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This is my non-tutorial day. There's one or two workshops going on (I hear the Croquet one is interesting). For me, it's a "hang out and code" day. Betwixt talking and watching website funnies, I managed to do some work on SUnitToo.

SUnitToo uses the triggerEvent: mechanism to "plug in" different responders to tests as they run. I got my hands on an alternate to the triggerEvent: framework (framework and author left unnamed until he posts the stuff to the OpenRepository). So I spent the morning changing SUnit to use this framework. More on that later, short summary: I like this framework. What was really "meta" was when I switched the tests that tested the framework to SUnitToo, so that I was now using the framework to test itself.

In the afternoon I played with hacking the RB. Its always nice to have John Brant there by you when you go to do this sort of thing. What I wanted to do was not "easily" supported by the existing RB framework. And yet, it's an amazing testament to Smalltalk itself, that while ugly and hackish, I was able to do what I wanted with minimal mods.

The Welcome Reception was really quite good. I've worked up this theory that catering at US conferences sucks, and that to get good catering, you have to go to Canada. At least at this reception, I was wrong. Not only was the food good and plentiful, but the posters seemed better than normal. There was the usual meaningless ones. But there was some interesting ones too. Some on Ruby. One on geometric structure parallels found in program bodies. One was based on Self research! And two had Smalltalk on them.

Went to the "first time OOPSLA attendee" meeting. No, I'm not a first time OOPSLAite, but it was still very interesting. Good thoughts by Ralph Johnson, Don Robers, and some other guy from San Diego. Short of it: there's lots of ways to experience and enjoy OOPSLA.