Tag Archives: iPhone

Bob Nemec on Seaside for iOS devices

Posted on August 11, 2011 by

Over on his blog “Digging in the dirt“, Bob shares some insight into his appraoch to adapt an existing Smalltalk/Seaside based portal to teh iPad. For a customer demo, he needed to show an iPad version of the application and … 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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Smalltalk on iOS – again an option?

Posted on September 9, 2010 by

It seems like the growing demand in Android gadgets and the noise of App developers have finally made Apple rethink their rules (Press Release): In particular, we are relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps, … Continue reading →

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The real reason for the iPhone’s success

Posted on August 12, 2010 by

.. is not a technical or usability thing: [...] male iPhone owners have an average of 10 sexual partners, while women reported an average of 12.3. That’s well ahead of BlackBerry owners (8.1 partners for men, 8.8 for women) and … Continue reading →

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Squeak on the iPad: Cool!

Posted on June 18, 2010 by

Bert Freudenberg has put up a short video of his port of the Squeak VM (based on John McIntosh’s port for iPhone) and Etoys onto YouTube. It looks really cool: Multi-Finger gestures on this nice pad computer to let little … Continue reading →

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Great summary on how to deploy a Pharo-based application

Posted on February 5, 2010 by

Torsten answers a question asked on the pharo-dev mailing list and gives a great and short overview of what you need to do if you want to deploy a Smalltalk Application developped in Pharo Smalltalk. It fits nicely for Squeak … Continue reading →

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Studien, Apple-Kunden, Geldlockerheit und sonstige Vorlieben…

Posted on November 26, 2009 by

Am besten an einer der zuletzt durch die gesamte Apple-Blogosphäre gegeisterten Studie über die Online-Bezahlbereitschaft von iPhone-, Mac- und PC-Besitzern gefiel mir bisher dieses Fundstück: PC-Anwender mögen hingegen John Travolta. Leider steht nicht so genau dabei, was uns das sagen … Continue reading →

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Can we risk investing in iPhone development?

Posted on November 17, 2009 by

I’ve been asking myself this question quite a few times already. We have a few little tools that could possibly be of use to a wider raneg of users, and there are a few ideas about what we could possibly … Continue reading →

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