NY Smalltalk Developers Group August General Meeting
Thursday, August 19, 1999 - 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
IBM headquarters in Manhattan
590 Madison Avenue at 57th St

--- !!! Also featuring - Refreshments !!! ---

Classic Blend - Next Generation
The key to compelling Web applications with Smalltalk
Dan Drasin


PocketSmalltalk for Palm
"Datbase Protocols and Wrappers"
Steve Harris & Charles Monteiro


An Introduction to Squeak's Morphic UI Framework
Charles Monteiro



6:00 - 6:55pm

Part One

Steve Harris and Charles Monteiro will review PocketSt Database
protocols
and as well as introduce the notion of a database wrapper which allows
the
developer to treat databases as if they were ordinary ST collections.

Part Two

Charles Monteiro will present an introduction into Squeak 's Morphic UI
Layer.

Morphic was initially developed for Self and has since been
incorporated
into Squeak. The presentation will include aspects of mouse event
handling,
graphics display and animation all of which are core to the interactive
nature of Morphic UI widgets.


6:55 - 7:10 pm

Break ( refreshments )


7:10 - 8:30 pm

Dan Drasin, "Classic Blend - Next Generation
The key to compelling Web applications with Smalltalk"


Classic Blend - Next Generation integrates with the IBM's VisualAge
Smalltalk and ObjectShare's VisualWorks Smalltalk to create the
ultimate
solution for compelling web applications in Smalltalk. Classic
Blend-Next
Generation automates the creation of an "ultra-thin" Java client as the
user interface tier of a 3-tier architecture. Built on the robust,
mature
technology of Classic Blend (generally available for 2 years), Classic
Blend-Next Generation's unique partitioning approach automates the
client-server connection and provides a highly responsive user
interface.

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BIO:

Dan Drasin
Director of Engineering

As Director of Engineering for Applied Reasoning, Dan Drasin has lead
the
development of the Company's Java and Smalltalk products, including
Classic
Blend and GeoSynchrony. Dan has developed quality assurance
frameworks
for Applied Reasoning's products, helped numerous clients apply Applied
Reasoning's technology to the customer's problem domain and is in
charge of
the development and maintenance of all Applied Reasoning products. Dan
has
more than five years of object-oriented application development and
three
years of Java development experience. Dan holds Bachelor's Degrees in
Computer Science, Math and Political Science from Indiana University.