The Ottawa Carleton Smalltalk Users Group will be holding its next 
meeting on November 3, 2004.  We are pleased to welcome James Robertson 
from Cincom to give the presentation.

BottomFeeder

James Robertson
Nov 3, 2004
7:00 PM
Room 5115 Herzberg Building
Carleton University

BottomFeeder is an RSS/Atom news aggregator written in VisualWorks 
Smalltalk.  In this talk I'll explain:

-- what a news aggregator is
-- why you should care
-- Go over some implementation details

BottomFeeder is a smart network client, dealing with XML, Http, XML-RPC, 
and SOAP.  It's a free, open source application - many of the pieces can 
be easily reused in other application, including the HTTP layer (which 
handles authentication, mod gzip, and encoding issues), the online 
updating layer (which allows BottomFeeder to be updated on the fly).

Questions will be welcome.

The meeting will be held in Room 5115, Herzberg Laboratories (building
13 on the map <http://www.carleton.ca/cu/campus/map.htm> ). Pay-parking
is available in Lot 1, 2, and parking meters can be found along
University Drive. Free parking is available across Bronson Avenue
opposite Lot 5.

Please RSVP to david at simberon.com <mailto:david at simberon.com> if you
plan to attend.
For more details, please visit the web site at
http://smalltalk.ottawa.on.ca.