London.pm: London.pm - Technical Papers

We hold, currently, bi-monthly technical meetings at which members of London.pm volunteer to give talks on what they are doing. These have ranged from music with perl to mars quarks and quantum mechanics.

Find out details of upcoming technical talks on the meetings page.

Held at Fotango .

Richard Jones - OCaml for Perl Programmers

Paul Hammond - Introduction to JSON (lightning talk)

Leon Brocard - Make real things with PDF::API2 (lightning talk - no slides)

Stig Brautaset - Module::Build::Kwalitee (lightning talk)

Nicholas Clark - The Perl Foundation, their money, and how to get it. (lightning talk)

Tom Hukins - Tracing code with Aspect.pm (lightning talk)

Alistair McGlinchy - SNMP and Net::SNMP (lightning talk)

Simon Cozens - Domain Specific Languages, evil CHECK block hacks and Email Received Header parsing (lightning talk - no slides)

Dave Cross - What's Wrong With ORM?

Held at BUPA House in Holborn, this technical talk covered some recent articles and modules by the speakers and provided an opportunity to see an upcoming YAPC::Europe talk.

Mark Fowler gave a talk about 'dumb errors' and spoke about the Phalanx project.

Alex Mclean talked about making music in Perl, giving a live demonstration of what he's been talking about in his 'as seen on slashdot today' Perl.com article .

Simon Cozens gave a talk, simply labelled "What I've been working on", which will probably have covered things like Where Was, his new 'search everything you've ever seen' and other exciting things.

Tom Hukins did his talk on Running Web Business With Perl , which he's practising for the upcoming YAPC::Europe.

Trelane also blogged about the talk and other stuff at use.perl.org.

Held at Morgan Stanley, this technical meeting was made up of many lightening talks including

Tom Hukins spoke about Class::DBI .
Jerakeen spoke about Object::Persist
Steve Purkis talked about Pixie . You can find a good introduction to Pixie at the IBM Developworks website.
Mark Fowler spoke about Unicode

Held upstairs at The Angel Pub, Old Street, sponsered by Fotango who kindly provided a small buffet.

Nicholas Clark, the perl 5.8.0 pumpking and leading ponie developer gave a quick summary of some of the development that's going on with the perl core and ponie (Perl On New Internal Engine.)

Ivor Williams gave us a preview of the Geographical modules talk for YAPC::Europe

Mark Fowler did likewise for his talk on turning Perl Modules into CPAN Bundlers for YAPC::NA this year

James Duncan gave a twenty minute version of the talk on Enterprise Perl for YAPC::NA and OSCON

We were also lucky to have Chia-liang Kao, the developer of the Perl based revision control system SVK in town. He gave a brief introduction to the current status of the project and what SVK can do for us.

Sponsered by Fotango, and held in a local pub

Ivor Williams talked about Portable perl

Leon Brocard talked about perl 5.005_04 and perl pumpkins

blogged in acme's use.perl journal

Talks at Morgan Stanly

Andy Wardley - Template Toolkit 3

David Lillie and Nick Williams - Coyote development experience

Shevek - designing completely and utterly secure systems

Nick - report on the CPAN meeting

Dave Cross gave a talk on Writing a Book Using The Template Toolkit, where he talks about writing the upcoming "Perl Template Toolkit" book that he co-authored. You can see his article based on this at perl.com

Martin Ling gave a talk on Alzabo and gave a brief summary : Alzabo (http://www.alzabo.org) is a Perl data modelling tool that groks relational database systems. You can use it to manipulate database schemas in the abstract, reverse engineer them from existing DBs, and generate SQL diffs to a live database to rearrange its structure. It also provides an object-oriented runtime API which provides similar features to Class::DBI and other modules. Martin Ling will give an overview of its capabilities, compare it to other related modules and preview some new features in development.

Nicholas Clark gave a lightning talk on the upcoming release of Perl 5.8.1 and what's changed in the new shiny shiny version of Perl.

Mark Fowler waffled about his new Attempt module.

Leon Brocard talked about the plans for the CPAN cabal meeting a couple of weeks later entitled "How can we make CPAN even better?"

Tom Hukins presented a lighting talk about his experiences of teaching Perl to absolute beginners.

James Duncan was explaining to us why he's never ever going to write another container class again.

Finally Earle Martin was detailing Stupid RSS Tricks On IRC.

Talks at The Angel pub,Old Street

Steve Purkis talked about 'Pangloss' , a multilingual terminology management system built on OpenFrame/Pixie. His slides are onlines here

Paul Mison presented on Managing Digital Music Metadata with Perl you can get the PDF (of YAPC talk) here or read his Notes

Arthur Bergman, James Duncan and Leon Brocard talked about the infamous Ponie project that all the cool kids are abuzz about these days, and fielding questions. http://opensource.fotango.com/ponie/

Richard Clamp talked about his funky Bluetooth remote control for his computer he made out of his mobile phone and some Perl code . .. it got blogged elsewhere along with some other info

Tim Sweetman gave a lightning talk on some new concepts he's proposing for improving Wikis.

Dominic Mitchell gave a lightning talk on general usage of namespaces in XML, and surprises therein

Finally, Nigel Hamilton presented the second part of his series of jovial looks at IP law from a programmer's point of view.

There is a review of the night by Mark Fowler in his use.perl journal

Talks at State51

Richard Clamp - Siesta mailing list manager

Timeline , Siesta talk , Mariachi

"Templating Engines and Processing Content" mini-tech meet at Yahoo including David Weeler's half hour talk on Bricolage, and a 40 min discussion with an illustrious panel

Some notes blogged by Paul Hammond

Lots of talks at Yahoo

Matt Biddulph - Lightning talk on RDF and the Semantic Web

Celia - Soap operas and the semantic web

Ivor - VCS::Lite

Matt and Jo - RDF and the semantic web

Nigel - Intellectual Property

Nik - AxKit::App::Gallery .mov of the talk - 40 megs!

Schwern - MakeMaker is DOOMED

Dave Cross - Overload.pm

Simon Batistoni - Generating websites with Template::Plugin::XML::LibXML

Alex Knowle - 4 line japhs - signature scripts