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Avi Bryant, Dabble DB
Avi Bryant is the co-CEO of Dabble DB, a Vancouver startup focused on web-based data management and collaboration tools. He is the author of the Seaside web application framework, and is active in the open source Squeak Smalltalk community.
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Presentation: "1,001 Iterations: Product Design, Illustrated"Time: Monday 13:00 - 13:45 Location: To be announced
Abstract: How is a web app born? Over the past few months, the creators of Dabble DB have been building a new data visualization product - and enjoying the process immensely. This talk will lead you through the design and evolution of a unique new tool, from the initial idea through all of the mockups, experiments, epiphanies, implementations and re-implementations (in Smalltalk, Java, Ruby, Python, Javascript and ActionScript!), illustrated with screenshots and chat logs from months of collaborative remote development - not to mention an exclusive, detailed first look at one of the coolest pieces of information design you've seen in a while.
Presentation: "Speeding Ducks"Time: Monday 14:00 - 14:45 Location: To be announced
Abstract: There's a common misconception that dynamic, "duck typed" object-oriented languages are inherently slow. History shows otherwise. Starting with the advances made by implementations of historically-important languages such as Smalltalk and Self, we will discuss how these techniques are being, should be, or could be applied to current dynamic favorites such as Ruby and Javascript.
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