Industry Misinterpretations

Industry Misinterpretations 174: Cincom Smalltalk Releases for December 2009

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:09:44 GMT

This week's podcast is the audio for a presentation I gave to the Toronto Smalltalk User's Group last month, on January 26th - it's an overview of the products we released in 2009:

WebVelocity 1.0 (August)
ObjectStudio 8.2 (December)
VisualWorks 7.7 (December)

You can grab the slides here.

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Technorati Tags: smalltalk, product release, objectstudio, visualworks, webvelocity

Industry Misinterpretations 173: WebVelocity 1.1

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:32:29 GMT

This week Michael and I spoke about the work going into WebVelocity 1.1 - both the work that's improving the editor, and the work in support of cloud based deployment. Michael also mentioned that more screencasts on this stuff should be coming soon, so stay tuned to his blog for that.

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Technorati Tags: WebVelocity, smalltalk, cloud, html5

Wrapup from Baltimore

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:16:40 GMT

Here's our audio wrapup from today's Baltimore event - we streamed it live earlier today.

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Audio Wrap From Toronto

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:41:47 GMT

Here's our audio wrapup from Toronto - we live streamed it earlier, and you can watch that recording over on Ustream.

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Industry Misinterpretations 172: Smalltalk Past, Present, and Future

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:19:23 GMT

This week's podcast is a talk by Georg Heeg about Smalltalk's past, present, and future. Georg gave this talk on January 21, 2010 in Seattle, Washington, at the first 2010 Smalltalk Technology Conference in a series from Cincom - you can get more details on future events here.

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Post Show in Seattle

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:32:52 GMT

Here's a recording of the live stream we did earlier today, after our Seattle event - we'll be doing this again after the rest of the events we have scheduled as well.

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Industry Misinterpretations 171: Xtreams

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:27:23 GMT

This week Michael and I spoke to Martin Kobetic - he's one of Michael's fellow Smalltalk engineers here at Cincom. The two of them have been working on Xtreams as a side project for awhile now; Xtreams is a "Streams library reboot", applying the lessons learned from the existing Smalltalk streams library after the many years of use across domains they weren't originally designed (for instance, network protocol work).

There's a bit of crackling in the audio whenever Martin talks, that I couldn't do a whole lot to get rid of. It's a bit annoying, but it's all easily audible.

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Technorati Tags: smalltalk, xtreams, streams

Industry Misinterpretations 170: The State of Smalltalk

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:00:24 GMT

Here's our first podcast of 2010 - and we take a wide angle view of the various Smalltalk implementations out there. There's a lot more Smalltalk out there than you might think - go here for the notes we used for the podcast, with links to the implementations we spoke about:

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VisualWorks: 7.7
ObjectStudio: 8.2
http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com

Squeak: Version 3.10
http://squeak.org
Recent Split to create Pharo
Recent changes in the contribution model
Still embroiled in the license issue
"consensus" model
leads to forks (Cuis, Pharo, others)
new VMs coming?

Pharo: 1.0 RC1
http://www.pharo-project.org/home
Clean MIT License
Lots of forward motion
Seaside home
"benevolent dictator" model

CUIS Smalltalk: version 2.0
http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/Index.html
Squeak Fork
intended to be smaller, cleaner, lighter

GNU ST: Version 3.1
http://smalltalk.gnu.org/
Mostly Paolo Bonzini
GPL, GNU project
file based (but going to an image)
concentrating on bringing in libraries from other Smalltalks
Runs best on Linux, often has issues elsewhere (as per our podcast)
VisualGST for GST - bring modern GUI tools to GST

Smalltalk/X: Version
http://www.exept.de/en/products/smalltalk-x/stx-overview
inline C, static compilation possible
can build DLLs and executables w/o image
x86 (Windows, Linux, Solaris FreeBSD) and Sparc
Can provide oter platforms on request
Free for most uses, they do sell commercial licenses and support/consulting
license: http://live.exept.de/doc/online/english/LICENCE_STX.html

VA Smalltalk: Version 8.0.1
http://instantiations.com/VAST/prod/vast.html
Now offers an NC/Academic version
Bringing in Seaside (no continuation support)
integrated the entire Instantiations suite of add on tools, giving product facelift

