I went to Biloxi and all I got was a Tshirt, part 4

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> There don't seem to be any young people in this casino. It's all middle
> aged people and old people with time and money. Go across the street to
> the Waffle House and the prices fall in half and there are young people.
> It's an ersatz environment with its thirty foot ceilings, air
> conditioning that's always a bit too cold, and the sound of the slot
> machines. It's pleasant, but sterile after three or four days.
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> I saw Dale's presentation Practical Git For Smalltalk. The details are
> in my first post of this series. He did mention that Amber could be used
> to inspect Smalltalk code stored in GitHub. That's neat. The interesting
> part of this talk was at the end, when people from different dialects
> were asking questions. It started to take on the feeling of a revival
> meeting. People felt very strongly that this was going to be an advance
> for everybody across the board. Lots of excitement. Dale did qualify his
> position a bit saying it wasn't a panacea, but that it would be good for
> people sharing a project, like Seaside, over different dialects.
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> I saw the lightning talks which were a mixed bag. Things were displayed,
> though sometimes you weren't sure what the take-away message was
> supposed to be.
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> I'll outline mine first as it's clearest in my mind. I read the Ramon
> Leon blog posting above in December and had an epiphany that in Linux I
> wasn't starting an image, I was starting a process. Obvious on the
> surface of it, but it lead to other thoughts. seasidehosting.st has
> people upload whole images. It takes seven minutes and I've always hated
> that. Why not just upload the mcz and load it into a generic image? Make
> seasidehosting.com into a host. Upload an mcz and have a request use
> mod_rewrite with rewrite map and a BASH script to pull a subdomain
> related port and mcz into a generic image on startup?
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> Thierry Thelliez did a presentation called Compliance Certification
> Management System 2 years later. I'm not sure what it was about. You
> could Google it, I guess.
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> Bob Nemic of Cherniak Software in Toronto did a talk, I should say all
> the talks were 5 minutes, on mobile Seaside. They have a Seaside issue
> portal and he was using CSS to make a switch if somebody turns their
> iPhone sideways.
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> John O'Keefe of Instantiations showed a VA Monticello importer.
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> Martin of Cincom did something with SSH.
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> Chris Muller presented NakedObjects, which is a behavior browser. You
> drag and drop a method from the SystemBrowser into NakedObjects, which I
> believe is made with Maui. He can explain it better than I can.
>
> Seth of I believe Instantiations showed a code completion where you
> could drag one of the options and a browser would appear with it.
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> David Buck presented a SpaceWar game with old fashioned cylons he was
> building with his son.
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> Martin McClure did something with floating point.
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> There was no presentation of Amber with 0MQ. The way Sebastian told it
> to me, he and Johnny didn't gel when they tried to work together. Too
> much California and not enough Bavaria. Or the other way around. Still
> sounds like a good idea, though.
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> STIC will be held June 2013 in Arizona. There will be another
> SmalltalkDirections track, as Ralph Johnson was not discouraged: "It's a
> small start." If you contact Suzanne Fortman at the email above, she
> will give you a code for $100 off the price.
>
> No mention of Biloxi would be complete without saying Hurricane Katrina
> passed a thirty foot wave over this sandy peninsula and destroyed
> everything. You don't hear about it in the casino. Step outside and meet
> a local and you'll hear about their house being cut in half and how
> 'This Waffle House is a new building.' Then they'll tell you about the
> Deepwater Horizon oil spill. This is the South. To me, and as a
> Canadian, the South is the most distinct and opaque culture in the
> United States. Whatever it is that's unique down here does not travel
> and can't be shown on television. It's an interesting place to visit.
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> That wraps it up for my trip to Biloxi. I'm on a shuttle to the airport
> in an hour.
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> Thanks for reading,
> Chris
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