London.pm technical meeting 16th April 2009

acme on 2009-04-22T08:40:27

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!

Chris Jack - Perl one-liners
James Laver - Generic higher order Perl
Ovid - Role driven programming
Adeola Awoyemi - Using JQuery to make your life easier
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!