Independent Misinterpretations http://www.jarober.com/blog/im.ssp Smalltalk Evangelist, Industry Watcher jarober@gmail.com Sun, 19 May 2013 21:14:01 GMT http://www.jarober.com/images/im.jpg Independent Misinterpretations http://www.jarober.com/blog/im.ssp 300 300 no Independent Misinterpretations James Robertson Independent Misinterpretations with James Robertson and Michael Lucas-Smith, and whatever guest(s) they can convince to come on. A weekly show about Smalltalk and dynamic language stuff en-us smalltalk,software development, oo, object oriented,visualworks,pharo James Robertson jarober@gmail.com James A. Robertson Copyright 2011 James Robertson 2013-05-19T21:14:01-04:00 39.214103 -76.878807 IM 127: Native Boost http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_127:_Native_Boost&entry=3546450841 podcast Sun, 19 May 2013 21:14:01 GMT

Welcome to episode 127 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week we have another recording from the Smalltalks 2012 conference - Igor Stasenko talking about Native Boost for Pharo.

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]]> 3546450841 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3546450841 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3546450841 no Igor Stasenko IM 127: Native Boost Igor Stasenko talks bout Native Boost at Smalltalks 2012 1:04:07 smalltalk, native boost nonadult Igor Stasenko IM 127: Native Boost http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3546450841 IM 126: History of Gemstone http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_126:_History_of_Gemstone&entry=3545844510 podcast Sun, 12 May 2013 20:48:30 GMT

Welcome to episode 126 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week was going to feature an interview with Dale Herichs, about the new Gemtalk - but I had an unfortunate flood in my basement that required lots of quality time with the ShopVac. That conversation is being rescheduled, but in the meantime, here's Martin McClure talking about the gistory of Gemstone, at the Smalltalks 2012 conference

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]]> 3545844510 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3545844510 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3545844510 no Martin McClure IM 126: History of Gemstone Martin McClure talks about the history of Gemstone/S at the Smalltalks 2012 conference 56:27 smalltalk, gemstone nonadult Martin McClure IM 126: History of Gemstone http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3545844510 IM 125: Image Startup and Shutdown http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_125:_Image_Startup_and_Shutdown&entry=3545219209 podcast Sun, 05 May 2013 15:06:49 GMT

Welcome to episode 125 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week Dave and I talked about the process of image startup and shutdown in Smalltalk, and how that impacts the undertanding people have of Smalltalk systems. We focused on VisualWorks/ObjectStudio, because that's what the two of us are most familiar with, but the broad concepts are simlliar across other image based Smalltalk systems.

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]]> 3545219209 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3545219209 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3545219209 no James Robertson, David Buck IM 125: Image Startup and Shutdown James and David talk about how Smalltalk images startup and shutdown 31:13 smalltalk, startup, shutdown nonadult James Robertson, David Buck IM 125: Image Startup and Shutdown http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3545219209 IM 124: Reporting from Smalltalk http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_124:_Reporting_from_Smalltalk&entry=3544012907 podcast Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:01:47 GMT

Welcome to episode 124 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week Dave and I talked about reporting from Smalltalk applications. In the process of doing that, we touched on file formats, and the interesting issues that crop up when exporting specific file formats from an application

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]]> 3544012907 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3544012907 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3544012907 no James Robertson IM 124: Reporting from Smalltalk This week Dave and I talked about reporting from Smalltalk applications. In the process of doing that, we touched on file formats, and the interesting issues that crop up when exporting specific file formats from an application 32:46 smalltalk, reporting nonadult James Robertson IM 124: Reporting from Smalltalk http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3544012907 IM 123: Errors and Exceptions http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_123:_Errors_and_Exceptions&entry=3543423650 podcast Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:20:50 GMT

Welcome to episode 123 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week Dave and I talked about the differences (and similarities) between error handling and exception handling, giving a few examples of each in different Smalltalk dialects.

