Twittering from Smalltalk

Friday, February 12th, 2010

First presentation of the year is by our good friend James Robertson. Please note that our venue has changed. Our very gracious and kind host Gerard has moved to the Grand Central Area of town.
The new address is:
60 East 42nd Street, Suite 914
I will update the site soon, just got back from a quick vacation [...]

Visit by Julian Fitzell co-creator of Seaside

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Julian Fitzell which along with Avi Bryant co-created Seaside is coming through town and wanted to stop by and visit with us.  So we figure we would catch up with what  he is doing with Squeak and of course go for drinks afterwards.
The  meeting is on the 10th. Same time same place. Open house at [...]

Return To Smalltalk

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Join us on November 18th for Dan Antion’s experience report on their return to Smalltalk.
Bio:
Daniel Antion is Vice President, Information Services at American Nuclear Insurers. He is responsible for the overall planning and implementation of technology and communication services for ANI and is part of a team addressing Enterprise Content Management. Dan is also responsible [...]

From Smalltalk to Ruby - and back again ?

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Please join us for our next meeting on Oct. 21st where Paul Bennett will give his Smalltalker’s perspective on Ruby based on his recent experiences.

The presentation starts at 7 pm , however there is an open house from 6:30.  Presentations are generally up to 1.5 hours after which most of us go to a [...]

How Groovy is Groovy ?

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

abstract: we will start off with a survey of main language features esp. what makes groovy dynamic. then see some metaprogramming tricks that make it easy to work with xml and gui builders and creation of internal DSLs. finally touch on the grails web framework. there will be lots of demos along the way to [...]

Introducing Web Velocity

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

I have 20 years of experience in the software development industry, as a line developer, a consultant, a pre/post sales engineer, and most recently, as the Product Evangelist for Cincom Smalltalk. I’ve given talks at a number of industry conferences, including Smalltalk Solutions, Ot/SPA, LinuxWorld/NetworkWorld, ESUG, and XP/Agile conferences. I’m also the author of the [...]

Run BASIC - A Seaside Story

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Carl Gundel , developer of LibertyBasic , a development environment for Basic written in VisualWorks, will be presenting at NYC Smalltalk on Thursday, May 21st, 2009.  He will update us on the evolution of his Liberty Basc IDE and its implementation as a Web based IDE based on VisualWork’s Seaside implementation.
Open house starts at 6:30 [...]

Leveraging Multicore CPU’s with Cincom Smalltalk

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

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.
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

GLASS - Gemstone on Seaside

Friday, February 1st, 2008

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 [...]

Plugging in Postgres

Friday, October 12th, 2007

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 [...]