I submitted a simple extension of the SUnit Test Runner to the Pharo Inbox. It accurately determines the test coverage of a selected package. For the latest versions of Magritte and Pier I get the following results:
There were complaints that the slides of my Magritte presentation are puzzling. That's true, but the idea is to get people listen to the talk instead of reading the slides. Luckily you can do that now even if you were not at ESUG 2008 in Amsterdam. Have a look at the video James Robertson posted on his blog.
Several people have pointed out that Google is displaying a montage of the work of René Magritte in honor of his 110th birthday:
On Tuesday I gave a 15 minutes presentation on Magritte to give a quick overview and prepare people for the following panel discussion. The slides are available to download here. James Robertson blogged about my presentation as well as the following panel discussion.
Magritte for Seaside allows one to automatically build Seaside components from descriptive objects. There are several possibilities to customize this 3 step process:
I uploaded the slides of the Magritte presentation I gave a few weeks ago at MoDELS 2007. The associated paper with the title Magritte — A Meta-Driven Approach to Empower Developers and End Users is available for download too.
I have been visiting Stéphane Ducasse at the University Savoie in Annecy, France. A few minutes before we left for the Seaside presentation in Geneva, I had the chance to have a look at the presentation of some student projects. The most interesting project built a powerful query engine for Pier working hand-in-hand with the meta descriptions available through Magritte. The tool they present is very similar to what you have in the search of Apple Finder or the way you specify smart playlists in iTunes.
This is a collection of 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without. The question is now: who takes the opportunity to implement some of those ideas for Seaside, Pier or Magritte?
Black Bag Operations Network writes about improving their web application using meta facilities to reduce code size and improve agility: