More sea, more woods: Inčupe, Saulkrasti Here we stayed in a lovley tiny house in the woods, not too far from the sea and spend our time with: more hiking along the sandy beaches and through the forests (one day while it was raining) more cakes proper swimming (it was rather hot on our last day) relishing the view from our tiny house collecting
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After the city we went to the where the Baltic sea and the Gulf of Riga merge: Kolka. hiking along the sandy beaches and through the forests dozing / reading on the beach dipping the feet into the water (for proper swimming it was a bit cold, plus you'd have to walk about 1 km into the water ... it is very shallow here) collecting plastic ...
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I have been saying for quite a long time that we should market our conferences and events more to non-Perl developers. I think we as a Perl community could greatly profit from having some fresh input from other communities, and the other communities might realize that Perl is a nice, beautiful language (family) which you can use for sane (and ...
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We spend a few days in Rīga, doing among other things: walking tour through the old town visit the National Library & the Museum of Occupation ate a lot of cake hang around in semi-punky bars (Autentika, Laska) went shopping for vegetables and blueberries at the Central Market and generally walked a lot through the Old Town, Central Riga, ...
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This year our Perl conference took place in Rīga under the new and improved name PerlCon. Improving names was generally a hot topic, I won't go into details here, but please do checkout the discussion and participate! Andrew Shitov and Grigorii Filomafitskii did a great job organizing another wonderful Perl conference, for the second time in ...
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