The author of this blog, James Robertson, passed away in April 2014. This blog is being maintained by David Buck (david@simberon.com).
ESUG is making their annual call for papers:
We invite submissions to the International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies which is held as part of the ESUG 2011 joint event at Edinburgh.
You can get full details on what they are looking for at the link above. The conference itself is being held August 22-26 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
David Buck has been working on a project to make the positioning of VisualWorks widgets on a canvas a whole lot simpler. There's a video demo at the link - pretty cool stuff.
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Craig Latta is using WebDAV with Spoon, in order to enable Smalltalk code accessibility as if it were all in files. I like the idea a lot, and it would be interesting to see that sort of thing done for one of the large Smalltalk implementations.
Looks like you can get access to your analytics directly from Seaside now:
I want to announce the release of Google Analytics Tracker, a small tool we make for getitmade.com (Nick Ager's project), to allow us to get analytics data. Right now is very simple, it just give us page visits data, but can be used as a foundation to get a lot more info.
To give it a spin, load up ConfigurationOfGoogleAnalyticsTracker in Pharo.
We have a pretty decent sized group of Smalltalkers where I'm working now, in the Grand Prairie area (Texas). I know there are other Smalltalk shops in the Metroplex, so it occurs to me that a local user group is something that could work. I'm trying to get meeting space set up where I work - anyone else in the area interested in helping organize such a thing? If so, contact me and let's see what we can do.
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Michael Lucas-Smith has a detailed write up on a new Quantities library he's created in VisualWorks. It's taken inspiration from part of the Boost library - you can get details at the link. What's the motivation?
So with these two great examples of units and quantities to go off of, I set about trying different variations for describing quantities in VisualWorks generically. I wanted to allow it to blend with the existing (and future) implementation of Duration. I *really* wanted to know if there is any design impact on Duration that I need to know about now before I go and change its implementation in VisualWorks 7.9.
After going through many iterations, I ended up with a design using the same trick as Measurements, but with more capabilities, such as instantiating Duration when dealing with the Time dimension. Or instantiating an Angle when you’re dealing with radians, degrees and gradians. There is of course the Temperature class too - but I won’t bore you with the details of that one
A new port of Glorp for Pharo, built on top of DBXTalk (formerly SqueakDBX) is out:
I'm glad to announce a first stable version of the new Glorp Port, from VW 7.7.1.
The port has been integrated with the DBXTalk Driver (before known as SqueakDBX), and tested on the following platforms:
- MySql: 872 tests run, 18 errors, 6 failures
- PostgreSQL: 872 tests, 18 errors, 6 failures
- Oracle: 872 tests, 21 errors, 5 failures.
Juan Vuletich has just released CUIS 3.3. What's new? Too much stuff to list it concisely - follow the link for details. Or just download it now
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Need a lightweight REST solution for Pharo? Guillermo has one built on top of the KomHttpServer.
Nick Ager adds to the documentation produced by Lukas Renggli for a nice description of what to do.
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