I attended YAPC:NA 2015 in Salt Lake City, UT from June 8-10. This was my second YAPC and was every bit as enjoyable as the first. It was also in a great spot for me to add a bit of vacation to the conference and visit some family.

If you do nothing else watch this, it was by far the most memorable event this year. It's too bad the audio was not right on the "official" video because that was one great performance.

These were my favorite presentations I attended. I learned something from them all and found new tools and projects I will be using in my work going forward. I included the slides and video if I could find them.

Monday

In the desert without a camel

Slides
Video

Leave the system alone!

Video

Test Your App's Javascript using Test::Mojo::Role::Phantom

Slides
Video

Perl Testing, whats new with Test::More and beyond
Video

Effective Git: better commits via inspecting history and code archeology

Slides
Video

Tuesday

Lessons from High Velocity Logging

Slides
Video

Stop Panicking! Perl 6 is just like Perl 5 (where it counts).

Slides
Video

Perl 6 for Mere Mortals

Slides
Video

Wednesday

Juggling Chainsaws: Perl and MongoDB

Slides
Video

Hello, my name is _____.

Slides
Video

Perl's Syntactic Legacy: Using the future to improve the past

Slides
Video

Perl via Paper Ink Metal and Oil

Website
Video

Perl 5.22 and You

Video

There are presentations I did not attend, but the topic is interesting and I have or will watch:
Writing XS in plain C

Selenium Testing Your Website With Perl

Slides
Abstract


Added 6/22
I forgot to mention a couple items I want to investigate further and/or try out.
DreamCatcher - a DNS monitoring suite
Log::ProgramInfo - interesting logging module
Heka - "in-flight" data collection and collation tool