The CHOOSE executive board and the IAM is pleased to invite you to the IAM Kolloquium http://www.iam.unibe.ch/Kolloquium/ for the talk "Industry and Innovation: Carving a New Platform for Dynamic Web Applications" by Avi Bryant

16 November 2004 at 17h30 Institut fuer Wirtschaftsinformatik (IWI), Universitaet Bern, Engehaldenstrasse 8, 3012 Bern, Hoersaal 001, Travel instructions: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Resources/Maps/

Industry and Innovation: Carving a New Platform for Dynamic Web Applications

The open source Squeak Smalltalk environment has traditionally been seen as a platform for research and education rather than for mainstream commercial use. This talk will describe the recent efforts to close that gap, in the form of several packages for Squeak Smalltalk that are geared towards business and team development: Seaside, a web application framework; Monticello, a source code versioning tool; ROE, a framework for relational data; and GOODS, a client library for a free object oriented database. These packages are an interesting hybrid: their requirements come out of the business world, but their designs are informed by the innovative and pure-object culture of Squeak. The end result is a complete platform that allows business applications to be built quickly and reliably, on a free and open source core, without losing sight of the fun that is intrinsic to working in Squeak.

Bio: Avi Bryant is an independent consultant currently residing in the Netherlands. He has been a driving force behind the use of Squeak Smalltalk as a platform for commercial software development, and maintains many of its most widely used packages. As a consultant, he has helped companies develop Squeak-based products for the travel and theatre industries, higher education, and mobile devices. Avi previously worked as a developer and research assistant for the University of British Columbia. He is the father of inventor of Seaside http://beta4.com/seaside2/

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