Methods and Messages: Randal Schwartz on Smalltalk

Seaside presentation at BarCampPortland a success!

2008-05-04T01:04:40Z

I had about 20 people in my room at BarCampPortland, which made it "standing room only" for the last few who showed up. The audience was attentive, and asked good questions. Monty Williams of GemStone was also along, and helped me with a few answ...

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The Elevator Pitch for Seaside

2008-05-03T14:37:49Z

I'm at BarCampPortland this weekend, scheduled to introduce a whole new batch of folks to Seaside this afternoon. But as we were organizing the "unconference" last night, I found myself having to repeatedly describe Seaside and why I'm so excite...

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Interviewed by Ronaldo M. Ferraz

2008-05-02T15:32:54Z

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 ...

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Subverting Perl People into Smalltalk Hackers

2008-04-27T14:36:06Z

After FISL, I spent a week in Rio to kick back and visit my friends of the Rio Perl Users Group (commonly known as "Rio.pm"). I offered to give a talk in exchange for hanging out for a meal, and they asked me what I would want to talk about. Of c...

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Smalltalk at FISL: now and forever!

2008-04-19T18:07:21Z

I gave my Seaside intro talk earlier today at FISL 9.0 (pictures being uploaded to my flickr account already). The talk was well-attended (about 200 or so in the audience), including some Rails folks. I was surprised though when I asked how many...

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Mentioned Seaside on "The Future And You"

2008-04-16T15:44:33Z

I was interviewed by noted futurist Stephen Euin Cobb for his podcast, The Future And You. If you skip ahead to about the fifty-five minute mark, you'll hear me rave about Seaside and describe my recent activities. I also rant about why Muni Wifi...

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Metaprogramming in Squeak

2008-04-08T17:55:25Z

In comp.lang.smalltalk today, I got to answer a simple question about metaprogramming. My classic example is being able to create an anonymous class simply by calling "Behavior New". Here's my code: | myClass myInstance | myClass ...

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Seaside tutorial at OSCON - accepted!

2008-04-02T01:03:37Z

I just got word that my proposal for a 3-hour Seaside tutorial at OSCON has been accepted. Here's what I pitched: Introduction to Seaside - Powerful web application development in Smalltalk Description: Introduction to the Smalltalk Seaside web...

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Where Perl and Smalltalk collide

2008-03-31T17:23:13Z

As I'm chatting in the #squeak channel this morning, I was reminded that I had adapted Kent Beck's Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns for a half-day Perl coding tutorial. In fact, I referenced this book in a Perl Column I had done for Linux Magazin...

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Reviving the IRTC in Smalltalk

2008-03-26T16:08:14Z

One of my fond memories of years past was reviewing the frequent submissions to the Internet Ray Tracing Competition (IRTC), being consistently stunned at how Dave Buck's povray could be used to generate some remarkable photorealistic images, even...

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