The Weekly Squeak

For the first time at the ESUG Conferences, there was a Fast Track, which included many short presentations. Anyone with something interesting to show could ask for a slot, even at the last moment. This year there were five presenters. The first one was the Bob Nemec, Executive Director of STIC (Smalltalk Industry Council), who…

The first Tuesday session started with a presentation by Cincom’s Martin Kobetic, who gave an introduction to Public Key cryptography (RSA, DSA, RH), the applications for the various algorithms and other practical aspects. This talk is the continuation of similar talks presented in the previous Smalltalk Solutions and ESUG conferences. The abstract may be found…

The presentations for the Esug Innovation Awards were held on Monday, September 4th. Soon after the end of the afternoon session, the conference room became a demo area where 9 different software applications were shown by their authors. They were: BotsInc by Stephane Ducasse SqSquare by Kazuki Minamitani, Masashi Umezawa Plopp by Grit Schuster, Bert…

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…

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.