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If you want to know how BottomFeeder went from concept to deployment, then you'll want to attend my case study at StS 2004. Register today!:

BottomFeeder - a Smalltalk Development case study
presentation
James Robertson: Cincom
Wednesday 8:30:00 am to 9:15:00 am

Abstract: I'll discuss the process of building, deploying and updating a VisualWorks Smalltalk application. The focus will be on BottomFeeder - http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/BottomFeeder - an open source RSS/Atom news aggregator. This should cover

• Development issues (dealing with RSS, character encoding issues)
• Deployment issues (building a deployable and installable application)
• Cross platform issues (Unicode, character sets, libraries, look and feel)
• On the fly updating of a deployed application

Bio: I got started in Smalltalk quite by accident in 1993 - I was in between consulting assignments at Booz- Allen, my employer at the time. Booz Allen had a training contract with ParcPlace, but had lost both of their instructors. I got picked because I had some teaching experience - 2 1/2 years of junior high and high school. They put a junior guy with no training experience, but some (about a year) Smalltalk experience, figuring that the two of us would figure it out.

I spent 9 months teaching for Booz Allen, but got lured over to ParcPlace - I decided that I would much rather be where Smalltalk was being created! I spent almost two years teaching the intro class before I moved into sales - as a sales engineer. That got very hairy over the next 4 years during the PPD nightmare and the ObjectShare confusion.

When Cincom took over VisualWorks in 1999, I came along, retaining my role as a sales engineer. After about a year, I moved up to Product Management, which is where I still am.

See you in Seattle!