Smalltalk with James Robertson

Speaking of Cog, there's been progress on the Android front as well.

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Eliot is still making progress on Cog; he's pushed out another update.

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Spotted in the Seaside mailing list, by Nick Ager:

I've just published an initial integration of JQuery Mobile [1] with Seaside. You can try it out at: http://jquerymobile.seasidehosting.st

It's nearly complete - the outstanding work is to integrate JQuery scripting support - though it's certainly usable in it's current form. Feedback is welcome.

From the mailing list announcement:

We have released the new version 1.7 of Fuel, a binary serialization framework for Pharo that provides extremely fast deserialization. More information on our home page. Again, I thank ESUG for sponsoring me through the SummerTalk program.

You can download this version in Pharo 1.2.1 or 1.3 with:

Gofer new
        squeaksource: 'Fuel';
        package: 'ConfigurationOfFuel';
        load.
((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfFuel) project version: '1.7') load.

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The STIC conference is shaping up for next March:

STIC is a forum where Smalltalk professionals, researchers, and enthusiasts can meet and share ideas and experiences. We are currently accepting proposals for talks involving Smalltalk technology and other areas of innovation in the software industry. We're looking forward to an excellent conference, and need your participation to maintain the high technical level of the conference!

The conference will take place in Biloxi, Mississippi, March 19 13 21, 2012.

Presentations will have 45 minutes time slots including discussion. They may be in the form of

• Technical Presentations
• Experience Reports
• Technology Demonstrations
• Panel Discussions
• Workshops

Looks like you can submit proposals to STS_Speakers@stic.st

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Sounds like Andres Valloud has been pretty busy with improving the VW garbage collection system

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Dale Henreichs talks about the Kaliningrad project, which brings Monticello to Amber.

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The videos from 2008 on up are appearing on ESUG's YouTube channel.

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Spotted this on the ESUG mailing list, from Mike Taylor (Instantiations CEO):

Instantiations is very pleased to announce that Smalltalk veteran John O'Keefe has been promoted to Chief Technical Officer of the company. In reality this is a role that John has been successfully filling for a number of years and we decided it was about time to officially recognize his contributions!

Congratulations to John!

James Foster explains how to make the static parts of your Seaside app actually static:

Most of us recognize that static files do not need to be served from Seaside, but it is a step that can be easily overlooked. I was recently helping someone analyze performance for a Seaside application and we found that serving the initial page made 20 Seaside requests, all but one of them for something in /files (i.e., a subclass of WAFileLibrary). In this case it was Scriptaculous, but it could be anything.

Read the whole thing for details.

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