Software Development Lightning Talks (Doors open 6pm - First Talk 6.35pm)

A series of software development talks - details to be updated at the start of November. If you would like to give a formal talk then please get in contact, so we can arrange your talk duration.

Members are invited to turn up on the night to give short lightning talks (5 to 10 mins) or longer talks depending on the number of speakers or any formal talks. The lightning talks on the night are designed to encourage members to give talks without putting pressure on them to do so.

Agenda:

6.00 pm : Doors Open. (relax chat and refreshments)

6.35 pm : First Talk "Introduction to THREE.JS" - overview and some examples building the code up from scratch on the essentials of building a scene graph and understanding of the 3D Library. Then importing an model from an file and how to tag up components to manipulable them further. THREE.js is currently the defacto light web library to start with and fully makes use of the WebGL API, it has great docs and help on stackoverflow since 2012. You can add in Physics libraries if required, THREE is developer focused and mirrors perfectly the lower elements of WebGL (OpenGL ES 2.0) - But without the entry level complexity of OpenGl ES2.0. But you have the ability to write vertex shaders if required of course. but it also has additional ways for you to use advanced effects like composition of several scenes, Overlays, Masks etc with the EffectComposer an addon to THREE.js. This allows you to place effects like blur, TV scan lines or a bloom effect. What's a Bool effect - Here's an example of a Bloom effect.

https://threejs.org/examples/webgl_postprocessing_unreal_bloom.html

Remember I will be giving you just an overview and coding introduction to get you started into creating WEB 3.0 interactive applications, you might be interested in Simulations like Autonomous Driving or perhaps building a drone emulator to train or replay flight directions, 3D Games, exploring of Data or Deep learning and the presentation of the layers in a 3D graphical format. THREE also has support for rendering VR output, provided you have a VR device connected. Web 3.0 is officially here and in the next few years every developer will be expected to know one of these WebGL library, just like XML & Html in the early early noughties . The only difference is THREE.JS is actually fun to learn and use.!!

7.05 pm : Raffle for RedGate, Jetbrains and Manning Book prizes

7.10 pm : Any further member lightning talks
( If there are no further talks we will have a discussion )

7.55 pm : Exit the Building.

8.00 pm : Members are welcome to Join the merry crew as we go down the local pub for a few drinks and chat about Math, AI, Graphics, Machine learning, Programming or Devops and argue how hard it is to visualize a hypercube or what the dickens "gauge theory" is actually used for !!

I would like to thank our awesome Sponsors

( Bank of Ireland for the meetup location)
( JetBrains - www.jetbrains.com for providing raffle software )
( Redgate - www.redgate.com for providing raffle software )
( Manning Publications - www.manning.com - for providing raffle books )
( McNamara's Hardware - www.mcnamara.ie for their Limerick support)

I will send a group message to our members, regarding our sponsors (JetBrains , Redgate and Manning Publications) and any prize raffle draws on the night.

Our latest sponsor Manning Publications have now confirmed that they will supply a book of chose for 1 raffle winner and 1 book of chose for any speakers on the night. ( this can be any Manning Pub Book existing or in MEAP edition).

The provision of digital books will be supplied after the meetup and will depend on the timetable of communications with Manning publications.

Manning publications will require your full name and email address to receive any digital media. The winner/speakers books of your choose will be assigned to a Manning account for download etc.

I look forward to seeing you all at the November meetup.