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More Seaside

January 18, 2010 10:13:03.887

Douglas Putnam is looking for a hosting solution to run Seaside:

I recently rented a 256MB slice from Slicehost for my SmalltalkTheGoodParts.com work. I have a Wordpress blog running there, and I'll be installing Smalltalk and Seaside as part of my self-taught Smalltalk course.

I can heartily recommend Slicehost, the service I use.

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CIncom Smalltalk NC: Closer

January 18, 2010 11:12:29.519

I know people are anxious to see the new releases - ObjectStudio 8.2 and VisualWorks 7.7 - and we should have them available soon. The holdup has to do with the commercial orders going out to customers - we didn't want to have a situation where paying customers were getting the product after non-commercial users.

The holiday slowed that process down a bit, but things are getting back on track now. I'll make an announcement when it's good to go, so stay tuned.

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Regex Searches in the Browser

January 18, 2010 11:37:59.509

You can use Regex for searches in the Smalltalk browser (VW or OS) - to learn how, watch today's video.

You can download the video directly here. If you like this kind of video, why not subscribe to "Smalltalk Daily"?

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Faster FIOS

January 18, 2010 11:56:23.339

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The new bundles of course don't skimp on the goodies, particularly with the 35Mbps up / 35Mbps down symmetrical service that should be a boon to HD video chats, big torrents and medium-sized torrents.

Looks like I have a phone call to make :)

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Join us After Each Smalltalk Event Online

January 18, 2010 12:45:08.700

Smalltalk Event

After each of the upcoming Smalltalk Technology events (check the schedule here; the first one is in Seattle this Thursday), we'll be hosting a short live stream to talk about the event. If you can't make the events but would like to know a bit about what we're on about, head to our Ustream channel.

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Truth in Advertising?

January 18, 2010 12:53:29.360

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Tablet Coming?

January 18, 2010 13:06:44.032

Spotted in Engadget

Apple is holding an event on January 27th to show off something the company is calling their "latest creation."

Unless a completely out of left field play on AppleTV is in the works, it looks like all the Tablet Rumors are going to converge into a real device. We'll know soon; I should be back from Toronto just in time to find out :)

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More Smalltalk Video

January 18, 2010 16:21:04.768

The Gemstone folks and the people behind the PharoCasts keep pushing new stuff out.

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Where in the World

January 18, 2010 16:35:14.668

I've added a new link over in the sidebar - "Where in the World". I'll be listing upcoming events and places where I'll be. If I'll be where you are, and you would like to meet up, you can drop me a line via email, or message me on Twitter

That's also the best place to look for updates on all things Smalltalk that I'm involved in, because I can update it as I get confirmations. So - either keep track of that page, or subscribe to the feed.

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Keeping Track of Smalltalk Stuff

January 18, 2010 17:17:23.163

With the changes to the Cincom Smalltalk website, you might want to know how to keep track of the audio and video I produce there. On that front, nothing's changed - down the right hand side of the new site is a set of links pulled from the RSS feeds for the media products. To summarize all of that:

  • Smalltalk Daily Feed
  • Smalltalk Videos Feed
  • Industry Misinterpretations Podcast Feed
  • Feed for changes to the Archives for the Dailies, Videos, and Podcasts

For the latest in events, you can check my "Where in the World" page here.

That should keep you up to date on the absolute latest on everything, as it happens :)

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Heroes Goes for the Predictable

January 18, 2010 22:01:11.898

You could fail to see how the Samuel story on Heroes was going to end up if you haven't ever read or seen anything created in, oh, the last few millenia. It's time for this sorry mess to fold the tent and shuffle off the stage...

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Complex Values at ESUG 2009

January 18, 2010 22:18:10.698

Here's Christian Haider at ESUG 2009, talking about ComplexValues. You can get his slides here, and watch the video below:.

You can download the video directly here. If you like this kind of video, why not subscribe to "Smalltalk Videos"?

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One of Those days

January 19, 2010 7:59:10.125

It's been an awesome start to the day - didn't sleep well last night, and when I woke up, I immediately got sick. On the upside of that, I felt better afterwards. Then I had to take my wife's car to get its emissions checked, but it failed the test due to a faulty sensor - why they don't just test what's actually coming out of the tailpipe in that situation mystifies me. Let's hope that tomorrow's flight to Seattle goes better...

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Adding Trippy to the Debugger

January 19, 2010 8:51:34.446

Here's a short video explaining how to add the functionality of Trippy to the Debugger's inspector panes:.