Dolphin Smalltalk: Version 6
http://www.object-arts.com/content/navigation/home.html
Community (free) and Commercial (cheap) versions
COM DLL and windows exe possible
Weird schism
Dolphin NG (Lesser Software)
Andy Bower's more recent statements about bringing Dolphin back
General sales model difficulty for niche products sold this way

Gemstone/S: Version 2.4
http://www.gemstone.com/products/gemstone
64 bit, probably first commercial 64 bit Smalltalk
OO DBMS
GLASS, most recent efforts in Smalltalk here
MagLev - Ruby in Gemstone/S

Lesser Smalltalk
http://www.lesser-software.com/lswvst.htm
hidden from view - no eval versions, pricing unclear
native for Windows
building compatible VM for VSE, and Dolphin
looks and sounds interesting, with the tight Windows integration

Smalltalk MT: Version 5.6
http://www.objectconnect.com/
Native, Multi-threaded for Windows
Aimed at games development on PCs
Small, fast executables

F-Script: Version 2.0
http://www.fscript.org/
Scripting for OS X, like AppleScript but with ST syntax
built on Cocoa, allows full access to Cocoa objects

Smalltalk SYX: version 0.1.7
http://code.google.com/p/syx/
Windows, Linux, OSX, embedded systems
Small, targeted at building embedded apps

Redline Smalltalk: In Development
http://twitter.com/smalltalkjvm
Smalltalk for the JVM
Nothing available yet; just the Twitter feed and some blog posts

Etoile: Version (in dev)
http://etoileos.com/
Built on GNUStep, an OSS fork of Nextstep (now Cocoa)
Larger project than Smalltalk - going for entire layer to run atop your OS
Smalltalk is a scripting tool in this effort
recently added more ST level tools (workspace)

Strongtalk: version 0.200
http://code.google.com/p/strongtalk/
Fast JIT for Smalltalk, bought by Sun years ago to speed up Java
open sourced in 2008
minimal progress since then, but active mailing list
Works on Windows, Linux

Zoku/Smalltalk: In Development
http://www.smalltalk.org/versions/ZokuSmalltalk.html
research project, Peter William Lount
to support his consulting business?

Sharp Smalltalk: version 1.1
http://www.refactory.com/Software/SharpSmalltalk/
Mostly moribund, seems mostly proof of concept
Smalltalk on .NET
Classes wrap .NET classes

Ambrai Smalltalk: Version: ?
http://www.ambrai.com/
For OS X, but back revs
intended to be native OS X Smalltalk

PIC/Smalltalk
http://www.huv.com/uSeeker/index.html
Smalltalk for embedded use in robots, Jon Hyland's work

VSE: Version 3.10/2000
Moribund, died in 1997
small, fairly fanatical fan base exists and uses it
Windows specific (was win 95 logo certified)

Technorati Tags: smalltalk, implementations

Industry Misinterpretations 169: When Flexibility Backfires

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:06:51 GMT

Here's more audio from ESUG 2009 - Yann Monclair talking about the downsides to Smalltalk's flexibility. You can get a copy of Yann's slides here (PDF).

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Technorati Tags: esug09, brest, france, flexibility, smalltalk

Industry Misinterpretations 168: The Year in Smalltalk

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:15:13 GMT

The end of 2009 is here, and so is our year end "Year in Smalltalk" podcast. Today we look back on the year and discuss what happened.

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Technorati Tags: smalltalk, year in smalltalk, retrospective

Industry Misinterpretations 167: Ruby in Smalltalk at ESUG 2009

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:48:04 GMT

This week I have an ESUG 2009 session: Martin McClure talking about "Ruby in Smalltalk" - what's been involved tehnically in getting the MagLev project off the ground. Make sure you listen next week for our end of the year in Smalltalk wrap up!

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Technorati Tags: esug09, smalltalk, ruby, brest, france

Industry Misinterpretations 166: Sockets and Small Dialogs

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:07:07 GMT

This week we spoke to Dave Buck, who has recently returned from a consulting job with an ObjectStudio customer upgrading from OS 7.1 to OS 8.1. There were a few interesting issues that cropped up, and we thought they made for generally interesting information - so here it is.

