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I'm an expert in object design, object language design, reflective programming, and the maintenance and evolution of large applications (visualization, metrics, meta-modeling). My work on traits has been introduced in AmbientTalk, Slate, Pharo, Perl-6, PHP 5.4 and Squeak. They have been ported to JavaScript. It has influenced the Scala and Fortress languages. I'm one of the founders of Pharo (http://www.pharo.org/), a new pure open-source object language inspired by Smalltalk. I head its industry consortium http://consortium.pharo.org. I'm one of the designers of Moose, an analysis platform (http://www.moosetechnology.org/). I was one of the founders of Synectique, a company offering dedicated analysis tools.
I'm interested in virtual machines and language implementation.
I have written several books on language-related subjects and other topics such as learning to program and web programming: some are available at http://books.pharo.org. I co-constructed a highly acclaimed Moocs on Pharo and object programming: http://mooc.pharo.org and https://advanced-design-mooc.pharo.org
I regularly work with companies such as Arolla, Berger-Levrault, Thales, Framatome, Siemens, CIM, Worldline.
I'm interested in understanding how to solve their challenges.
About the author
Stéphane Ducasse:
Spec is the default UI building framework for Pharo. With Spec, developers focus on user interaction and widget layout. Spec is built around the Model View Presenter pattern. Presenters are responsible for defining the interaction logic of the application. They enforce the interaction of their subelements as well as domain objects.
With Spec, existing presenters or even complete UIs are reused and configured to form a new user interface. Spec is widget framework (GTK, Morphic, Toplo) agnostic. It makes desktop applications simple to build.
This book shows the basics of Spec in Pharo 12 and how it enables reuse of user interface elements. It focuses on Spec 2.0 features such as new widget layouts, dynamic widget building and more advanced features such as transmissions or commands.
The book contains:
- Deep explanations of various Spec 2.0 facets.
- A tutorial gets you started in less than 20 minutes.
- A minimal email client revisiting all Spec 2.0 features.
