Roads Less Taken

So OOPSLA is upon us again, as usual a great little gathering, especially a conference with a special place in the hearts of us Smalltalkers.

The highlight of monday was the Smalltalk Superpowers workshop run by Travis Griggs and Martin McClure. It was great fun and I suspect the format might turn into a "regular thing". We sat in a U-shape around a projector so we easily could move the cord around to our laptops. Then we took turns in presenting 15-minute-ish "cool tricks" in Smalltalk. Now, the definition of coolness for this workshop was based on trickery - not necessarily goodness. :)

For the apparently evil tricks we also dimmed the light - to get the right mood. After each presentation we did a quick thumbs-up-or-down-vote along the Good or Bad-axis.

This workshop has already been blogged about in much more detail, but I think it is worth noting that it was great fun and some of us also learned interesting techniques. I hope it will be repeated in the future and that the "format" catches on!

And oh, forgot to say it - I got 3 hours of tape split up in 5 pieces and inspired by Travis Griggs I just say: super super super super super …but this doesn’t cover the whole workshop - I ran out of tapes - but still, enjoy!