Smalltalk with James Robertson

Spotted in Programming Gems (on GemStone)

VMware vFabric GemStone/S  3.0.0 is now live on vmware.com.

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Spotted in Objology

Go to Software Maniac's download page. Turn off the languages you're not interested in. Check the checkbox for Smalltalk. And hit the download button. You'll get a new customized highlight.js file for your efforts. You need this customized version because it doesn't support Smalltalk in the stock version.

Then just insert that javascript file into your page, and start using it. If you need directions for Blogger specifically, they're in Travis' post.

StOMP - an object serializer for network communications - has been ported to VA Smalltalk. Get all the details here.

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Michael has put up a pretty detailed post on the lessons learned from the initial cut at Polycephaly - and what he and a few other engineers at Cincom have done for take 2:

So, the technical debt on Polycephaly finally reached a turning point when a review was written on the VWNC mailing list and I was resolved to fix the problems. And what luck, I had an engineering trip planned to travel to Ottawa where two of my colleagues live, and then to Victoria (Vancouver Isle.) where another one of my colleagues live. It just so happens that these colleagues could help me and face to face time is invaluable. I present to you Xtreams-Grid, a VisualWorks and ObjectStudio solution for working with multiple images on your local machine and across a network.

Follow the link for lots more details, including the features list.

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Alan Kay will be speaking at HPI on July 21st - Robert Hirschfeld posted the following to the ESUG mailing list:

It is my great pleasure to announce Alan Kay's talk here at HPI.

Title: "Next steps for qualitatively improving programming"

Venue: Lecture Hall 1, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, Germany

Date and time: July 21 (Thu) 2011, 16:00-17:00

Additional information:
http://www.vpri.org/html/people/founders.htm
http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hpi/anfahrt?L=1
http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/news/beitrag/computerpionier-alan-kay-wird-hpi-fellow.html

The talk will also be posted online afterwards, so we all have that to look forward to

James Foster explains how to do user specific rendering in Seaside:

Seaside has the built-in ability to use HTTP Authentication to restrict an application to a specific user/password. The method WAAdmin class>>#’register:asApplicationAt:user:password:’ registers the application with WAAuthenticationFilter as a filter and provides a single user and password that must be provided in order to view the initial page. This provides some password security, but does not differentiate among allowed users (e.g., everyone will use the same ‘admin’ user name).

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The Pharo project is moving from Hudson to Jenkins - if you care about the details, check it out.

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Need LDAP sprinkled into your Seaside app? Charlie Meyer has a solution for you

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Fuel (an object serializer for Pharo) is now at version 1.5 - what's new?

• Initialize instances after materialization implementing #fuelAfterMaterialization
• Ignore transient instance variables overriding #fuelIgnoredInstanceVariableNames
• Limit serialization progress bar to update at most once every 250 milliseconds
• Traits are serialized and materialized as a regular objects
• Removed mappers system cache (Eliot)
• Many new tests
• Benchmarks: compare Fuel against StOMP, SRP, SIXX, Magma, EsAndEm and Fuel with progress bar
• Benchmarks: new samples, scripts, and CSV exporter
• Benchmarks: measure serialization stream size
• Removed some redundant #fuelAccept:
• Several aesthetic changes in protocols, categories and comments
• Now #materialize answers the materialized root
• Removed special cluster for HashedCollection - Now #rehash is sent via #fuelAfterMaterialization
• MethodContext serialization does not serialize temps
• Classes and Traits now serialize its environment (testCreateWithSmalltalkGlobalsEnvironment)
• Fixed serialization of non-octet characters (testCharacter)
• Fixed a bug serializing the system dictionary - FLWellKnownObjectsCluster handles it
• Fixed a bug serializing class variables (testClassVariable)
• Fixed a bug when serializing a collection with size greater than 1^16 with repeated elements inside
• Fixed testTwoCompiledMethodsReferencingSameClassVariable
• Optimization: instanceIndexes are directly created with the exact size (Henrik)

Fuel is part of the ESUG Summertalk project

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