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I've got two upcoming talks, both on BottomFeeder:

Ottawa, November 3rd

The Ottawa Carleton Smalltalk Users Group will be holding its next meeting on November 3, 2004. We are pleased to welcome James Robertson from Cincom to give the presentation.

BottomFeeder

James Robertson
Nov 3, 2004
7:00 PM
Room 5115 Herzberg Building
Carleton University

BottomFeeder is an RSS/Atom news aggregator written in VisualWorks Smalltalk. In this talk I'll explain:

• what a news aggregator is
• why you should care
• Go over some implementation details

BottomFeeder is a smart network client, dealing with XML, Http, XML-RPC, and SOAP. It's a free, open source application - many of the pieces can be easily reused in other application, including the HTTP layer (which handles authentication, mod gzip, and encoding issues), the online updating layer (which allows BottomFeeder to be updated on the fly).

Questions will be welcome.

The meeting will be held in Room 5115, Herzberg Laboratories (building 13 on the map ). Pay-parking is available in Lot 1, 2, and parking meters can be found along University Drive. Free parking is available across Bronson Avenue opposite Lot 5.

Please RSVP to david@simberon.com if you plan to attend. For more details, please visit the web site at http://smalltalk.ottawa.on.ca

Then, on November 4th I'll be in Toronto:

The Toronto Smalltalk User Group has two meetings scheduled: Oct. 14 we have Dorin Sandu and Mark Suska from Abrai Smalltalk and, hot on the heals of his Ottawa presentation, Nov. 4 we have James Robertson with a demo of BottomFeeder.

Both meetings are at the offices of Northwater Capital, 47th floor of the Bay Wellington tower, on the corner of Bay and Wellington, and both start at 6:30. We will be providing refreshments, so please send a note to TSUG@rogers.com with 'Smalltalk' in the subject line, and tell us you will be attending.

For more information, see the TSUG website