We're pleased to have two speakers this evening:



Sam Kaufman: "Socialflow" Josh Rabinowitz: "Bitcoin"



SocialFlow



SocialFlow is a three year old Social Media Optimization platform built mostly with perl.



This will be a 30,000 foot overview of how SocialFlow uses perl, ranging from things you'd normally associate with perl – Internal CPAN, Catalyst, DBIx::Class, Moo(se) – to some things you would not – Bloom Filters, zeromq, Redis, hypertable.



Sam Kaufman is the CTO of SocialFlow, Inc. He's been hacking perl for about 6 years, and has worked in a professional capacity with Ruby, Python, PHP, ActionScript and JavaScript.



Bitcoin



Bitcoins are a new, electronic alternative currency.



This talk will discuss the history of Bitcoins and its pseudonymous author; how bitcoins, bitcoin mining, bitcoin wallets and addresses, and the blockchain work; how to use perl to interface with bitcoin software and websites; and the future of bitcoins.



Special attention will be given to perl's interactions with everything bitcoin!



Josh Rabinowitz grew up in New York City where he attended Hunter College High School, and then moved to California and earned a bachelor's degree in Computational Mathematics from UC Santa Cruz. He worked at NASA Ames Research Center and subsequently at internet companies including CNET, NetObjects, Shutterstock. He is currently employed as an API Developer at MediaMath, Inc. Josh presented on the topic of "Bitcoins and Perl" at the June, 2013 YAPC::NA conference in Austin, Texas.