smalltalk
July 25, 2012 12:17:58.432
There's a new version (6.2.1) of Smalltalk/X out - you can download it now. It's a pretty open system:
Smalltalk/X may be used even for the development of commercial Software and Applications without any licence fee (a few minor restrictions apply [*]). We appreciate your interest in Smalltalk and only ask in reply for you to share your joy and experience with others and help us marketing the great Smalltalk ideas ;-). In addition, it would be nice if you share example programs, demos, improvements, add-ons and national language translations with others by publishing those or send them to us for integration into the next release
You'll have to visit the website for those restrictions; the link is a Javascript popup.
posted by James Robertson
smalltalk
July 23, 2012 18:12:04.321
Spotted in Planet Squeak
Mark Roos will present RTalk (a Smalltalk on the JVM) at the JVM Language Summit (July 30 to August 1, 2012). Mark Roos has two talks - one about RTalk and one about "invokedynamic" (a new bytecode for dynamic method invocation).
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posted by James Robertson
smalltalk
July 18, 2012 20:01:39.197
Pharo 1.4 is out:
We integrated 30 fixes (the rounded number is completely casual) and integrated some tools that users feedback showed as necessary, specially the inclusion of OmniBrowser as part of the core for 1.4. As a result of all this changes and fixes, the stability of this version is a lot better and we are really happy with it.
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posted by James Robertson
smalltalk
July 18, 2012 8:07:48.764
posted by James Robertson
smalltalk
July 17, 2012 14:43:45.000
posted by James Robertson
smalltalk
July 17, 2012 8:31:28.232
posted by James Robertson
smalltalk
July 11, 2012 22:17:52.137
Gemstone/S 64 3.1.0 just shipped:
GemStone/S 64 3.1.0 was released July 5, 2012.GemStone/S 64 Bit 3.1.0 is a major new version, including many new features as well as enhancements to existing features and bug fixes.
Lots of details on what's new at the link
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posted by James Robertson
smalltalk
July 11, 2012 13:23:03.000
posted by James Robertson
smalltalk
July 10, 2012 18:17:13.345
Interestingly enough, I couldn't find this information from the Cincom Smalltalk website - but there was a note posted to the vw-dev mailing list earlier today in response to a question about VisualWorks 7.9:
The products (ObjectStudio 8.4 and VisualWorks 7.9) are available. You can either request a copy from your local sales representative or you can go to cincomsmalltalk.com and order a copy on your own.
That's from Suzanne Fortman in their developer's mailing list, so it's official. The embedded link goes to the request page, not the top of the site.
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posted by James Robertson
smalltalk
July 9, 2012 14:03:53.000
I have a Linux VM lying around somewhere, so I'll have to give this a try:
How easy and how fast can you download, install and start a complete Pharo Smalltalk based HTTP Server on a bare Linux machine ?
$ curl http://zn.stfx.eu/zn/pharo-server.sh | bash
The above Linux command will download, install and run a Pharo Smalltalk HTTP Server on a stock Linux server. In well under a minute (in 10 seconds below, actually), you can browse http://localhost:1701 and all this with way less than 20Mb being downloaded. Mind you, this is quick hack, for some this will be old news, for others I hope this feels like magic
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