SELF 2012 Retrospective

The conference has come and gone. I think I had even more fun this year than last. Next year I'll definitely bring an offline copy of the slides, just in case. If all else had failed, I suppose I could have asked everyone to pull the slides up on their smart phones - wouldn't that have been a laugh.

The ride home to Georgia on the motorcycle had some exciting moments too. I got rained on a couple of times, but nothing so bad as to make me want to stop and put on my rain gear. I did notice I'd lost one of the bolts holding on my windshield. I occasionally had these little panicky thoughts - what if it flies off and hits me while I'm going 75 mph down the highway. Still, if I'd wanted a completely boring trip, I'd have taken a greyhound bus.

Just some review of things I said, but that weren't in the slides:

• + is like * but means 1 or more repetitions
• {N} means exactly N repetitions
• {N,} means N or more repetitions
• {,N} means 0 up to N repetitions
• {N,M} means from N to M repetitions

Depending on the flavor or regular expressions you're dealing with, you may need to put a \ in front of the curly braces to use the above behavior.

I'd love to hear people's thoughts on the conference, or any questions. Thanks for sharing.