Smalltalk with James Robertson

Gemstone has indexed their set of Seaside vidoes. Meanwhile, they'll be coming to Cincinnati on March 2nd (I'll be in London then, at our next technology event).

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Today's screencast walks through exporting code out of VisualWorks or ObjectStudio in a format that will be compatible with various other Smalltalk dialects.

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Randal Schwartz reports progress on the Squeak licensing front:

Well, after an immense amount of collective work with important legal and social restrictions and ramifications, I'm happy to see that we are in the home stretch!

The SFC asserted that we needed one final "call to all interested parties", and that has begun. Once that's complete (hopefully without a hitch), the current 3.10.2 release will be relabeled as Squeak 4.0, and made available under a combination of the Apache and MIT licenses.

I guess you should stay tuned to Randal's blog for updates :)

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Today's screencast walks through the process of reporting a bug in Cincom Smalltalk - what kind of information you need, and how to prepare it.

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If you see something like what's below, and you're sure that it's the fault of Cincom code instead of yours, what do you do? See my post over on my Cincom blog.

Today's screencast takes a look at ExtraActivity - a contributed library for VisualWorks that makes animations simpler to create.

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Want to try out Smalltalk, but not sure which one to try? Well, Marten Feldtmann has made things easier for you - he's created an appliance (VM) with the major Smalltalks all loaded already

The following Smalltalks are installed:

• Smalltalk/X 5-4-6 (Windows)
• Smalltalk/X 5-4-6 (Linux)
• VASmalltalk 8.01 (Linux)
• VASmalltalk 8.01 (Windows)
• ObjectStudio 8.1 (Windows)
• VisualWorks 7.7 (Linux)
• VisualWorks 7.7 (Windows)
• Pharo (Linux) RC2

The only issue I see there is that it should include ObjectStudio 8.2 - you can get that here

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Here's another ESUG 2009 video - Karsten Kuche talking about SeaBreeze, a UI builder and library for Seaside, built in VisualWorks.

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Today's screencast takes a brief, introductory overview of Xtreams - a new streaming library for Smalltalk that is under early development. You can listen to our podcast on Xtreams here, and get started by visiting the Google Code Page.

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This week Michael and I spoke to Brian Rice about Slate - a language inspired by Smalltalk, Self, and other dynamic languages. To quote from the Slate website:

Slate is a prototype-based object-oriented programming language based on Self, CLOS, and Smalltalk-80. Slate syntax is intended to be as familiar as possible to a Smalltalker, for the clarity of messages as phrases. Unlike the Smalltalk family, methods within Slate can be assigned to a signature of objects, instead of being installed on one favored receiver.

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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If you like the music we use, please visit Josh Woodward's site. We use the song Effortless for our intro/outro music. I'm sure he'd appreciate your support!

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