companies in more than 200 countries.

Due to tremendous growth, HostGator is always looking to hire new and experienced talent to join an already thriving team of Linux Administrators, Tech Support Reps, and Web & Software Developers, to name a few. To learn more, go to www.hostgator.com/jobs.

We’re happy to announce Diamond Sponsor: Liquid Web

Recently celebrating its 15th year of service, Liquid Web is a Managed Web Hosting and Cloud Hosting company with data centers located in both Michigan and Arizona. Widely recognized for 24/7/365 on-site Heroic Support® as well its innovation in the field of Web Hosting, Liquid Web has been the subject of kudos from a number of high profile publications, such as GigaOM and ZDNet, as well as being recognized by INC Magazine as one of the United States’ Fastest Growing companies for six consecutive years.

Having developed much of its software using perl, Liquid Web remains an ardent supporter having donated significantly to Perl 5’s Core Maintenance Fund (Perl 5 CMF). The company continues to use perl as integral tool for the continued development of existing systems, such as billing, support and monitoring programs. Always looking for bright talent to add to add to its growing team — and eying continued expansion to new locations — Liquid Web offers a unique and supportive work environment, comprehensive benefit packages, competitive salaries, a full calendar of employee outings and incentives, as well as many opportunities for professional growth

Stevan Little will attend YAPC::NA and will teach part of the advanced Moose master class. In this interview you can you can hear how and why he started Moose, and if in doubt, you will be convinced you should attend his Moose training.

For links and notes visit the interview page on the Perl Maven site.

We’re happy to announce platinum sponsor: AthenaHealth

athenahealth, Inc. is a leading provider of cloud-based business services for physician practices. athenahealth’s service offerings are based on proprietary web-native practice management and electronic health record (EHR) software, a continuously updated payer knowledge base, integrated back-office service operations, and care coordination services.