Category Archives: instantiations

Instantiations announces the immediate availability of VA Smalltalk 8.5.1

Posted on March 19, 2012 by

The STIC 2012 conference started today and I guess we’ll see announcements from all Smalltalk vendors there. Instantiations just announced the availability of Version 8.5.1 of VA Smalltalk. As the version number suggests, it is a maintenance release with a total … Continue reading →

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Don’t use GLORP Type Resolvers with CHAR(1) fields in DB2 on VA Smalltalk

Posted on March 5, 2012 by

[Update, 2012-04-26: Instantiations is currently working on a fix for this problem. I've been mailing back and forth with the responsible developer about this and other problems that I've had with GLORP on VAST, so I hope we'll soon see … Continue reading →

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Things they never told you about log4s [Updated]

Posted on March 2, 2012 by

I’ve been using log4s, Instantiations’ logging framework for VA Smalltalk, in several situations before and it does a nice job. I always started it with a piece of code and therefor had no problems with it. But log4s has an … Continue reading →

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HPI students to present their VA Smalltalk related Bachelor project today

Posted on July 8, 2011 by

Today the Bachelor projects of students at the Hasso-Plattner-Institute at the university of Potsdam will publicly present their Bachelor projects. These projects are aimed at gaining practical experience in cooperation with industrial partners. One of the projects was supervised by … Continue reading →

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A glimpse at what’s coming in VA Smalltalk

Posted on July 1, 2011 by

We’ve all heard or read about Instantiations‘ plans for VA Smalltalk for the upcoming Release (8.5)  and their ideas for the ones after that. So we know there are some interesting new features in the pipeline, from a new settings … Continue reading →

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Instantiations’ CEO Mike Taylor te be interviewed on Independent Misinterpretations

Posted on January 11, 2011 by

James Robertson just announced the next episode of the Independent Misinterpretations podcast: The next podcast on the schedule will involve a look at where Instantiations is taking VA Smalltalk. Dave Buck and I will be talking to Mike Taylor, President … Continue reading →

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Seaside 3 and my first day at ESUG

Posted on September 14, 2010 by

I may be the last blogger in the Smalltalk arena to mention it, but Seaside 3 has finally been published here at Camp Smalltalk in Barcelona. You can read the full announcement on the Seaside home page. So what can … Continue reading →

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John O’Keefe to be interviewed on this week’s Industry Misinterpretations

Posted on August 30, 2010 by

John O’Keefe, Principal Smalltalk Architect at Instantiations will be interviewed on James Robertson’s Industry Misinterpretations podcast this week: we have John O’Keefe – long time Smalltalker and the principal Smalltalk architect at Instantiations – coming on “Industry Misinterpretations” this Tuesday … Continue reading →

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Is there a market for Java tools?

Posted on August 12, 2010 by

Now that the smoke has settled on the news of Google’s acquisition of the Java GUI building expertise of Instantiations, it is probably time for wild speculation. If Google was only interested in Instantiations’ GWT Designer, they could have bought … Continue reading →

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More on Instantiations’ deal with Google

Posted on August 6, 2010 by

I just found this very interesting article on eWeek: Google`s Instantiations Buy is a Win for Java, Smalltalk It’s one of the first sources (I found) that not only talks about GWT and Java and summarizes what Mike Taylor and … Continue reading →

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