Why I love Smalltalk

Smalltalk love from J. Pablo Fernández:

…Look all the code we wrote without having to memorize any keywords! What’s even more important is that by now you essentially know Smalltalk. That’s all there is, but like LEGO bricks, this simple and small building blocks allow you to build whatever you want….

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Who looks at Smalltalk?

Bruce Badger hits the nail on the head with his Who looks at Smalltalk? post:

The C guys looked at Smalltalk and said they didn’t need object orientation….

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See you at ESUG?

I can’t say it any better than Mariano Martinez Peck did in his post:

What is really great is to meet people. Have you ever sent 1 million emails to someone without even knowing his face?. Is he 70 years old? 20 ? What language does he speak? Well, ESUG is the perfect conference to meet people by real, face to face.

My sentiments exactly and I’ll see YOU there!

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SmalltalkHub status

Today, Nicolas Petton posted an update on the status of SmalltalkHub:

We’ve been working hard on SmalltalkHub this past weeks. We concentrated our efforts on scalability and UI improvements….

We also made SmalltalkHub work on (GemStone/S)http://www.genstome.com, which started with porting Iliad on GemStone…

Since SmalltalkHub is proceeding apace, I have decided to defer the production release of the SqueakSource3 site announced at the end of May. I just think that it would be too disruptive to have folks move their projects to SS3 only to move again when SmalltalkHub comes online.

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How to load a Metacello Configuration into an offline image

Joachim Tuchel has a nice writeup on how to use Metacello when you have limited access to the internet:

I needed to get Seaside and some other stuff into a Pharo image on a machine at a place where there is very limited offline access….

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