Dialect Portability
presentation
Giorgio Ferraris: Elevensoft
Monday 2:45:00 pm to 3:30:00 pm
Abstract: This talk describes work on creating a dialect portability layer. This more than just translating syntax between dialects, but also having a base of services in different areas such as GUI, Compiler, and file handling.
Bio: Giorgio Ferraris is a chemical engineer totally devoted to software. After years of work as a software free-lance consultant he co-founded, 15 years ago, Eleven srl, a small (20 people) Italian firm developing turn-key software solutions.
He started using Smalltalk more than 15 year ago (Smalltalk/V). He began following the international community first using Compuserve and the Digitalk forum, then participating in Smalltalk and OO related user conferences, starting from the Digitalk one, to SmalltalkSolution and OOPSLA.
He has been involved on OO analysis, design and architecture definition for 10's of customers (from small to medium to large). He follows his company's internal projects like lead technical mentor.
He has held several tutorials on OO, Smalltalk, OO analysis and design for 100's of Italian people and has worked as a mentor and supervisor on several OO projects. He is currently working as a mentor on several OO projects in Italy (Smalltalk, Java and C#), and helping a big italian customer on migrating to Smalltalk.