Tag Archives: IDE

Real-World Application in Amber

Posted on March 29, 2012 by

Laurent Laffont gives us a glimpse of a real-world application written in Amber Smalltalk. You can watch a video here. The concept of writing all your application for both the web browser and server in Smalltalk is very fascinating. Just … Continue reading →

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Sometimes, it’s the little things…

Posted on November 7, 2011 by

Since the release of VA Smalltalk 8.5, the environment has a nice syntax completion feature. It’s funny how much I miss this little friend every time I work with an older version… When Dolphin Smalltalk camy up with Intellisense, it … Continue reading →

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Your Web Browser on Steroids: Jtalk is now Amber

Posted on September 14, 2011 by

Last night Nicolas Petton announced the new release 0.9 of Amber Smalltalk, which is the new name of Jtalk. Amber Smalltalk is essentially a Smalltalk implementation that runs on the Javascript runtime of your favorite web browser. It’s hard to … Continue reading →

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My WWDC highlight: iOS5 will have Garbage Collection

Posted on June 7, 2011 by

[Update:] I may be wrong on this one: the WWDC Keynote slide I’m talking about mentions ‘Automatic Reference Counting’, which technically is not the same as Garbage Collection, but nevertheless takes away the burden and responsibility of manual memory management … Continue reading →

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Apple releases Xcode 4

Posted on March 10, 2011 by

Today Apple released XCode 4, their latest development environment for MacOS and iOS. Having worked with XCode for a while and skimming through the list of improvements and new features in Xcode 4 it seems like this new version is … Continue reading →

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Why Smalltalk tools can still be improved a lot

Posted on January 26, 2011 by

Readers of my bog know that I sometimes start to dream of a nicer, better Smalltalk environment. Smalltalk has great tools and the language and environment give you a lot of possibilities to explore the objects hanging around in your … Continue reading →

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Marten’s VA Smalltalk wish list

Posted on December 21, 2010 by

Marten Feldtmann posted his personal wishlist for VA Smalltalk for 2011. There’s not much to add here, and I spotted a few wishes that I’d regard as high priority as well. So maybe if I help wishing, the list gets … Continue reading →

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Things I miss in Coda.app

Posted on September 3, 2010 by

Not that I think my web design abilities were particularly useful, but working on web applications comes with the necessity of editing HTML and CCS files and some JavaScript. My favorite tool for doing so is Coda from Panic Software. … 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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Michael Wiedekings Frust mit Scala – und der meine

Posted on June 30, 2010 by

Auf seinem heise developer-Blog Babel-Bulletin schreibt Michael Wiedeking den Beitrag “Runterskaliert” über die funktionale Programmiersprache Scala und seine Probleme damit. Auch wenn dieser Blog-Beitrag schon fast angestaubt ist (einen Monat alt), konnte ich mich in einigen seiner Kritikpunkte wiederfinden, und … Continue reading →

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