The author of this blog, James Robertson, passed away in April 2014. This blog is being maintained by David Buck (david@simberon.com).
James Ladd is rebooting the Redline blog:
What still needs to change are some of the posts here that are no longer correct as they don’t refer to the current implementation of Redline Smalltalk. I’m confident the current incarnation of Redline will be the one that makes it to a V1.0. As such it is now time to delete these old incorrect posts and begin a new series that is correct.
Redline isn't the only place this is happening - there's a video of a talk from the JVM language summit, as well as the slide deck.
Torsten Bergman explains just how deep the Smalltalk polymorphism rabbit hole goes:
While a function/method name in a class has to be unique so it could be called it usually is a Symbol. You know all these #foo, #bar, #negated, ... In Java you may call it foo() or bar() or negated(). But in Smalltalk this selector could be ANY object. Yes, yes - this is not a type.
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Pharo 1.3 is in release candidate mode. The last action needed for release is to package the OneClick image with the right Cog VM. On this side Igor is working on a few critical fixes that should be ready in a couple of days. So you can put the Champagne in the fridge now. Pharo 1.4 is in alpha mode. Note that starting from 1.4 only one image will be released. Releasing two images actually needs too much effort for our community. Furthermore the core developers usually work on PharoCore and it's hard for them to follow bugs on a image (Pharo) they don't use. So one small image with easy package loading (and unloading) seems a better way to go. Only one Pharo. About infrastructure, continuous integration server is moving from Hudson to Jenkins. The Hudson server will be stopped when the migration is finished. For Cog VMs, Pharo 1.4 and current projects, check the Jenkins server.
Lots of interesting things happening with Pharo these days...
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Instantiations has pushed out VA Smalltalk 8.5:
We're very happy to announce the availability of Version 8.5 of VA Smalltalk. This latest release is available now and includes a number of powerful new capabilities and enhancements.
Follow the link to see what's new!
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Michael van der Gulik has some interesting notes on playing around at the meta levels of Smalltalk:
I want to add more instance variables to Class. How difficult is this? Pretty. I suspect that for vanilla Squeak or Pharo, you'd need to carefully remake every single Metaclass instance and Class instance. For me, my Packages architecture means I only need to recompile my own private Metaclasses and all its instances which can be done safely.
Read the whole thing; Michael is working where angels fear to tread :)
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The slides for the ESUG 2011 talks are starting to pop up up:
We are starting to upload the Slides of ESUG 2011:
SlideShare
Archive (PDF)
Tweet Stream
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Smalltalk Solutions is being renamed to the "Smalltalk Industry Conference" (STIC), and the 2012 show will be in Biloxi, Mississippi. Georg Heeg just announced the following at ESUG 2011:
I just made this announcement at ESUG in Edinburgh:
- Smalltalk Solutions has been renamed to Smalltalk Industry Conference (STIC)
- STIC 2012 will be in Biloxi, Mississippi
- STIC 2012 will open Sunday March 18th, 2012 in the evening
- STIC 2012 conference days will be Monday to Wednesday March 19th to 21st, 2012
- STIC 2012 will be followed by a Camp Smalltalk on Thursday and Friday
- There will be program for Student Volunteers
- Call for papers is open
- STIC will continue to collaborate with ESUG
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