Meetings:2007-02

From GTALUG

Date

Tuesday February 13, 2007

Time

7:30 pm

Topic

Web Pages With the Smalltalk Language

Speaker

Chris Cunnington

Description

Avi Bryant in Vancouver created the Seaside framework for using Smalltalk to create web pages. It's the basis of his $2 million, venture capitalist funded Dabble DB project. As Seaside is an open source project combined with the Squeak virtual machine, I've created the World's first commercial Smalltalk web host. [1] If you haven't heard of Smalltalk, it made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs. The 1984 Apple Macintosh owed everything it stole from Smalltalk, the Alto computer, and Xerox PARC, where Turing Award winner Alan Kay invented it. Smalltalk, the original object-oriented language, is back -- tanned, rested -- and ready to kick some ass in the emerging web services age.

Location

   Room GB244, Galbraith Building, University of Toronto
   Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G8 
   University of Toronto 

Map

http://oracle.osm.utoronto.ca/map/

http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=35+St+George+St,+Toronto,+ON&hl=en

Speaker Requirements

The speaker requires a projector as he is bringing an iBook G4 laptop with a VGA adaptor.