Pushing the envelope as usual, this month’s Agile Round Table broke some new ground. But new ground is not unusual here, so maybe it’s just broke ground. While cyclical, with the latest toolset being Rails, between macro cycles the group explores and experiments with other technology. Of note lately have been the deep dives into Javascript and exploring its native OO capabilities. Last week the group wrote an implementation that created triangles in a smalltalk web app framework from Seaside called Squeak.
Now I’m not going to pretend that I understood it all. In fact, I spent the first half of the day at ArcReady, the second half at this quarter’s MSDN Event, so by the third half I was basically spent and didn’t have much left. Still, the subject matter is fascinating, and it’s such a growth experience to spend time around folks who don’t like to be comfortable within a skill set.
What I did gather, if I caught it all correctly, is that we were writing code in a browser-based development environment. The usual crowd was in attendance: @dougalcorn, @jimweirich, @esumerfd, @objwind, and others. So here are the links. If you have an evening, give Squeak a try.
Silent Seaside screen cast and here
Steve Wessels has a tutorial and here
Seaside Book
Installing the GemStone/S Web Edition on Mac OS X Leopard
- Andy
