There's more information available for the upcoming (next June) STIC 2013 conference:
The Smalltalk Industry Conference STIC’13
will be held June 9-12, 2013 at the Wigwam Resort in Phoenix, Arizona. The theme is "30 Years of Smalltalk". The Call for Participation is being prepared and will be announced soon.
STIC’13 Call for Sponsors
We are actively recruiting sponsors for STIC’13. Please let me know asap if
you have any qualified leads. We are especially interested in companies who
were developers or early adopters of Smalltalk in the 1980’s and 1990’s
(e.g. Xerox, PARC, IBM, Apple, Microsoft, etc.).
STIC’13 Sponsorship Levels (Preliminary)
Platinum $10,000
Gold $5000
Silver $2500
Corporate $1000
Academic $500
You can see the sponsors for the previous conference STIC’12 here.
Commemorative Pins
We are planning to make commemorative lapel pins similar to the Smalltalk
Balloon pins that Xerox made for me to distribute in the 1980’s. The design
for the pins was based on the iconic August 1981 Byte Magazine cover artwork and was approved by the artist Robert Tinney.
Xerox Smalltalk lapel pin approximately 1.3” tall circa 1984 (1000
produced)
Limited edition 11”x14” print of Byte Magazine August 1981 cover
artwork, signed and numbered by Robert Tinney (500 produced)
Please let me know if you have a source for making high quality, low cost
hard enamel lapel pins. Also, we may be interested in a sponsor for the new pins, so let me know
asap.
Objectively,
Evelyn Van Orden
Director, Smalltalk 30th Anniversary Reunion STIC’13
You would think that something written by Robert Frost (1874-1963) would be public domain, right? You would be mistaken - the Frost estate is running around enforcing copyrights. How exactly does Frost benefit from this? How does anyone?
The amazing thing is that the same congress critters who tell us that we need a high estate tax will go ahead an extend copyright out for decades (it's now life of the author + 75 years). I guess some pigs are more equal than others. if you build up a small restaurant business, say, it can get mostly taken away when you die. Write a few books that sell well? Your heirs will be set for life.
Welcome to episode 105 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.
This week we have another recording from the STIC 2012 conference - Travis Griggs (formerly of Cincom) talking about the "Skinny" UI initiative. If you would rather watch the video, head on over to the STIC website.
You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one.
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. You can also download the podcast in ogg format.
If you like the music we use, please visit Josh Woodward's site. We use the song Troublemaker for our intro/outro music. I'm sure he'd appreciate your support!
If you have feedback, send it to jarober@gmail.com - or visit us on Facebook - you can subscribe in iTunes using this iTunes enabled feed.. If you enjoy the podcast, pass the word - we would love to have more people hear about Smalltalk!
Welcome to episode 105 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.
This week we have another recording from the STIC 2012 conference - Travis Griggs (formerly of Cincom) talking about the "Skinny" UI initiative. If you would rather watch the video, head on over to the STIC website.
You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one.
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. You can also download the podcast in ogg format.
If you like the music we use, please visit Josh Woodward's site. We use the song Troublemaker for our intro/outro music. I'm sure he'd appreciate your support!
If you have feedback, send it to jarober@gmail.com - or visit us on Facebook - you can subscribe in iTunes using this iTunes enabled feed.. If you enjoy the podcast, pass the word - we would love to have more people hear about Smalltalk!
In the midst of a long post about how iTunes is (or should be) an outliner, Dave Winer makes it clear that he hasn't really tried anything with it:
Anyway, luckily if you know what pref to turn on, you can get iTunes working again. The way it ships you can't use it to move content onto an iPad or iPod. Not exactly a minor function of iTunes.
Gosh, I plugged my iPad into my Mac a few minutes ago, and - just like any other version of iTunes I've ever seen - it started synching. Backing apps up, and moving music I've bought since the last synch over to the iPad. The preference Winer speaks of seems to involve the way iTunes deals with a device it hasn't seen before, and for that, I'd say "automatic synching" is the wrong answer. The last thing you want is to plug your wife's iPod in to charge, and have her lose all of her music off it when you went on auto-pilot.
Meanwhile, Farhad Manjoo demonstrates that he's not really done more than read other people rant about the software:
Anyway, so iTunes 11 finally hit the Internet today. If you start downloading it immediately, you might be able to get it up and running by the time the ball drops over Times Square. People always wonder why this is—why a simple music player weighs in at around 90 megabytes and requires many long minutes to install and “prepare” your library before it becomes functional. Don’t ask questions—this is just what you get with iTunes. Each new upgrade brings more suckage into your computer.
I'm not about to praise iTunes - it does tend to get bigger and slower with each release. However, this release seems to be a bit different. The installation was fast, and when I started iTunes up, I didn't see the dread "converting library" that I usually see. Instead, my music was right in front of me, ready to play. I get the distinct feeling that Winer and Manjoo dusted off their reviews of the last release of iTunes, slapped a new date on it, and let fly.
Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at using Streams to write collections (not Strings). If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:
If you have trouble viewing that directly, you can click here to download the video directly. If you need the video in a Windows Media format, then download that here.
You can also watch it on YouTube:
Today we'll have a look at writing arbitrary collections via streams. In Smalltalk, streams can be used to write collections of objects (not just strings). For example: here we set up a ByteArray, and then write to it:
Inspecting the results will give you the collection #('one' (1/3)) - the last object, if you look in the inspector, is a fraction.
