I see the next talk is about docker, so live updating images sounds like the right thing to do. In Pharo I mostly show glamour, roassal and seaside. The rewrite engine might also be interesting to show.
Stephan Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone > Op 30 okt. 2016 om 08:39 heeft Christian Haider > <christian.hai...@smalltalked-visuals.com> het volgende geschreven: > > Hi all, > > in two weeks, I am going to give a little talk about Smalltalk: > http://metameute.de/nook2016/ . > It is 45 min with students who probably never heard of Smalltalk. > I want to concentrate on the liveliness of the environment with the tools: > Workspace, Inspector, Browser and Debugger. > > For this, I need a simple but nice example. > > I will use VisualWorks 8.2 and Mirko, a new Smalltalk lover, will use Pharo 5. > We want to have the computers connected, maybe also a Pi, to show the > platform independence of the image concept. > > The first idea was a chat client. A client and a server in one image. Then in > two images on one machine, on two machines (also the Pi), maybe in two > dialects (VW, Pharo). > Possible to transfer code (blocks) across images (that should blow their > minds J). > This is cool, but I am not sure if this is not too much and distracting with > other technologies. > > Another is to read a csv file or web service and parse it into objects. With > the right kind of cool data it is fun to mold these objects for the tools. > This not so sexy, but easy to do from scratch. Unfortunately, the different > computers would not play a role. > > As you see, I am a bit lost and wanted to ask you guys for ideas. > > Happy hacking, > Christian > > P.S. Here in Lübeck, a town in northern Germany, the attitude towards > Smalltalk is generally positive, interested and curious. Maybe it is time for > a Smalltalk renaissance?
