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ST 4U 404: Dan Ingalls at STIC 2013

June 18, 2013 9:32:17.134

Today's Smalltalk 4 You is a video from STIC 2013 - Dan Ingall's keynote address from the first day of the conference: "A Few of my Favorite Things". 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:

Dan Ingalls

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Presentations in Smalltalk

June 18, 2013 9:25:22.405

If you want to go "all in", using Smalltalk for your presentation itself, then have a look at Presenty for Pharo

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ST 4U 403: Dart at STIC 2013

June 17, 2013 9:44:26.009

Today's Smalltalk 4 You is a video from STIC 2013 - Alan Knight talking about the Dart language, which has many Smalltalk-ish features to it. Alan has made the slides for this talk available here. 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:

Dart at STIC 13

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IM 130: STIC 2013 Wrap Up (AAC)

June 16, 2013 21:57:03.636

Welcome to episode 130 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week David and I spoke just after the end of the STIC 2013 conference in Phoenix, Arizona. We discussed each of the talks we saw briefly, then wrapped the whole thing up. The videos from STIC 2013 are appearing on this site, and the audio only from the talks will be appearing periodically in this feed..

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!

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IM 130: STIC 2013 Wrap Up

June 16, 2013 21:54:14.693

Welcome to episode 130 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week David and I spoke just after the end of the STIC 2013 conference in Phoenix, Arizona. We discussed each of the talks we saw briefly, then wrapped the whole thing up. The videos from STIC 2013 are appearing on this site, and the audio only from the talks will be appearing periodically in this feed..

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!

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ESUG 2013 Call For Presentations Extended

June 15, 2013 18:46:18.829

From Stef:

We received already many good proposals but we know that you are busy now. So we decided to grant an extension for the call for presentation up 7 of July 2013. We will notify current proposers by the end of the current week -ie: 22.

For more details, just check out the ESUG conference site.

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STIC 2013 Video Home

June 14, 2013 14:29:25.325

I'll be posting all of the videos from STIC 2013 to here on this site, and also to my YouTube channel. If you just want to listen, the audio-only will be showing up in the regular podcast feed, but probably not as fast as the videos will appear.

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ST 4U 402: VA Smalltalk Roadmap (STIC 2013)

June 14, 2013 14:00:39.745

Today's Smalltalk 4 You is a video from STIC 2013 - John O'Keefe giving the VA Smalltalk roadmap. 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:

VA Roadmap

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STIC 2013 - Audio and Video

June 13, 2013 21:02:36.938

I'll be posting the videos from STIC 2013 to my normal st4u stream - so if you subscribe, or follow me on YouTube, you'll see them there. I'll be posting audio to my normal podcast feed, but that will be interspersed with the podcasts Dave and I do regularly. Expect to see at least one video a week, and the audio a bit less regularly than that.

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ObjectStudio GUI

June 12, 2013 14:37:03.260

Cincom is also working on the ObjectStudio GUI - Andreas Hiltner and Dirk Verleyson are covering that. The main goals are to update the implementation, and surface as much of it as possible into Smalltalk (it's mostly in C now).

The framework is separate from the old stuff - new class at the top mapping to a window, called UIView. Ultimately, this will be integrated with a new GUI designer as well, but that's further out.

Old GUI used GDI, new GUI is using GDI+ (C++ based). Adds some features not in OS - anti-aliasing, floating poit coords, gradient shading, and a lot more. It's got a flat API, so it's accessible from C. It's a business class rendering framework, not a high speed one like DirectX.

Switching from Trigger Events to Announcements. Impemented with tests as well. The rest of the talk went through a demo of what's been done - it looks pretty good so far. Interesting dogfooding aspect of this - Dirk is the first user of it, as he's building tools for ObjectStudio. New API for opening a window is familiar for ObjectStudio - should be easy to migrate to.