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Smalltalk Daily from the Road

January 19, 2010 11:40:15.181

I'm heading to Seattle for our one day event tomorrow, but never fear - Smalltalk Daily will still be popping up. I have screencasts in the can and ready to go, so your daily Smalltalk fix should keep arriving in iTunes :)

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Everything at Once

January 19, 2010 14:50:05.902

So not only did I have to run the car to emissions check this morning while sick, now - still not feeling 100 percent - I need to take my daughter to the Orthodontist, get on a conference call, and then go to the Sorint store for her broken phone (or usb cable - it's one that doesn't match anything else we have, either).

Awesome day :)

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Cincom Smalltalk Non Commercial Arrives

January 19, 2010 19:59:37.854

Cincom Smalltalk Downloads

The Non-Commercial Downloads for ObjectStudio 8.2 and VisualWorks 7.7 are available at last! There's a network installer for OS X, so things should be a bit simpler there. For ObjectStudio, it's a Microsoft MSI file, seeing as how ObjectStudio is the only Windows 7 Certified Smalltalk around.

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Smalltalk is a Drug?

January 19, 2010 22:47:57.673

Heh

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More Smalltalk on Slicehost

January 20, 2010 6:40:53.589

David Putnam is getting started with a Seaside server on slicehost (the provider I use to host this blog). He's not running Seaside yet, but he did get Seaside running in a Pharo image, serving from his slice. Now all he has to do is create a Seaside app for it, and he'll be off to the races :)

Looks like he'll be charting his progress on his "Smalltalk the Good Parts" site, so go ahead and subscribe.

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iTablet Rumors Run Hot and Heavy

January 20, 2010 6:50:07.129

Spotted in PC World Latest Technology News

CEO of iPhone repair firm predicts Apple will reveal 7-inch tablet next Wednesday and a 10-inch model by the end of 2010.

Everyone is speculating about the Tablet - if Apple doesn't release one on the 27th, it might be the biggest let-down in the hstory of technology :)

And yes, we'll probably get one, although my wife seems more interested in the idea than the rest of the family :)

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Selective Renaming

January 20, 2010 7:02:49.272

Today's Video looks at selectively renaming with the Refactoring Browser, rather than the "all or nothing" approach. After I recorded this screencast, Travis let me know that you can pick and choose renamings from the "Show Changes" option without the add-on covered here, so you should give that a try as well and see which you like better.

You can download the video directly here. If you like this kind of video, why not subscribe to "Smalltalk Daily"?

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The iPhone is Mainstream

January 20, 2010 8:38:20.537

When the White House pushes out an iPhone app to "keep you in touch with the Administrayion", you know the device has gone completely mainstream. I think that handhelds are to the field what PCs were back in the early 80s - the next thing. Mainframes never died, but they are no longer front and center, either. Over the next few years, mobile devices will go the same way. I suspect that sometime very soon, most smart phones will start supporting Bluetooth keyboards, and will also be hookable to a display, or able to project a display themselves (like onto a wall).

Instead of carrying a full laptop, we'll have roll up keyboards and project onto the wall....

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Winging Out West

January 20, 2010 9:39:37.653

My cab will be here to pick me up in a few minutes, and then it's off to Seattle. You can find out where I'll be in the next few weeks and months with the handy "Where in the World" link over in the sidebar. See you in Seattle!

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Download the NC with the Installers

January 20, 2010 15:27:58.854

CST Installers

I thought there was a problem with the network installers, but it turns out it was a directory naming problem I created myself. My apologies - you can get going with the installers now.

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Not Worth the Link

January 20, 2010 15:51:21.884

I know that the Times is trying to shore up revenue, but their problem is more basic: their newspaper minded business model is dead, and they just don't realize it yet:

Starting in early 2011, visitors to NYTimes.com will get a certain number of articles free every month before being asked to pay a flat fee for unlimited access. Subscribers to the newspaper's print edition will receive full access to the site without extra charge.

The problem with that is simple: if I (or anyone else, for that matter) links to a NY Times story, we have no way of knowing whether any given reader will be able to read the story. Far safer and simpler to just find another source, because that's a problem. As Jeff Jarvis likes to say, links are the currency of the net - and the Times is pushing a wall in front of theirs.

And yes, there is irony in this including a link to a Times story - but it's free for now :)

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If I'm Traveling...

January 20, 2010 16:25:17.639

... I must be delayed. I haven't been on a plane since I returned from ESUG, and the first flight (BWI to Chicago) went off without a hitch. Now, however, I'm sitting in a lounge at ORD with a mechanical delay - which translates to "some random interval of time before you go, and possibly never".

