[Seaside] A new critical blog discussing Seaside - Comment my blog

[Sebastian Heidbrink]

Hi "Smalltalkers"!

I can well remember Stephane Ducasse's closing words on last ESUG , when 
he said, that time is come for all Smalltalk users and companies to 
throw all there knowledge and efforts together to achieve the same aim, 
making Smalltalk more public and modern again.

A lot of smalltalk using companies suffer the same problems. On the 
costumer side it's hard to sell such an "old" programming language with 
outdated UI, large lack of advertisement and sometimes outdated non 
fancy UI implementation support. And on the other side the very hard 
task to find and get young already skilled Smalltalk developers.

I have the impression that some guys need to be brought back down on earth.
Seaside is a Open Source project which is squeak based. If I would blame 
the Seaside development team for working inacurate, regarding coding 
conventions, I could blame a lot of Squeak-Based projects on that. Some 
things like instance variable accessing is typically done without 
accessor- and getter-methods within Squeak. I don't like that too, but 
to be honest, I don't have the time to offer a overworked version to the 
coreteam. I guess I'm not the only one here...
It's definetly true that Seaside is one of the most interesting projects 
in the Smalltalk market right now, giving companies the chance to offer 
something new and up-to-date.
But I also think it's merely impossible to develop a smalltalk project 
in squeak with the abillity to fullfill all advantages of the ported 
target systems, like VW, VASmalltalk, Gemstone and Dolphin...
It's the business of Cincom, Instantiations, Gemstone, ObjectArts and 
projects using Seaside for many years now, to support and influence and 
support actual Seaside development in squeak to assure the usability and 
optimization of Seaside Core.

You can't offer the world a kind of combination of domestic animal that 
produces eggs, wool, milk and can be grilled, or as we say in Germany 
"eine Eierlegendewollmilchsau" and additional to that: "for free".
Seaside is not a completed proprietary product, but everybody expects a 
robust in changes and optimal basis for writing a new next gerneration 
15 years lasting  Webapplication framework for the own product family.
Seaside is a sparetime project and it's a democratic project. Everybody 
can join the Coreteam and can expend time to push it forward.

Well, I'm happy for everyone beeing able to get some money out of Seaside.
And I' m sure the whole Smalltalk community would be glad about more 
Seasiders and Seaside-Profiteers helping Smalltalk to become more 
interessing to newcomers again and support others to get a hand on Seaside.
Blogs like onsmalltalk.com for example, are worther than comments in 
alternating alpha release classes.

Thank's to everyone presenting, writing tutorials, books, blogs and 
thanks to the coreteam for the help and advice you gave to me past month!
Thanks Cucumber for speaking out load what you think. There are several 
point's I often have in mind reading over "Squeak-Code", but some points 
might be hard to be solved just because nobody knows, where the Seaside 
is heading to.
The actual effords in seperating plattformdependent coding from 
seasidecoding is an improvement I really appreciate.  It clearly shows 
that these guys are willing to give a larger community an access to 
Seaside. I could imagine that this is a lot harder than just staying in 
Squeak.
Profit in mind or not, I don't care. They deserve it.


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Sebastian










		
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