Smalltalk with James Robertson

Spotted in [|] Less is More

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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Want a free ride in return for a bit of work?

The Smalltalk Industry Council is currently seeking student volunteers to help keep the 2012 Smalltalk Industry Conference running smoothly. In return, these volunteers will receive free accommodations, no conference fees and time to enjoy the majority of the conference. For those interested, past duties have included handling registration as people arrive at the conference, staffing coffee machines, running the microphone during question and answer periods, assisting with collecting presentation slides for STIC right after the presentation is given, assisting with photos or audio when needed, directing attendees to social events or the next exciting session, being present at an information desk to answer questions and generally being helpful. Student volunteering makes the conference better, takes a fairly small amount of time and doesn’t significantly interfere with enjoying or learning from the conference.

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Spotted in Planet Squeak

The slides from the Pharo presentation at Smalltalks 2011 are now available online:

-- Download PDF
-- SlideShare: slideshare.net/MarcusDenker/pharo-one-year-later

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HPI has started a new series of Squeak screencasts - check it out.

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Can't get to Smalltalks 2011 in Argentina? Never fear, they are live streaming, starting tomorrow.

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Todor Todorov has set up a project, and will be talking about it at Smalltalks 2011.

Hernan Wilkinson explains why you should consider attending Smalltalks 2011, in an email to various Smalltalk lists:

To begin with, this conference isn’t only about a programming language, it’s about a technology and a development culture which still has a wide influence on our profession. For example, last year Gilad Bracha came to the conference. Who is Gilad Bracha? Maybe the name rings a bell... well, that’s because he’s one of the people behind Dart, Google’s new language (http://www.dartlang.org/). And what does that have to do with Smalltalk? Precisely: Gilad Bracha was one of the creators of Strongtalk (http://www.strongtalk.org/), the fastest Samlltalk at that time, which used adaptive compilation, Polimorphic Inline Caching (PIC), optional variable typing, etc. - all of which are being implemented now in Dart. This year one of his closest collaborators will visit us, Vassili Bykov, who implemented the UI of Newspeak, the latest language he has been working on.

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Glamour makes it pretty easy - watch the video, and follow the link for the code.

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Spotted in (gem)Stone Soup

Metacello 1.0-beta.31 has been released. The primary motivation for the release is support for GLASS 1.0-beta.8.7

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Dale has been busy:

GLASS 1.0-beta.8.7 has been released. I’ve been pretty busy since the last GLASS release in March: there are almost 50 bugfixes included in this release.

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