News (from my perspective):
- Dolphin ST is still alive and available (link below)
- Ken Dickey has a nifty morph control gui kit called Emergence on Cuis that looks Maui-esque (link below)
- Camp Smalltalk Vanisle is intended to go in October even though they have not announced yet
- No Cincom people were here.
- Dale and Paul worked on Metacello. This:
(Installer repository: ' http://www.smalltalkhub.com/mc/Seaside/MetacelloConfigurations/main')
install: 'ConfigurationOfSeaside3'.
((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfSeaside3) project version: #stable) load: #('Development' 'Welcome' 'RSS-Examples' 'Seaside-Email' 'Seaside-Examples' 'Seaside-Tools-Web' 'WebClient')
will fail in Squeak for the time being until Metacello adds some kind of recognition parameters for Squeak 5.0. It will choke by asking for OmniBrowser.
- Paul is trying to connect to LMDB via BerkeleyDB plugin which he has code for on his Github (links below)
- There are pictures below of the Sat. evening dinner (link below)
- Chris Thorgrimsson is about to release to the VW Store a package called PCAPNG which slices and dices Wireshark data down to the header level and lets you write your own filters. Alexander Bergel is expected to port it to Pharo. I made noises saying I might do bring it to Squeak but likely need to walk back from that position
- I presented about Orange, a wiki I'm working on in Altitude inspired by TinyWiki that uses Xtreams PEG parsing
- Sean presented about Gamour and gt toolkit
- Martin presented about Mist and Fog his Smalltalk implementation that will never know C in any form
- Seth of Instantiations presented about in-Workspace any-language code highlighting
- I finally understood why Richie down in Buenos Aires sounded like he was speaking Mayan when I asked him about the kind of Smalltalk he was using when I saw him present at ESUG in 2011. If I recall correctly, he was using Visual Smalltalk Enterprise which is derived from Digitalk and was bought by Cincom, which made the image unavailable to anybody, but sold the rights to the VM to a company called Seagull, which sells the source code to anybody for $50,000. This made sense only to people who already had the image (i.e. Richie and LabWare) and looked like perversity to anybody else. You see why I didn't (and probably still don't) understand.
- There is a company in Delaware called LabWare. They like Smalltalk. They have the above mentioned VM which a woman I met here (I think her name is Diane) has been upgrading by adding UTF8 and such. Their VM developer team was here at PDX (Boris, Andreas, Diane and Dave) and they are designing a VM from scratch. They tell me they will open source it. This was followed by the irritating news that they don't have any idea when they will even start a blog on the topic. It's sounds fascinating, so here's hoping they do.
- James Foster presented a Gemstone to SQL database at ESUG that uses PetitParser and showed it here at PDX
- The CSS and JavaScript libraries of the week mentioned at PDX included AngularJS, FlexBox, Google Materials, Angular Materials, Polymer, Ember and React
- Some young programers are working on a new Smalltalk from an 80s paper by Wirfs-Brock called ModTalk (link below). It's modular and I don't think it has #become:
- I learned more about #become: from a patient Martin by showing him code in VMMaker. The struggle is ongoing.
That's the broad strokes for me. I imagine other people had different impressions.
Chris
https://github.com/dalehenrich
https://github.com/pdebruic?tab=repositories
https://github.com/KenDickey/Cuis-Smalltalk-BabySteps
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