The Seaside Builder
With the release of Seaside 2.9 Alpha 2 there comes a new way to conveniently load the Seaside packages you want to use in your development, testing and deployment images: The Seaside Builder.
2008
Pharo is Online
The Pharo website is finally online: http://www.pharo-project.org/.
Seaside Ajaxification FAQ
Some questions and answers that got raised with my recent post on Seaside Ajaxification:
Video of Magritte Presentation
There were complaints that the slides of my Magritte presentation are puzzling. That's true, but the idea is to get people listen to the talk instead of reading the slides. Luckily you can do that now even if you were not at ESUG 2008 in Amsterdam. Have a look at the video James Robertson posted on his blog.
110th birthday of René Magritte
Several people have pointed out that Google is displaying a montage of the work of René Magritte in honor of his 110th birthday:
Seaside Clarification
From Programming Gems (on GemStone) by James Foster:
How to ignore Code Critics rules?
A less well known feature of my recent changes and improvements to the Refactoring Browser, and especially the integrated Code Critic tools (including Slime, the Seaside consultant in a box) is the possibility to ignore certain rules on annotated methods. Simply add a pragma to the method you want a certain rule to ignore:
Seaside Ajaxification
Add the following 15 lines of Javascript to your Seaside application — and you'll get a full blown Ajax web application for free:
PDFs from Seaside
The website of Seaside has seen a recent addition of documentation. A frequently asked question in the mailing list is on the creation of PDFs from Seaside web applications. Unfortunately there is not a single answer that rules them all, but there are many possibilities to choose from: PDF in Seaside.
Seaside History
Julian Fitzell posted an article on the history of Seaside. He also updated the Seaside website with the full story. Well worth a read, if you want to learn about the origins of Seaside dating back to the year 2002.