NYC Smalltalk will have its next presentation on May 4th, 2006. Our dear friend and once upon regular British friend now living in Australia will bring us up to date on his long standing SkillBase system.

The OpenSkills SkillsBase system runs using an application server that
has the advanced features one would expect but with several unique
properties. Demonstrations will be interleaved throughout the talk.
The following is a small selection of the topics Bruce will include.
o No impedence missmatch when persisting objects
o Huge numbers of instances of the application are possible
o No HTTP session affinity required (i.e. apps can be RESTful)
o A cache of unmodified objects shared by all instances
o One language throughout the system
o Application code is executed in the databases processes …..
o The DBMS *is* the application server
o Premier IDE from which code is injected directly into the app server
… though we do use a staging area for production changes

Bruce Badger is an enthusiastic technologist and the Founder and
President of OpenSkills.org, a global non-profit association of
professional individuals. His strong technical leadership skills have
contributed to his success of a wide range of IT projects, over a
period of more than 25 years. He has built and deployed many systems
and libraries over the past 10 years, preferring to develop software
using Smalltalk, a pure Object Oriented language. Bruce is currently
focusing on the evolution of the services market as Free and Open
Source software is increasingly adopted. He has written a number of
Open Source libraries, and is currently engaged with building the
support systems for the OpenSkills association.

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