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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!

Suddenly it is Wednesday and we are already on day three at ESUG - a superb software developer conference focused on Smalltalk. Time flies. Yesterday I mainly hacked together with Nicolas Petton on Jtalk, really fun, unfortunately I missed a few interesting presentations, like Fuel and Bifrost etc.

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.

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.

A few weeks ago I joined the Early Access program that HP/Palm has been offering for a while and I have been toying with the new WebOS 3.0 (SDK with emulator) that appeared in public on the 1st of july when the HP Touchpads hit the stores in the US. Since a week I also have a Palm Pre 2 phone running WebOS 2.1, hopefully to be upgraded later to 3.0.

Dags för andra delen i artikelserien om att måla ett drev. Första delen avhandlade mest teori om målningsprocessen. Nu är det dags för avmontering av drevet från skölden samt applicering av färgstripper.

Vi som kör inombordare i våra båtar har typiskt drev från Volvo Penta eller Mercruiser. Dreven är av aluminium, eller typiskt någon sorts aluminiumlegering och att måla aluminium är en tekniskt sett mycket intressant process och de flesta som gjort detta kan säkert vittna om att det inte funkar så bra, färgen lossnar helt enkelt efter ett tag. Det verkar gått så långt att många helt enkelt inte ens bryr sig om att försöka bygga upp en korrekt målning utan istället slänger på lite primer och antifouling direkt på aluminiumet och får göra om samma visa efter nåt år!

Two years ago I ended up creating Tirade - a new “file format” for Smalltalkers. Or rather, a way to serialize stuff into a sequence of Smalltalk messages with literals as arguments. I have written a few blog articles about Tirade so I will not go into details in this one.

…is what I did yesterday. It was the Stockholm GTUG group having a loose and laid back meetup in a rather special venue - R1, Sweden’s first nuclear reactor! 27 meters below ground, kinda… funky.

Hmmm, after seeing the Node.js presentation at Dyncon 2011 I couldn’t help installing Nginx and Blackfoot (SimpleCGI) in a Squeak 4.2 image running on the Cog VM to make some performance tests! In fact I started doing that during the presentation. :)