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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">Randal Schwartz on Smalltalk [PLUG-AT]</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2008-03-19T19:00:00" datetime="2008-03-19T19:00:00">Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 7pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202390030'><span class='fn org p-name'>Jax Bar (CLOSED)</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">826 SW 2nd Avenue</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">Oregon</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97204</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">US</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=826%20SW%202nd%20Avenue,%20Portland%20Oregon%2097204%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>Sure, Smalltalk is where we got our modern view of windows and mice and "the desktop" and object-oriented programming and extreme programming two decades ago, but what has Smalltalk done for us <em>lately</em>?</p> <p>I'll answer this by showing off the Seaside web application framework: an open-source (but vendor supported) challenge to the classic web design strategies. Imagine being able to debug a broken web-hit in the middle of the hit, fixing the code, and continuing before the browser knows that something went wrong. Imagine being able to re-use control flows and web components with the ease of OO programming. Imagine being able to do test-driven development, even for HTML delivery. Imagine taking an application from "three guys in Starbucks on a laptop" to "3000 hits per second on your Amazon EC2 cloud" with no major changes in design. No need to imagine... I'll demonstrate all this and more.</p> <p>Smalltalk knowledge is not required: I'll start with a brief overview of Smalltalk using Squeak, the free implementation that's even included in the OLPC XO. General knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming basics would be helpful, though.</p> <p>Please note that this talk is a work in progress... this presentation is a rehearsal for the actual delivery in mid-April in Brazil at FISL 2008. Some parts are still a bit rough.</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://lists.pdxlinux.org/pipermail/plug-announce/2008q1/000484.html">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>