6 posts tagged “london.pm”
London Perl Mongers organises technical meetings every two months. The technical meetings are a chance to find out what has been going on in the Perl community, what techniques people are using and how Perl integrates with other software.
The next technical meeting will be on the 30th July from 7pm to 9pm (you may arrive from 6.30pm, sign in at the reception) and the theme is “Corporate Perl”. You have to sign up to attend, see below. It will be held at Gumtree's's offices near Richmond station. Many thanks to Dave Cross, Gumtree and everyone involved for allowing us to use this wonderful venue.
Talks planned so far:
Dave Cross - Why do so many companies re-invent well-known CPAN
modules badly and end up writing far too much code?
Pedro Figueiredo - Perl in the cloud
Léon Brocard - Fewer cables
Our venue size is limited so you will have to sign up to attend this meeting.
http://londonpmtech.appspot.com/
See you there, Léon
Way back in 2001, London.pm organised a series of tshirts. As Dave Cross explained:
They all have a large "Programming Republic of London" logo on the back and one of a series of small "fictional" PM group logos on the front. I'm currently wearing my Sunnydale.pm shirt, but we also have Rivendell.pm, Tatooine.pm, ZZ9PluralZAlpha.pm[1] and Anhk-Morpork.pm (the last is for those strange people who can't see that Terry Pratchett is an unfunny, fifth-rate Douglas Adams wannabe).
Also, see the images as Simon Wistow explains:
Yes, the rumours are true. After epic battles with every t-shirt printer in london the official Winter Season London.pm t-shirts are finally ready.
Embarassingly we left out our favourite fictional Perl Monger group. However, it was, how shall I say, quite a lot of organising and quite tiring to ship tshirts around London and the world. Luckily, now we live in the future and I can outsource all that, so behold the official London.pm Gallifrey.pm tshirt.
It's being sold at cost and you can wear one at all fashionable geek gatherings. Enjoy!
Update: now with a women's tshirt and also available in the USA: men's, women's.
Last Thursday we held another London Perl Mongers technical meeting. The theme was "Less code" and I started by showing off Elevated, a 4KB graphics intro by rgba which recently won first place at Breakpoint 2009. Yes, 4KB, including the music. It's all procedurally generated using flat mesh displaced with a Perlin noise-based procedural vertex shader, with textures computed procedurally and even camera movements are generated in the GPU. In 4KB!
| Speaker | Title | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Jack | Perl one-liners | ||||
| James Laver | Generic higher order Perl | ||||
| Ovid | Role driven programming | ||||
| Adeola Awoyemi | Using JQuery to make your life easier | ||||
| Dave Cross | Why companies reinvent the wheel | ||||
| Ben Evans | Perl on the JVM |
The talks were all great and you can download the slides on the London.pm site. Thanks to all the speakers!
Last week London.pm organised a technical meetings themed along the question "What is Moose and why is it the future?". I was in Taipei on the day but Peter Edwards took charge and the speakers Ash Berlin, Tomas Doran, Mike Whitaker and Piers Cawley introduced us to Moose, how to use it effectively and explained advanced techniques. I think everyone was convinced to at least try it out. The slides are available on the London.pm website.
London Perl Mongers organises technical meetings every two months. The technical meetings are a chance to find out what has been going on in the Perl community, what techniques people are using and how Perl integrates with other software.
The next technical meeting will be on the 19th February 2009 from 7pm to 9pm (you may arrive from 6.30pm, sign in at the reception) and the theme is "What is Moose and why is it the future?". You have to sign up to attend, see the website.
It will be held at BBC's offices near White City. Many thanks to Peter Edwards, the BBC and everyone involved for allowing us to use this wonderful venue.
To sign up and see more information, please visit:
