The author of this blog, James Robertson, passed away in April 2014. This blog is being maintained by David Buck (david@simberon.com).
Moose 4.9 is out - the main changes:
This is a minor release still based on Pharo 2.0. The differences from Moose 4.8 are:
The Mondrian engine was removed. The transition to Roassal is now complete.
- Small fixes in Roassal layouts and rendering.
- Small fix in FAMIX regarding manipulation of accesses.
- Small visual fix in Glamour for rendering splitters in tables.
Cincom's Product Manager, Arden Thomas, had this to say in a VW-Dev list discussion today:
Just to note, we will likely NOT be moving the current CairoGraphics implemenation into production, but we ARE planning on big graphics ability improvements.
So it sounds like you're going to be on your own with the current Cairo implementation - but something interesting is coming down the pike....
Tags: visualworks, cincom smalltalk
Update: Well, that was fast. It's back up again.
I normally have the daily screencast up by now, but YouTube is giving me (and everyone else, apparently) this:
When they get that resolved, the daily cast will be up
One of Dave's posts - "Swimming with the fish" - got picked up by Hacker News. Very cool
Tags: hacker news
VW 7.10 and OS 8.5 were actually done awhile ago, but the ever helpful US government had some hoops for Cincom to jump through due to the security (encryption) code in the products. I just saw an email from Cincom's Product Manager (Arden Thomas) announcing that the release is formally out now.
Update: I've been told that the website has not been updated with the release information as they wanted to inform the development communities (vw-dev and os-dev) first. I expect they'll be updating the website and getting the downloadable versions out soon.
Tags: cst, cincom smalltalk
Spotted in Programming Gems (on GemStone)
Because Smalltalk was the origin of much of today’s GUI (mouse, overlapping windows, drop-down menus), Smalltalk developers are understandably accustomed to a nice GUI IDE. GemStone/S is an excellent database and Smalltalk execution environment and includes a built-in command-line tool, Topaz, where you can execute Smalltalk code, but has no native GUI. In this blog post we continue a demonstration of GemStone.app on the Macintosh (started here) and show Jade, a GUI-based IDE available on Microsoft Windows.
James has also posted a screencast for this
I'll have to give this a go - a simple Mac install for Gemstone/S
Instantiations has just released VA Smalltalk 8.6
Tags: va smalltalk
Check out the presentation information here.
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