Next Meeting

Vista Smalltalk
Peter Fisk

HP5115 Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
November 1, 2006 at 7:00pm

In first part of the presentation, I will use PowerPoint slides to discuss the ideas behind Vista Smalltalk. Then, I will give a short online demonstation. Finally, I will answer any general questions.

• Introduction
• .Net Environment
• why it was created
• the virtual machine
• the libraries
• development tools
• threading
• Xaml
• Vista
• IE7 and WPF/e
• deployment options
• scripting in .Net
• new class of Internet applications
• Smalltalk and .Net
• Smalltalk history
• implementation in .Net
• image/no image
• primitives
• "third wave" language
• Online Vista Smalltalk Demo in IE7
• Questions

Location Details

The meeting will be held in Room 5115, Herzberg Laboratories (building 13 on the map at http://www.carleton.ca/cu/campus/ ). 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@simberon.com if you plan to attend.