Smalltalk Solutions 2008 is coming up fast - the schedule of events is here, and registration is here. There are a ton of great talks, like this one from Michael Rueger:

Sophie is an all purpose tool for dealing with media. It will allow users to easily create books that can contain any sort of media on hand ­ text, image,s sounds, videos, animations. Sophie does for media what a physical book does for text and images: with Sophie, authors can create multimedia books. You might think of it as a wrapper for anything digital.

Sophie is built using Squeak, integrating both OpenSource components like Cairo and freetype as well as platform native technologies like Quicktime.

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Smalltalk Solutions 2008 is coming up fast - the schedule of events is here, and registration is here. There are a ton of great talks, like this one from Petr Stepanek:

Craft.CASE is a business process management tool written entirely in VisualWorks. Its main goal is to help process analysts to analyze existing complex processes and process designers to design replacement processes in a way of creating a concise, compendious and consistent model. It helps most in cases of unclear and changing requirements. If the business processes are to be supported by a software product, Craft.CASE supports a UML notation for a conceptual model and maintains links between elements of processes and elements of conceptual model.

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Smalltalk Solutions 2008 is coming up fast - the schedule of events is here, and registration is here. There are a ton of great talks, like this keynote from Gilad Bracha:

The closer one looks at Smalltalk, the more one appreciates how exquisitely well designed it is. Just as Hoare said of Algol, Smalltalk too was " a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors". Nevertheless, Smalltalk has shortcomings, in particular with respect to modularity, security and its interplay with the dark world outside its borders.

Newspeak differs from Smalltalk in four key respects: it is purely message based, it treats classes as linguistic entities, it provides access control for methods, and it has no static state. We'll explain what all this means, how these features synergize to provide a powerful component module system and an object-cability security model, and how it leads to an attractive platform well suited to the internet age.

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If you're interested in Smalltalk Solutions 2008, you might want to have a look here for some travel information on the Reno area. As well, you should be aware of the STIC rate at the Grand Sierra hotel. When you book your room, make sure to ask for that rate!

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I have a script that fetches the schedule data from the dabbledb page, but it had a small problem - and thus, there was some missing data in the agenda (and detail) views. That's been addressed now, so you should see everything now. Why not register?

Smalltalk Solutions 2008 is coming up fast - the schedule of events is here, and registration is here. There are a ton of great talks, like this tutorial from James Foster:

This hands-on tutorial will present Seaside and walk through the process of building an application using GLASS (GemStone, Linux, Apache, Seaside, and Smalltalk). Topics covered include handling user logins, where to put session data vs. application data, building reusable components, styling a web site with CSS, and an introduction to Javascript. In a few hours you will build a web site for a children's soccer team that tracks games, players, and other information. (Because we are using an object database, we will not cover object/relational mapping!) You may bring your own computer or team up with someone else who brought one. Participants with a 64-bit machine may wish to pre-install VMware Server (free for Linux or Windows) or VMware Fusion (for Macintosh) so they can use a ready-to-run virtual appliance. Otherwise, a server will be available that can be accessed with a Squeak-based client. While familiarity with Smalltalk is a prerequisite, no prior Seaside or GemStone/S knowledge is required and the Seaside knowledge gained will apply to non-GemStone platforms as well.

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There's a live calendar for Smalltalk Solutions 2008 on the STIC home page now; it's written in Seaside, of course (the calendar, that is). I'll be tossing it on the cincomsmalltalk.com events page today as well.

Smalltalk Solutions 2008 is coming up fast - the schedule of events is here, and registration is here. There are a ton of great talks, like this one from Randal Schwartz:

Now that Seaside is being established by ever-widening audiences as a flexible and practical web application framework, many are asking the question "but how do I save my data?". In this talk, I'll present and compare an overview of the various solutions for persistence in Seaside, including: saving the image regularly, image segments, Magma, GLORP, and emStone/S. Smalltalk knowledge is presumed, of course.

Randal is a well known developer in the Perl world who's come back to Smalltalk recently - because of Seaside. You can listen to Randal regularly on FLOSS Weekly

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