Smalltalk with James Robertson

Theres a new Swiss Smalltalk user group - and they are advertising an event with Claus Gittinger (Smalltalk/X) on April 28.

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Here's a short video showing a WebVelocity app - the Media Search one we have on our site - running on a iPhone. To watch, click on the viewer below:

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Today's screencast looks at the intertwining of the #hash and #= methods.

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The Smalltalk piece of Google's Summer of Code is starting to warm up, with some notable mentors and some interesting looking projects.

Today's screencast looks at a performance testing - when you test Smalltalk code for performance, you need to be aware of how the compiler operates - otherwise, your performance tests might give you results you'll misinterpret.

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Today's screencast looks at a small convenience package that simplifies Transcript and stdout reporting.

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This question about an "Iron Smalltalk" (no momentum in a few years) made me consider the oft stated (and never really fulfilled) desire for "Smalltalk on the JVM", or "Smalltalk on .NET" - I came up with the following:

The reason these "Smalltalk for .NET" and "Smalltalk for the JVM" projects never seem to come off is simple - Smalltalk isn't just flat text in an editor. Smalltalk is the entire interactive environment. It would be fairly simple to get a syntax parser, but it wouldn't be Smalltalk. It would be Ruby or Python with Smalltalk syntax. Somewhat useful perhaps, but not really Smalltalk.

If you really built Smalltalk in one of these other systems, you would have to invest a pretty large effort - and then end up with a system that ran slower than any of the currently extant commercial Smalltalk systems. Given that, it's kind of hard to see the point.

This week's ESUG video is Jorge Silva's "How to be Rich with Smalltalk" (ppt) presentation - a talk on some work to integrate Smalltalk and Adobe Air (separate from the Glare code) that Jorge had been working on. To watch, click on the viewer below:

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Today's screencast looks at how you can control the downloading of files attached to Store bundles.

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This week Michael and I spoke to Bruce Badger - long time open source contributor to the Smalltalk community. He's the author of the widely used PostgreSQL database driver and of the PDF document library. If you listen to the podcast, you'll also learn what other projects Bruce has up his sleeve.

We spoke a bit about the OpenSkills project, and about open source licensing - what license Bruce uses for his code and why. We also covered Sport - Bruce's cross dialect portability library, and what Bruce would like to see happen in that direction. It was a fun talk, and we'd love to get Bruce back on the podcast again.

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