The new Internet Ray Tracing Competition (IRTC) web site went live this morning. This site is written in VisualWorks and Seaside. The URLs are REST-ful until you login at which time you start getting the _s and _k parameters. To check it out, visit http://www.irtc.org.

The next OCSTUG meeting will be April 14, 2009.

Building the Internet Raytracing Competition site in Seaside

David Buck, President of Simberon Incorporated

For the past few years, the Internet Raytracing Competition web site has been inactive. The original operators found it too difficult to run the bi-monthly contest and keep the web site updated. Now, this web site is being rebuilt using Seaside and VisualWorks. In this presentation, David Buck will show the problem, the solution and the challenges to getting the IRTC back online.

The Code Factory
246 Queen Street,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 at 6:00pm
 

Please note that there will be a $5 charge per person which goes directly to The Code Factory for the use of the room. Please RSVP to david@simberon.com if you plan to attend.

Simberon will be offering two object oriented design courses in May 2009. Although the presentation uses the Java programming language in Eclipse, students can have the materials in either Java, C# or Smalltalk and do the hands-on exercises in any of these languages. The courses are:

Refactoring Object Oriented Design in Java (May 4-7, 2009)  register

Experiencing Design Patterns in Java (May 25 - 29, 2009) register

If you are interested in registering, click on the register link above or e-mail info@simberon.com.

I've posted the video for the last OCSTUG talk on google video:

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=4043005778174544715

The audio-only MP3 file is available from:

http://smalltalk.ottawa.on.ca/audio/OCSTUC-March-2009.mp3

In March, we will be holding the presentation which was canceled in
February because of the non-existent ice storm.  Details follow:



     Upcoming Cincom Smalltalk Releases

    Alan Knight will talk about some of the upcoming Cincom Smalltalk
releases. He will describe some of the interesting and perhaps
lesser-known improvements in the VisualWorks 7.6 release, changes to
release schedule and process, and some of the major items planned for
the fall release. This includes vastly improved Internationalization,
improvements to look and feel, COM and ActiveX support, improvements to
Store, 64-bit, and briefly touch on the upcoming Web Velocity release.

    The Code Factory
    246 Queen Street, Ottawa
    Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 at 6:00pm
    Please note that there will be a $5 charge per person which goes
directly to The Code Factory for the use of the room.

Please RSVP to david@simberon.com if you plan to attend.

We have a forecast for freezing rain this evening.  As such, we feel it's best to cancel the OCSTUG meeting scheduled for this evening.  We'll meet next on March 10, 2009.

The next meeting of the Ottawa Carleton Smalltalk Users Group will be Feb 10, 2009.

Upcoming Cincom Smalltalk Releases
Alan Knight will talk about some of the upcoming Cincom Smalltalk releases. He will describe some of the interesting and perhaps lesser-known improvements in the VisualWorks 7.6 release, changes to release schedule and process, and some of the major items planned for the fall release. This includes vastly improved Internationalization, improvements to look and feel, COM and ActiveX support, improvements to Store, 64-bit, and briefly touch on the upcoming Web Velocity release.

The Code Factory
246 Queen Street, Ottawa
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2009 at 6:00pm
Please note that there will be a $5 charge per person which goes directly to The Code Factory for the use of the room. Please RSVP to david@simberon.com if you plan to attend.

Simberon will be running the course Experiencing Design Patterns using Smalltalk in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada from March 2nd to March 6th 2009. This course is one that we don't deliver frequently as an open enrollment course so this may be your only chance to take this course for at least the next 6 months to a year. We'll be using Smalltalk for both the lecture parts and the hands-on exercises.

The course covers all 23 design patterns from the famous Gang of Four Design Patterns book but looks at each pattern objectively with its advantages, disadvantages and plenty of experience reports from using the patterns in practice. We show where the pattens work well and where they fall down.

If you'd like to register for the course, visit the Simberon registration page.

The Ottawa Carleton Smalltalk Users Group will be holding a meeting this Tuesday. We'll be trying to show people new to Smalltalk what Smalltalk is all about. Check http://smalltalk.ottawa.on.ca for details.