Category: Conferences

During monday afternoon, the congress hall has hosted the research track of the conference. In this tracks there were many presentations involving the Smalltalk language and the state of the art of the research around it.

The presentations were:

• Application-Specific Models and Pointcuts using a Logic Meta Language, presented by Andy Kellens
• Unanticipated Partial Behavioral Reflection, presented by Marcus Denker
• Stateful Traits, presented by Stephane Ducasse
• SCL: a Simple, Uniform and Operational Language for Component-Oriented Programming in Smalltalk, presented by Luc Fabresse
• Let’s Modularize the Data Model Specifications of the ObjectLens in VisualWorks Smalltalk, presented by Michael Prasse
• Meta-driven Browsers, presented by Alexandre Bergel

Here you may find the papers which were discussed.

After Joseph Perline’s talk, it was the turn of Alfred Wullschleger, who talked about a system for managing states in a dynamic way, without resorting to the State pattern and leveraging Smalltalk’s event model and reflective message sending capabilities.

Alfred’s abstract and slides may be found on the conference website.

After a brief introduction to the conference by Stephane Ducasse and a coffee, we start with a presentation by Joseph Perline about Coding Dojos. A coding dojo is a place where, with the help of other practioners and experts, you may hone your programming skills by doing Code Katas, small and simple exercizes which may be solved in a short time.

After having explained what a code kata is, Joseph proceeded with an example, taken from the list of code katas on “Pragmatic” Dave Thomas’ site. Some of the attendants joined in and tried to solve the problem while pair-programming in a test-first way.