Power and Simplicity
Torsten points out how Smalltalk keeps it simple and powerful:
Thats why I like Smalltalk (and Blocks) - powerful and easy to understand:
[ self doSomething ] valueWithin: 1 day onTimeout: [ self doSomethingElse ]
Next Cincom Smalltalk Release Nearly Ready
I saw this in the vw-dev (Cincom's mailing list for their development releases):
Last Friday's apr12.3 build was our second release candidate. Right now it looks on track to become the final release. I highly encourage you to test and exercise the apr12.3 build if you have not already.
You can register to download the dev builds (it involves an NDA) over on Cincom's website.
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Smalltalk in Vancouver
There's a new Smalltalk group in Vancouver:
The recently created Vancouver Smalltalk developer group organises its first meetup on 16th May. This first edition is the occasion to have a cup of coffee together. We will decide what format we will adopt for the future (coffee shop?, bar?, meeting room?, talk?, subject?)
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Changes
Alan Knight is leaving the Cincom Smalltalk team - he just posted in a few of the Smalltalk mailing lists:
I just wanted ot let people on the list know that I've left Cincom and will soon be starting at Google, working on libraries for Dart. I'd like to thank everyone here for their contributions, comments, and discussions over the years. It's been a lot of fun, and I wish everyone here and in the broader Smalltalk and Cincom communities the best in the future. And I'll certainly stay on this list and generally expect to stay active in the Smalltalk community, so in that sense I'm not going anywhere.
I wish Alan every success as he moves over to Google.
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Smaller Smalltalk
The work on a small Pharo Kernel continues:
As said, the PharoCore was great for deployment because it was small. However, Pavel Krivanek was not satisfied, and hence started to work on “KernelImage”. The image is now known as PharoKernel. Such image contains a real small core and it is only about 2 MB. The image has to run headless. Can you imagine Seaside running in 4.6 MB? Just try Seaside on PharoKernel.
Read the rest - they have moved on to using Fuel as a package loader so as to to have a kernel that doesn't even require the compiler.
PDF From Pharo
Need to produce PDF from Pharo? Then you might want to have a look at Artefact:
My project is in progress and many things are not finalized (no documentation, not enough unit tests, etc.). But, you can produce PDF documents with metadata, multiple page formats in a same document, draw tables, write text and paragraphs, play with colors and grey levels.
To load it, try:
MCHttpRepository location: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/artefact' user: '' password: ''
Big Poop Keynote at STIC 2012
The video for Sam Adams keynote on parallelism and OO is now available on the STIC site.
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Dart at STIC 2012
The Dart presentation (from Eric Clayberg) at STIC 2012 is now online - you can watch it on the STIC site.
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Styled Text Editor for Cuis 4.0 Smalltalk
I am very happy to announce that the Styled Text Editor for the brand new Cuis 4.0 is now available on GitHub. The Styled Text Editor was first presented by me at last year’s ESUG in Edinburgh. Thanks to ESUG the presentation was recorded.
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