There was a lot of digital ink spilled over the topic of
   smartcontracts. If anyone is interested to have a look at them
   contracts (in Solidity) being built and deployed to the chain live -
   there is an online smartcontracts hackathon
   here [1]http://hack.ether.camp/ for the next 5 days.
   People usually use npm packages to compile and web3 package to send a
   contract to the chain via http rpc or lpc socket. In this case it is a
   bit of a smartcontract peepshow -each team IDE is open for viewers.
   Will be interesting to see what comes out of it, and what challenges
   people are actually experiencing etc. The registration stays open
   towards the end, if anyone wants to give it a go.

References

   1. http://hack.ether.camp/