Smalltalk with James Robertson

The UK Smalltalk Users Group is meeting on January 30th, and the topic will be IDEs:

Building software is a complex business, software that works and stays in production for years. It is a craft that involves engineering, insight and skill. The tools that we use to build that software are vital enablers to our success. Between 1997-2004 the dominance of Java and the main vendors’ tools strategies led to something of a stagnation for IDEs. But since then with the return to language diversity and the broadening of platforms there has been a real opportunity to experiment with what an IDE is and means and to look at how it could evolve. We will look at a range of IDEs including WebVelocity, Cloud9 and Codea and contrast them with more traditional IDEs such as VisualWorks, IntelliJ’s IDEA and Eclipse.

Pharocasts has a nice series on Morphic and Physics

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Mariano shows you how using Fuel and Pharo.

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I'll be speaking at the STIC conference this year (in Biloxi, Mississippi). My topic? Build tools, of course :) I've been developing a set of tools where I work now (both manual and automated), and I'll talk about how they work, what they do, and why such a thing is usefule.

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Kent Beck shows off a simple implementation of a loaded die in Smaltltalk. The post is on Facebook

DR Geo, using Pharo - on an iPad

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Smalltalk on Javascript continues to move forward.

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Sebastian Sastre lays out the case for Smalltalk (the language he uses for Airflowing) in depth. Check it out.

ProfStef in Korean :)

The next STUG meeting in NYC is coming up on March 7th, and will feature Alejandro Reimondo, talking about S8:

The presentation will introduce the debut of S8. S8 is Smalltalk running over javascript execution engines on all major browser flavors. Its a generic framework but with initial implementations and objectives for the development of social networking and mobile applications. The presentation will discuss examples of this including the targetting of Android devices.

It all starts at 7 PM - you can find all the details and the address here.

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