Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView Cincom Product Manager jrobertson@cincom.com Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:44:58 EDT http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/images/cst_small.jpg Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView 50 81 en-us James A. Robertson Copyright 2007 Cincom Systems, Inc. 2008-07-19T10:44:58-04:00 39.214103 -76.878807 Video Group for Web Velocity http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Video_Group_for_Web_Velocity&entry=3393917097 seaside Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:44:57 EDT

If you're looking for a "one stop shop" for all the videos about Web Velocity, then here it is: the new Vimeo Web Velocity group. Come on by and join in!

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Ramon Leon discusses a simple ActiveRecord style persistence for Seaside. I like this from his introduction:

Let's be honest, most apps don’t need to scale. Most apps in the real world are written to run small businesses, what DHH calls the fortune five million. The simple fact is, in all likelihood scaling is not and probably won'€™t ever be your problem. We might like to think we're writing the next YouTube or Twitter, but odds are we're not. You can make a career just replacing spread sheets from hell with simple applications that make people lives easier without ever once hitting the limits of a single Squeak image (such was the inspiration for DabbleDb), so don'€™t waste your time scaling.

This is especially true of intranet web apps. There's more complexity involved in many of those than I'd like to imagine. I recall a recent conversation where a guy was discussing his scaling needs: he wanted transparent fal-over, session preservation (etc, etc). We asked how many users his system might have - he said it might be 500 or so.... which a single image Seaside app would probably handle fine, assuming enough memory.

People have been oversold on scaling needs much of the time. Sure, you don't want to be caught with your pants down, like Twitter. But for most apps, it's not even a possibility...

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]]> 3393518831 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3393518831 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?guid=3393518831 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Prevayler_Style_Active_Record_for_Seaside&entry=3393518831 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Prevayler_Style_Active_Record_for_Seaside&entry=3393518831 Patrick Logan 2008-07-15T00:15:01-04:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>I happen to be working in an industry going through some consolidation, and my employer is one doing a fair bit of consolidating, buying a couple of large competitors recently. While this company will likely never encounter Google or Amazon-ish scaling, the principles behind their kinds of systems are conducive to integrating systems across disparate data centers, and generally establishing a simpler (more sustainable) roadmap for future systems.</p> <p>Convenience without precluding scaling is our target.</p> </div> OTOH http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3393518831 Fun with the Baltimore Rubyists http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Fun_with_the_Baltimore_Rubyists&entry=3393007716 seaside Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:08:36 EDT

I had a great time with the Baltimore Ruby group this evening - great turnout (sorry I ran out of CD's) - lots of good questions, seemed like the crowd was interested in Smalltalk and Seaside. I want to thank Chris Strom for having me in - I enjoyed it a lot.

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Seaside 2.8 is getting large scale use now - The DabbleDB guys have upgraded to Seaside 2.8 (amongst a whole host of other things):

Framework upgrade: our version of Seaside, the web framework underlying Dabble DB, hasn't changed in three years. We've now ported Dabble DB to Seaside 2.8, the latest stable release, which has lower memory use and faster render times.

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Michael is giving us a sneak peek at what's coming in the next beta build of web velocity:

In this special screencast, we look at the most recent changes soon to be integrated in to the WebVelocity betas. We also take a sneak peak behind the curtains to see how they're implemented.

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Lukas Renggli has announced a Seaside Sprint after the end of ESUG 2008:

The Seaside Sprint is intentionally planned outside Camp Smalltalk, because we want to be able to define the exact goals at the beginning of the Sprint where everybody is present. We would be happy if people from the commercial vendors could join the effort, so that we can push the release of Seaside 2.9 together. People proposing their own Seaside related projects or being interested joining the development team are very welcome as well.

Sounds like some good stuff will come out of that.

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]]> 3392580748 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3392580748 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?guid=3392580748 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3392580748 Web Velocity Beta Begins http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Web_Velocity_Beta_Begins&entry=3391151362 seaside Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:29:22 EDT

The Web Velocity beta has begun - the first few users have access now. Interested? Send me an email, and I'll see what I can do. To get an idea as to what I'm on about, head on over here and peruse the Web Velocity videos.

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]]> 3391151362 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3391151362 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?guid=3391151362 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Web_Velocity_Beta_Begins&entry=3391151362 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Web_Velocity_Beta_Begins&entry=3391151362 Andrey Larionov 2008-06-17T16:29:43-04:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>Amazing news. Is this framework will avaliable only fo CST users? Or maybe license allows to port it on other dialects?</p> </div> blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Web_Velocity_Beta_Begins&entry=3391151362 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Web_Velocity_Beta_Begins&entry=3391151362 James Robertson 2008-06-17T17:48:54-04:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>Comment by James Robertson</p> <p> <p>Seaside is open source, and the database framework we are using is open source (GLORP). The specific web client stuff, I'd have to look at more closely.</p> </p> </div> Re: Web Velocity Beta Begins http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3391151362 Seaside Chat at MySpace http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Seaside_Chat_at_MySpace&entry=3390637953 seaside Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:52:33 EDT

Randal Schwartz' Seaside talk at MySpace is online now.

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]]> 3390637953 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3390637953 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?guid=3390637953 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Seaside_Chat_at_MySpace&entry=3390637953 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Seaside_Chat_at_MySpace&entry=3390637953 dashia 2008-06-11T12:48:48-04:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p><span style="font-size: large;">hey, buds how's ur day</span></p> </div> jus sendin http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3390637953