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
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
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