The Weekly Squeak

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.

As a social event, the attendants to the ESUG 2006 conference could take part in a three hours guided tour of the centre of Prague. The tour started in Wenceslaus Square under the statue of King Wenceslaus (which English-speaking readers will remember from the Christmas carol). From there the groups went to the Old Town…

In the only track of the afternoon, Noury Bouraqadi presented Ubiquitalk, a P2P system to connect disparate system, in order to create a network where different nodes can offer different services. Ubiquitalk has been built on top of Squeak, and relies on the rST (Remote Smalltalk system) for remote message sending. Ubiquitalk is a the…