The author of this blog, James Robertson, passed away in April 2014. This blog is being maintained by David Buck (david@simberon.com).
I had a great time at Peak6 today - I want to give a huge set of thanks to Karla Yeh, who made me feel welcome from the moment I walked in the door this morning. The whole group at Peak6 was nice, and the talks I gave were well attended (and had good questions as well). I hope the audience enjoyed the day as much as I did - I'll be posting the slide decks I used soon.
As I previously reported, Cincom is changing the way they deliver updates - Arden Thomas pushed out a few more details today, and asked for comments:
We are also experimenting with the delivery mechanisms of the maintenance releases, with full installations or in-place updates. The fall maintenance release full releases will be: ObjectStudio 8.3.1 and VisualWorks 7.8.1. VisualWorks will have an optional process to update a 7.8 installation. The future target will be online updateable maintenance service packs.
I'll share more details as they make them public - I think we'll try to get Arden on the podcast when that happens to talk about it, too.
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Dale has add remote breakpoints to GLASS:
Breakpoints have been available in GLASS, for a long time now. In 2008 I added remote breakpoints for Seaside2.8 and finally with the release of Seaside 3.0.6.3, remote breakpoints are available for Seaside 3.0.
Everything from ESUG 2011 is either on this playlist, or headed there soon.
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Andreas Raab explains how to get all those moving parts working together.
Gemstone (VMWare) has shipped MagLev 1.0 - as reported by InfoQ:
MagLev 1.0 has been released: MagLev is a Ruby VM built on GemStone/S, a 64 bit Smalltalk VM. But MagLev is much more than a Ruby VM, it comes with a mature NoSQL data store, from the website:
MagLev VM takes full advantage of GemStone/S JIT to native code performance, distributed shared cache, fully ACID transactions, and enterprise class NoSQL data management capabilities to provide a robust and durable programming platform. It can transparently manage a much larger amount (terabytes) of data and code than will fit in memory.
GemStone/S 64 3.0.1 was released on Monday of this week.GemStone/S 64 Bit 3.0.1 is a new version of the GemStone/S 64 Bit object server. This release provides feature enhancements and fixes a number of serious 3.0 bugs.
Follow the links for lots more details
We are proud to announce the release of 1.3 of Pharo. This new release is the result of active development from the community and it is composed of:
- Cleaning architectural dependencies
- More cleanups directed by applying code critics on the system
- Support for server and headless images. Pharo niw has a support for stdin, stdout and stderr.
- More robust and better startup/shutdown
- Improved look and feel
- Better widgets
- Improved tools
- Weak Announcements
- Stratified Proxy
- More class comments
- Network improvements based on Zinc
Follow the link for more details.
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We heard our customers: This fall you will see service-pack maintenance releases for our Cincom Smalltalk products. This release is a true maintenance update as requested by Cincom Smalltalk customers. In future release cycles we plan to have one major release annually along with service-pack online releases at regular intervals. The service-pack releases will have refinements, fixes and updates to the major releases.
I think that's a good idea - and it also fits in well with how most of the rest of the industry operates. If the service packs are easy to add updates, it'll make projects like the one I'm on now much easier to keep in synch with Cincom releases.
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