Smalltalk with James Robertson

Andres Valloud has extended a nifty invitation to Smalltalks 2010 in Argentina:

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Spotted in comp.lang.smalltalk Google Group

I'm proud to announce the new version of Aida/Web Application server and Web framework, currently prepared for Squeak/Pharo and VisualWorks.

follow the link for more details.

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Jan van de Sandt has put together a nice "how to" walkthrough - building a deployable Seaside image on Pharo.

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Randal Schwartz has moved his Smalltalk blog over from Vox to Posterous - along with all of the existing content. You can subscribe here.

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I'm not going to make an official statement about VSE here - I will note, however, that an awful lot has been written about this long moribund product recently. One of the best things I've seen is Joachim's essay on the subject.

If you are a VSE user, there are good options out there. Cincom, for instance, has a Windows 7 certified Smalltalk product (ObjectStudio) for you to consider. VSE was a Windows 95 logo certified product "back in the day" - what better way to stay current than to move on to the only Windows 7 certified Smalltalk environment?

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Nicolas Petton has released version 0.9 of Illiad - it's out for GNU Smalltalk, and a Pharo port is underway. Illiad is a web development framework - we interviewed Nicholas about it on Industry Misinterpretations awhile back. Want full details - follow the link.

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We spoke to John Maloney about Scratch awhile back (part 1 here, part 2 here) - now Scratch is available for the Arduino, courtesy of the Citilab folks:

S4A is a Scratch modification that supports simple programming of the Arduino open source hardware platform. It provides new blocks for managing sensors and actuators connected to Arduino. There is also a sensor report board similar to the PicoBoard.

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Holger Kleinsorgen has put Seaside and DojoToolkit together:

I've published some packages that help developing applications that use the Dojo Toolkit (http://www.dojotoolkit.org). Dojo is a Javascript library that provides DOM queries and manipulation functions, event handling, Ajax requests, widgets and more.

It's for Squeak now, but it looks like porting it would be simple

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Goran has posted an interview he conducted with Dan Ingalls over skype. We've wanted to get Dan on the podcast for eons, but haven't been able to arrange it.

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It looks like a rough consensus about the database layer is forming across the various Smalltalk dialects, and it's GLORP. We spoke to John O'Keefe about that on the podcast, and today I ran across this post about moving that stuff forward on VA.

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