Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants

We've wrapped up the current round of Cincom Smalltalk events - if we schedule more, it'll be announced here. In the meantime, you can check out our video wrapups from 4 of the 5 events (I neglected to hit the "record" button in London) on uStream - I've embedded the player below. I'll have video for the talks themselves up in the next few days - I have initial processing, editing, and post production ahead of me on that - and some of the steps are all about "hurry up and wait" :)

Live Video streaming by Ustream

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Here's another video from ESUG 2009 - the Thales project to get metrics from code projects. To watch, click on the viewer below:

If you have trouble viewing that directly, you can click here to download the video directly

You can also watch it on Vimeo:

Thales - Metrics and Modeling from James Robertson on Vimeo.

Technorati Tags: smalltalk, thales, metrics, esug09, france, brest

Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at setting up a personal Store repository using SQLLite. To watch, click on the viewer below:

If you have trouble viewing that directly, you can click here to download the video directly

You can also watch it on YouTube:

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This week's podcast is an interview we did with Dale Henrichs of Gemstone about the Metacello project - a configuration management add on for Monticello (version control for Squeak and Pharo). We'd like to thank Dale for taking the time to talk to us - it was a lot of fun!

To listen now, you can either download the mp3 edition, or the AAC edition. The AAC edition comes with chapter markers. You can subscribe to either edition of the podcast directly in iTunes; just search for Smalltalk and look in the Podcast results. You can subscribe to the mp3 edition directly using this feed, or the AAC edition using this feed using any podcatching software.

To listen immediately, use the player below:

If you like the music we use, please visit Josh Woodward's site. We use the song Effortless for our intro/outro music. I'm sure he'd appreciate your support!

If you have feedback, send it to smalltalkpodcasts@cincom.com - or visit us on Facebook or Ning - you can vote for the Podcast Alley, and subscribe on iTunes. If you enjoy the podcast, pass the word - we would love to have more people hear about Smalltalk!

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This week's podcast is an interview we did with Dale Henrichs of Gemstone about the Metacello project - a configuration management add on for Monticello (version control for Squeak and Pharo). We'd like to thank Dale for taking the time to talk to us - it was a lot of fun!

To listen now, you can either download the mp3 edition, or the AAC edition. The AAC edition comes with chapter markers. You can subscribe to either edition of the podcast directly in iTunes; just search for Smalltalk and look in the Podcast results. You can subscribe to the mp3 edition directly using this feed, or the AAC edition using this feed using any podcatching software.

To listen immediately, use the player below:

If you like the music we use, please visit Josh Woodward's site. We use the song Effortless for our intro/outro music. I'm sure he'd appreciate your support!

If you have feedback, send it to smalltalkpodcasts@cincom.com - or visit us on Facebook or Ning - you can vote for the Podcast Alley, and subscribe on iTunes. If you enjoy the podcast, pass the word - we would love to have more people hear about Smalltalk!

Technorati Tags: smalltalk, metacello, monticello, version control

Here's a question that cropped up on the ESUG mailing list about application distribution:

As a non professional writing for fun the [deleted: ed], there is a very practical feature I badly need. I would like to be able to distribute my application without the need to distribute over 20Mb of image, change, VM. Doing so for one application is ok, but for 10 applications it is unacceptable (it does not scale well the on the target resource host).

This has always been an interesting problem with Smalltalk, but it's something you can deal with in VisualWorks and ObjectStudio:

• Create your base deployment image
• Ship the base deployment image and VM into a "well known" application directory
• At startup, your application knows where the base VM and image are, and has a directory of application components (parcels) to load, along with a manifest specifying what to load first - this can be accomplished with ini files and a startup class which fits into the Smalltalk startup machinery .

I suppose I coud do a screencast on it :) All of the pieces are there, they really just need to be put together more properly.

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If you're interested in the streaming broadcasts we've done (and will do in the future, you can find that stuff one of two ways:

• Visit the ustream page for Cincom Smalltalk
• Visit the Smalltalk Video page, where I've embedded the ustream widget (scroll or jump past that to get to the regular video section).

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Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at a small package of convenience methods I've used to deal with various network interfaces. To watch, click on the viewer below:

If you have trouble viewing that directly, you can click here to download the video directly

You can also watch it on YouTube:

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Today's Event is in Paris, and things are going pretty well - here are a few snapshots:

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Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at the Silt blog server and how to get started with it. It's based on the Web Toolkit from VisualWorks, and has been in production at Cincom for over 7 years. To watch, click on the viewer below:

If you have trouble viewing that directly, you can click here to download the video directly

You can also watch it on YouTube:

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We have one more event in this series of technology conferences - in Paris tomorrow, at the Hotel Mercure terminus Nord - from 9 AM to 1 PM, with breakfast starting at 8. Here are a couple of photos from London; we hope to see you in Paris:

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Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at Regular Expression support in Smalltalk. To watch, click on the viewer below:

If you have trouble viewing that directly, you can click here to download the video directly

You can also watch it on YouTube:

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We're in London today, and we'll be in Paris on Thursday - you can register for our event, or just come to the Mercure Paris Terminus Nord - our event will run from 9 AM to 1 PM (local time), but we'll be there with breakfast out by 8 AM. We have a full program for you - come on out!

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I do have another ESUG Video ready to post, but my network connectivity at the hotel is slow (at least for uploading). I was trying to have it upload last night, but the connection timed out. So - I'll have the next video up when I can get the files transferred :)

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Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at how you can easily startup another Smalltalk image from within a running image. To watch, click on the viewer below:

If you have trouble viewing that directly, you can click here to download the video directly

You can also watch it on YouTube:

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Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at a tool that lets you log all network activity that comes out of or into Smalltalk. To watch, click on the viewer below:

If you have trouble viewing that directly, you can click here to download the video directly

You can also watch it on YouTube:

Technorati Tags: smalltalk, net clients, tracing, logging