Cincom Smalltalk will be well represented at ESUG 2013, which will take place in Annecy, France on September 9-13. In this talk, Tom will talk about improvements that have already been made to Store algorithms, query improvements that let the database do more of the work and exploration of schema changes to allow further performance improvements.
Heard of Apache? Meet SiouX! SiouX is our new Web server, which has a goal of building an HTTP server with Xtreams while squeezing as much scalability and performance out of it as possible.
Streaming is a common practice in object-oriented programming, and it helps in making application execution more efficient. Streaming is a core part of the classic Smalltalk- standard library and capability.
The current ObjectStudio GUI project is bringing considerable innovations to the environment. This month we’re going to have a look at how GDI+ can be used to create an analog clock.
In ObjectStudio 8.5 and VisualWorks 7.10, Cincom has added full Unicode support to their DB2 connects. This means that from those versions, users will be able to use Unicode table and column names, include Unicode strings in their SQL statements, bind Unicode strings to host variables and even input and output Unicode strings to and from stored procedures.
In previous issues of the Cincom Smalltalk Digest, we had a preview of the MarqueeDialog and the Progress Bar in the ObjectStudio GUI Project. Each month we’ll be opening one file, so don’t forget to check it out next month when we’ll be opening the first one … you don’t want to miss it!
Last October and November we previewed the MarqueeDialog and the Progress Bar. These were inspired by the ObjectStudio New GUI Project, and they will be available in ObjectStudio 8.5.