Randy Coulman's New Digs
You can follow Randy's thoughts on Smalltalk, Ruby, and whatever else he's getting into over here.
RIP Andreas Raab
I just saw very, very sad news in the Squeak mailing list - Andreas Raab has died. I didn't know him well, but his name pops up all the time in Squeak, and - even after the split - in Pharo. Rest in Peace Andreas - you left us too soon.
Smalltalk Analogies
Dave Buck explains why working in Smalltalk is so different from everything else.
More Upgrade Fun with VisualWorks
This change happened back in 7.8, but since we are only now upgrading, we ran into it while going from 7.6 to 7.9.1. Take code that looks like this in VW 7.6:
point := 4@-5.
In 7.6, that gives you a point object. In newer VW? It gives you the message #@- sent to 4 with an argument of 5. Same thing with fractions. Not hard to fix - just look for senders of #@- and #/- and then use a rewrite rule to fix them. Better yet, it was turned up by our unit test suite :)
Tags: visualworks, upgrade
BioSmalltalk: New Release
A new version of BioSmalltalk has been released. BioSmalltalk is the Smalltalk environment for doing bioinformatics with Pharo. There's a list of features, status and to do's at the link
Tags: pharo
Call For Participation in the Smalltalk DevRoom at FosDem 2013
Saw this from Marcus Denker:
A devroom for the Pharo, Squeak, Amber, GST, Etoilé, Seaside, Moose Smalltalk projects & Newspeak as derived language. Smalltalk environments offer a very high development productivity, unmatched by their successors. Come do some pair programming with us and experience yourself the advantages of a real OO environment
You can get more info on the conference here
Regular Screencasts Return Tomorrow
I'm taking a short break from screencasting - basically, the 3 days around Christmas. Things will be back to normal tomorrow on that front.
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