Monthly Archives: March 2011

The manual that never was written (but should have been)…

Posted on March 31, 2011 by

Tom has only started blogging a week ago, but obviously he decided to not waste any time with long useless stuff. After all, he’s a Smalltalker His first posts so far were all very interesting, tearse, and provide a lot … Continue reading →

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New Blogger with Smalltalk topics

Posted on March 29, 2011 by

Tom Koschate has finally decided to join the Blogosphere with his Blog named “Nothing About Elks“. He also has a welcome present for all VA Smalltalk users which he just announced the other day on the VA Smalltalk Support Forum: … Continue reading →

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Instantiations’ plans for VA Smalltalk

Posted on March 26, 2011 by

John O’Keefe gave his regular VAST Update talk at Smalltalk Solutions this year, detailing their plans for VA Smalltalk. The main slides for me are the announcements of major features for the next release that is scheduled for Summer 2011 … Continue reading →

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Slides of StS2011 talks are online

Posted on March 26, 2011 by

The Smalltalk Industry Council (STIC), organizer of the Smalltals Solutions Conference has put the slides of the talks online for download: Smalltalk Solutions 2011 has come and gone, but the effects of the conference will linger through this next year. … Continue reading →

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VA Smalltalk, GLORP, Proxies and #isNil [Update]

Posted on March 25, 2011 by

This is mostly a note to myself, because these little things can cost you some hours, even though you clearly know about all the pieces of the puzzle and simply forget to use the right peek statement at the right … Continue reading →

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Smalltalk Inspect Episode 3: VA Smalltalk Teil 2 – Envy

Posted on March 20, 2011 by

Ab sofort steht die dritte Folge unseres Podcast “Smalltalk Inspect” zur Verfügung. Diesmal setzen wir unseren Rundflug um VA Smalltalk von Instantiations fort und widmen uns besonders Envy, der Komponente zur Versions- und Konfigurationsverwaltung. Smalltalk Inspect ist im iTunes-store zu … Continue reading →

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Smalltalk Solutions 2011: Georg Heeg pre-announces public availability of Slides

Posted on March 17, 2011 by

Georg Heeg, Director of the Smalltalk Industry Council (STIC), just wrote to several mailing list (like the esug, vwnc, and gsug lists): Smalltalk Solutions 2011 is over. It has been a great conference. The mood among Smalltalker was great. There … Continue reading →

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Esteban’s Mars Project is alive

Posted on March 15, 2011 by

At last year’s ESUG conference, Esteban Lorenzano showed his progress on Mars, a framwork to implement native Cocoa interfaces in Pharo Smalltalk. His goal was and is to provide a way to build native Cocoa Apps without the need to … Continue reading →

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Smalltalk Inspect Episode 2: VA Smalltalk Teil 1 – GUI

Posted on March 13, 2011 by

Ab sofort ist Folge 2 unseres Podcast “Smalltalk Inspect” zum Download verfügbar. Diese Episode ist die erste von vermutlich 3 Folgen über VA Smalltalk von Instantiations. Wir werden uns in Zukunft auch mit anderen Plattformen beschäftigen, aber VA Smalltalk ist … Continue reading →

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Objective-C 2, Xcode 4, LLVM, what’s next?

Posted on March 13, 2011 by

Objective-C and Cocoa are a nice environment to work in. The nicety of Cocoa comes from the fact that it is an object runtime system rather than a bunch of objects compiled into a running program. A Nib file (or … Continue reading →

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