Hi all. Andres Vallound , one of our members here at NYC Smalltalk and the recent winner of the Smalltalk Solutions 2006 coding contest will be presenting. He plans on showing us what it took to win the contest. Should be fun. As always we will also meet after the presentation for some beers and etc and continue the discussions there at La Vigna, the restaurant right inside of the New Yorker hotel around the corner from the presentation.

Some details here:

Date & Time

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

Open house — 6:30 PM

Presentation — 7:00 PM – approx 8 PM

Drinks and Food — after at La Vigna

Directions can be found on our web site.

Abstract

This presentation describes an approach to the coding
contest at Smalltalk Solutions 2006. Many deep abstraction techniques
are put to use to deliver a framework of expression that is extremely
easy to change and maintain. Part playing video games and part
introspective, this strategy was awarded first place in Toronto.

Bio

Andres has been programming since age 10, has been programming in
Smalltalk for the last 10 years, and has been an artist at it for the
last 5 years. He has received a check from Donald Knuth regarding The
Art of Computer Programming. He is currently writing a book on
Smalltalk. He recently won the Smalltalk Solutions 2006 Coding
Contest, and has been accepted as a presenter at OOPSLA 2006.
Presently, he works as a Smalltalk consultant at JP Morgan.