[squeak-dev] PDX -- a quick and dirty roundup

Germán Arduino garduino at gmail.com
Tue Aug 25 02:06:33 UTC 2015


Thanks you very much for the report Chris!
El ago. 24, 2015 12:58 PM, "Chris Cunnington" <brasspen at gmail.com> escribió:

> 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
>
> http://symas.com/mdb/
>
> http://object-arts.com/
>
>
> https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOo-uf19ceGHiRRa6Qv_GyU4hDfPVVuwIFhKku93QTydzbnWCOUeDmeanKGrWtPJQ?key=dzFVLTJvN19iSTZrYWRXNE82Y3Z5Slk4bWVOWTdn
>
> http://www.modtalk.org
>
>
>
>
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