Smalltalk with James Robertson

Well, I'm not entirely sure that the Jedi Knight thing works for an entire presentation, but it was funny when they started:

Heh - James Ladd and Sean Allen started giggling about 10 minutes in. The audience does like the slides. I'll have to see about getting access to the slides when I release the audio in podcast form :) They have a site and a Twitter handle

You have to love this intro to a talk:

In the early 1990's ParcPlace failed to license Smalltalk to Sun Microsystems. Thus Java was born (of flames of carelessness) and instead of the world turning into a green paradise of Smalltalk everywhere, it descended into a rocky brittle non-reflective torture pit where the traditional C procedure of banging heads against the wall to make headway prevailed

Here's Kjell Godo delivering that message:

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Georg just officially "opened" the conference, and now Avi is talking about Big Data, the web, and Smalltalk. Kind of amusing that I got quoted based on something I said at StS 2004 - truly, nothing you say in public dies now :) Anyway, here's Georg:

And Avi:

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Florin Mateoc is talking about the "Zen of Smalltalk Algorithm Coding" here at StS - starting off with the difficulties he's run across in terms of comparing code changes over time. Everything is being recorded, and STIC says they'll be releasing the video (no idea what the schedule for that is). I'll be recording the audio for the talks I attend, and I'll be releasing those as part of the podcast over time.

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I made it here, even with a delay caused by a plane with a broken tail light :)

Looks like things are happening at Camp Smalltalk at StS 2011.

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I'm heading to Smalltalk Solutions tomorrow, so the screencasts will be on hiatus for a week. The good news is that I expect to return with a fair amount of audio for the podcast. Wish me luck on my presentation, and I hope to see you in Vegas!

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Peter Fisk has been busy with QuickSilver Smalltalk of late:

Currently, I am porting QuickSilver from ExtJs 3.3 to ExtJs 4.0. There has been a complete rewrite of much of the library and this has resulted in a great deal of work in migrating the Smalltalk widget libraries.

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The ESUG board has made the call for contributions for the 2011 event in Edinburgh:

We are proud to invite submisssions to the International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies which is held as part of the ESUG 2011 joint event at Edinburgh. The goals of the workshop is to create a forum around advances or experience in Smalltalk. We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk related topics

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Peter William Lount has been working on Zokutalk as a side project for quite awhile - here's a code example to give you an idea as to what he's been up to.  If nothing else, it's a stab at a file based syntax for a Smalltalk-like language.