Bruce is one of my favorite presenters. He has that witty British thing going and no matter how boring the presentation may be he is always fun to watch. Not that he was boring this time, the presentation was brilliant we had a lovely time.
Bruce’s OpenSkills related presentations are interesting because of the various open [...]
This is a great time to be an aspiring musician. Check out Garage Band. They keep making their services better and better. I have been a member ever since my composition teacher joined. If you like Jazz piano search for Jon Raney , son of the legendary Jazz guitarist Jimmy Raney. Unfortunately, you won’t find [...]
It had been probably about 1.5 years since I last tried to use Postgres on Windows as a backend for StORE, the source code versioning environment for VisualWorks. It was not happening at all. At that time I decided to use the Interbase/Firebird backend because it was a multi-user solution which was stable and that [...]
Everything that possibly could go wrong went wrong. Did I drop the ball, did I slack off? Let’s start at the very beginning. About three years ago or so I went to OOPSLA , I’m confused as to whether it was in Tampa or Minneapolis. All I remember, is that STIC had a fairly decent [...]
Every year we make an excuse, oh the rowdy crowds and this and that, but for some reason this year we dragged ourselves out and got on the subway and in 30 minutes got to our spot. The spot was in Long Island City right across the river from 34th street. New York is such [...]
Bruce Badger , a long time friend of NYC Smalltalk , will again be gracing us this year with a presentation on another support system for his OpenSkills organization. Last year the presentation involved Gemstone , a Smalltalk based oodms/app server as well as the use of Squid, and a Smalltalk based wiki.. This year [...]