Seaside for Dolphin 2.9.0-alpha4 available

Our friends at Infoil has announced the alpha release port of Seaside for Dolphin. Here is the link where you can download it: http://www.infoil.com.ar/seaside/. If you want to collaborate just contact Sebastian Calvo at fxgallego (at google's free email).
For more information, here is the announcement.

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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 desktop GUI developement (and believe the markup way to do things is fine for simple user interfaces, but do not scale very well when complex applications come), will feel the SmallFaces API a second nature.

See the following page at the Squeak swiki for instructions http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6088
Spanish documentation about the project is located here http://cs.hernanmorales.com.ar/projects/smallFaces/sf-es.php

Download and Installation Info

Prerequisites

• Seaside and Scriptaculous

• Phantasia (CSS) package from Monticello adding the following repository:

MCHttpRepository

location: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/Phantasia'

user: ''

password: '' 

Installation

• Load SmallFaces-bll.1.mcz package from Monticello adding the following repository:

MCHttpRepository

location: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/SmallFaces'

user: ''

password: ''

• To see useful examples load SmallFacesExamples-bll.1.mcz package

Tested under

• Official Squeak 3.9
• Damien Cassou

Authors

• Hernan Morales Durand, Norberto Manzanos and Juan M. Burella

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Download the GLASS appliance

The plattaform GLASS (Gemstone, Linux, Apache, Smalltalk and Seaside) has a GLASS Virtual Appliance to download (It's a VWware image so you will need to install the VMWare Player). It's the best way to test it without any kind of instalation. Please, before downloading the appliance be sure that you have a 64bit processor. The Wmware is running with an Unbutu/64 OS.

Another tip: Read how to configure the network or your services will be unavailable.

Download it from: seaside.gemstone.com/downloads.html

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Seaside and Ruby on rails

In this video, we can see an example of a "hello world" in Ruby on rails and the same example done in Seaside. It's interesting to see how to do an example in Ruby on rails, which is a "copy" of the Seaside framework. Ruby is a language very influenced by Smalltalk, but it is still a language.
In this video the author James Robertson is using a MAC OS and VisualWorks Smalltalk.

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