Smalltalk with James Robertson

Where did some of the Smalltalk Collection protocol come from? Well, according to this relayed recollection from Dan Ingalls, it came from Alice's Restaurant:

But I recognized it right away, here’s how “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” transitions from the littering trial to the draft:

"Came to talk about the draft. They got a building down New York City, it’s called Whitehall Street, where you walk in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected, neglected and selected."

If that's true, it's hilarious :)

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Dmitri Zagidulin explains why he picked Smalltalk and Seaside:

Why? Good god, why? Why should a choice of language, or especially a choice of which web app framework to use, matter? Because, I believe that: Your choice of app framework deeply affects your development speed, and your overall level of courage.

Follow the link to see what he meant by that :)

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Torsten rounds up the useful - and easily remembered - Pharo links:

It's hard to remember long URL's. At least for me. But with these new shortcuts remembering important pharo-project sites is now easy:

• http://issues.pharo-project.org
• http://ci.pharo-project.org
• http://book.pharo-project.org
• http://wiki.pharo-project.org

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Spotted in Planet Squeak

Stephan Eggermont and Willem van den Ende will demo Seaside at the FOSDEM meeting in Brussels, Belgium to free and Open Source developers.

You can get more details from the Squeak mailing list and from the FOSDEM site.

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The Seaside adaptor for Apache has been updated again:

The AJP server adaptor for Seaside has been updated. The biggest difference is a new backend that should result in better performance when serving byte arrays from the image. Note that this is not an HTTP adaptor, you need an Apache frontend.

Since most people (myself included!) use Apache with their Smalltalk websites, this is welcome news.

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Pharo is getting better at headless running:

the last two days we worked hard with Marcus to incorporate this new stuff into image, and now we're done. All images past #13021 now have non interactive ui manager (NonInteractiveUIManager). We fixed almost all broken tests caused by introducing it (there are only few minor ones left).

The open source solutions are getting more and more reasonable - the commercial vendors are not going to be able to sit back and relax...

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Andreas Raab explains how to use SSL with Squeak in a nicely detailed post. Check it out.

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Coral is a library that improves Pharo's scripting capabilities - now I just need to wake my rusty French up so I can read the installation instructions...

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Tony Fleig has a part 2 up on automated Seaside app testing

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Instantiations has set up a new wiki for Camp Smalltalk - and you can attend the next one of those on the weekend before StS 2011.

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