Looks like I'll miss dinner with the crew in Seattle :/

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Notifications

January 20, 2010 17:14:10.611

As most of you know, I have been posting notifications of live streams (for the podcast) to the Cincom Smalltalk events page (on the old site). The new events page will still have the best information for all things Cincom, but - it may not have the most up to date info for things like live streaming when I get a confirmation outside of normal working hours (which happens a lot).

So, if you want to be notified of that happening, check here for posts, or the Twitter feed, or my "Where in the World" page. For the big stuff from Cincom, of course, check the new site.

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Working with ZIP Files

January 21, 2010 4:04:40.981

How to work with ZIP files in Smalltalk - there's a library for that :).

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Possibly No Net

January 21, 2010 10:22:48.923

I may well be offline much of the day - the room where our event is being held probably has no internet access. If only ATT had gotten their act together and supported thethering by now...

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Smalltalk in Seattle

January 21, 2010 12:12:52.671

It turns out that there is net access here, just not "open for all" net access. Since I paid for access in my room though, I'm all set. I'm shooting video for all of the presentations, and I'll be posting that over the next few weeks. The downside is, it looks like the brightness of the screen is putting the speaker somewhat in the dark; we'll see how that turns out.

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Smalltalk in Eclipse?

January 21, 2010 12:26:35.391

Looks like that "Gemstone in Eclipse" project is making progress - check it out here.

Hat tip Torsten Bergmann

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Scenes from Seattle

January 21, 2010 14:45:49.876

We took a lot of photos today - I'm sure a bunch of them will find their way to the Cincom Smalltalk site. In the meantime, here's a small selection:

Group Shot Suzanne Fortman
Suzanne Fortman Andreas Hiltner
Arden Thomas James Robertson
Arden Thomas Georg Heeg

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Upcoming Events Information

January 21, 2010 17:12:41.405

One thing I thought I should point out about the upcoming Baltimore/DC event: it's being held near the BWI airport, within a short cab ride of the airport or rail station. So if you have been thinking of coming, but were worried about traffic down near DC, don't - the roads near BWI are almost never jammed, and it's an easy trip by rail from as far away as NY and Richmond. It's even a short trip by air (and inexpensive) from Boston. So come on down - you can register (and get the specific location details) here.

Smalltalk Technology Conference

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Speaking of Superpowers

January 22, 2010 0:12:27.377

Michael just explained how to create new return semantics from a BlockClosure in Smalltalk - or, to use his explanation:

Of course, the usual pat on Smalltalk's back is required here - we've just done some very simple stack manipulation, extended a kernel class and all without breaking a sweat to give ourselves a completely new control structure.

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Post Show in Seattle

January 22, 2010 0:56:20.147

Here's a recording of the live stream we did earlier today, after our Seattle event - we'll be doing this again after the rest of the events we have scheduled as well.

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.

To listen immediately, use the player below:

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!

If you have feedback, send it to smalltalkpodcasts@cincom.com - or visit us on Facebook or Ning - you can vote for the Podcast Alley, and subscribe on iTunes. If you enjoy the podcast, pass the word - we would love to have more people hear about Smalltalk!

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Using TAR Archives in Smalltalk

January 22, 2010 1:11:02.041

Here's today's video screencast - opening TAR archives in Smalltalk:.

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It's Always Something

January 22, 2010 17:17:03.430

Lately, if I do a demo, something has to go wrong. Yesterday was no exception - I was sitting in the back, showing Arden my demo in the Windows 7 VM I use in Parallels, and everything was working great. I suspended the VM, and waited, then fired it back up just before we were about to head up - the plan was for him to show slides off my machine, and then go to my demo, so we didn't have to flip devices.

And.... Windows 7 suddenly lost its mind, and decided that it couldn't see the internet, or my Mac. This was a problem, as I was loading things from a database on the Mac side. So... Arden did slides while I panicked. Fortunately, my XP VM was behaving, and the demo went off without any trouble.

This is getting to be tiresome though :)

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Whither Hulu?

January 22, 2010 17:17:34.830

Spotted in Engadget

the latest idea being thrown around is to charge a $5 per month subscription for access to older shows. A quick search of Hulu just showed that only the past four or five episodes of newer shows are currently available, so charging for older shows means new access to additional content. We have to say that offering additional programming above and beyond what is currently free is a pretty good strategy, but the other one we'd like to see is a premium option to view content commercial free

I like the idea of making older stuff available for a fee - there are plenty of shows I'd consider watching - but I just can't get back to episode 1, so "why bother" is my response. If Hulu made it easy and affordable to go back and start from the beginning, that would be great.