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]]> 3543423650 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3543423650 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3543423650 no James Robertson, David Buck IM 123: Errors and Exceptions James and David discuss the differences between error handling and exception handling 36:04 smalltalk, error, exception nonadult James Robertson, David Buck IM 123: Errors and Exceptions http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3543423650 IM 122: A Look Ahead to STIC 2013 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_122:_A_Look_Ahead_to_STIC_2013&entry=3542820415 podcast Sun, 07 Apr 2013 20:46:55 GMT

Welcome to episode 122 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week Dave and I talked about teh upcoming STIC 2013 conference. The list of speakers is available now (schedule to be posted shortly) - but we took a look behind the scenes, to give you an idea as to what's coming.

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]]> 3542820415 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3542820415 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3542820415 no James Robertson, David Buck IM 122: A Look Ahead to STIC 2013 With the list of speakers for STIC 2013 out, James and David look ahead to the conference. 30:35 smalltalk, stic13 nonadult James Robertson, David Buck IM 122: A Look Ahead to STIC 2013 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3542820415 IM 120: Smalltalk and Databases http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_120:_Smalltalk_and_Databases&entry=3541615783 podcast Sun, 24 Mar 2013 22:09:43 GMT

Welcome to episode 120 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week Dave and I talked about using relational databases with Smalltalk, and how projects sometimes hit bumps in the road with the combination.

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]]> 3541615783 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3541615783 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3541615783 no James Robertson, David Buck IM 120: Smalltalk and Databases James and David talk about using Smalltalk (or any OO language, really) with a relational database 36:07 smalltalk, dynamic, database nonadult James Robertson, David Buck IM 120: Smalltalk and Databases http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3541615783 IM 119: Text2 for VisualWorks Part 2 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_119:_Text2_for_VisualWorks_Part_2&entry=3540991410 podcast Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:43:30 GMT

Welcome to episode 118 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week Dave and I wrap up our talk with Michael Lucas-Smith (Cincom Smalltalk Engineer) about Text2 - a new text editor for VisualWorks. This is part 2 of 2. If you missed part 1, you can get that here

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]]> 3540991410 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3540991410 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3540991410 no James Robertson, David Buck, Michael Lucas-Smith IM 119: Text2 for VisualWorks Part 2 This is the second half of our conversation with Michael Lucas-Smith (Cincom) about the new text editor work going on in VisualWorks 34:22 smalltalk, visualworks nonadult James Robertson, David Buck, Michael Lucas-Smith IM 119: Text2 for VisualWorks Part 2 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3540991410 IM 118: Text2 for VisualWorks http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_118:_Text2_for_VisualWorks&entry=3540379274 podcast Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:41:14 GMT

Welcome to episode 118 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week Dave and I talked with Michael Lucas-Smith (Cincom Smalltalk Engineer) about Text2 - a new text editor for VisualWorks. This is part 1 of 2.

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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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]]> 3540379274 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3540379274 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3540379274 no James Robertson, David Buck, Michael Lucas-Smith IM 118: Text2 for VisualWorks This week Dave and I talked with Michael Lucas-Smith (Cincom Smalltalk Engineer) about Text2 - a new text editor for VisualWorks. This is part 1 of 2. 32:59 smalltalk, visualworks, text2 nonadult James Robertson, David Buck, Michael Lucas-Smith IM 118: Text2 for VisualWorks http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3540379274 IM 117: Patching Deployed Applications http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_117:_Patching_Deployed_Applications&entry=3539790550 podcast Sun, 03 Mar 2013 19:09:10 GMT

Welcome to episode 117 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week Dave and I talked about patching deployed Smalltalk applications - there are a few interesting things you can do beyond "replace the entire image", and we talk about some of the approaches

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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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]]> 3539790550 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3539790550 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3539790550 no James Robertson, David Buck IM 117: Patching Deployed Applications This week Dave and I talked about patching deployed Smalltalk applications - there are a few interesting things you can do beyond "replace the entire image", and we talk about some of the approaches 35:44 smalltalk, dynamic, patch nonadult James Robertson, David Buck IM 117: Patching Deployed Applications http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3539790550 IM 116: ObjectStudio http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_116:_ObjectStudio&entry=3539165706 podcast Sun, 24 Feb 2013 13:35:06 GMT

Welcome to episode 116 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week Dave and I talked about ObjectStudio. As it happens, I've just started a cntract working in that environment, so it seemed like a good time for some "initial" thoughts about the state of ObjectStudio.

