Cincom presents Web Velocity
Friday, May 9th, 2008On May 21st, Arden Thomas, product manager for Cincom Smalltalk will be proving us with a presentation on Web Velocity , a Seaside based framework for the rapid development of web based apps.
Basic on Seaside
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007Carl Gundel , developer of LibertyBasic , a development environment for Basic written in VisualWorks, will be presenting at NYC Smalltalk on Wednesday, May 30th, 2007. Open house starts at 6:30 pm and the presentation follows at 7:00pm. We usually go out for drinks/food to a nearby restaurant/bar..
Our meetings are opened to the general [...]
Presentation: Unit-Testing in Smalltalk
Monday, March 19th, 2007Please join us for our next presentation Wednesday 28th of March 2007. See you all there and visit our web site for time and directions:
http://www.nycsmalltalk.org
Details:
BIO:
Mr. Panu Viljamaa is an OO-, XML-, and web-based -programming expert currently working as an independent consultant in New York City. He’s been working as a Smalltalk programmer-architect since 1986. His [...]
Podcasting the NYC Smalltalk meetings.
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006Recently I was asked by Joe Backansas, and Joe forgive me if I have slaughtered your name, if I would consider podcasting the NYC Smalltalk meetings. In his words that “would really be cool”. Then a few weeks later James Robertson , which you all know very well, inquired as well.
Well, I’m swamped [...]
Presentation: More is better baby
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006Give me more classes is what Andres Valloud says. He will shows us how more classes can in some cases equate to better Smalltalk performance.
Andres will be providing us with an encore presentation of his recent OOPSLA presentation.
The next meeting will be Wednesday November 29th, 2006. It will be the last for this year since [...]
NYCST - Wednesday’s presentation postponed till next week
Tuesday, October 17th, 2006due to the upcoming heavy rains on Wednesday, the fact that a lot ofour members drive including our presenter which is coming from deepJersey, the fact that the 18th also happens to be one of our regular’sbirthday which he will be spending with his immediate family, we shallbe postponing our presentation till next Wednesday the [...]
Presentation: and the Winner is
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006Hi all. Andres Vallound , one of our members here at NYC Smalltalk and the recent winner of the Smalltalk Solutions 2006 coding contest will be presenting. He plans on showing us what it took to win the contest. Should be fun. As always we will also meet after the presentation for some beers and [...]
Gemstone/S 64 bit presentation review
Thursday, February 9th, 2006I had already known what going to a 64 bit architecture meant to Gemstone Smalltalk as far as scalability thresholds. That in itself is amazing. What I had not realized was all of the rest that comes with the 64 bit release. It quite a lot of stuff. I won’t recap here but rather one [...]
The transit strike from a New Yorker’s perspective
Wednesday, December 21st, 2005Unless you are here , there is no way that people can truly appreciate what is going on and therefore comments sympathetic or “understanding” of this strike will miss their mark and perhaps just plain piss people off. This is not just an inconvenience. This strike is really actually hurting people, they are spending money [...]
Katrina’s sneeze
Monday, August 29th, 2005The picture to the right is of my brother’s backyard after Katrina paid South Florida a visit. Some in that area of Davie/Ft. Lauderdale went without power for almost two days. My brother still has not had his phone service restored. I was able to call my Dad though. Of course, compared to what Lousiana [...]