Smalltalk Week at OSCON
Next week at OSCON 2009 in San Jose is going to be a very busy week for me. I'm managing the Stonehenge/LinuxFund party on Wednesday night, which includes hanging out at the LinuxFund booth during the day on Wednesday. I'm also appearing at the usual O'Reilly Author meet-and-greet Wednesday evening.
I had also been accepted some months ago to teach a paid 4-hour tutorial "Introduction to Web Application Development Using Smalltalk Seaside" on Monday afternoon, and a 45-minute talk "Persistence Solutions with the Smalltalk Seaside Web Framework" on Thursday morning. For some reason (which I'll blame on the drama around my broken arm), I forgot to blog about those here, although I'm sure I Twittered about it. :)
But on top of that, I had originally pitched an "intro to smalltalk" course that would precede my Seaside talk to prepare people for the afternoon talk. It had been summarily rejected, and now I know why. Avi Bryant (co-creator of Seaside) had been given that task Monday morning. But he wrote me a couple of days ago, asking me to take the talk over, as apparently he will be unable to make it to OSCON. So, now I'm also doing roughly the talk I had originally pitched as well: "Finding the Swan in Squeak's Ugly Duckling" on Monday morning. And I'm now scrambling to prep for that too, although a lot of it had already been planned for my 5-day "intro to Smalltalk and Seaside" course that Stonehenge will be offering soon.
So, there was one talk on Smalltalk last year at OSCON, and now three talks this year (including two paid tutorials). I'd say Smalltalk is making a good comeback.
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