The Weekly Squeak

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.

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…