ESUG 2025

ESUG 2025 Gdansk itself caught me off guard. Walking through the old town, brand new buildings sit right next to houses that look centuries old. Not all of it is old, and not all of it was destroyed and rebuilt - it's a mix, with some streets and buildings historically reconstructed after the war and plenty of genuinely new construction alongside them. Being there as a German added its own layer o

ESUG 2024

ESUG 2024 ESUG 2024 was held in Lille, and the recordings are on Youtube. Next one on the backlog. I gave one talk that year, "A tale about scale" (slides). It's the story of ApptiveGrid going from "one laptop, me, and Pharo" (the CPM model: Computer, Pharo, Me) to about 5000 users, and everything that pulled in along the way: an issue tracker, a CI pipeline, migrations, and on the technical side

Smalltalks 2024

Smalltalks 2024 In November I was at Smalltalks 2024, the annual conference of FAST in Argentina, with stops in Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata, and gave two talks there. FAST invited me over, which I'm very grateful for. One was "ApptiveGrid: solve (business) problems without programming" (slides). The starting point is a simple idea: what if a URL wasn't just an address but an actual reference to

ESUG 2023

ESUG 2023 ESUG 2023 was held in Lyon at the end of August, and the talk recordings have been up on Youtube for a while now. Time to finally point to them here, before I completely lose track of which year is next on the backlog. I gave two talks that year. One was "Soil - a fresh look on OO databases" together with Marcus Denker, about the object database I've been building. The other was "Visual

ESUG 2022

ESUG 2022 It took a while this time until all presentation videos were reviewed and published. And it took me some time as well to write this post. On youtube you can find presentation videos show us your project videos Last year I did the following presentations: There is no magic until you talk about databases (slides). In this presentation I describe how our technology stack grow much smaller b