Smalltalk with James Robertson

Amber is approaching the 1.0 milestone:

The Amber language is deeply inspired by Smalltalk. It is designed to make client-side development faster and easier. Amber includes a live development environment with a class browser, workspace, unit test runner, transcript, object inspector and debugger.

Tags: amber, javascript

It's time to think about the Google summer of code again:

Time for your cool project ideas on this year Smalltalk GSoC! For now just express any idea you have here on the mailing list. Later we will together develop it to be in complete format together with two mentors needed. Deadline is end of Mart, so we have three weeks of time. To see how fully developed ideas look like please look at the 2012 ones

For more informtion, visit the esug page for GSOC 2013.

Tags: gsoc, esug

All the details are here.

Tags: moose

James Savidge has moved his Smalltalk blog site. You can subscribe here.

Tags: jobs

Had dinner tonight with a bunch of Smaltalkers (all of them from CenturyLink) here in Minneapolis. Dave Hasegawa put the meetup together - we took some photos at Hells Kitchen

If you ever get to Hells Kitchen, check out the pictures on the bathroom walls :)

I noticed that the app I'm working on does a fair bit of GC right as it starts (this is ObjectStudio). Turns out, there was a really cheap win, as you can see from the results below:

ObjectMemory dynamicallyAllocatedFootprint 78967736
 
ObjectMemory currentMemoryPolicy growthRegimeUpperBound 48000000

Pretty simple - just move the growth regime past the base memory size, and you get an immediate boost. Next up - figure out whether that starting size is optimal.

Tags: objectstudio

There's going to be a mini-conference in Bern this April:

During April 2-4 we will organize a PharoConf and a MooseDay in Bern, Switzerland. Mark the day and join us. The participation will be free of charge. The conference will focus on interactivity and exchange, and will feature experience report talks, tutorials, show-us-your-project sessions and open discussions.

Interested? Contact Tudor Girba

Tags: pharo

There was a hiccup with the beta downloads of the one click distribution for the beta, but it's back again.

Tags: pharo

Sean DeNegris shows you how to make temporary overrides part of your continuous integration process in Pharo.

Tags: pharo, integration

PDX.st is meeting tonight, January 29th.

Tags: portland