Smalltalks 2008 repercussion in local newspaper

Nov 25th, 2008. The Smalltalks 2008 congress has finished, however the free newspaper La Razon has published today a little article talking about the event. La Razon is freely distributed in the subways, trains and other crowded places in the city of Buenos Aires. Congratulations to all the people involved in the organization...

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Smalltalks 2008 Notes

Andrés Valloud has written notes in his blog about each day of the Smalltalks 2008 Conference....

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The 40th Anniversary of the Dynabook

Alan Kay and the prototype of the Dynabook - Photo of Marcin Wichary The computer history museum presents: "The 40th Anniversary of the Dynabook". Here's is the complete event information. Happy Birthday Dynabo...

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Interview to the Argentinean Smalltalk organization committee

The Argentinean Smalltalk congress has its second edition this year, and we interviewed the organizers. The key people to get this congress going on are Leandro Caniglia (LC), Andrés Valloud (AV), Hernán Wilkinson (HW), Andrés Fortier (AF) and Gonzalo Zabala among other well known people in the Smalltalk community who help them. How was the idea to organize a Smalltalk congress in Argentina born?LC: When attending ESUG 2007 last year I suddenly realized that we had to do something similar in Argentina. I was just starting to consider that...

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Magma OODBMS Release 4.1

Oct. 13th, Chris Muller has announced the realease 41 of Magma object-oriented database management system.Here is the reproduction of the announcement to the squeak list by Chris: I am pleased to announce release 41 of the "Magma" object-oriented database management system has been posted to SqueakMap. Release 41 brings significant improvements in performance, scalability and robustness, particularly on slow networks, as well as improved transparency and operation. Improved Performance and Scalability At the core of the better performance and scalability...

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SmallFaces, a widget toolkit for Seaside

The crucial benefit is getting rid of the tag idea, so basically you have widget objects for the web, for which can configure visual aspects (layout, appearance) and AJAX events (using SASE). SmallFaces includes common GUI objects as TextFields, Buttons, ListBox, CheckBox, CheckBoxGroup, RadioButton, RadioButtonGroup, etc. Web applications are growing every day, and with the explosion of the AJAX technology few years ago, the web trends move towards desktop-like applications, making a fuzzy limit between both. Those who experienced pure...

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Smalltalk at the Open Faculty Congress

At the University of La Plata (UNLP) starts the Open Faculty Congress ("Facultad Abierta" in Spanish) and there are three talks related to Smaltalk in the agenda. AgendaBasic course of UML 2.0 Oct 8, 9 and 10 at 6.30 pm to 8:30 pm Classroom 4 ground floor - Faculty of Informatics More information in spanish Objects, Smalltalk and Technology Oct 8 at 2 pm Classroom 4 ground floor - Faculty of Informatics More information in span...

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Smalltalks 2008 Coding contest has started

The Smalltalks 2008 coding contest has started. If you are interested in participating, please visit the official conference webpage at http://neuquina.lifia.info.unlp.edu.ar:8001/Smalltalks-2008Here is the problem description (Spanish and English): http://neuquina.lifia.info.unlp.edu.ar:8001/files/WASmalltalks2008Files/smalltalks2008cc.txt Go Smalltalk & Good lu...

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Sep 19th, 2008 - Claus Gittinger talk at the UBA campus

This is a short summary of the talk given by Claus Gittinger, founder of Exept Software AG and creator of Smalltalk/X, on Friday September 19th, at University of Buenos Aires campus.The introduction of the talk was a presentation of Smalltalk/X, it's history and technical things which are very different from other Smalltalks. The motivation of making his own Smalltalk came when he read the famous Byte magazine in 1981. Since at that time it was very...

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Exciting News for Dolphin Users

Object-arts announces a partnership with Lesser Software with the aim of creating the next generation of Dolphin Smalltalk called Dolphin NG Development. Great news for the clients who are working in this great environment. Here is the full announcement available at the Object-Arts website:  "We are pleased to announce that over the last few months we have entered into a partnership with Lesser Software with the aim of creating the...

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Claus Gittinger in Buenos Aires

Claus Gittinger, creator of Smalltalk/X The Smalltalks 2008 committee are pleased to announce that next Friday September 19th at 7 pm in "Ciudad Universitaria" (University of Buenos Aires campus) Claus Gittinger is going to present a technical exposition about Smalltalk/X and a "model base testing" product called expecco. Also, the last Saturday September 13th, Claus Gittinger had been in a meeting of the group Smalltalking in Buenos Aires. Here...

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SqueakSVN

The Software Architecture Group from the HPI in Potsdam announced a Subversion integration project called SqueakSVN for Sque...

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Andres Valloud: Maths, virtual machines & books

Andres Valloud was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has been working as Lead technical engineer at Cincom Systems. In this interview he answered some questions about the present in his job at Cincom and some questions about his recently published books. CS: Andrés, How did you know Smalltalk and what was your first impression?AV: I first learned about Smalltalk while studying mathematics in college. A math instructor, Leandro Caniglia, had...

