Fosdem 2007
Posted by Damien Pollet Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:47:00 GMT
This weekend (24–25 february) I’m going to Bruxelles for my yearly beer pilgrimage. Oh, and attending the Fosdem, too ;-)
Beer recommendations welcome in the comments; see you there!
Contagious smalltalkers
Posted by Damien Pollet Thu, 07 Sep 2006 21:09:00 GMT
Besides getting more faces to put on mailing-lists posts, meeting Squeak and VisualWorks hackers during this whole week has been very motivating:
While Stef wrote tests for Regex, Oscar Nierstrasz and I started porting some good ideas from the string manipulation methods of Ruby to Squeak: and here is RubyShards.
I contributed my share of bugs to Damien Cassou’s ImageForDevelopers that will install a bunch of stuff from SqueakMap and SqueakSource and make a nicer base image.
Philippe Marschall from the Berne group spent quite some time with me trying to add static URLs for the main menu of SqueakSource, but it uses an ancient release of Seaside, so the patch would end up duplicating functionality (better help upgrading SqS to the latest Seaside I guess).
We also saw also some quite interesting talks during the research session, in particular from the team at ULB which is planning to record object histories (yes, execution traces with full state) or Romain Robbes from Lugano who wants to spy all actions the developer makes to make meaningful versioning systems.
Finally I think anyone will remember Plopp developed by the team at Impara, and winner of this year’s ESUG Awards ;-)
Talks redux
Posted by Damien Pollet Tue, 05 Sep 2006 12:24:00 GMT
Reflective properties of Smalltalk should be improved! [Markus about Geppeto]
In stateless traits, there is no state. [Stef about stateful traits]
We don’t use clean, carefully chosen, or meaningful URLs. [Lukas’ opening slide on Seaside]
Hi from ESUG'2006!
Posted by Damien Pollet Sat, 02 Sep 2006 09:20:00 GMT
I’m at in Prague, attending ESUG’2006 as a volunteer student until next friday.
Many interesting people to meet and many intensive hacking hours ahead :-)
Update: For photos, you might want to check James Robertson’s blog, as he’s reporting from the talks in near realtime. eXtreme Blogging?
Fosdem 2006
Posted by Damien Pollet Thu, 23 Feb 2006 22:49:00 GMT
This weekend I’ll be attending the Fosdem in Bruxelles.
Between two beers, I’ll most probably spend most of my time with the Étoilé guys, getting started with GNUstep, hacking on the Nokia 770 or doing Smalltalk stuff.
See you there!