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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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]]> 3539165706 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3539165706 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3539165706 no James Robertson, David Buck IM 116: ObjectStudio James and David talk about ObjectStudio, the other half of Cincom Smalltalk with VisualWorks 35:38 smalltalk, objectstudio nonadult James Robertson, David Buck IM 116: ObjectStudio http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3539165706 IM 115: Encapsulation and Bus Counts http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_115:_Encapsulation_and_Bus_Counts&entry=3538575389 podcast Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:36:29 GMT

Welcome to episode 115 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week Dave and I talked about two things - encapsulation (and what kinds of things break it), and the "bus count" problem on projects. That latter one relates to the fact that on any long term project, a small number of people tend to accumulate critical knowledge about the project - and if they leave for any reason, things can slide downhill quickly.

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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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]]> 3538575389 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3538575389 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3538575389 no James Robertson, David Buck IM 115: Encapsulation and Bus Counts This week Dave and I talked about two things - encapsulation (and what kinds of things break it), and the "bus count" problem on projects. That latter one relates to the fact that on any long term project, a small number of people tend to accumulate critical knowledge about the project - and if they leave for any reason, things can slide downhill quickly 33;59 smalltalk, encapsulation nonadult James Robertson, David Buck IM 115: Encapsulation and Bus Counts http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3538575389 IM 114: Joining a New Project http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_114:_Joining_a_New_Project&entry=3537984654 podcast Sun, 10 Feb 2013 21:30:54 GMT

Welcome to episode 114 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week Dave and I talked about the challenges involved in being a software consultant joining a new project.

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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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]]> 3537984654 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3537984654 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3537984654 no James Robertson, David Buck IM 114: Joining a New Project James and David talk about the challenges in starting a new assignment as a software consultant 35:34 smalltalk, dynamic, consulting nonadult James Robertson, David Buck IM 114: Joining a New Project http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3537984654 IM 113: Smalltalk VMs Beyond http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_113:_Smalltalk_VMs_Beyond&entry=3537367088 podcast Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:58:08 GMT

Welcome to episode 113 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week we have a recording from the Smalltalks 2012 conference: Javier Pimas and Javier Burroni talking about Smalltalk VMs.

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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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]]> 3537367088 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3537367088 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3537367088 no Javier Burroni, Javier Pimas IM 113: Smalltalk VMs Javier and Javier talk about Smalltalk VMs at the Smalltalks 2012 conference 35:05 smalltalk, dynamic, VM nonadult Javier Burroni, Javier Pimas IM 113: Smalltalk VMs http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3537367088 IM 112: Is Smalltalk Obsolete? http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_112:_Is_Smalltalk_Obsolete&entry=3536820414 podcast Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:06:54 GMT

Welcome to episode 112 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week Dave and I talked about an old saw that keeps coming back around Smalltalk projects - "Is Smalltalk Obsolete?"

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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!

