This week's podcast features something new - a review of a number of packages in the public store repository. We intend to make this subject a recurring feature of the podcast; we'll be talking about things in various Squeak/Pharo repositories over time as well. This week, we covered:
NameGenerator
Herl
SubFork
MustBeBoolean
ImageLocker
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The STIC Board has decided to organize Smalltalk Solutions 2011 in Las Vegas from Sunday March 13 to Wednesday March 16, 2011. This time, one of our goals is to attract strangers, i.e. non-Smalltalks to our conference. Thus we are looking for an attractive sub title. Buzz words which popped into our minds are Cloud and Dynamic Languages. Thus we start a call for subtitle today. Please send your idea(s) to georg@stic.st until July 31st, 2010. The STIC Board of Directores shall vote on the subtitle. We sill also run a drawing amoung all submissions to win three prices: 10%, 5%, and 3% discount off the admission fee.
There will likely be a call for participation soon - in the meantime, if you have a suggestion for a subtitle, let Georg know.
I saw this on my Facebook news feed, from a happy user of VisualWorks:
From my perspective, Smalltalk (in the form of VisualWorks) is the perfect vehicle for exploratory programming. The latest incarnation of my program tests competing theories and allows me to make choices of what to use, based on recent history.
That's how I've always seen VW. I usually start out with a few lines of script in a workspace, migrate to a class or two, and build up from there. The immediate feedback is what sets Smalltalk apart.
Yes, there will be a conference in 2011 - I can't reveal the location yet, but it will take place in the spring. Stay tuned for details, and for a call for participation!
We are proud to announce the 6th Innovation Technology Awards. The top 3 teams with the most innovative software will receive, respectively, 500 Euros, 300 Euros and 200 Euros during an awards ceremony at the conference. Developers of any Smalltalk-based software are welcome to compete. This year we will also request 3-5min video.
InfoQ interviewed Dan Ingalls earlier this year (during QCon in London). Lots of good stuff about the history of Smalltalk, and the Lively Kernel work he was doing more recently.
Update: As a commenter pointed out, there was an announcement, in both the Squeak and Pharo email lists. Here's a link to one of them (they are the same text)
I did a screencast on the mini-aggregator code recently - it allows you to specify a set of feeds (possibly with content filters), and push out an output set of links. I thought it might be nice to actually start using that - so over on the sidebar, you'll notice a new section titled "Related". Under that I have a set of the most recent (only 1 deep) posts from some of the Smalltalk blogs I read. It auto-updates via cron every fifteen minutes, so it should stay current.
