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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