Need more help? There's a screencast for other topics like this which you may want to watch. Questions? Try the "Chat with James" Google gadget over in the sidebar.
This is from Evelyn Van Orden, whose history with Smalltalk goes all the way back:
Smalltalk-80 was launched from the ivory tower of PARC on April 24, 1983.
InfoWorld published an article May 30, 1983 with a picture of the
"Smalltalk" balloon that was on the lawn at PARC that day: InfoWorld May
30, 1983: Smalltalk-80 is official
I was there.
Adele Goldberg and Dave Robson autographed my Blue Book. Adele autographed
my Orange Book which has my Appendix titled "Smalltalk-80 Software
Development Do's and Don'ts". Glenn Krasner autographed my Green Book.
30 Years of Smalltalk
Next Spring will mark 30 years since that launch. February of this year was
exactly 20 years since I left Xerox and retired from the software industry,
and I was curious about the state of Smalltalk in the marketplace. So I
started researching online and contacting colleagues from those early days
to see if there might be any interest in organizing an event to celebrate
Smalltalk’s 30th Anniversary.
This Summer, I spoke with Adele Goldberg, Dave Robson, Dr. Tom Love (1st
commercial Smalltalk-80 customer; co-developer of Objective-C), Angela
Coppola (contract manager for The Analyst), Georg Heeg, and many others.
I learned that the Smalltalk Industry Council (STIC)
has been holding annual Smalltalk developer conferences, and Georg Heeg
(whom I met in 1984) is the Executive Director. After discussions with Georg
and his team from Cincom Systems, GemStone, and Instantiations, it was
decided that the theme of the 2013 Conference will be "30 Years of
Smalltalk"
Smalltalk Conference 2013
The STIC’13 Conference will be held June
9-12, 2013 at the Wigwam Resort in Litchfield Park (Phoenix). The Call for
Participation is being finalized and will include a Call for Papers about
the history of Smalltalk, specifically information that has not been
published elsewhere.
What We Need
We need your help to make the conference and the reunion a success:
Interested in helping Redline Smalltalk get to the finish line?
We are currently running an indiegogo campaign to raise money to have James Ladd be able to work on Redline Smalltalk full time for a while. The goal is to be able to come out of it with a production usable version 1.0 Smalltalk running on the JVM.
We'd appreciate if you could spread the word about the campaign amongst anyone you know that might be interested and of course, donations are welcomed as well.
Today's Javascript 4 You looks at adding query capability to a fusion map layer in the Google maps API. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube.
Join the Facebook Group to discuss the tutorials. You can view the archives here.
To watch now, click on the image below:
If you have trouble viewing that directly, you can click here to download the video directly. If you need the video in a Windows Media format, then download that here.
Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at readng objects from collections in Smalltalk - streams are hardly limited to strings. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:
If you have trouble viewing that directly, you can click here to download the video directly. If you need the video in a Windows Media format, then download that here.
You can also watch it on YouTube:
Today we'll have a look at reading arbitrary collections via streams. In Smalltalk, streams can be used to read any collection (not just strings). For example: here we set up a ByteArray, and then read from it:
Inspecting the results will give you the collection #('one' 16.2). Next time, we'll look at writing collections using streams.
Need more help? There's a screencast for other topics like this which you may want to watch. Questions? Try the "Chat with James" Google gadget over in the sidebar.
Single-item menus, zero line cooks and almost no wait times, MM’s proposed restaurant would be completely minimalist and tailored to improve guests’ experiences. Capable of pushing out approximately 360 burgers an hour, the machine takes up only 24 square feet, allowing for more spacious seating areas and hopefully more time spent improving the overall dining experience.
The full service restaurant will never go out of style; you're paying for the experience, not just dinner. But at the low end? I expect a lot of those jobs to die the same way factory jobs have.
Join the Facebook Group to discuss the tutorials. You can view the archives here.
To watch now, click on the image below:
If you have trouble viewing that directly, you can click here to download the video directly. If you need the video in a Windows Media format, then download that here.
Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at the time profiler in Pharo Smalltalk. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:
If you have trouble viewing that directly, you can click here to download the video directly. If you need the video in a Windows Media format, then download that here.
Welcome to episode 104 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.
This week we have another recording from the STIC 2012 conference - Georg Heeg talking about new Smalltalk projects. If you would rather watch the video, head on over to the STIC website.
You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one.
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. You can also download the podcast in ogg format.
If you like the music we use, please visit Josh Woodward's site. We use the song Troublemaker for our intro/outro music. I'm sure he'd appreciate your support!
If you have feedback, send it to jarober@gmail.com - or visit us on Facebook - you can subscribe in iTunes using this iTunes enabled feed.. If you enjoy the podcast, pass the word - we would love to have more people hear about Smalltalk!
Welcome to episode 104 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.
This week we have another recording from the STIC 2012 conference - Georg Heeg talking about new Smalltalk projects. If you would rather watch the video, head on over to the STIC website.
You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one.
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. You can also download the podcast in ogg format.
If you like the music we use, please visit Josh Woodward's site. We use the song Troublemaker for our intro/outro music. I'm sure he'd appreciate your support!
If you have feedback, send it to jarober@gmail.com - or visit us on Facebook - you can subscribe in iTunes using this iTunes enabled feed.. If you enjoy the podcast, pass the word - we would love to have more people hear about Smalltalk!