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First Trip to Australia and Creation of miniCPAN

Type: event
Date: 2001-07-23
Location: Adelaide, Sydney
Participants: Randal Schwartz
Alias: First Trip to Australia, SAGE-AU 2001, Creation of miniCPAN

  • First Trip to Australia and Creation of miniCPAN

  • In July 2001, I made my first trip to Australia to attend and speak at the SAGE-AU 2001 conference in Adelaide, followed by a brief stop in Sydney.

  • Creation of miniCPAN

    • During this trip, to solve the challenge of carrying gigabytes of legacy archives on offline mirrors, I conceived and wrote the original miniCPAN script. This script mirrored only the most recent version of each CPAN module.
    • The script was published in my column and later productized by the Perl community into the official CPAN::Mini distribution. See CPAN.

  • Sydney Perl Mongers Talk

    • I stopped in Sydney to deliver a technical presentation to the local Sydney Perl Mongers user group.

  • Titanium Powerbook Screen Break

    • Just as I was starting the week in Adelaide, I managed to break the screen of my nearly brand-new Titanium Powerbook.
    • As a result, I could not upload or manage photos from my camera during the rest of the trip and had to stop taking photos.

  • Flickr Collection

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These facts are as Randal recalls them, but much time has passed for most of this. If you find a factual error, please email realmerlyn@gmail.com.