http://www.nycsmalltalk.org Objects in the concrete jungle. Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:49:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.nycsmalltalk.org/2010/02/twittering-from-smalltalk/ 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 ... http://www.nycsmalltalk.org/2009/12/visit-by-julian-fitzell-co-creator-of-seaside/ 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 ... http://www.nycsmalltalk.org/2009/11/return-to-smalltalk/ 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 ... http://www.nycsmalltalk.org/2009/10/from-smalltalk-to-ruby-and-back-again/ 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 ... http://www.nycsmalltalk.org/2009/09/how-groovy-is-groovy/ 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 ... http://www.nycsmalltalk.org/2009/06/introducing-web-velocity/ 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 ... http://www.nycsmalltalk.org/2009/04/run-basic-a-seaside-story/ Here's a quick and basic SMTP client demo.  Its obviously outgoing only.  VisualWorks has support for all the standard networking protocols i.e. http, ftp, smtp, pop , imap and tons more. Download the demo and check it out. The installer will create a Program Group entitled "NYC Smalltalk" wherein one will find ... http://www.nycsmalltalk.org/2009/04/424/ 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 ... http://www.nycsmalltalk.org/2008/12/leveraging-multicore-cpus-with-cincom-smalltalk/ On 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. http://www.nycsmalltalk.org/2008/05/cincom-presents-web-velocity/