Category Archives: VA Smalltalk Forum Europe

Build automation is social engineering

Posted on January 12, 2011 by

James comes up with an interesting observation: It’s one thing to come up with a few simple tools to automate a build [...] The harder problem is fitting the technical siolution into the process that your project has evolved. I’ve … Continue reading →

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GLORP on VAST 8.03

Posted on September 10, 2010 by

VA Smalltalk ships with GLORP (a relational database mapping framework with lots of ideas and concepts from TOPLInk)  since the latest VAST version 8.02. Since the port of GLORP shipped with VAST is based on an older version of GLORP … Continue reading →

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VA Smalltalk and open source databases

Posted on September 6, 2010 by

VA Smalltalk has its traditional background in large corporations where most of the data is stored in the 800 pound gorillas DB2 and Oracle. The support for these databases is very reliable and stable, and Instantiations keeps their support code … Continue reading →

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The future of VA Smalltalk

Posted on August 6, 2010 by

Now that we’ve learned that Instantiations is turning into a pure Smalltalk shop, it’s probably time to take a second look at what Mike Taylor (the old and new CEO of Instantiations) said in his talk at the VA Smalltalk … Continue reading →

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VFE2010: all presentations now available as videos

Posted on July 1, 2010 by

All presentations given at this year’s VA Smalltalk Forum Europe are now available for download as pdf-documents and as mp4-videos (great quality, but also big file sizes). You can download all the slides and videos on our download page. I’ve … Continue reading →

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VFE2010: Video of my talk is online

Posted on June 22, 2010 by

Marten Feldtmann is working his way through a hole day’s material of recordings of our VA Smalltalk Forum 2010. He’s just finished editing the video of my talk that and put it online. You can view or download it from … Continue reading →

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PragDave on Software Archeology and The Advantages of Self-Containment

Posted on June 21, 2010 by

I just finished listening to Episode 148: Software Archaeology with Dave Thomas (Pragmatic Dave) of Software Engineering Radio. It’s a really interesting interview and Dave has a lot to say about our Software Engineering Jobs of today: Most of the … Continue reading →

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VFE 2010: Attendee fedback

Posted on June 17, 2010 by

At last week’s VA Smalltalk Forum Europe 2010, we asked ourattendees for feedback. Based on the forms that were returned, it seems we did quite well: 77% of the attendees saw their expectations met, while 23% partially got what they … Continue reading →

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VFE 2010: Slides of My Talk: Get (Your Project) Back to Shape

Posted on June 15, 2010 by

If you’ve missed the VA Smalltalk Forum Europe 2010 in Stuttgart last week, there is at least a chance to take a look at the presentation slides. While we’re still working on an “official” central version location for all the … Continue reading →

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VFE 2010: The first videos are online

Posted on June 15, 2010 by

Marten Feldtmann was kind enough to not only attend our VA Smalltalk Forum Europe 2010 in Stuttgart last week, he also recorded all the sessions and is now making them available over time (it can be lots of work to … Continue reading →

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