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]]> 3536820414 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3536820414 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3536820414 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_112:_Is_Smalltalk_Obsolete&entry=3536820414 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_112:_Is_Smalltalk_Obsolete&entry=3536820414 Marten Feldtmann 2013-01-31T06:02:20-05:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>The question is more than ok, but your discussion is from the wrong view: </p><p>You mention, that it is not difficult to learn Smalltalk - the other problems (e.g. domain specific) are more important. Well, if the other problems are more important - perhaps it would be better for those person to stay with their programming language - a programming language they are used to and they know how to express the things. Why learning a new language ? What are the benefits of learning this new language ?</p><p>James mentioned, that Smalltalk may not be chosen in several domains (e.g. games) - well, if a language is not suitable for that domain, you may ask yourself: what IS the domain, where Smalltalk is suitable for AND why is it not able for a specific domain ?</p><p>David mentioned several other programmers having different ideas about programming and they would not fit into a Smalltalk team. Well, why is a Smalltalk-team different from another language in this aspects ?</p><p>And yes: popularity is important. I've read a very interesting interview with the new blackberry boss here in Germany. He simply stated, that Apple did it right. Apple got the "private" side of the managers and then these managers wanted the iPhone technology also at work - even though Blackberry would perhaps a better suit at work.</p><p>And after all. Just answer the question: where is the domain, where the super-hyped library people are urgently waiting for to play with - in Smalltalk.</p><p>What are the answers for Smalltalk in the increasing Internet community ? Find these question and show demos with this technology.</p><p>Most of "small" answers come from the Squeak/Pharo community - the vendors are more or less out of the game. They have to satisfy their customers and have no time to make new innovation.</p><p>As David mention at the beginning of the talk: "... lot of companies are STILL using Smalltalk ..." - the "STILL" can be interpreted in lots of ways :-))</p> </div> Re: IM 112: Is Smalltalk Obsolete? no James Robertson, David Buck IM 112: Is Smalltalk Obsolete? James and David take on a subject that seems to come up regularly - is Smalltalk obsolete? 33:13 smalltalk, dynamic, IT nonadult James Robertson, David Buck IM 112: Is Smalltalk Obsolete? http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3536820414 IM 111: Project Management Blues http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_111:_Project_Management_Blues&entry=3536137650 podcast Sun, 20 Jan 2013 12:27:30 GMT

Welcome to episode 111 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week Dave and I talked about project management issues - some endemic to the software industry, some particular to Smalltalk projects.

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]]> 3536137650 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3536137650 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3536137650 no James Robertson, David Buck IM 111: Project Management Blues This week Dave and I talked about project management issues - some endemic to the software industry, some particular to Smalltalk projects. 40:00 smalltalk, project management nonadult James Robertson, David Buck IM 111: Project Management Blues http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3536137650 IM 110: Upgrading Smalltalk Applications http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_110:_Upgrading_Smalltalk_Applications&entry=3535580150 podcast Mon, 14 Jan 2013 01:35:50 GMT

Welcome to episode 110 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week Dave and I talked about upgrading from one version of Smalltalk to another - I've recently been involved in the upgrading of a large application from VisualWorks 7.6 to VisualWorks 7.9.1 - and one of the biggest lessons here is that it's simpler if you can keep up with the vendor's release cycles. Not always possible, of course.

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]]> 3535580150 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3535580150 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3535580150 no James Robertson, David Buck IM 110: Upgrading Smalltalk Applications This week Dave and I talked about upgrading from one version of Smalltalk to another - I've recently been involved in the upgrading of a large application from VisualWorks 7.6 to VisualWorks 7.9.1 - and one of the biggest lessons here is that it's simpler if you can keep up with the vendor's release cycles. Not always possible, of course. 42:42 smalltalk, dynamic, visualworks, upgrade nonadult James Robertson, David Buck IM 110: Upgrading Smalltalk Applications http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3535580150 IM 109: Choose the Right Collection http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_109:_Choose_the_Right_Collection&entry=3534925092 podcast Sun, 06 Jan 2013 11:38:12 GMT

Welcome to episode 109 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week Dave and I talked about Collections, and how important it can be to pick the right one. As an example, Dave explains a recent consulting assignment where using the right collections in one method shaved execution time from 23 minutes to 21 seconds..

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]]> 3534925092 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3534925092 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3534925092 no James Robertson, David Buck IM 109: Choose the Right Collection James and David discuss Smalltalk collections, and why it can matter a lot when you use the wrong one in your code. Dave gives a pretty enlightening example. 32:03 smalltalk, collections nonadult James Robertson, David Buck IM 109: Choose the Right Collection http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3534925092 IM 108: Bootstrapping Smalltalk http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_108:_Bootstrapping_Smalltalk&entry=3533733011 podcast Sun, 23 Dec 2012 16:30:11 GMT

Welcome to episode 108 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week we have a recording from the Smalltalks 2012 conference in Argentina - Guillermo Polito talking about bootstrapping Smalltalk. If you would rather watch the video, head on over to the YouTube channel.

