The Weekly Squeak

One of the presentations of Thursday’s afternoon session was delivered by Romain Robbes, who presented SpyWare, a tool developed by the University of Lugano. SpyWare model the evolution of a program as a series of change operations, thus allowing a much richer analysis of your program and its evolution.

Right after lunch on Thursday afternoon, Lukas Renggli delivered a tasty presentation on how to integrate “Web 2.0” techniques into your Seaside application using the Prototype and Script.aculo.us libraries, which allow you web application to have nifty features like drag’n’drop, entry field autocompletion etc. Script.aculo.us is very well integrated into Seaside, to the point that…

Right before lunch, and in a little less time than planned due to the previous talk running late, Alfred Wullschelger showed a little extension to the notification mechanism included into the Gemstone DB. This extension is useful as a general mechanism for notifications from the DB, regardless from the specific configuration of the Gemstone server.

For this year’s conferences, the organizers invited Joe Armstrong, creator of Erlang, a dynamically-typed functional language, used for building massively concurrent applications. Joe went into the details on the requirement a fault tolerant system, and how Erlang satisfies this requirements. Using the features of Erlang, Joe’s group at Ericsson managed to build systems with 9…

Thursday’s first talk was delivered by Georg Heeg, a longtime Smalltalk programmer and Cincom Partner. Georg presented the process by which the ObjectStudio 8 environment is slowly being integrated into VisualWorks, using its sophisticated meta-modelling features.