Vancouver Lisp Users Group meeting for November
Monday, November 7, 2005
We've got a "double banger" for November - two presentations in one
night! Both will be related to innovations in how one might
manage/use data.
Note: The venue will be different from our previous meetings. This
new venue is close to UBC, is quiet, has a VGA projector, and (most
importantly) sells beer.
Here's the "official" meeting notice:
Topic: Data Innovations
Presenter: Bill Clementson and Avi Bryant/Andrew Catton
Date: Thursday, November 17, 2005
Time: 7pm - 10pm (or whenever)
Venue:
Think!, 4512 West 10th Ave., Vancouver (see
map)
Summary: There will be two presentations at this meeting:
- RDBMS's are a kludge! Bill Clementson will give a presentation on AllegroCache, Franz's new all-lisp object database. Forget about schemas and views, just think objects (and not just CLOS objects!).
- The "long tail" of software development. Who builds radically customizable software for the individual or small business? Nobody, right? There are no margins in that, right? Well, Dabble is an attempt to prove that wrong. Avi Bryant and Andrew Catton will give a demo of a new approach to data management (written in Smalltalk, but we won't hold that against them ;-)).