For that matter, I'd love it if older shows that aren't on Hulu (like Buffy) got there too, even for a fee. There have been times that I've had a hankering to see the finale of season 5, or the "Bored Now" Willow episode :)

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Random Thoughts While Flying

January 22, 2010 17:17:57.610

Leaving Seattle and sitting on my flight, a few random thoughts popped up. I

t's nice that the new 737s American has have standard 110V power plugs - but did they have to be so hard to plug into from your seat when the seatbelt sign is lit?

Out jogging yesterday, the scar that is the interstate running through the heart of Seattle really struck me. It cuts the city clean in half, making areas that were formerly easy to walk in a long trip. Seems to me they should have tunneled, or just gone with a beltway.

I saw a brief tweet from Mathew Ingram just before we left - apparently, the new paywall the NY Times is building won't apply to any readers coming in from outside links (like from blogs, or, presumably, aggregators like Google News). So... the purpose is, what, exactly? To punish loyal readers who don't subscribe?

When is going to occur to the TSA that the huge waiting lines they create with the security theater screening process is itself a security problem? Will we have to wait for a someone with a strap on bomb to show up at a crowded airport for them to figure this out?

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Not Just a World Web Anymore

January 22, 2010 17:39:32.510

The web has gone beyond the planet :)

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I Must Have Been Tired

January 23, 2010 12:49:34.237

I stayed up a bit late on Wednesday (making late changes to my demo), and then got up early yesterday (to fly home). I had been a little sick before the trip, and not sleeping well - which all became apparent when I awoke this morning after 11 hours :)

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Smalltalk Powered iPhone Apps

January 23, 2010 13:02:18.440

The Easier Way:

JQTouchis a jQuery plugin for mobile web development, optimized for the iPhone and iPod touch. Among the other alternatives, this one has a nice design and uses the popular jQuery framework. In this post, I am reporting about my efforts to use this library from Seasidewhich is a component-based Web application framework for Smalltalk. It has great support for jQuery in the sense that the developer is presented with an elegant abstraction layer to do all the fancy selection and Ajax stuff.

The code is in the public store repository, so you can try it out yourself - follow the link to see a screen capture of an app running (via the browser, obviously) on the iPhone.

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OS X 10.6.3 Coming

January 23, 2010 13:21:02.320

This sounds good:

More specifically, people familiar with Friday's beta say it includes an update to QuickTime X that, when finalized, will improve security and compatibility while simultaneously enhancing overall reliability. The release will also include tweaks that aim to enhance the performance of Apple's 64-bit Logic pro audio suite. Other planned improvements include better compatibility with third-party printers and OpenGL-grounded applications, those same people say.

The bigger question for me is this: will they restore the export capabilities that 7.6.x had? I still use that version because it's better than the new one.

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Why Not Both?

January 24, 2010 11:00:57.262

Julian Fitzell quotes a passage in Seth Godin's new e-book to make a point about customer service:

There are tens of thousands of businesses making many millions a year in profits that still haven’t ever heard of twitter, blogs or facebook. Are they all wrong? Have they missed out or is the joke really on us? They do business through personal relationships, by delivering great customer service and it’s working for them.

That's true as far as it goes, but I think it throws the baby out with the bathwater. The key mistake many Marcom types seem to make is in seeing Twitter, Facebook (etc) as ends in themselves. They aren't; worrying endlessly about how many followers you have, for instance, is just stupid. These tools are means to an end, and hardly the only ones.

I use all of these things in two ways:

  • A way to broadcast information
  • A way for people to easily contact me if they have questions

I don't spend inordinate amounts of time with them; in fact, most of the traffic that goes to Twitter and Facebook from me is automated - out of my blogs and straight to Twitter (and from there into the news stream at Facebook).

Bottom line: pay attention to your customers. Don't worry so much about how you accomplish that - use whatever tools make sense.

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Smalltalk's Past, Present, and Future: From Seattle

January 24, 2010 11:22:38.192

This week's podcast is a talk by Georg Heeg about Smalltalk's past, present, and future. Georg gave this talk on January 21, 2010 in Seattle, Washington, at the first 2010 Smalltalk Technology Conference in a series from Cincom - you can get more details on future events here.

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.

