Frank wrote: >I'd love to hear more about your presentation. I've been thinking how >to run a kind've live-coding demonstration at work, showing how a >Smalltalk debugger is so clearly superior to what other folk have.
It is inspired by Jason Ayers' session at SPA and XPDays Benelux. It will be a short session, as there will be 2 other presentations on non-intuitive subjects. Devnology has a diverse public with mostly java and c# developers. Agilists in those environments are likely to advocate writing a test instead of using a debugger, and are often unaware of the incremental development possibilities offered by the smalltalk debugger. >(Squeak trunk now lets you create methods not just on an MNU but also >where people have things like "self subclassResponsibility", "self >notYetImplemented" or "self shouldBeImplemented" flags such that you >can debug-edit-and-continue.) Yes, I saw your blog post yesterday. Cool. That's definitely something I would like to show. I haven't given much thought yet to which debugger I want to use. I'm tempted to use the GTDebugger and modify it during the session (to add your new extensions perhaps) but that is something I have to try and time first. It might be too much magic. Stephan
