I'm nearly done posting content from Smalltalk Solutions 2008 - the only talks I have left to post are the Gemstone Roadmap talk, Colin Putney's Monticello2 talk, and the CRAFT Case tool presentation. That leaves a couple for which I just don't have video, (The VA roadmap and the Mark Petersen talk) - but I do have audio. As it happens, I have video for John O'Keefe's talk from ESUG, and, like Arden's roadmap talk, it's probably about the same.

That leaves all of the ESUG content - which will start appearing as soon as I get these last few talks cleared out. Stay tuned!

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As ESUG continues, slides and other stuff is being posted here. I'll be throwing the video over to the STIC site, just as I've been pushing StS content there.

Gilad Bracha is giving the same talk he gave at StS 2008 - the slides are here. I'm taking video again, so I should have that up by the by.

It looks emptier than yesterday because this is the first talk of the day, and more than half the crowd wandered in late :)

I also took this photo - I have no idea how the bubble artifact got into the image :)

I missed Bruce's talk on Smalltalk standards - the heating control talk went long. I'm back in the main room for Bruce's talk on a Smalltalk interface to Syslog. It's a commonly needed thing - realistically speaking, a Smalltalk server might want to produce system logs instead of its own, so that standard tools could "see" them.

Bruce has this working in VW and Gemstone (using his Sport framework for portability). He's demonstrating it for us, so we can see that it works :)

John McIntosh is giving a talk on GStreamer - he's been building support for it into Squeak lately. It's a pretty large open source library that supports various media formats, so it's a useful thing to have.

Sounds like he's added it in using primitives, and is thus far 32 bit only. Interesting problem in terms of supporting it from Smalltalk - GStreamer has its own garbage collection framework. That means you don't want to try to have its objects managed from the Smalltalk side, of course.

Arden is giving the roadmap talk here - it's the same one he gave at StS 2008, so I won't go into too many details - you can see the slides here, the StS 2008 talk here, and the web page over here. I will be posting the video and audio stream from here though, as I get to that.

The main point Arden's getting across is that we want to hear from you about where the products should go. If you're interested in VisualWorks, ObjectStudio, or Web Velocity, and you have suggestions, let Arden know.

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The Squeak Guys generated a fairly good crowd for "Camp Smalltalk" over the weekend:

Over fifty Smalltalk developers have spent the last two days working on a variety of Camp Smalltalk

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Michael and I were talking about the podcast the other day, and he had a great suggestion for ESUG (and for next year's Smalltalk Solutions, for that matter). As each day's activities draw to a close, I'll pull out the H2 and have a quick chat with anyone who's interested about what was cool at the conference that day. I'd like to keep these things short - 5-10 minutes, so that I could just get them posted quickly each day. Interested? Track me down at ESUG next month, and we'll talk about it :)

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