James Mayfield
Software Engineer at Linden Lab
Linden Lab
Self taught Northern California native who began his programming career writing library software for a small school district in 2002. Since then, his wandering career path has included creating the online gradebook/curriculum system for Odysseyware, building vfx pipeline tools and asset management systems for Disney, and working on real estate software for RealGeeks in Hawaii. He has been in the SF Bay Area and working at Linden Lab since mid 2012.
Self taught Northern California native who began his programming career writing library software for a small school district in 2002. Since then, his wandering career path has included creating the online gradebook/curriculum system for Odysseyware, building vfx pipeline tools and asset management systems for Disney, and working on real estate software for RealGeeks in Hawaii. He has been in the SF Bay Area and working at Linden Lab since mid 2012.
James Mayfield is Giving the Following Talks
Believe in Erlang in Games
Noah, Mario and James will deliver a three-part talk.
Part 1: Noah Gift will talk about how he believes in Erlang and how that factors into hiring, architecture and business dollars and cents at a game company.
Part 2: Mario Izquierdo will take you for a deep dive into a RabbitMQ integration into a Rails game architecture, DIO, and how Erlang "made it scale".
Part 3: James Mayfield will go into the evolution of an AI game written in Erlang as it went from prototype to "shipped".
Talk objectives: To explain how Erlang fits into game and web development in games.
Target audience: Erlang developers, web developers and anyone interested in games.
