Smalltalk with James Robertson

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.

To listen now, you can either download the mp3 edition, or the AAC edition. The AAC edition comes with chapter markers. You can subscribe to either edition of the podcast directly in iTunes; just search for Smalltalk and look in the Podcast results. You can subscribe to the mp3 edition directly using this feed, or the AAC edition using this feed using any podcatching software.

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I look at solutions for deployment of Smalltalk Services over there.

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Today's screencast looks at the updated Store broewsers coming in the next release cycle - out with the 5i era browsers, in with the RB.

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SESUG is now an official Google Summer of Code mentor organization:

We are incredibly proud to announce that ESUG was selected for the GSoC 2010. We have a long list of wonderful projects, mentors and a cool website

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Today's screencast looks at using stdin and stdout from Smalltalk.

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ESUG luminary Stephanne Ducasse was just interviewed - good stuff, and this is perhaps the most interesting tidbit:

"30% of the worldwide market of shipping containers is controlled by Smalltalk systems"

That would be VisualWorks, btw :)

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Today's screencast looks at using Excel from ObjectStudio via COM.

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The Toronto STUG is meeting on March 22:

The next Toronto Smalltalk User Group meeting is on March 22. We'll take a look at the state of Seaside 3.0. Feel free to bring material to present, or questions to ask. We start at 6:30, Ryerson University, room ENG288 245 Church Street (at the SE corner of Gould, just north of Dundas).

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Squeak just hit an interesting milestone - earlier this month the Squeak website posted the following:

The Squeak Oversight Board plans to finalize the multi-year effort of re-licensing Squeak. Squeak 4.0 is scheduled to be released on Monday, March 15th, 2010 and will be licensed under the MIT License with some original parts remaining under the Apache License.

Then a few minutes ago, Randal Schwartz let me know that 4.0 was out, and downloadable. So the long awaited Squeak with a clean license release has arrived. It's a great time for Smalltalk!

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The website hasn't been updated yet (as of this writing, anyway) - but Serge Stinckwich has posted a link to 1.0 RC3

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