Tatsuhiko MiyagawaOn this last day of YAPC, sponsors had build a stand. O'Reilly was selling books. Mainly Perl books but also PHP, Ruby and SQL books. I tried to buy a copy of Perl Hacks but all were sold when I finally managed to find some money. Google, Shopzilla and Booking.com were recruiting.

First talk is about Plagger, a pluggable RSS/Atom remixing platform. Talk made by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, main author of Plagger. Plagger is a fascinating tool. It made me think a lot of my work at Talend. Plagger plugs modules between them. Take a subscription module (eg Bloglines), a filter module (eg StripRSSAd) and a publish module (eg Gmail), you get an application reading Bloglines, stripping advertisements and publishing feed items in emails. Plagger can already use 35 subscription modules and 37 publish modules, which makes 1295 possible combos. I've found Tatsuhiko's presentation really cool, fast and fun.

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