Meeting clients’ needs and requirements is a top priority for the Cincom Smalltalk team. Therefore, in an effort to better meet the platform needs of our clients and to better focus our efforts on client requirements, the Cincom Smalltalk Team has created a survey to determine and understand which platforms clients are currently running Cincom Smalltalk on, and which platforms clients are planning to run on in the future.
The defrag tool was my inspiration to make something else useful—a progress Window in Smalltalk. 
There are multiple ways of starting your Smalltalk image. Some you may not be aware of, but you would find them useful. This is primarily for developers who have more than one version of VisualWorks installed on their system. Configuration files make it easy to manage and run images from multiple versions.
Often developers get into a flow and habit of how they use their tools. This is good since as a developer becomes familiar with a tool, they also become more productive.The Cincom Smalltalk team recently released major releases of Cincom® ObjectStudio® 8.4 and Cincom® VisualWorks® 7.9. See a few of the new product highlights below. The releases also include many fixes and refinements. Please see product release notes in the new products for more details.Code and application performance is always an interesting topic. For developers, finding and solving performance bottlenecks can be highly productive with the right tools and knowledge, and it can be a very rewarding part of application development.Foundation Improvements that are being used by Cincom® ObjectStudio® and Cincom® VisualWorks®)These are true maintenance releases that are refinements of the major releases.In the last post/digest article, we noted important changes that we are making in our releases and release process to better meet customer requirements.