Smalltalk with James Robertson

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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The Object-Arts people have put up a very detailed post on the subject, and some videos.

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Tony Garnock-Jones has a build of GNU Smalltalk for OS X.

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PetitParser tutorials - video and slides - are available now.

Cincom has updated the license for the download versions of VisualWorks and ObjectStudio - it seems to be a lot more reasonable than earlier drafts that were up on the site. More importantly, the license that comes with the download now matches what you'll find on the site, so there's no confusion as to what the terms are. Check it out.

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Pharo based scripting is coming along:

Coral makes it possible to write shell scripts with Pharo. It’s actually several parts:

• A wrapper shell script
• To seamlessly invoke the VM from the command line.
• A tiny syntax extension
• Smalltalk has no syntax to declare classes and methods outside of the code browser. Coral’s syntax extension allows to declare classes, methods, and to evaluate code, all in a simple text file.
• A lighter, prepared image
• The Coral image is configured to launch quickly, without a graphical interface, and is preloaded with packages useful for scripting, like access to the system’s filesystem and processes.

If you follow the link, there's a video as well

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Some of the videos from Monday, August 22 have been posted.

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The ESUG folks are getting their videos posted to YouTube.

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You'll want to grab Pharo 1.3, and then do this to load the latest:

Gofer it
    squeaksource: 'MetacelloRepository';
    package: 'ConfigurationOfGlorpDBX';
    load.
    
(((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfGlorpDBX) perform: #project) perform: #version: with: #stable) load

Looks like a lot of work went into that in order to update Glorp for Pharo to the latest code being used in VisualWorks - great job!

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Travis has some interesting thoughts on how we should make objects