Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView Cincom Product Manager jrobertson@cincom.com Fri, 09 May 2008 13:24:31 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. 2008-05-09T13:24:31-04:00 39.214103 -76.878807 StS 2008 Coding Contest http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=StS_2008_Coding_Contest&entry=3387792271 smalltalk Fri, 09 May 2008 13:24:31 EDT

Niall Ross has posted a lot of updated information about the coding contest:

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Dave Buck is tossing around the idea of offering an advanced Smalltalk course:

I've been tossing around the idea of developing advanced Smalltalk courses and was wondering what interest there may be in them. They could be delivered as open enrollment courses or on-site courses.
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Looking to learn more about Smalltalk in Japanese? My colleague, Katsuya Ichiisi, has translated both the Smalltalk tutorial and the Seaside tutorial. Enjoy!

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Gary Short is looking to get a Smalltalk implementation onto the DLR. We looked at that idea briefly for ObjectStudio, but decided to go with the VisualWorks VM instead.

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]]> 3387513582 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3387513582 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?guid=3387513582 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Iron_Smalltalk&entry=3387513582 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Iron_Smalltalk&entry=3387513582 anonymous 2008-05-06T12:46:11-04:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>Gee, isn't that like building Disney World inside a strip mall?</p> </div> blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Iron_Smalltalk&entry=3387513582 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Iron_Smalltalk&entry=3387513582 James Robertson 2008-05-06T13:27:05-04:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>Comment by James Robertson</p> <p> <p>That's why we didn't....</p> </p> </div> That's why we didn't do it blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Iron_Smalltalk&entry=3387513582 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Iron_Smalltalk&entry=3387513582 2008-05-07T15:01:10-04:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>As a Smalltalk evangelist I'd have thought you'd be please that we were trying to make Smalltalk a first class language in the .Net world and to bring Smalltalk back into the lime light where it belongs.</p> <p>As for the DLR, I believe it is a good platform for creating new dynamic languages and porting across the old ones. At least that is what I'm hoping, we'll see as the project goes on. :-)</p> <p>Anyone wanting to help us out can contact me at <a href="mailto:gary@garyshort.org">gary@garyshort.org</a></p> <p>Thanks!</p> </div> blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Iron_Smalltalk&entry=3387513582 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Iron_Smalltalk&entry=3387513582 James Robertson 2008-05-07T16:11:04-04:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>Comment by James Robertson</p> <p> <p>I'm pleased you are trying it. It just didn't make sense for us. If it works out, I think it will be a good thing for Smalltalk.</p> </p> </div> Re: Iron Smalltalk? http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3387513582 Smalltalk in Brazil http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_in_Brazil&entry=3387265238 smalltalk Sat, 03 May 2008 11:00:38 EDT

Randal Schwartz was interviewed by Ronaldo Ferraz after FISL - there's a Portuguese version, and an English version. It covers Randal's Seaside work and advocacy.

Best Quote:

we have two commercial smalltalks (Cincom and GemStone/S) as well as two open smalltalks (Squeak and GNU Smalltalk) all supporting Seaside. This allows a nervous manager who might be hesitant at selecting a strictly "€œvolunteer-based"€ language to also have two commercial vendors to pick up support. Options are good!

The thing to remember about Seaside is this: there's no lock in. If you use Seaside in Squeak, and decide you want to get commercial support from Cincom - your whole codebase should migrate cleanly. That even applies to the database layer, so long as you use Glorp.

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This is pretty cool:

Johan Björk announced the release of SqueakFS, which allows you to browse and search all objects contained in your squeak image from your local file system. The file system functionality is provided by a socket client built on top of FusePython. This client translates file system paths into squeak objects and queries a server running in the squeak image for details on these objects. In order to do this, SqueakFS uses FusePython for file system support and is dependent on both FUSE and Python and will only work on UNIX systems. SqueakFS had been developed and tested on Linux 2.6 and MacOS Leopard running on Intel systems.

Not how I would want to browse Smalltalk code myself, but I can definitely seeing it as useful - heck, if you made it read-only and posted it to an HTTP server, it would make the entire image crawlable.

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Luca Bruno passes on some Syx information - looks like the project is advancing.

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This looks like an interesting project: JavaConnect:

JavaConnect is a Visualworks Smalltalk library that allows a seamless interaction between Smalltalk and Java. A Smalltalk application can access any Java object and send messages to it, just as if it were a Smalltalk object. Its implementation relies on a connection between the Smalltalk environment and a standard Java VM environment using Visualworks' DLLCC and Java's JNI. The Java application thus executes on a regular Java VM and the Smalltalk application executes on the regular Smalltalk VM.

Looks very impressive - I'll have to download it and give it a whirl.

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