At the Smalltalk Industry Conference, STIC 2013, the future of Smalltalk shined brighter with the light of one of the attendees—11 year old Max Stalzer, who happened to be the son of one of the conference attendees.
Maybe it’s the satisfaction of meeting a personal challenge. Maybe it’s having “bragging rights” for achieving an arduous task. Or, maybe it’s just the fun of participating as well as the opportunity to win prizes.
In an effort to better understand our customers’ needs and requirements for deploying or developing applications using Cincom Smalltalk™, product management launched the next survey in our series of mini-surveys to our customer base.
Application development outside the walls of IT is rapidly accelerating
Are you ready? One-third of the companies that do not have formalized policies on citizen development could encounter substantial data, process-integrity and security vulnerabilities.
It brings us much sadness to report that our good friend and Smalltalk promoter/advocate, James Anderson Robertson, passed away suddenly at his home on Thursday, April 17, 2014.
As of April 8 2014, Microsoft® discontinued support for Windows® XP. Also, after April 8, Microsoft will no longer provide security updates or any of the various support-related options and updates for XP.
Our Cincom Smalltalk Premier Partner in Europe, Georg Heeg of Georg Heeg eK, is doing an incredible job in eloquently promoting Smalltalk in Germany as well as his company’s success with Cincom and Cincom Smalltalk.