The Weekly Squeak

Since I had to catch a plane to get back home, I couldn’t attend the session on Friday morning. The last day of the conference saw three presentations. The first was delivered by Norm Green of Gemstone, who talked about the state of Gemstone 64, the 64-bit version of their database system. After that, Mathieu…

As the last presentation for Thursday, Niall Ross paused his incessant (and absolutely useful) note-taking to deliver a talk on how to use real domain objects in your tests. This objects can be created by leveraging the rewrite engine of the Refactoring Browser in order to create readable and easily-modifiable tests which nonetheless manipulate complex…

Rowan Bunning delivered a presentation on Scrum and its use at Wizard Information Services. Wizard has much benefied from the introduction of Scrum, both in conjunction with Extreme Programming and Smalltalk for its development process, and as an agile management framework for managing non-development processes. Rowan described the use of Scrum+XP in Wizard, then delivered…

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…