Comments on: A Short Overview of My First OSCON

By: kofno

kofno — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:54:42 +0000

I’ll add your blog to my feed list. BTW – It was very nice meeting you, and I was pleased to see so many people taking an interest in smalltalk.

By: Randal L. Schwartz

Randal L. Schwartz — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:34:20 +0000

I apologize. It was badly designed. In my rehearsals, I had forgotten how much I would also be talking to explain, and instead just going through the typing motions and saying “uh huh” in my head. Had I also talked through it, I would have realized that the bias was wrong.

However, in my review comments, there were a number of people who did *not* know smalltalk, and were happy that I had covered that first.

In fact, every public presentation will go too fast for some, too slow for others, and cover too much or too little of every category of each thing you talk about. It’s the nature of a group presentation.

As James suggests, there are more focussed tutorials online. I’m also motivated to produce a series of screencasts of what would have been covered in the more advanced sections of this tutorial, so watch my blog at http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for updates.

By: kofno

kofno — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:05:57 +0000

I read your blog, and I know all about Seaside. The point is that I was disappointed that I was in Portland and wanted to see Randal Schwartz talk about Seaside, and, instead, I got 3.5 hours of smalltalk as an html generator. I felt that it didn’t do the topic justice.

By: James Robertson

James Robertson — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:56:17 +0000

To get an idea of basic Seaside, have a look here:

http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/cincom/blogView?content=smalltalk_daily_seaside_intro

To see Seaside integrated with ActiveRecord on Glorp, look here:

http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/cincom/blogView?content=smalltalk_videos_web_velocity