Last saturday, I went to FOSDEM. It's a good place to talk about Seaside, and it made me think about how to explain the advantages Seaside offers for fast web app development. The lightning talk by Damien had a bit of a focus problem. Trying to cover all that's going on in the smalltalk world in 20 minutes creates an audience problem: too many difficult concepts for those who are new to Seaside and Smalltalk.
That gives rise to the question: what should be in a lightning talk?
Showing off is good, and I think it should be something like building a full app in that time.
Perhaps I should try to reduce my canvas demo app to its essentials, and practice typing and explaining it in 20 minutes. It has Magritte, Seaside, graphics and persistence.
2008-02-25
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