http://onsmalltalk.com/scaling-seaside-more-advanced-load-balancing-and-publishing
sfortman at cincom.com

There don't seem to be any young people in this casino. It's all middle 
aged people and old people with time and money. Go across the street to 
the Waffle House and the prices fall in half and there are young people. 
It's an ersatz environment with its thirty foot ceilings, air 
conditioning that's always a bit too cold, and the sound of the slot 
machines. It's pleasant, but sterile after three or four days.

I saw Dale's presentation Practical Git For Smalltalk. The details are 
in my first post of this series. He did mention that Amber could be used 
to inspect Smalltalk code stored in GitHub. That's neat. The interesting 
part of this talk was at the end, when people from different dialects 
were asking questions. It started to take on the feeling of a revival 
meeting. People felt very strongly that this was going to be an advance 
for everybody across the board. Lots of excitement. Dale did qualify his 
position a bit saying it wasn't a panacea, but that it would be good for 
people sharing a project, like Seaside, over different dialects.

I saw the lightning talks which were a mixed bag. Things were displayed, 
though sometimes you weren't sure what the take-away message was 
supposed to be.

I'll outline mine first as it's clearest in my mind. I read the Ramon 
Leon blog posting above in December and had an epiphany that in Linux I 
wasn't starting an image, I was starting a process. Obvious on the 
surface of it, but it lead to other thoughts. seasidehosting.st has 
people upload whole images. It takes seven minutes and I've always hated 
that. Why not just upload the mcz and load it into a generic image? Make 
seasidehosting.com into a host. Upload an mcz and have a request use 
mod_rewrite with rewrite map and a BASH script to pull a subdomain 
related port and mcz into a generic image on startup?

Thierry Thelliez did a presentation called Compliance Certification 
Management System 2 years later. I'm not sure what it was about. You 
could Google it, I guess.

Bob Nemic of Cherniak Software in Toronto did a talk, I should say all 
the talks were 5 minutes, on mobile Seaside. They have a Seaside issue 
portal and he was using CSS to make a switch if somebody turns their 
iPhone sideways.

John O'Keefe of Instantiations showed a VA Monticello importer.

Martin of Cincom did something with SSH.

Chris Muller presented NakedObjects, which is a behavior browser. You 
drag and drop a method from the SystemBrowser into NakedObjects, which I 
believe is made with Maui. He can explain it better than I can.

Seth of I believe Instantiations showed a code completion where you 
could drag one of the options and a browser would appear with it.

David Buck presented a SpaceWar game with old fashioned cylons he was 
building with his son.

Martin McClure did something with floating point.

There was no presentation of Amber with 0MQ. The way Sebastian told it 
to me, he and Johnny didn't gel when they tried to work together. Too 
much California and not enough Bavaria. Or the other way around. Still 
sounds like a good idea, though.

STIC will be held June 2013 in Arizona. There will be another 
SmalltalkDirections track, as Ralph Johnson was not discouraged: "It's a 
small start." If you contact Suzanne Fortman at the email above, she 
will give you a code for $100 off the price.

No mention of Biloxi would be complete without saying Hurricane Katrina 
passed a thirty foot wave over this sandy peninsula and destroyed 
everything. You don't hear about it in the casino. Step outside and meet 
a local and you'll hear about their house being cut in half and how 
'This Waffle House is a new building.' Then they'll tell you about the 
Deepwater Horizon oil spill. This is the South. To me, and as a 
Canadian, the South is the most distinct and opaque culture in the 
United States. Whatever it is that's unique down here does not travel 
and can't be shown on television. It's an interesting place to visit.

That wraps it up for my trip to Biloxi. I'm on a shuttle to the airport 
in an hour.

Thanks for reading,
Chris