Be Sure to Register for ESUG 2013!

ESUG 2013 will be held on September 9-13, 2013 in Annecy, France with Camp Smalltalk preceding it on September 8. The conference registration server is open! Click here for more information.

Niall Ross: How and Where in Glorp Tutorial

At ESUG 2013, Niall Ross will present examples of how to code some less-obvious queries in Glorp and invite attendees to bring their own examples of things on which they want advice regarding the best ways to code in Glorp. Click here to read more about Niall’s presentation as well as his biography.

Dirk Verleyson: Things You Can Do with the New Cincom Smalltalk User Interface

In this talk, Dirk will show how the user interface looks in the current environment and some code on how it was created. He will also show some tests with the drawpad and shapes Cincom did to see how they could be used for upgrading the Modeling Tool. Click here to read more about Dirk’s presentation as well as his biography.

Andreas Hiltner: Cincom Smalltalk New Native GUI Implementation Preview – A Technical Overview

In this talk, Andreas will compare the existing architecture of Cincom® ObjectStudio® to the new framework and demonstrate some of the new widgets and features. Click here to read more about Andreas’ presentation as well as his biography.

Tom Robinson: Pursuing Performance in Store – Algorithms, Queries and Schemas

In this talk, Tom will talk about improvements that have already been made to Store algorithms, query improvements that let the database do more of the work, exploration of schema changes to allow further performance improvements and much more. Click here to read more about Tom’s presentation as well as his biography.

Arden Thomas: Cincom Smalltalk Roadmap

In this presentation, Arden Thomas, the Product Manager for Cincom Smalltalk, will discuss recent, current and future product changes and developments. Click here to read more about Arden’s presentation as well as his biography.

Maïkel Vandorpe and Marija Janovska: Agile & Lean @ MediaGeniX

MediaGeniX believes in being agile and delivering added value to the customer as soon as possible. To do this, they apply agile principles to their software development process. This talk will give you an insight into what worked for them and what didn’t and more importantly why it worked. Click here to read more about Maïkel and Marija’s presentation as well as their biographies.

Holger Guhl: Shared Memory Management for Cincom VisualWorks

In this presentation, Holger Guhl will talk about using Shared Memory, which is a means of optimizing data interchange between applications. The idea is to avoid any communication and transfer overhead for sending and receiving data. Click here to read more about Holger’s presentation as well as his biography.

Roland Wagener: Take from the Rich, Give to the Poor

In this presentation, Roland Wagener discusses how by adding “hood objects,” the domain object layer along with the database infrastructure of an application can easily be reused for different target platforms. Thus, this “Robin Hood Layer” is to be presented in this talk. Click here to read more about Roland’s presentation as well as his biography.

Georg Heeg: Multimedia Presentations at Adventure World German Language

This presentation from Georg Heeg provides a behind-the-scenes look at the Adventure World German Language project and will explain why and how it was done in VisualWorks and which additional Smalltalk components were helpful. Click here to read more about Georg’s presentation as well as his biography.

Cincom Smalltalk and Social Media Channels

We’re getting the word out … Cincom Smalltalk is an extraordinary and powerful product suite with amazing capabilities and a solid future! One of the tools that has been helpful in publicizing this fact is the use of Social Media. Click here for more information.

STIC’13 Videos Are Available

For those of you who attended STIC’13 or missed coming to it, you’ll be glad to know that the videos of Cincom speakers, partners and customers are now posted on the Cincom Smalltalk website. Click here to see the presentations that are currently available.

New Cincom Smalltalk Customer Portal

There’s nothing more important to the Cincom Smalltalk team than its customers. Therefore, we now have a portal on the Cincom Smalltalk website that’s devoted solely to making available information that may be useful to our valued customers. Click here to check it out.

Cincom Smalltalk Videos and Our Presence on YouTube

There are a wide variety of places where you’ll find Cincom Smalltalk and STIC on the web. You can find Cincom Smalltalk videos by clicking here. Also, Cincom Smalltalk and the Smalltalk Industry Council have their very own YouTube pages. To check out the Cincom Smalltalk YouTube page, click here. To view the STIC YouTube page, click here.

New Product Information Readily Available on the Cincom Smalltalk Website

The Cincom Smalltalk product suite is constantly being updated and improved upon. To help keep you up-to-date, we have several locations on the Cincom Smalltalk website where anyone can find out the latest product improvements, changes and release information. Click here to find out the locations.

The Cincom Smalltalk Academic Program

With a goal of increasing the quality of the available system design and engineering training, providing higher-quality engineers and developers to the industry and users, and expanding the Smalltalk community, we suggest that you look into the Cincom Smalltalk Academic Program. Click here to read all about it.

Cincom Smalltalk Community Blogs

There are many blogs run by the Cincom Smalltalk Group now. Check them out by clicking here.

Crash! – Experience Report

In this report, Cincom Smalltalk Product Manager, Arden Thomas, shares his experience of trying to recover his Smalltalk code stored in PostgreSQL from the raw files with no backup. He’s hoping this report will help others who might encounter the same situation, and will also act as a motivator in learning how to do a proper backup for whatever database being used. Click here for Arden’s report.

News from the Cincom Smalltalk Team

Click here to get Smalltalk news from the Cincom Smalltalk team.

September 8, 2013 — Camp Smalltalk (in conjunction with ESUG 2013)

Camp Smalltalk will take place on Sunday, September 8 just prior to the ESUG 2013 Conference. Camp Smalltalk is comprised of loosely organized gatherings of Smalltalkers where they work on extending and improving Smalltalk capabilities. Click here for more information.

September 9-13, 2013 — ESUG 2013 Conference

The ESUG 2013 Conference will be held on September 9-13, 2013 in Annecy, France. Click here for more information.

Update on Smalltalk Events

Click here for an update on Smalltalk-related events you may want to attend.

Cincom Smalltalk Team Seeks Cincom VisualWorks Senior Software Engineer

The Cincom Smalltalk team is looking for a well-qualified Cincom VisualWorks senior software engineer for its North American Smalltalk Development Team. If interested, please click here for a job description or to apply.

Visit the Smalltalk Jobs Blog

Are you interested in a Smalltalk-related job? Cincom Smalltalk Support Engineer, James Savidge, keeps the Smalltalk community up-to-date regarding Smalltalk opportunities throughout the community. The Smalltalk Jobs Blog posts Smalltalk-related career opportunities from around the globe. Click here to see what’s available.