As I pointed out at one point in the podcast, both ObjectStudio 8.2 and VisualWorks 7.7 have just gone gold - they should be shipping before the end of December, with the NC editions up soon as well. ObjectStudio 8.1 was Vista Certified, and now ObjectStudio 8.2 is Windows 7 Certified - it's still the only Smalltalk development environment that can say that :)

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Technorati Tags: smalltalk, objectstudio, windows 7, migration

Industry Misinterpretations 165: Smalltalks 2009

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:42:06 GMT

This week we spoke to Travis Griggs, who attended the Smalltalks 2009 conference. We wanted to get his impressions of the event, and that led to a number of interesting side conversations about Smalltalk's past, present, and future.

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Technorati Tags: smalltalk, smalltalks 2009, argentina

Industry Misinterpretations 164: Going for the Longball

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:00:22 GMT

This week James and Michael spoke to Kent Beck, perhaps the best known advocate of XP (Extreme Programming and Test Driven Development). The conversation covered a lot of ground, going over Smalltalk, testing, software development in general, and finishing up with an idea for "going for the longball" with Smalltalk.

This podcast was a lot of fun - I'd like to thank Kent for the taking the time with us.

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Technorati Tags: smalltalk, extreme programming, xp, tdd, testing

Industry Misinterpretations 163: MultiCore Playground

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:01:53 GMT

This week's podcast is a session from ESUG 2009 - Arden Thomas' "Multi-Core Playground" talk. In this presentation Arden spoke about some experimental work in Cincom Smalltalk toward supporting multi-core and multi-cpu systems in a straightforward fashion. That work is shipping with VW 7.7 and OS 8.2 as "preview" code - so in a few weeks, you'll be able to take a look at it yourself. You can download Arden's slides here

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Technorati Tags: esug09, smalltalk, brest, france, multicore, polycephaly

Industry Misinterpretations 162: SmallRuby

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:22:00 GMT

This week we spoke to Jan Vrany, one of the developers of SmallRuby - a Ruby implementation being built within Smalltalk/X. The project is actually more ambitious than that - they are building what sounds like the "Universal VM"; idea that IBM had (but never carried through on) back in the 90's.

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Technorati Tags: smalltalk, ruby, universal vm

Industry Misinterpretations 161: How do You Build Cake?

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:17:15 GMT

This week we spoke to two members of the build team here at Cincom - Niall Ross and Tom Robinson. They've been working on cleaning up the build process from what it used to be - "that guy over there? He does builds" - to something more turnkey and automatic. In the process we discussed testing, build automation, and future goals.

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Technorati Tags: smalltalk, builds, cake

Industry Misinterpretations 160: Not Waiting for Godot

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:49:51 GMT

This week Michael and spoke to Arden Thomas, our Product Manager for Smalltalk here at Cincom. We talked about the latest (longer) release cycle, what's making this release, and what you should expect to see in the future. Arden's audio came in a little messy, so I had to apply some processing to it; that's why some of his audio will come across with some artifacts.

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Technorati Tags: smalltalk, cincom

Industry Misinterpretations 159: Talking Pharo

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:58:29 GMT

This week we spoke to Adrian Lienhard, one of the members of the Pharo board. We talked about where the Pharo project came from, what its current status is, and where it's headed. Along the way we spoke about how the project runs, and how it differs from other open source Smalltalk efforts.

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Technorati Tags: smalltalk, pharo

Industry Misinterpretations 158: Web Velocity at ESUG 2009

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:11:36 GMT

Web Velocity had its formal introduction at ESUG 2009 last month, and here's Michael Lucas-Smith presenting it. I'll be putting out the associated video of this soon; there are no slides (it was all talk and Web Velocity itself).

If you're interested in taking a look at Web Velocity, head on over to the website and download it now - just click on the big red "download" arrow. You can also join the conversation about Web Velocity in our Google Group.

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

Technorati Tags: smalltalk, web velocity, seaside, esug09, brest, france