Videos tagged with Smalltalk

Summary Ralph Johnson and Joe Armstrong discuss their ideas about parallel programming - whether shared memory is harmful, the place of message passing, fault tolerance, the importance of protocols and more. Bio Ralph Johnson, one of the GoF behind the Design Patterns book and behind the creation of the original Refactoring Browser, is now at the CS dept. at the UIUC and the leader of UIUC Patt...

Summary Avi Bryant talks about the iterative process that led to Trendly (http://trendly.com/ ), using Javascript, Ruby and Java in the process. He goes on to give his view on the state of Smalltalk and Squeak and talks about his experiments with writing a Smalltalk that compiles to idiomatic Javascript to make use of all the modern Javascript VMs. Bio Avi Bryant is the co-CEO of Dabble DB, a V...

This session will highlight some of the most fundamental and timeless best practices described in Kent Beck’s book “SmallTalk Best Practice Patterns” in the context of Ruby development. The Ruby community has fostered a great pioneering spirit at its core. Rubyists eagerly investigate new tools, approaches and programming techniques to unleash Ruby’s full power and expre...

Summary In this interview filmed at QCon SF 2008, Lennart Augustsson talks about writing DSLs in Haskell, presenting the advantages offered by the language. In that context, he talks about embedded DSLs, static and dynamic languages, syntax and semantics, monads and many other related topics. Bio Lennart Augustsson was previously a lecturer at the CS Department at Chalmers University of Technol...

Summary In this keynote from the JVM Languages Summit 2008, James Gosling discusses how his history with programming languages led to Java's creation, code as algebra, how users use a product in very unusual ways, Java as a compromise between C and scripting languages, ANDF and Virtual Machines, pointer integrity, the Java object model, gotos and multilevel breaks, primitives and optimization t...

Summary Sun Fellow Guy Steele is interviewed by Floyd Marinescu, co-founder of InfoQ, and Bobby Norton of ThoughtWorks. Guy works for the Programming Language Research Group. The interview focuses on programming languages, the lessons to be learned from the past and what to expect from the future. Bio Guy Steele is a Sun Fellow for Sun Microsystems Laboratories, working on the Programming Langu...

Summary In this interview, Avi Bryant talks about the Smalltalk web framework Seaside, DabbleDB, using Smalltalk images for persistence instead of an RDBMs, GemStone and more. Bio Avi Bryant is the co-CEO of Dabble DB, a Vancouver startup focused on web-based data management and collaboration tools. He is the author of the Seaside web application framework, and is active in the open source Sque...

Summary Martin Fowler, Frank Buschmann, Steve Cook, Jimmy Nilsson, and Dave Thomas discuss the future of software development. Topics covered include outsourcing, is Google the next MS?, multi-core & parallism, grid computing, software stacks of the future, and more. A thoroughly thought-provoking panel! JAOO is producing the QCon event. Bio The panel was moderated by Martin Fowler, and inc...

Summary Zed Shaw sat down with InfoQ's Obie Fernandez to talk about his project Mongrel. The discussion moves on Ruby in the Enterprise and ways to make money from it. The interview ends with Zed talking about his ventures into languages such as Smalltalk, Lua and the Forth-inspired Factor. Bio Zed Shaw has been developing software for close to 14 years professionally and has worked in such ind...

Roger Whitney explores Seaside, the web application framework based on Smalltalk.