The author of this blog, James Robertson, passed away in April 2014. This blog is being maintained by David Buck (david@simberon.com).
Arden Thomas is talking about Polycephaly at the NY STUG this Thursday evening:
Please join us on Thurs Feb 24th for this interesting discussion with Cincom Smalltalk’s product manager. Open house starts at 6:30 followed by the presentation at 7pm. Beverages will be available.
Pharo Smalltalk is ready for the next step ahead in terms of commercial acceptance and viability - I saw this on the ESUG mailing list, from the Pharo board:
We are pursuing an effort to bring Pharo to the next level: we will set up a consortium of pharo users and industrial partners. Our goal is to build a legal infrastructure that will be able to sustain the development of Pharo and improve its future. As an example, we would like to be able to collect funds (ways as to be determined - we foresee a membership model or moral license) to pay engineering tasks to be performed such as improving the virtual machine, network libraries, better JIT support. To make it short we would like to give a chance to our community to grow and structure itself so that Pharo can get stronger and that risk (truck factor) gets minimized.
It should be interesting to watch that and see how it develops. For many years, the various Smalltalk vendors simply didn't take the open source Smalltalk community seriously. Gemstone has been taking it more seriously of late, but I don't think much has changed elsewhere. If this effort makes headway, that'll have to change.
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Spotted in Smalltalk in The Cloud:
With the CloudforkSSO library you can let the users of your Seaside web application login using their Google or Yahoo accounts. This works using the OpenID2 protocol. CloudforkSSO also contains OAuth support. With this protocol you can ask users for permission to access their data on other websites.
I recall some real hassles implementing OAuth against Twitter - I was never sure whether I was at fault, or whether Twitter was - it worked sometimes. It's nice to see someone else has done the heavy lifting :)
Gemstone's Seaside 3 tutorial has been updated.
There's a new release of Squeak available: 4.2:
I'd like to call Squeak 4.2 finally officially released now. I posted the first maintenance "fix" to the squeak42 repository the other day, so our process for applying maintenance updates has been tested, in case we should need any more. I'm still waiting for final web-site updates from Janko, but I see no reason to postpone announcing any longer.
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Janko Mivsek has an early spring gift:
On the sunny side of the Alps we have a spring already, so let me bring a bit spring to you too with this new Aida release :) Fresh features from last month:
- new event framework
- unified JSON messaging (over WebSocket, Ajax, Comet)
- pure JavaScript for Ajax, Prototype loaded only on demand
There's a Pharo event going on today - you can follow the news via Twitter.
Arden Thomas will be talking about Polycephaly at the next NY STUG meeting:
This presentation discusses some basic strategies for how Smalltalk can leverage multi-core computers, and the results of using a new simple framework that is now included with Cincom’s VisualWorks and ObjectStudio.
February 24th at 6:30 pm
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JNIPort is now working in Squeak, Pharo, and VW:
JNIPort is a Smalltalk library which allows Java code to be invoked from Smalltalk. It acts as a bridge between the world of Smalltalk objects and a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) where Java code is executing.
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