UTF-8 & perl

Backstory Some days ago, at work I had to do regular expression matching with some UTF-8 or Unicode[1] encoded text. That made me read perlunitut. After reading it, I got to know that UTF-8 & Unicode are not the same[2]. There’re many Unicode encodings & UTF-8 is the most commonly used Unicode encoding. Today, once…

My first YAPC (Yet Another Perl Conference)

Last week, I went to Sofia, Bulgaria for attending YAPC::Europe, my first technical conference ever and it was next to awesome! I’m writing this blog post late, because I’ve been extremely busy with office work, house search etc. :(. Further in this post, I’ll describe each day of the conference! Oh and even before conference!…