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]]> 3533733011 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3533733011 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3533733011 no Guillermo Polito IM 108: Bootstrapping Smalltalk Guillermo Polito talks about bootstrapping Smalltalk at Smalltalks 2012 24:21 smalltalk, bootstrapping, smalltalks nonadult Guillermo Polito IM 108: Bootstrapping Smalltalk http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3533733011 IM 107: New GUI Directions for ObjectStudio http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_107:_New_GUI_Directions_for_ObjectStudio&entry=3533105551 podcast Sun, 16 Dec 2012 10:12:31 GMT

Welcome to episode 107 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week we have a recording from ESUG 2012 - Andreas Hiltner of Cincom talking about some new directions for the ObjectStudio GUI. If you would rather watch the video, head on over to the STIC website.

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]]> 3533105551 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3533105551 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3533105551 no Andreas Hiltner IM 107: New Directions for the ObjectStudio GUI Andreas Hiltner talks about some new directions for the ObjectStudio GUI at ESUG 2012 15:10 smalltalk, stic, objectstudio nonadult Andreas Hiltner IM 107: New Directions for the ObjectStudio GUI http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3533105551 IM 106: Practical GIT for Smalltalk http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_106:_Practical_GIT_for_Smalltalk&entry=3532537182 podcast Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:19:42 GMT

Welcome to episode 106 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 - Dale Henrichs of VMWare (Gemstone) talking about using GIT for Smalltalk projects. If you would rather watch the video, head on over to the STIC website.

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]]> 3532537182 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3532537182 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3532537182 no Dale Henrichs IM 106: Practical GIT for Smalltalk Historically, Smalltalk has not been able to take advantage of standard revision control systems like git, svn, cvs, etc. Smalltalk developers and Smalltalk tools are focused on manipulating objects in the image and not on producing file-based artifacts. As a testament to this fact, Smalltalkers have resorted to inventing their own revision control systems and each Smalltalk dialect has their own flavor of revision control system. Leveraging the work of Max Leske, Camillo Bruni and Otto Behrens, I have begun a project based on Monticello and Metacello that is aimed at making it practical for developers to use git and github for managing and sharing their Smalltalk source code. In this talk I will share with you the details behind the project. 44:04 smalltalk, stic12, git nonadult Dale Henrichs IM 106: Practical GIT for Smalltalk http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3532537182 IM 105: Skinny http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_105:_Skinny&entry=3531906799 podcast Sun, 02 Dec 2012 13:13:19 GMT

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.

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]]> 3531906799 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3531906799 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3531906799 no Travis Griggs IM 105: Skinny After 20 years of the VisualWorks UI framework 19s existence and a failed reboot in Widgetry, we 19ve gathered a bit of how we got here, what we don 19t like, what we do like, and what we want to fix. This talk is a piece an overview of piece of that which we call "Skins." It 19ll discuss the high level design goals of the effort, some of the issues we have in trying to organically grow a framework in the presence of another, the various "new approaches" being used in this context, and a roadmap of where we 19re at as well as need to go. 40:37 smalltalk, dynamic, stic12, skinny nonadult Travis Griggs IM 105: Skinny http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3531906799 IM 104: New Smalltalk Projects http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_104:_New_Smalltalk_Projects&entry=3531294106 podcast Sun, 25 Nov 2012 11:01:46 GMT

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.

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]]> 3531294106 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3531294106 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3531294106 no James Robertson IM 104: New Smalltalk Projects Over many years, new Smalltalk Projects were a big hope. Continue existing Smalltalk projects, keeping them alive, improving them, was reality. These existing Smalltalk projects have been so shining, so resistant against moving them away to other technologies that in 2011 the first new big project started. A senior manager in the software industry had the idea to significantly improve the customer experience, moving away from customer relationship. His idea was guidance. Guidance even is a totally new metaphor in human machine interaction, it preserves the free will of the user to run an interactions while not leaving her/him alone in the woods of arbitrary choices. This manager was looking for an appropriate technology to make his ideas become true. Looking around he found that Smalltalk was his choice. The story of this project will be the main topic of the presentation, but meanwhile this project is not alone. A new innovative startup contacted us and we got a request to port a Java application to Smalltalk in January 2012. 39:01 smalltalk, stic12 nonadult James Robertson IM 104: New Smalltalk Projects http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3531294106 IM 103: Continuous Integration http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_103:_Continuous_Integration&entry=3530715256 podcast Sun, 18 Nov 2012 18:14:16 GMT

Welcome to episode 103 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 - Maikel VanDorpe talking about continuous integration. If you would rather watch the video, head on over to the STIC website.

