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Vancouver Lisp Users Group meeting for August

Sunday, August 21, 2005

For our next meeting of "lispvan", Avi Bryant, the author of the Seaside continuation-based web application framework (which is written in Smalltalk), will be giving us a presentation describing his web application framework. Since Drew Crampsie gave the presentation last month covering his lisp-on-lines package (which is built on top of Marco Baringer's UCW, a CL continuation-based web application framework), this meeting will give us the opportunity to compare/contrast the approaches taken in each of the frameworks. If you're interested in alternative approaches to web application development, it should be an interesting meeting!

Here's the "official" meeting notice:

Topic: Seaside - a Smalltalk continuation-based web application framework
Presenter: Avi Bryant
Date: Thursday, August 25, 2005
Time: 7pm - 10pm (or whenever)
Venue: Tobys Pub and Grill (see map)
Summary: Avi Bryant, the author of the Seaside continuation-based web application framework (which is written in Smalltalk), will be giving us a presentation describing his application framework.

This meeting will also be a trial run to test a different format for Lisp user group meetings. In the past, we've usually either had

1. a social get-together at a pub

OR


2. a "formal" technical presentation at a venue that had a VGA projector and screen (and subsequently retired to a pub after the presentation, which often involved driving to a different location)