The Raleigh-area Ruby Brigade (raleigh.rb) May Meeting

__An Introduction To Seaside__

Seaside is an open source, cross-Smalltalk web application framework. Like Ruby on Rails, it is "opinionated software". Unlike Rails, it's fairly heretical in its approach to building stateful web applications. I'll introduce Seaside, cover some Smalltalk basics, and answer questions from the audience.

About the speaker: James Robertson has 20 years of experience in the software development industry, as a line developer, a consultant, a pre/post sales engineer, and most recently, as the Product Evangelist for Cincom Smalltalk. He's also the author of a few open source tools, such as the RSS/Atom news aggregator BottomFeeder, and of the Silt Blog server. He has deep experience in Smalltalk and OO development, and has pioneered various kinds of product evangelism at Cincom, including the use of blogging and podcasting as a way of expanding mindshare for the products he manages.