Roads Less Taken

Things are posted a bit out of order here but anyway, I also taped stuff at the Seaside BOF (Bird Of a Feather session) and the Squeak BOF. The Seaside BOF movie is mainly a demo of Webvelocity from Cincom and the efforts by Gemstone and Cincom in the Seaside arena.

The Squeak BOF this year turned out smaller and shorter as usual, only three presenters and we covered "only" two hours. I was first one out with a presentation about Blackfoot - a small, simple, hopefully fast SimpleCGI implementation. I didn’t tape myself though! :)

Second was Dave Ungar presenting Squeak running on the Tile64 CPU from Tilera, major coolness factor, although there is some work left to do there.

Third was Jecel Assumpcao giving us a tour through the history of CPUs and in particular the history of Smalltalk CPUs. He also told us about his latest project, SiliconSqueak.

I hope you enjoy them and next time I produce videos I will be using h.264 (x264 through mencoder using the h264enc script) since some tests last night showed a clear improvement both in size and quality compared to xvid.