Just found out that my presentation tonight on Seaside will be broadcast on U-Stream! Live from 8pm to around 9:30pm Pacific Time (GMT-7, if my calculations are correct). So, if you can't get to northern LA directly, now you can just jack in, and harrass me from thousands of miles away!
Aran Deltec of the Thousand Oaks Perl Mongers has moved rapidly to enable me to make a last-minute presentation of my "Seaside: Your Next Web Framework" tomorrow night. Details are available from their mailing list note. It's an open invitation if you're in the greater LA area, although you may find it easier if you're already north of the hills.
Randal is one of the most well-known names in the Perl. He's contributed many modules on CPAN [note: not true], avocates Perl [note: until this year!], and is one of the leaders in our community. Please come - if not for learning of Seaside, then at least to soak up some Schwartzyness.
Hope to have some of that Schwartzyness at hand, I guess. Now, where did I pack that?In yet another overlap of my interests, Dan Ingalls (co-inventor of Smalltalk and co-creator of Squeak and the Lively Kernel) agreed to be interviewed for my FLOSS "Weekly" show, and the show is now available. Check it out... great interview (thanks Dan!).
I just got finished presenting Seaside at Freescale Semiconductors (a spin-off of Motorola as I understand it) here in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. I used a slightly revised version of the presentation I made a week ago at MySpace, and as expected, the level of interest was high and the questions were good. I'm told that while they've traditionally used Perl for the web apps, they're looking at Grails and other solutions right now, so this might be another case of perfect timing.
I'm at BarCampPortland this weekend, scheduled to introduce a whole new batch of folks to Seaside this afternoon.
So, I'm apparently at the point where I'm getting interviewed about my progress with Smalltalk and Seaside. I met Ronaldo M. Ferraz at FISL a few weeks ago, and he asked if he could interview me. He sent me a list of questions by email, which I answered a week later (too busy enjoying Caipirinhas on the beach in Copacabana), and he's posted the result in both Brazilian Portuguese and English. It's a good summary of how the first part of my "year of smalltalk" has gone. Enjoy!