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Cincom Smalltalk Roadmap

June 12, 2013 13:38:05.991

Gemtalk and Instantiations already did theirs; today it's Cincom's turn, and Arden Thomas is up there giving us the roadmap. Things that are happening that impact both VW and OS:

  • 64 bit VMs revamped
  • Windows 64 bit
  • GC improvements
  • Atomic Loading
  • Delay alternatives
  • Store revamped - now uses Glorp under the covers - improved store "GC"
  • New merge engine, new comparsion tool
  • Latest Seaside integrated
  • Now supports external encryption (lots of interesting issues with the US government on that)
  • Xtreams is moving forward, improvements to Timestamp
  • New webserver (SiouX) in VisualWorks, using xtreams. Should be faster and simpler than old Opentalk based server. Rehosted Seaside and WS* to use this
  • New web app framework, AppeX
    • Modern web framework
    • HTML5, JS, Ajax, JSON, XHR
    • Auto session management
    • Lightweight, flexible
  • Polycephaly has been renamed to MatriX (again, using xtreams)

Future Store improvements

  • Less memory usage
  • Better method source handling
  • Better external file handling
  • Make it faster

Some stuff he won't tell us yet.

Now, ObjectStudio

Improvements to modeling and mapping tool coming. Windows 8 certification coming. Improving fonts, trying to get rid of a lot of the old "done in C" things from ObjectStudio, move them to the image. Unicode support for DB2. Updated and improved ODBC support. There is an ongoing project to improve the widget set in ObjectStudio. Upcoming release will have new GUI work into preview, and will use the VW COM code, which has seen more work recently.

Now the VW specific stuff. Improvements to the Project Launcher. COM updates, including COM 64 bit. Better ActiveX integration. Some JIT improvements on the Unix and Windows platforms, ability to have the MS specific DLLs statically linked to the VM. Skins (native looking widgets, using the images for the platforms for the widgets) is going into preview, updated keyboard handling is coming. Totally revamped command system for that. Much better integration with Macs due to that work. Improved text editor (check out our podcast with Michael Lucas-Smith - part 1 and part 2 on that).

Finally, some demos of the skins work, the editor work, and the AppeX work

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STIC 2013 Impressions

June 11, 2013 20:52:34.896

We'll be recording a podcast tomorrow after the final talk here at STIC 13 - with our perspective on what we saw and heard. It'll be posted on Sunday, and over the course of the next few months, the audio and video for the talks will be appearing in my regular audio and video feeds. Stay tuned :)

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Gemstone Updates

June 11, 2013 13:32:34.833

First big news - Gemstone/S 32 is no longer EOL. It's not being enhanced much (all the work is on the 64 bit rev), but it's a live product still. The older 64 bit rev is 2.4.5.3 - it's stable, with all work going into the 3.x stream they've got out. The latest - 3.1.0.3 is the latest 3.x release, with 3.2 coming out in December 2013. New stuff:

  • OpenLDAP
  • OpenSSL
  • ZLib
  • LiblCU
  • Regular Expressions
  • Support for Solaris 11
  • More MT work in reclaiming sessions
  • More Unicode support
  • New work on the indexing system
  • Improved encryption support, including AES
  • new hot standby support
  • Thread safe GCI support coming
  • Adding some protections against DOS attacks to netldi and stone
  • Improvements to VSD

On the server side, no support changes. Client side, still support latest two versions of Cincom and Instantiations Smalltalks. Licensing - perpetual, subscription was discontinued by VMWare, now coming back. Also have VAR licenses. The free (web) edition is still out, and they intend to make it more fine grained.

MagLev - In "Strategic Planning" mode. No work has been done for 2 years at GS, but there has been work at HPI. To get real, would have to support Ruby 1.9, which is not there yet. The future on this is not clear.

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Gemtalk at STIC 2013

June 11, 2013 12:58:18.358

So we just found out that 20 percent of the world's shipping moves on a Gemstone/S powered app, the one that started at OOCL - and Dan Ware tells us that it's going to grow to more of the shipping companies. That's why they have a good future laid out in front of them :)

Company name is now Gemtalk Systems - they can be found on the web at gemtalksystems.com

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