… Looking for a Few Good Smalltalkers!

On May 17, 2012, in Smalltalk, by Jeremy Jordan

Cincom is looking for a few good Smalltalkers to join its Cincom Smalltalk™ Engineering Team.

Object Profile Releases Roassal

On May 17, 2012, in Smalltalk, by Jeremy Jordan

Object Profile, a think tank for software execution profiling, is reinventing the meaning of profiling software execution by employing smart metrics and producing expressive interactive visual reports.

Smalltalk Performance!

On May 16, 2012, in Cross-Platform, ObjectStudio, Smalltalk, VisualWorks, Windows-Centric, by Arden Thomas

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.

Smalltalk Meets Cubism

On May 16, 2012, in Smalltalk, by Travis Griggs

Every time I meet up with Alexandre Bergel at a Smalltalk conference, we talk about Mondrian, and I always ask him a question: “Why is it that every time I see Mondrian, it’s always about rectangles?”

Vancouver Smalltalk Developer Group to Conduct Its First Meeting

On May 3, 2012, in Smalltalk, by Jeremy Jordan

The Vancouver Smalltalk Developer Group, which was founded on March 31, 2012, will be conducting its very first meeting on May 16. The meeting will be a friendly opportunity to share a cup of coffee with fellow attendees, and decide on the type of format to adopt for future meetings, including venues, topics, etc. The [...]

Smalltalk History to Be Featured in New Course Material

On April 17, 2012, in Partners, Smalltalk, by Jeremy Jordan

David Buck of Simberon, Inc. recently announced in Simberon’s “Software Reflections” blog that he’s putting together a brief “History of Smalltalk,” which will be featured in a new online “Introduction to Smalltalk” course. David, who says that he’ll likely release the course video for free, feels that it’s important to know where the different dialects [...]

Facebook Photo Galleries – Remembering STIC’12

On April 12, 2012, in Smalltalk, Smalltalk Industry Conference, STIC, by Jeremy Jordan

We’re happy to announce that you can now remember STIC’12 via the photo galleries that can be found on Facebook. The conference was held at the Beau Rivage Resort and Casino in Biloxi,Mississippion March 19-21.

Smalltalking Announces Online Version of U8

On February 29, 2012, in Smalltalk, by Jeremy Jordan

Latin American company, Smalltalking, is proud to announce that U8, the first social-development platform for Smalltalkers, is now available online as a public beta release! Product developers have been working hard, and they’re anxious to share the results. Also the website, which is in beta state, is fully functional, so if any bugs are found, [...]

Special Issue of Elsevier’s Science of Computer Programming (SCICO) to Feature “Advances in Dynamic Languages”

On February 20, 2012, in Smalltalk, by Jeremy Jordan

In recent years, we have seen an increased interest in dynamic programming languages such as Smalltalk, Lisp, Scheme, PHP, JavaScript, Self, Python, Ruby and others. These languages have taken a prominent role in teaching, web development, scripting, rapid prototyping, tool building, language engineering and many other domains. For this special issue of Elsevier’s Science of [...]

STIC’12 to Showcase Popular ESUG 2011 Presentation

On February 15, 2012, in ObjectStudio, Smalltalk, Smalltalk Industry Conference, by Jeremy Jordan

One of this year’s sessions at STIC’12 is a popular presentation that was originally given at ESUG 2011 by Niall Ross, Dirk Verleysen and Andreas Hiltner. At STIC’12, Andreas will be joined by Mark Grinnell for a presentation that discusses the “The Glorp Object Relational Mapping Framework Using the Powerful Cincom® ObjectStudio® Development Environment.” On [...]