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The Toronto Perl Mongers is a group of Perl programmers and hackers of all levels who get together to talk about Perl.
 

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Kartik Thakore: Perl SDL Bindings

A practial introduction to the Perl SDL bindings.

SDL is the Simple Directmedia Layer: "a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer." See http://www.libsdl.org/ for more information.

Contact

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Mailing List

We communicate primarily via our mailing list. The archives from March 2007 onwards are here.

Meetings

We normally hold meetings on the last Thursday of each month.

These meetings range from a single Perl theme to code reviews to rambling free-for-all discussions of things Perlish. We occasionally have meetings with special guests lecturing on or teaching about their specialties. After the meeting we usually go out for food and drinks. Perl hackers of all skill levels are invited.

Location: 2 Bloor Street West, (usually) 8th or 16th floor. The room number will be announced on the mailing list a few days before the meeting. It will also be left with the security desk in the building (main floor lobby) shortly before the meeting starts (i.e. around 6pm).

Time: 6:45 p.m.

Directions: This building is on the north-west corner of Bloor and Yonge, accessible by subway from Bloor station. Pay parking is also ample in this area.

Security note: The elevators in the building are "locked down" after 5:30pm to people without building access cards. Leading up to the meeting someone will come down to the main floor lobby every few minutes to ferry people upstairs. There will be a number of scheduled trips:

• 17:30
• 18:00
• 18:30
• 18:45
• 19:00

After 19:00, you can reach the access-card-carrying guy via a cell phone number that we'll leave with security in the front lobby. The room and floor numbers will be left with security too.

If any latecomers call up there will be a final group elevator run at 19:10. After that, access will be ad-hoc; call up from security and somebody will try to come down and let you up.

Recordings

In case you missed a meeting or cannot attend because your at the other side of the world, audio recordings of our past talks are available online for download.

For a list of available programs go to: http://hew.ca/talks_audio/

Schedule

• Thu 28 Jan 2010 18:45 EST, Thu 25 Feb 2010 18:45 EST, Thu 25 Mar 2010 18:45 EDT, Thu 30 Sep 2010 18:45 EDT

2010

A series of quick talks covering various modules which people have found useful or instructive. Some are old standbys, some are new.

Some of the presentations are archived here.

Abram Hindle: Net::OpenID::Server

Alan Rocker: How I nearly used Perl for a job, then came to my senses.

A short cautionary tale.

Alex Beamish: SQL - abstraction, injection, etc.

Dave Doyle: A couple of validation modules

• Data::Schema
• Params::Validate

Mike Stok: Odds & Ends

Website updates, a chance to do some non-maintenance Perl. Quick points from a handfull of modules and tools:

• local::lib
• perlcritic
• perltidy
• Path::Class
• Template
• File::Find::Rule
• XML::Twig

Kartik Thakore: Perl SDL Bindings

A practial introduction to the Perl SDL bindings.

SDL is the Simple Directmedia Layer: "a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer." See http://www.libsdl.org/ for more information.

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