News!
- Perl Event Mod_Perl Developers Cookbook author Geoffrey
Young Coming Up
Robin Rowe, Beverly Hills
2006.3.11
Todd Cranston-Cuebas says this will be soon and may
happen on short notice. Regularly scheduled talks at Ticketmaster
are typically held on the last Tuesday of the month. Watch for
an update on Geoffrey's talk as soon as we know the date.
- Randal Schwartz Recap
Robin Rowe, Beverly Hills
2006.3.11
Learning Perl author Randal Schwartz presented on
the 7th at Ticketmaster. He discussed object-oriented Perl Web
programming with CGI::Prototype.
Clever library. Maybe too clever. More interesting for me was
when he talked (briefly) about Rose::DB.
He said that seems a better alternative to the Class::DBI
library, that Rose is similar but much faster and smaller. Rose
provides a Perl interface to PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, and Informix.
Both Rose and Class::DBI are based on DBI.
- Perl Event with Randal Schwartz in Hollywood on Monday,
March 6th, 7-9pm
Robin Rowe, Beverly Hills
2006.2.17 updated 2.28
Randal Schwartz, of "Learning Perl" fame
has agreed to launch this year's perl tech talks! Introduction
to Class::Prototyped. and CGI::Prototype.
Ticketmaster Office
8800 W. Sunset Blvd
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Parking: beelow building. Please send a quick email RSVP to Todd
Cranston-Cuebas tcc@ticketmaster.com.
By the way, the Ticketmaster
website, written almost entirely in Perl, sells as many as
half a million tickets a day.
- Perl Event with Robin Rowe in Hollywood on Wednesday,
March 1st, 7-9pm
Robin Rowe, Beverly Hills
2006.2.26 updated 2.26
Studio Perl event at LinuxMovies.org. Robin Rowe discusses
Perl and GraphicsMagick.
RSVP
Now!
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Studio Perl
Perl is a popular scripting for language for motion picture
studio production pipelines for feature animation and visual
effects. Studios may use hundreds of different image processing
tools in making movies. The tools may be secret internally developed
software, proprietary commercial applications, and sometimes
open source software (such as Perl). Perl or Python are what's
typically used as the glue code to tie these separate tools together.
The job of a pipeline engineer is to create and maintain the
infrastructure that keeps the studio running. |
Studio Pipeline Languages
Perl and Python are the most popular.
Perl.LinuxMovies.org Goals
- Perl technical events in Hollywood
- Develop more open source code
- Perl links and docs
Mailing List
FAQ
- Why Isn't Perl.LinuxMovies.org Affiliated with Perl Mongers?
Perl Mongers (pm.org)
assists users groups of Web Perl programmers and seems unaware
that Perl is used for making motion pictures. The city of Los
Angeles covers an area of 465 square miles and has a population
of 3.8 million people. The only Perl group sanctioned by Perl
Mongers for this region is la.pm.org.
The official explanation from pm.org: "London covers an
area of over 600 square miles and has a population of 7.5 million
and yet it gets on very well with just one PM group." Besides
being against launching new Perl groups, many Perl
Monger groups have disappeared.
- Why Not Python.LinuxMovies.org or Pipeline.LinuxMovies.org?
All it takes is work. Unfortunately, the Los Angeles situation
with Python is that LAZUG seems
to be defunct. The Java users group LAJUG
is still going, was led by DreamWorks Animation software developer
Gavin Doughtie for several years.
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Studio Perl Camel
The camel is the traditional mascot of Perl.
Our studio Perl camel image is courtesy of photographer Terry
Lane. Robin Rowe removed the natural background by painting
a matte.
 
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