2007

December 18, 2007
in seaside, refactoring
2 min read

Slime

SmallLint is a famous code critics tool for Smalltalk that checks for over 60 common types of code smell and possible bugs. I've added a couple of rules that are targeted at Seaside applications:

December 8, 2007
in squeak, seaside, pair-programming, extreme-programming
1 min read

Yesterday Marcus Denker pointed out the Google Chart API in a private E-Mail. I asked Philippe Marshall and Adriaan van Os to join me for a remote pair-programming session with the goal of writing a small plug-in to wrap that Google service in a convenient Seaside plug-in.

November 10, 2007
in seaside, choose, talk
1 min read

Languages for the Web

The CHOOSE Forum 2007 at the Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, in Brugg, Switzerland was very interesting. The topic was Languages for the Web and there were presentations and tutorials about OpenLaszlo, Google Web Toolkit, Ruby on Rails, and — I was an invited speaker — Seaside.

November 10, 2007
in seaside
1 min read

Seaside One-Click Experience

The Seaside One-Click Experience has been announced:

November 2, 2007
in safari, leopard
1 min read

Safari 3 in Leopard

The debug mode of Safari is not new. Evaluating the following command in the terminal

October 28, 2007
in seaside
1 min read

Seaside 2.8 final

The final release of Seaside 2.8 has been announced:

October 19, 2007
in magritte, smalltalk, publication, talk
1 min read

Magritte at MoDELS 2007

I uploaded the slides of the Magritte presentation I gave a few weeks ago at MoDELS 2007. The associated paper with the title Magritte — A Meta-Driven Approach to Empower Developers and End Users is available for download too.

September 19, 2007
in seaside, publication
1 min read

Seaside IEEE Article

The current issue of IEEE Software features an article on Seaside, written by Stéphane Ducasse, Adrian Lienhard and myself.

Seaside: A Flexible Environment for Building Dynamic Web Applications

September 12, 2007
in squeak, smalltalk
1 min read

Squeak by Example

The open-source book Squeak by Example has been made public. It is an excellent read if you are new to Squeak and want to learn Smalltalk.

September 1, 2007
in esug, seaside, talk
1 min read

Seaside at ESUG

Seaside got a lot of attention during ESUG in Lugano. Several commercial Smalltalk vendors announced their support: