Jtalk on Roads Less Taken

ESUG day 4

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:50:52 +0000

This day started with some stress, Nicolas and I whipped up the last details of our co-presentation on Jtalk (Nicolas decided to skip Iliad ) - and my Eris demo suddenly got b0rken. But I managed to fix it and our presentation was very well received - it was great fun!

Nicolas managed to do quite a few “on the fly” demonstrations of various Jtalk snippets etc, and running the slides in Jtalk was of course a killer thing. I explained how jtalkc is being run on top of Node.js and quickly proceeded into showing the TrivialServer demo in Node.is - when Apache benchmark showed 1800 requests/second there was a spontaneous applause. :)

Touchpad finally in my hands, first day

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:42:35 +0000

Sooo…. I actually managed to order a HP Touchpad 32Gb here in Edinburgh to be picked up at Comet within 48 hours. I ordered when it was still a whopping 429£, but when I went to pick it up I got it at the UK discount price of 115, and I will get the VAT back too.

The first hours were frustrating because I was in the ESUG conference and we only had a WiFi with a so called “captive portal” with a login form - and the first time you power up a Touchpad it wants to hook up to a Palm Profile, and does not want to do that using a WiFi with a captive portal.

ESUG 2011 in Edinburgh

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:59:57 +0000

Each year I try to attend at least one developer conference. Earlier OOPSLA was a given but it lost its appeal quite a few years back and now it is not even called OOPSLA anymore. As a die hard Smalltalker I instead attended the ESUG conference in Brest 2009 and it was easily the most rewarding conference I ever have attended! Missed last year in Barcelona but this year I am going to Edinburgh for a week of Smalltalking.