Smalltalk Solutions 2005 Program Announcement

Cary, North Carolina, Dec. 8, 2004— The Smalltalk Solutions technical program has presentations in a variety of formats, covering a wide range of topics of interest to Smalltalkers.

- Keynotes are presentations by leading industry figures on topics of particular interest. Keynote speakers in previous years have included Alan Kay, Dave Thomas, George Bosworth, and Scott Ambler. Our first confirmed keynotes for this year is Niall Ross on "The Value of Smalltalk", discussing his experiences in building complex financial applications, and the benefits of using Smalltalk. Further talks to be announced.

- Tutorials present technical tpics in-depth, in a hands-on format. Tutorials are normally a half-day long, and have limited attendance, offering close interaction with the presenter. Tutorials topics in past years have included the Seaside continuation-based web framework, tuning Garbage Collection, Test-Driven Development, the Refactoring Browser rewrite tool, and the forthcoming Pollock GUI framework for VisualWorks.

- Experience reports and demos present work on Smalltalk projects, sharing experiences in real-world development and/or showing the capabilities of the resulting projects.

- Technical talks present an overview of a particular topic. These cover a wide range of topics of interest to Smalltalkers.

- Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions are informal discussions organized by attendees. These are organized outside of the regular conference schedule, and are often used as discussion forums for particular products or Smalltalk dialects.

- Camp Smalltalk is an organization dedicated to creating open source Smalltalk software. We provide space, power and network connectivity for attendees to participate in Camp Smalltalk efforts.