Monthly Archives: February 2010

How to learn more about Smalltalk

Posted on February 25, 2010 by

Are you thinking about using Smalltalk for a project in the near future? Wondering if it’s the right technology for you? Have you heard of and/or are fascinated by Seaside? Want to learn more? Then Cincom’s european Smalltalk Technology Conference … Continue reading →

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Congratulations to both Julian and Cincom!

Posted on February 19, 2010 by

Uups, they did it again: Cincom hired another rockstar ( ) of today’s Smalltalk Scene: Julian Fitzell of Seaside fame! I’m happy to announce that I have accepted a full-time position with Cincom in the UK. I guess this is … Continue reading →

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VA Smalltalk 8.0.2 Dev Build B136 available

Posted on February 19, 2010 by

John O’Keefe just announced on the VA Smalltalk Support Forum the availability of the latest development build of VA Smalltalk Version 8.0.2: Please pay particular attention to the Programmer’s Reference and the Migration Guide since several changes have been made … Continue reading →

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How saving a few bits almost sunk the earth and we still learned nothing ;-)

Posted on February 18, 2010 by

Remember the Y2K problem? We all filled our bath tubs with drinking water and bought loads of candles befor new year’s eve 1999 because we feared the world would simple explode or something even worse. We’re probably laughing about this … Continue reading →

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10.000 visitors!

Posted on February 18, 2010 by

I know, there are lots of Blogs that have 10.000 visitors a day, so it’s probably not really a sensation that mine has reached 10.000 visitors since the move to wordpress on September 16th 2009. But still that’s a number … Continue reading →

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New iPad, old iBugs

Posted on February 18, 2010 by

Everybody’s talking about iPads, iPhones and why Steve’s company will soon own all content on earth. It’s good to be innovating, and it’s great that Apple offers great new devices. But it would also be good if they could simply … Continue reading →

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More on NoSQL and Object databases

Posted on February 18, 2010 by

There is a nice Collection of opinions and discussion about NoSQL databases, object databases and all kinds of “post-relational” database technologies over at ODBMS Industry Watch. Since CouchDB, MongoDB and other new DBs are showing up weekly, the question whether … Continue reading →

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Konkurrenz belebt das Smalltalk-Geschäft

Posted on February 18, 2010 by

In den letzten Tagen bekomme ich immer wieder Mails von Kunden, die von einer anderen Firma angeschrieben wurden. Darin stellt sich die Firma Tricept als neuer Business Partner von Instantiations im Bereich VA Smalltalk vor. Für den einen oder anderen … Continue reading →

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Seaside Course Material almost finished

Posted on February 17, 2010 by

I’ve been on and off working on course material for a Seaside training course for a few months now. A few weeks ago, the best thing that can possibly happen happened: a Customer of ours asked for a Seaside Training … Continue reading →

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Great summary on how to deploy a Pharo-based application

Posted on February 5, 2010 by

Torsten answers a question asked on the pharo-dev mailing list and gives a great and short overview of what you need to do if you want to deploy a Smalltalk Application developped in Pharo Smalltalk. It fits nicely for Squeak … Continue reading →

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