To listen immediately, use the player below:

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!

If you have feedback, send it to smalltalkpodcasts@cincom.com - or visit us on Facebook or Ning - you can vote for the Podcast Alley, and subscribe on iTunes. If you enjoy the podcast, pass the word - we would love to have more people hear about Smalltalk!

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Come on In

January 24, 2010 19:39:49.223

The water is warm here in the Smalltalk pond :)

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The Future of Computing

January 24, 2010 22:04:35.272

Gilad Bracha is worried about the future of computing - specifically, about the ability to use whatever development tools you prefer:

The iPhone is a prime example of a trend where our computing platforms become more restricted. As we move toward software as a service rather than an artifact, the computer is no longer as personal; it is very much under control of the service provider. In this case Apple, in other cases Amazon or Google or Microsoft. I'd be surprised if the rumored iTablet won't work on the same model: rather than an open version of MacOS, a semi-closed world with an app store.

The thing is, the ability to use whatever you want on the back end has never been more open than it is now - you can get full root level hosting at very affordable prices now (I've done that for this site). Things seem to be moving towards a fairly small set of front ends, with HTML/Javascript being the most prominent one. You can build your back end with complete freedom, using whatever tools you like. Sure, you have to pay for that - but who ever said life was free?

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Speaking of Legacy...

January 24, 2010 22:12:35.092

This is pretty swesome: Windows 3.1 in a browser

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Good Reads

January 24, 2010 23:13:01.685

I really enjoyed reading "The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel" - it's one of the strangest things I've ever read, combining elements of Monty Python and Harry Potter in one place. Characters jump in and out of books; real bookworms power strange machines - and the time jumping father of Thursday adds a really hilarious twist right at the very end of the book. I can barely wait to dive into the next book in the series.
Meanwhile, my "exercise book" is "A Feast for Crows" - the 4th in Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series. I'm really hoping that he can finish the story - he's on book five of a planned 7 now, but who knows how much of his time will taken up by the HBO series? It's a really involved story, too - like Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series, if you put it down for a period of time, you'll just be lost when you come back. There are just so many characters, plots, and subplots moving at once.

The only trouble with all this is that my desire to read all of this stuff is pulling me away from jogging and over to the stationary bike - which cuts into my podcast listening time. Oh well :)

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Spellchecking your Code

January 25, 2010 7:57:56.125

Most development tools include the ability to tell whether a method name/function name you are typing is part of the system or not. Today we look at adding that kind of simple "spellchecking" to the development tools.

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Long Line for a Gadget?

January 25, 2010 12:13:32.296

Spotted in Rob Fahrni

Stuff like this is fun. Standing in line with your fellow geeks, talking shop, staying up all night, and scoring that new geek toy early. Yeah, I could do that, and I know a couple of guys that would probably stand in line with me.

Not me. I'd much rather wait 24-48 hours, stroll into an uncrowded store and be back out in under 5 minutes. Heck, think of all the DragonAge I could play in that time :)

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Cycle Detection with DSM: ESUG 2009 Video

January 25, 2010 14:21:04.293

Here's another video from ESUG, from J. Laval - talking about cycle detection using DSM. You can download the slides here; to watch, click on the viewer below:

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Smalltalk in Toronto

January 25, 2010 14:35:11.353

I'll be at two events in Toronto tomorrow:

  • Our Smalltalk Technology Conference, Hilton Garden Inn Toronto City Centre, 200 Dundas Street East - from 9 AM to 1 PM
  • We'll be at the Smalltalk User's Group at 6:30 PM, here to talk about our product roadmap and the new releases.

You can register for the first event (free) here.

Also, we'll be in Baltimore (near the BWI airport) on Thursday, 9 AM - 1 PM) as well. Register at the same url above.

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In Toronto

January 25, 2010 21:50:36.194

I arrived without any real trouble, and only 15 minutes behind schedule. Everyone else had varying tales of travel woes; it's not been a great day for travel here in the eastern part of North America :) Everything should be fine for the event tomorrow; check here for details.

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Many Years too Late

January 25, 2010 22:30:46.536

Jonathan "We'll Make it Up in Volume" Schwartz, one of the dumbest CEOs ever to darken the stage of a major company (and I say that after seeing Bill Lyons close up), is finally resigning. Sadly for Sun employees, it's happening a decade or so before he should have left the company. Yes, he's only been CEO since 2006 - but the only thing he seems to have been good at is lining his own pockets. I pity the next outfit he lands in, and recommend a strong course of shorting....

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