Monthly Archives: January 2012

So Apple reinvented Squeak and Sophie…or Not?

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

Apple once again proves that it doesn’t really need new ideas, technologies or such to come up with a commercially successful product. Isn’t the whole point of their latest Announcement of iBooks 2 and iBooks author and iTunes U exactly … Continue reading →

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Ganz frisch aus der Spamosphäre…

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

Es gibt einige wenige gute Gründe, warum man sehr froh sein kann, dass online-Übersetzungsdienste bisher noch nicht gut funktionieren. Einen fand ich heute in meiner Inbox mit einer sehr gut gewählten Absenderadresse (service@verifiedbyvisa.de) : Hallo Gast Visa Europe, Ihre Kreditkarte … Continue reading →

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Final Schedule for the Smalltalk devroom at FOSDEM

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

Stephan Eggermont just announced the final schedule for the Smalltalk Devroom that will be held at the FOSDEM conference on Sunday, February 5th, 2012 in Brussels, Belgium: 09:30 Norbert Hartl, Take a small REST. Simple approaches for REST in smalltalk … Continue reading →

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More on the Fusion/Lion Caret (^) story: It’s the Logitech K750!

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

I was on the road for a few days now, but now I’m back and took the time to look deeper into my caret issue with VMware Fusion and Lion. I received comments to my last post that led me … Continue reading →

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Do agile methods help improve software? It seems they often don’t

Posted on January 18, 2012 by

Just the other day I was asked what I think about Agile Methods during a coffee break on our Refactoring / Unit Testing Workshop. My very first reaction was: I think it’s a become money machine. The reaction was somewhat … Continue reading →

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How to completely miss the point in discussions about a programming language (like Smalltalk)

Posted on January 18, 2012 by

Sometimes I encounter things on the web that make me think what’s wrong with people. Some just seem to have to much time to insist on some mostly irrelevant point they dislike and use it to judge a whole technology … Continue reading →

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Smalltalk Inspect 13: Esther Mietzsch über Squeak und den deutschen Squeak-Verein

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

In unserer neuesten Episode des Smalltalk Inspect Podcast sprechen wir mit Esther Mietzsch über den Squeak Deutschland eV und seine Arbeit mit, an und rund um Squeak auch aber nicht nur in Deutschland. Zudem sprechen wir über den Einsatz von … Continue reading →

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Instantiations about to show their progress on Unix GUI tools at STIC 12

Posted on January 12, 2012 by

So the list of talks for the Smalltalk Industry Conference in March (held in Biloxi) has just been released (I just read it on Alan’s Blog). One thing that should be interesting for users of VA Smalltalk is John O’Keefe’s … Continue reading →

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Fusion ate my caret (^) or was it the Lion?

Posted on January 10, 2012 by

sometimes I encounter strange phenomena. I hove no idea if that’s only me, but I suspect so, because I couldn’t find anything of help on the web (maybe because searching for “fusion ^” is not a good idea). So what’s … Continue reading →

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Dreams sometimes come true – this time it might be a pdf report generator in Smalltalk

Posted on January 10, 2012 by

just a few weeks ago, we interviewed Christian Haider on our SmalltalkInspect podcast (it’s in German), where, among a lot of other interesting stuff, we discussed how cool it would be if someone came up with a pdf report generator … Continue reading →

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