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]]> 3530715256 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3530715256 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3530715256 no Maikel VanDorpe IM 103: Continuous Integration Continuous integration is the practice where members of a development team integrate their work frequently. Usually each of them integrates at least daily, which leads to multiple integrations per day. To detect errors, each integration is verified by an automated build and test. This approach is generally found to lead to a significant reduction of integration problems, which in turn allows teams to develop cohesive software even in a limited time frame. In theory, tests should arrive within 15 minutes. However, in reality we find that this is not often the case. At MediaGenix NG there are 30 developers working on the same product, each of them building several new versions per day. For these new versions some 30.000 tests need to be run to check for errors. This makes it clear that theory and practice differ greatly. This presentation offers insights on a practical approach to continuous integration 47:04 smalltalk, stic12, continuous integration nonadult Maikel VanDorpe IM 103: Continuous Integration http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3530715256 IM 102: Diagnosing Performance Issues http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_102:_Diagnosing_Performance_Issues&entry=3530120969 podcast Sun, 11 Nov 2012 21:09:29 GMT

Welcome to episode 102 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week David and James talk about a sometimes tricky subject - diagnosing application performance issues. It's often not as simple as just firing up the profiling tools provided by your toolset..

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]]> 3530120969 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3530120969 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3530120969 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_102:_Diagnosing_Performance_Issues&entry=3530120969 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_102:_Diagnosing_Performance_Issues&entry=3530120969 Jay Rinkel 2012-11-12T13:55:21-05:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>I often find that profiling tools often don't point me to the performance problems in my code. I find myself frequently doing the "manual instrumentation" that David describes in the podcast. Nice interesting thoughts in this podcast.</p> </div> Re: IM 102: Diagnosing Performance Issues no James Robertson, David Buck IM 102: Diagnosing Performance Issues James and David discuss some of the difficulties involved in determining where performance issues in applications come from 34:11 smalltalk, performance nonadult James Robertson, David Buck IM 102: Diagnosing Performance Issues http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3530120969 IM 101: Object Memory Management in VisualWorks http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_101:_Object_Memory_Management_in_VisualWorks&entry=3529487736 podcast Sun, 04 Nov 2012 13:15:36 GMT

Welcome to episode 101 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 - Andres Valloud talking about memory management in VisualWorks. If you would rather watch the video, head on over to the STIC website.

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]]> 3529487736 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3529487736 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3529487736 no Andres Valloud IM 101: ObjectMemory Management in VisualWorks Andres Valloud talks about the memory management systems in VisualWorks at STIC 2012 48:09 smalltalk, dynamic, stic12, gc nonadult Andres Valloud IM 101: ObjectMemory Management in VisualWorks http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3529487736 IM 100: Squeak Board Update http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_100:_Squeak_Board_Update&entry=3528913543 podcast Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:45:43 GMT

Welcome to episode 100 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week James interviewed two of the current Squeak Board members - Craig Latta and Chris Cunnington. The topic? Where Squeak is now, and where it's headed.

