Software Engineering - Smalltalk

The SGV Software Engineering group, is a group of devs, admins, hardware hackers, seeking seeking to write more maintainable and robust code. And hopefully we can avoid the dreaded, "who wrote this!", only to have Git blame to say it was us.

Smalltalk-80 pioneered many innovative software IDE and language features we take for granted today, but what became of Smalltalk itself? As it nears its 40th birthday, has Smalltalk become a relic of the past? No longer used (or even usable) today? Given only historical mention in passing in CS courses? In this talk, you will learn about Smalltalk's colorful history, find out how it evolved into a modern competitive platform, and see demonstrations of some of its very cool and still innovative features that are motivating a budding renaissance.

Speaker's Bio:

Ted Brunzie is a Senior Software Engineer at JPL/Caltech, where he develops and integrates systems to support test & operations in telecom, simulation/modeling, data acquisition, and automated monitor & control. His focus includes LabVIEW development (LVOOP & Actor Framework), Lua scripting frameworks, Linux/Windows networking & sysadmin, DevOps, automated testing, and closed-loop control & data acquisition. His language interests also include Pharo (Smalltalk), which he is currently working to infuse into the JPL culture.

We generally give ~15 minutes give every a chance to get in a drink or food order before we start the presentation (No purchase is required). As part of building one another to become better engineers, we encourage members to bring code they are working and to participate in peer reviews after the presentation.

Parking
Parking is free, but sometimes can be crowded around the start of the meeting. More parking can be found in the lot on the block south of Dupars.

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