Happy Holidays to all.

Please join us at our next meeting on Wed, January 21st, 2009 where Arden Thomas Cincom Smalltalk’s product manager will be presenting. For more info check out our site: www.nycsmalltalk.org.

Also if anybody is interested in helping out with presentations related to Smalltalk and other technologies that can be leveraged from Smalltalk please send me an email here: presentations@nycsmalltalk.org.

thanks

-Charles

On May 21st, Arden Thomas, product manager for Cincom Smalltalk will be proving us with a presentation on Web Velocity , a Seaside based framework for the rapid development of web based apps.

See our web site for further details:

www.nycsmalltalk.org

Please join us this upcoming Wednesday, Feb 6th , for an interesting presentation on a new Seaside based framework which leverages Gemstone to provide for transparent persistence services to Seaside.

James Forester of Gemstone will be presenting.

Please visit our site for directions.

GLASS: Transparent Persistence for Seaside
 
While the Seaside framework elegantly addresses HTML generation and application flow-of-control issues, it still leaves challenges for the developer--including persistence, multi-user coordination, and scaling. With typical solutions (including object-relational mapping, external files, and multiple images) the "pure objects" experience of Smalltalk is compromised. In this presentation we will demonstrate GLASS (GemStone, Linux, Apache, Seaside, and Smalltalk), a stack (analogous to LAMP) that provides a robust environment for deploying sophisticated, dynamic web applications that can scale.
 
GLASS runs on GemStone/S 64 Bit, a Smalltalk application server and database, whose Web Edition is available for free--even for commercial use. Copies of the software will be available at the meeting.
 
James Foster is QA Lead on the Smalltalk Engineering Team at GemStone Systems, Inc.
 

The next NYC Smalltalk presentation will be held Wednesday Nov. 7th.

I, Charles A. Monteiro will be discussing issues I encountered as well as techniques/strategies in our quest to have an Oracle centric direct sql VW application speak to a Postgres backend without having to change application layer code.

The presentation starts at 7pm  but there’s an open house at 6:30 where people meet and freely discuss anything sort of Smalltalk related.

After the presentation many of us go to a local pub/bar and continue the discussions over some beer.

Our presentations are opened  to the public. Bring a friend if you have one.

For directions go to: www.nycsmalltalk.org , keep in mind that the web site is in the process of being converted back to a wiki and therefore may not be up to date, although you can certainly trust the directions .

Carl Gundel , developer of LibertyBasic , a development environment for Basic written in VisualWorks, will be presenting at NYC Smalltalk on Wednesday, May 30th, 2007. Open house starts at 6:30 pm and the presentation follows at 7:00pm. We usually go out for drinks/food to a nearby restaurant/bar..

Our meetings are opened to the general public.

For directions go to our web site:

http://www.nycsmalltalk.org

Bio:

Carl Gundel is a long time Smalltalker (since 1988) who got his start using Digitalk's Smalltalk/V for DOS.  Since then he's used Smalltalk to craft everything from shop floor control to CNC editors to programming languages.
 
Abstract:

Carl will present Run BASIC; a web programming system.  Run BASIC focuses on making web development easy; sort of a QBasic for the web.  Run BASIC is based on Carl's popular Liberty BASIC language and is implemented on top of VisualWorks and Seaside.

http://www.libertybasic.com
 

Please join us for our next presentation Wednesday 28th of March 2007. See you all there and visit our web site for time and directions:

http://www.nycsmalltalk.org

Details:

BIO:

Mr. Panu Viljamaa is an OO-, XML-, and web-based -programming expert currently working as an independent consultant in New York City. He's been working as a Smalltalk programmer-architect since 1986. His current tools include J2EE, "Ajax" and "REST" as well. His writings on software have been published in the Addison-Wesley series on Design Patterns and by ACM. He's worked extensively as a software engineer in the telecom-, financial-, utilities- and e-learning domains in both United States and Europe.

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Abstract:

In this presentation Panu will talk about Unit-Testing in Smalltalk, including a new simplified "Method-Tests" -API for doing so.
He will demonstrate how unit-testing can be made more productive and totally integrated with the open IDE of Smalltalk. This presentation will be a precursor, and a dress-rehearsal for a more comprehensive presentation to be given at Smalltalk Solutions 2007, Toronto.

Arden Thomas which is the new SE for Cincom Smalltalk will be presenting on January 31st , 2007.

Directions and time can be found on our web site.

Abstract:

I  will discuss our new product roadmap, which has been changing and evolving more recently.  I would also like to get feedback from the group on their product needs, and even do some group "thinking out loud" or brainstorming, about future directions for Smalltalk IDE's, and ways to improve our product.

Bio:

Arden Thomas got started with Smalltalk in 1986, looking for better ways to do software development (he found it). He is currently a senior field application engineer for Cincom working to help Cincom's Smalltalk customers, and to help move Smalltalk forward.  Prior to this he worked for ParcPlace as a trainer, sales engineer, and consultant, and then moved into a senior development position at Forest Investment management, doing extensive software development in VisualWorks Smalltalk.

See you all there and as always we will get together for some drinks right around the corner at the La Vigna restaurant at the New Yorker at 34th and 8th.
 

As I believe I have mentioned before I find that some of the ideas I have encountered in software engineering can be helpful in my music journey. On my music blog I talk about applying the concept of design patterns to the music creation process i.e. from composition, arrangement to mixing , mastering and publishing. Soup to nuts.

I specifically write about a way of doing an intro to a tune that permeates an idea across the tune all the way to the end. Some of this is based on stuff that I know I have listened to , some of it is I'm sure on stuff that I have listened to but not consciously aware of , is anything really new ?

This pattern has helped me with one of my major issues and that being having a sense for the entire tune.

Here is the link:

http://monteirofusion.blogspot.com/2007/01/music-patterns.html

Some of you all may relate, or at least find it interesting.

Discussion of applying patterns to music I expect hopefully will carry on here.