Smalltalk with James Robertson

Bob Nemec runs the Smalltalk STUG in Toronto, Canada, and has an interesting post up:

I've been involved with the Toronto Smalltalk User Group for 20 years now, the past dozen or so as the primary organizer. Lately we've had a few people show up that were new to Smalltalk and wanted to learn more. We talk to them about the simple syntax, show them Pharo and Seaside, tell them about the other dialects, and try whatever we can to get them enthused.

He goes on to talk about the things he likes about Smalltalk; go read the whole thing.

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Pharo by Example will soon be available in French.

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Spotted in Torsten's Blog:

The OpenQwaq project is based on the commercial software that Teleplace has been delivering to the market over the past four years. It is a highly-secure, enterprise-class virtual collaboration platform that has been used by large commercial enterprises and federal agencies. The OpenQwaq project enables organizations - large and small, profit and not-for-profit - to implement virtual workspaces for their specific needs.

Licensed under GPL2, so you may need to look into whether you can make use of it in your context.

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Sean DeNegris has been doing some cool stuff with Smalltalk and Objective-C:

I’ve been playing with an Objective-C Bridge in Squeak and Pharo. Now I can do cool Cocoa things in-image! For example, sometimes I need a Mac app’s bundle identifier. I previously used a Ruby script.

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When I gave my talk at Smalltalk Solutions 2011, I was asked a question about the Facebook interface I created while I was at Cincom - what license was that code under. Since I wrote it while I was employed at Cincom, I couldn't answer the question, so I deferred it to Cincom (some of their staff were in the presentation, and said that they would "get back to me").

Well, it's May now, and Smalltalk Solutions was nearly two months ago. I'm still waiting for an answer :)

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Spotted in Planet Squeak

The 8th Annual Squeakfest will be held from May, 26 - May, 28 2011 at Universidad Católica in Montevideo, Uruguay.

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So long as you start from the right version of Pharo (follow the link for details), there's now an easy to load configuration for Magma 1.2:

I'm glad to announce a new version of ConfigurationOfMagma with support for Magma 1.2. This configuration has been tested on:

• PharoCore 1.1.x
• PharoCore 1.2.x

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STIC has found a steady voice for Smalltalk advocacy - Georg Heeg. He's just been renamed executive director of STIC for the fifth year:

After a unanimous vote by the Smalltalk Industry Council board members, Georg Heeg will continue on as the Executive Director of STIC.

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Spotted in The Hitchhiker's Guide to Smalltalk:

Tobias Pape announced SqueakSource3 Beta.1 called "Easter Fire" - a port of SqueakSource to Seaside 3 and Magritte 2. SqueakSource is a monticello code repository server which hosts your Smalltalk projects.

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