London Perl Conference
Monday, November 28th, 2005 at 4:14 pmI went up to London this weekend for the London Perl Workshop which was run by the London Perl Mongers. The journey there was a bit of a disaster but we finally got there.
I went to several presentations:
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Packaging Perl Applications
Dealing with issues surrounding packaging Perl code as a standalone unit.
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The Goo
A productivityapplication someone built for himself, aimed to be thought process friendly
Brought up a lot of interesting points about interface design and thought processes
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Accessing databases with Perl
Had some cool stuff about some Perl modules that would pick up the structure of your database and create objects to perform common relational operations on them.
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A walkthrough of the developmental process for the creation of a website to show TV schedules. It was one of the best presented talks I have seen, you could tell that the presenters were very passionate about the subject.
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3D programming with Perl
This talk really surprised me, the amount of code required to do OpenGL stuff in Perl is tiny. A good intro for beginners to simple OpenGL stuff.
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Programming Red flags
This was a walkthrough on how to improve your coding style. It was very interesting and made you think about structural and readability issues when coding a project. It was part of a larger talk but had to be cut down to fit in the time slot. I would like to see the full length version of that talk. I think it should be mandatory for all programmers to see this presentation.