{"id":522,"date":"2009-08-03T18:26:12","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T17:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.streppone.it\/cosimo\/blog\/2009\/08\/european-perl-conference-day-1\/"},"modified":"2009-08-03T18:26:12","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T17:26:12","slug":"european-perl-conference-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.streppone.it\/cosimo\/blog\/2009\/08\/european-perl-conference-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"European Perl Conference, Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yapceurope.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">YAPC::EU<\/a> (Yet Another Perl Conference Europe) is a really big event in the Perl world, with lots of people from every part of the planet. 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