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]]> 3528913543 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3528913543 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3528913543 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_100:_Squeak_Board_Update&entry=3528913543 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_100:_Squeak_Board_Update&entry=3528913543 Janko Mivšek 2012-10-29T09:20:01-04:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>Hi guys,</p><p>Just a comment about Aida/Web presumably not supported on Squeak: Aida is always released on VW and Squeak/Pharo. Aida is designed and developed all the time with portability in mind. To all Smalltalks, not just for that or another camp. We'd like that Smalltalkers as such a small community unite, not divide ourselves!</p><p>In last year or two Aida is always ported and tested on Pharo first. It is true that previous version of Aida was ported but not tested on Squeak, because previous Pharo ports worked on Squeak automatically. Yet on latest Squeak 4.2 not which we discovered in a squeak.org upgrading week Chris Cunningham mentioned in above interview. But this small glitch doesn't mean Squeak is not supported at all! Contrary, even that I admit I didn't have much time in a week we agreed to work together on website upgrade, a patched Aida was provided in few days and announced on the list Chris followed as well. So Chris, if you lost interest on migrating squeak.org so fast, you should at least be honest and don't spread false information around. An information you should know it is not true.</p> </div> Re: IM 100: Squeak Board Update no James Robertson, Craig Latta, Chris Cunnington IM 100: Squeak Board Update James talks to Craig Latta and Chris Cunnington - both members of the Squeak board - to get an update about where Squeak is, and where it's headed 26:00 smalltalk, dynamic, squeak nonadult James Robertson, Craig Latta, Chris Cunnington IM 100: Squeak Board Update http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3528913543 IM 99: Object Centric Profiling http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_99:_Object_Centric_Profiling&entry=3528299603 podcast Sun, 21 Oct 2012 19:13:23 GMT

Welcome to episode 99 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 - Alexander Bergel talking about object centric profiling. If you would rather watch the video, head on over to the STIC website.

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]]> 3528299603 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3528299603 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3528299603 no Alexander Bergel IM 99: Object Centric Profiling Programming environments have tremendously evolved over the last decade. However, this evolution is not uniform. The range of tools available to analyze the execution is still limited and based on a fixed and static representation of source code. As a consequence, applications are profiled along their static structure, in terms of methods and classes, instead of the real elements that made up a computation: objects and messages. Code execution profiling is a weak point of most programming languages and environment. In this presentation, we will present and demonstrate state-of-the-Art profilers, which output sexy graphical representations of code execution and test coverage. These profilers have been successfully used in numerous large projects. 41:52 smalltalk, dynamic, profiling nonadult Alexander Bergel IM 99: Object Centric Profiling http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3528299603 IM 98: Rtalk http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_98:_Rtalk&entry=3527672794 podcast Sun, 14 Oct 2012 13:06:34 GMT

Welcome to episode 94 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week we have an interview with Mark Roos about Rtalk - a Smalltalk implementation built on top of the JVM. This one is far from experimental - it's in production use. If you want to see some of the talks Mark has given about Rtalk, you can visit the Oracle media site:

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]]> 3527672794 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3527672794 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3527672794 no James Robertson, Mark Roos IM 98: Rtalk James interviews Mark Roos about RTalk - a Smalltalk implementation built on top of the JVM 31:37 smalltalk, dynamic, rtalk, jvm nonadult James Robertson, Mark Roos IM 98: Rtalk http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3527672794 IM 97: Legacy Data Access in a New ObjectStudio App http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_97:_Legacy_Data_Access_in_a_New_ObjectStudio_App&entry=3527089083 podcast Sun, 07 Oct 2012 18:58:03 GMT

Welcome to episode 97 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 - Mark Grinnell and Andreas Hiltner of Cincom talking about legacy data access in new applications using ObjectStudio. If you would rather watch the video, head on over to the STIC website.

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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!

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]]> 3527089083 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3527089083 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3527089083 no Mark Grinnell, Andreas Hiltner IM 97: Legacy Data Access in a New ObjectStudio App New development projects often need to access legacy relational databases that can 19t be changed to match the restrictions of some other development environments. This is a situation where the freedom and flexibility of Smalltalk can really shine. Glorp is specifically designed to keep you moving fast where a legacy data requirement would be knocking others off the rails. We will describe a medical domain that needs a new web application that must connect to multiple legacy databases, and show how the graphical modeling and mapping tools 37:15 smalltalk, stic12, objectstudio nonadult Mark Grinnell, Andreas Hiltner IM 97: Legacy Data Access in a New ObjectStudio App http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3527089083