In February, we are going to have two BLUG members presenting in our monthly meeting!

First we will have Bernat Romagosa Carrasquer , member of the Catalan Smalltalk Workgroup, presenting Smalltalk programming language. It is the language after which the concept Object Oriented Programming was invented, its first implementation was designed and implemented in the 70s by the Xerox Palo Alto Research Group. Smalltalk is unthinkable without its environment, which is part of the language itself and, thus, inseparable from it. This environment, already in the 70s, featured menus, windows, overlapping graphics, WYSIWYG text editors and, essentially, everything we know about GUIs nowadays. As a fun fact, it's interesting to point out that the language and its environment are actually coded in Smalltalk, making it one of the most reflective, self-referenced and dynamic languages ever.

Second topic will be presented by Barcode, core member of BLUG and leader of Open Hardware groups including Quadcopter (including the Reprap project). Just back from Germany's yearly Hacker Congress in Berlin December 2009, he will be giving some insights and impressions in his report. Presenting and discussing interesting projects, latest research results and bits of art culture and fun. All that topped up with a very brief tutorial how to not get your laptop hacked when more than 2000 hackers are around!