[squeak-dev] Communication medium - Why not use/anticipate wave tools ?

Cédrick Béler cdrick65 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 28 09:06:52 UTC 2009


2009/7/28 David Goehrig <dave at nexttolast.com>:
> The Google Wave protocol isn't terribly hard to implement, as it is only
> really an extension of XMPP, which is XML over TCP/IP with a crappy and
> overly verbose DTD.
>  This isn't something some of us haven't already done repeatedly over the years.  (First time I built this sort of system was 2001/2002 for a online fantasy sports site)
>  Bindings would only take a day or two, the trick is really adding a robust
> server to Squeak/Pharo/etc, and the engineering for that infrastructure (say
> 10k concurrent per node) is beyond what the VM can realistically handle.  So
> interfacing with Google Wave, couple days of work.

Thanks for the information Dave.

> Sharing Smalltalk code
> and editing it over Google Wave, well keep your eyes open cause that's
> already underway :)

I will ;)

> Dave
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Cédrick Béler <cdrick65 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just got a wavesanbox[1] account and I can't help thinking this would
>> be a good (global?) comunication medium (enriched emails,
>> mailing-lists, tutorials, technical discussions and also bug
>> tracker...).
>>
>> What do other think ? Could we create a Smalltalk related waves/groups
>> as a start ?
>>
>> And what about having bindings and a protocol implementation  in Smalltalk
>> ?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> --
>> Cédrick (cdrick at wavesandbox.com)
>>
>> [1] wave is a new tool from google aiming at redefining emails and
>> instant messages (based on waveprotocol)... The application proposed
>> is epecially interesting (to me) in its collaborative creation/edition
>> of "waves". Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ
>>
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Cédrick



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