I'm delivering a course in Toronto for the week of September 12, so I volunteered to give a presentation to the Toronto Smalltalk Users Group. Here's a summary of the presentation:

Smalltalk from the Trenches

David recounts some of his experiences as a Smalltalk consultant. Starting in 1993, he has worked for dozens of organizations and has seen great successes and great failures. In this presentation, he tells the stories of some of these projects and the lessons he learned from them. He explains his views on modern software development and how Smalltalk and Smalltalk developers have led the way to the modern techniques and practices that he teaches in Simberon's courses. He shows how, even now, the future of software development is being led by Smalltalk whether or not the rest of the world cares to notice.