Douglas Krueger wrote:

I used ST/V extensively years ago. I'm excited about building ST web apps now. It's either ST or PHP. I'd love to see a step-by-step tutorial for the complete idiot about how to create the Hello World program and then how to turn it into a powerful, DB-driven production-ready website. I've heard about seaside and the free hosting, which I've signed up for but NOW WHAT?

I've not even downloaded the Squeak Vm yet but when I do, I think I might be able to create Hello World (maybe) but how do I get that to run on the web? What do I upload?

Hi Douglas, welcome back to the Smalltalk world!

Best way to start is to download pre-prepared Squeak-web image:

http://damien.cassou.free.fr/squeak-dev.html

There you have everything already installed and ready to use, both Aida/Web and Seaside. Then you should go to both websites (http://www.aidaweb.si, http://www.seaside.st) and follow tutorials. Next step is to join mailing lists, come on the IRC to chat, etc. etc.

Ah yes, you need to download and install appropriate Squeak VM first:

http://www.squeak.org/Download/

When you'll have both VM and image, go to image directory and start:

squeak <image name>.image

I hope this will help for a start.

For more questions you can also join Squeak mailing lists:

Beginers: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners Squeak Dev: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/squeak-dev

I hope this helps

Best regards Janko