The author of this blog, James Robertson, passed away in April 2014. This blog is being maintained by David Buck (david@simberon.com).
Looks like Martin's Xtreams talk at ESUG 2010 has inspired the Squeak Community: Nicholas Cellier has started a port over to Squeak. Having this library portable across multiple Smalltalk dialects will make it much more likely to see real world use.
Norberto Manzanos has launched a new blog that concentrates on OO and Smalltalk - it's a Spanish language blog. He's part of the growing South American Smalltalk contingent.
The Smalltalks 2010 website is powered by Seaside. Looks good, too!
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Torsten reports on some interesting work from John Maloney, highlighted by Eliot Miranda in the Squeak mailing list:
if size matters and you feel like you have to dig into bootstrapping an own Smalltalk system based on Squeak you should have a look at this post from Eliot. There you will find code that will produces a headless 57k image with a few basic classes as a proof of concept. Interesting!
I think the small kernel approach is the way to go.
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I've just been informed that the STIC website is offline - due to problems on the physical server that runs the site. It should be back later today.
Update 10:00 AM EDT: The site is back online.
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Joachim reports on a cool Apache module for Seaside apps (Pharo only at the moment):
How does this actually work? There are two Apache modules involved. mod_advertise sends UDP broadcasts about Apache's location, you might have several on different hosts in the network. mod_cluster_manager allows remote configuration of Apache. Seaside will connect to the advertised Apache instances and tell them where it is (host, port, protocol, urls).
Joachim has an overview of what's been done; the listserv posting by Phillippe Marschall has far more details. Very cool stuff. Setting up a simple round robin load balancer with session affinity has been possible for Smalltalk aps for quite some time, of course - this just goes up to the next level.
David Buck reports on the next Ottawa STUG:
Alan Knight will present his talk on Store from the European Smalltalk User Group, discussing recent developments, possible upcoming work, and demonstrating an extremely rickety prototype of a "Store Server" that can load packages from a server running in the Amazon EC2 cloud in a single round-trip rather than needing to connect directly to the database.
The Scratch for Arduino team has a ten minute interview posted:
"We want to explore Scratch for Arduino applications on interactive science museums and art digital centers"
Follow the link for the video - it's in Spanish, btw.
I saw this pass by in one of VisualWorks mailing lists - it's a Cincom customer successfully using multiple cores via multiple images, with a library we call Polycephaly:
We are successfully using Polycephaly in our project. One thing we use it for is to parallelize execution of (time-consuming) unit tests that check code quality. These tests execute at 28% of original time, when using Polycephaly on a quad-core box.
That library is in the preview directory of the distribution (for ObjectStudio as well!) - take a look.
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