Beyond Java and Seaside
Two very nice articles have been posted into the Smalltalk community, following the Bruce Tate’s article on IBM web site about Seaside.First, the reaction of Avi Bryant on his blog, where he explains how he came to continuation and to Smalltalk.Second, there is a very nice interview of Bruce Tate on Weekly Squeak.
Metaprogramming and clean, […]
The frontier
My favorite recurring ?big theory? is that information management systems are very particular animals compared to scientific or industrial systems. Their main purpose is to automate into a machine some processes which are by nature ?human? process. Computer languages are often by nature quite from the scientific field. It is all by about manipulating numbers […]
Object orientation enlightenment
There is something that annoyed me until now with Smalltalk: the code browser.I give here a sample of this famous GUI, which is the Squeak code browser (other Smalltalks have very similar code browsers).
The Browser has two main parts. The upper part is four listbox allowing to select the method you want to edit. From […]
XML Simplicity
Blaine Buxton delivers again a jewel thru its Positronics vibration blog. He shows us how simple and easy it should be to handle XML documents. Indeed, XML is just a complex and verbose way of representing lists, which have been nicely done since 40 years in any Lisp flavor. Blaine’s implementation of its XML renderer […]
French Smalltalk party 2005
Serge Stinckwich is organising one more french Smalltalk party. The previous one was a great opportunity to meet other enthusiasts and discuss Smalltalk in general and Squeak in particular. Seaside was a great subject of discussion and I hope it will still be at the center of the demos and discussions.
Come and see you there!
Agile incremental construction: some tips
Since some time now, I help my customers to design and build their Information System by an incremental approach. I noticed that obviously the term “incremental” does not mean the same thing for every body. For the most common case, the team try to slice its system into layers and build each layer one after […]
Agile Web Development with Rails: the book of the year?
Dave has the pattern “study the classics” where he states:
There are an amazing number of programming books out there. Distinguishing the good ones is a critical skill because reading the right book at the right time is priceless.
I can tell you that Agile Web Development with Rails is one of those ones.
This book is amazing. […]
Nicolas Reimen on Wittgenstein
Yesterday, I had the opportunity with other colleagues from OCTO to listen to Nicolas Reimen conference on the philosophical origins of Computer Sciences.
Nicolas is both a philosopher and an IT manager with many years of experiences in both fields. This allowed him to conduct a quite amazing analysis of how Turing and Von Neuman have […]
20 years old agility advices
I was recently reading one of the online available books on the Stephane Ducasse web site: Smalltalk V 286 Tutorial from Digitalk Inc. The book has been published in 1986, and it is amazing by itself to see what was possible on such simple PC in those days, compared to the visual C. The book […]
Again in praise of Smalltalk…
Thin Air presents a very interesting report from Smalltalk solution. It gives this point of view from Eric Evans on modeling languages:
One of the points Eric made in his talk was that he preferred language rather than pictures for modeling, and as such, he preferred modeling in Smalltalk or Java rather than UML.
What puzzle me […]
