Oct 7 Topic: Smalltalk code fest

Meeting Oct 7 Topic: Smalltalk code fest

After the presentation we had from Gemstone about GLASS we decided to get our hands into it a bit. So next meeting will be about exploring GLASS by coding.

GLASS is:

Gemstone
Linux
Apache
Seaside
Smalltalk

I'll put some links here to download code in a few days.

Posted: Mon Sep 29 13:35:00 +0000 2008

Fifty Years of Computing at the University of Cincinnati

The University of Cincinnati would like to invite you to attend a once in a lifetime event celebrating UC’s innovation, achievement, and leadership in computing on November 10 & 11, 2008.

Details

Posted: Mon Sep 22 20:32:00 +0000 2008

Gemstone-Seaside-Maglev

James Foster spoke at a special meeting of CART last night.

You can read his trip report.

To me Seaside seems like the way to go if your Web Application has a lot of Wizard and Workflow behavior. The Gemstone-Seaside demo showed how to:

save state per page (very nice).
write continuation scripts (fabulous).
remotely debug via the browser in developer mode (amazing).

The continuation scripts let you write a sequence of steps and the framework presents a sequence of web pages as it moves though the script. The nice thing is that the entire workflow can be written together rather than broken into various actions.

It was also nice to see a small MagLev demo. This is something we will certainly all be watching and waiting for.

Thanks again to James Foster from Gemstone for giving the presentation.

Posted: Fri Sep 19 14:51:00 +0000 2008

Special Meeting THURS 18 Sept

Presentation

In this presentation, James Foster will give a brief demo of MagLev, then introduce Smalltalk, GemStone/S (a Smalltalk implementation that has built-in persistence and multi-user, multi-machine scalability), and the web framework Seaside. We will see how Seaside handles the “Back button problem” and provides a rich, component-based approach to OO web development.

Bio

James is on the Smalltalk Engineering team at GemStone Systems, Inc., and regularly presents on technical topics (last month at ESUG in Amsterdam and next month at OOPSLA in Nashville).

Posted: Tue Sep 09 22:01:00 +0000 2008

Tuesday Meeting Topic: JavaScript (Part 2)

Tuesday Meeting Topic: JavaScript (Part 2)
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Eric Galluzzo will talk about javascript.

The talk will include very brief overviews of the following:
* HTML JavaScript bindings (i.e. the DOM)
* CSS JavaScript bindings
* Fundamentals of AJAX
* Hands-on exercise

Eric's Presentation files

Posted: Sat Aug 30 13:59:00 +0000 2008

Meeting Aug 5th. Ruby JS

Use Ruby in your web browser? Yes, we can with rubyjs !

Rubyjs is ruby to javascript compiler. It allows you to write plain ole ruby code which gets compiled into javascript and executes in your browser. It's a little like rails rjs on super mega steroids. The rubyjs_on_rails plugin makes it dead simple to use rubys in your rails app. Simply put your .rb files next to your views and they get compiled to javascript in your page.

Chris Nelson will talk briefly about all the different ways to run ruby in the browser and then demonstrate rubyjs and rubyjs_on_rails with lots of examples and live coding.

Posted: Fri Jul 18 20:29:00 +0000 2008

Meeting July 1st: Javascript

Eric Galluzzo will be explaining JavaScript.

Basic JavaScript syntax
Testing JavaScript using JSUnit
Brief hands-on exercise
OO in JavaScript
(if time) HTML bindings to JavaScript
More extended hands-on exercise

JavaScript is the basis for all the neato Web 2.0 stuff that we’re seeing on the web.

Registration Page:
http://www.agileroundtable.org/pages/3

Posted: Tue Jun 24 19:19:00 +0000 2008

eRubycon early reg til Jul 4th.

EdgeCase brings you a conference demonstrating Ruby's place in the Enterprise. Hear from industry experts. The claims are real. Find out how to leverage Ruby on your next project. August 15, 16, 17, Columbus Ohio. See erubycon.com for more details.

Posted: Tue Jun 17 15:52:00 +0000 2008

June 3rd Meeting Topic RailsConf review and Capistrano 2.

RailsConf ended Sunday. So we will get a fresh review from the members who went.

And Ryan Briones will get us an update on some new Capistrano tricks for application deployment and production management.

Posted: Mon Jun 02 12:23:00 +0000 2008

May 6th. Topic: Data vs. Objects

Sit in like a fly on the wall with a development team as they wrestle
with the issues of data modeling versus object modeling. This is not
your standard slideshow and talk, but a dialogue presented in three
acts in which we explore the themes of simplicity and modularity as an
application is developed. Watch the sparks fly as old-school objects
modelers meet the Rails generation.

Just to clarify, this will be Jim Weirich and Joe from EdgeCase and
Chris Nelson (who is so cool, he doesn't need a company ... that is why they call him superchrisnelson).

Posted: Thu Apr 24 12:57:00 +0000 2008