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Baby IDE, based on new development paradigm

Trygve Reenskaug wrote to the Squeak dev mailing list to announce the release of BabyIDE, an IDE which which runs on Squeak Smalltalk, and is based on his exploration of a new development paradigm, called DCI. The aim of the DCI (Data-Context-Interaction) paradigm is to minimise any gaps between the programmer's mental model of the program and the program that is actually stored and executed in the computer, by presenting system operations as networks of communicating objects. Here is a detailed overview: http://heim.ifi.uio.no/%7Etrygver...

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iSqueak, a squeak virtual machine port for the iPhone/Touch

Squeak iPhone/Touch port is now available at http://isqueak.org. Please, visit the http://isqueak.org project site and the announcement for more information.  &nb...

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SqueakNOS boots on OLPC

SqueakNOS now boots on OLPC SqueakNOS means "Squeak No Operative System". Squeak is an open, highly-portable Smalltalk-80 implementation, it runs on almost every operating system, and in bare hardware. SqueakNOS gets rid of the OS under Squeak, and implement all the functionality in Smalltalk. It can be downloaded a VMWare appliance in the SqueakNOS site to test ...

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New version of Chalten

It's a new version uploaded to SqueakSource (for Squeak) and to the Cincom Public Repository (for Visualworks) a new release of the project called Chalten 2.0 that is an implementation of the Time Domain (not only of the Gregorian Calendar now). Here are some examples: "Create some time entities"August twentieth, 2008 --> Creates an instance of the gregorian Date for 20/08/2008August twentieth --> Creates an instance of the gregorian DayOfMonth for 20/08August, 2008 --> Creates an instance of the gregorian MonthOfYear for August of 2008 "But,...

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ESUG 2008 Innovation Technology Awards

The three winners of this fifth edition are:Dr Geo II by Hilaire Fernandes. Dr. Geo II is an interactive geometry framework, Morphic-based, which can be embedded and mixed with any existing Morph user interface element of the Squeak OLPC environment. It allows one to create geometric figure plus the interactive manipulation of such figure in respect with their geometric constraints. It is usable in teaching situation with students from primary or...

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AIDA/Web 6.0 beta and AIDA/Scribo 1.0 beta released

AIDA/Web is a Smalltalk web application framework for building complex web applications with integrated Ajax support, rich collection of web components to build web pages programatically, MVC-like separation of presentation from domain, REST-like nice looking and bookmarkable url links, with integrated session and security management, a Swazoo web server and many more. AIDA/Web is known by its simplicity but still allows building most demanding...

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SqueakDBX: beta release for OpenDBX plugin

A team of students from UTN (National Technological University in Argentina) co-ordinated by Estaban Lorenzano has just announced the first beta release of SqueakDBX, a package to allow Squeak to access OpenDBX functionality, so allowing users to perform relational database operations (DDL, DML and SQL) through a truly open source library. OpenDBX can interact with major database engines such as Oracle and MSSQL besides open source databases such...

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Why does computer-based teaching fail? by Alan Kay

Dr. Alan Kay, a pioneer of computer science and educational technology, provides insights into the importance of good educational design - no matter how powerful your technology might be...

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Self, the movie

The Self Language Designed for expressive power and malleability, Self combines a pure, prototype-based object model with uniform access to state and behavior. Unlike other languages, Self allows objects to inherit state and to change their patterns of inheritance dynamically. Content of the film 00:00 - Title00:16 - Randy Smith's introduction: directness, liveness, no run/debug separation02:00 - Demonstration of basic Self ideas02:15 - objects and...

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Squeak in Extremadura

This short film shows the work in Extremadura, a rural region in the southwest of Spain, using the computer in the classroom. They use GNU Linex as the OS and Squeak as the platform to develop the educational content. The students can have the opportunity of been responsible of construction their own knowledge. This educational program has been developed by IT researchers and educators. If you want to learn more about this concept of learning, please read the work of Seymour Paper...

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Smalltalk 80 in an old TV show like "Beyond 2000"

Adele Goldberg presents Smalltalk in a TV show called "Beyond 2000" in the 80's. In this presentation you can see the capabilities at that time of Smalltalk. Many of the features are the same that you have today in the modern operative system...

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The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet by Alan Kay

OOPSLA'97 Keynote of Alan Kay, "The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet"....

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Interview with Luca Bruno, the creator of Smalltalk YX

Luca Bruno is the mind behind the Smalltalk YX, a new free environment in the Smalltalk's world. He born the 27th august of 1988 in Paola, Italy. After discovering his work, we want to know more about Luca and his motivations. He accepted to answer some questions. CS: How did you know Smalltalk? LB: Well, I like to see new technologies and perhaps new programming languages. So I first looked for the IO programming language. I liked very much...

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