Perl5i Presentation to Toronto Perl Mongers

I presented a workshop based on the blog articles I wrote in March & April about perl5i.

It went out on the Google Hangout, and the recording is available on YouTube, though unfortunately it stops short of the end. There may be a way that can be fixed, though i doubt it.

Slides are available at Scribd, as are the speaker notes.

Thanks to Michael for the module, Ingy dot Net for his YAPC mention of my Rosetta Code efforts, and Stephan Little for p5mop, his attempts to bring OO into core Perl5.

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