iPhone and Seaside
In the past weeks Seaside has been mentioned several times in the context of application development for the iPhone.
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Google Considers its own Mail as Spam
Gmail considers some of its own mail from Google Code as spam and tags it accordingly. What does this tell us?
Test Coverage of Pier and Magritte
I submitted a simple extension of the SUnit Test Runner to the Pharo Inbox. It accurately determines the test coverage of a selected package. For the latest versions of Magritte and Pier I get the following results:
Is Seaside a Squeak Fork?
Repeatedly people mention that Seaside maintains its own fork of Squeak, what is simply not true. To see some examples read this and listen to that.
Seaside 2.9.0 Alpha 3
Seaside 2.9 Alpha 3 is finally out. We are especially proud of the high number of issues we could close (almost 100), most of them during the two sprints in Konstanz and Zug.
On Correctly Spelling Variable Names
The code critics tool of the Refactoring Browser points out all kinds of code smells. However, correct spelling of entities in source code is an often neglected smell and remains unchecked by the traditional rules.
Pier Site Export and Import
Over the past years several people have asked for a simple solution to export and import a Pier site into a different image. Finally this is possible. The following screen-cast demonstrates the basic steps how I export my complete website and import it into a fresh Pier image.
Pier 1.1
Pier 1.1 is out and available as a Pharo based one-click image, on SqueakMap and Package Universe. It comes with a bunch of bug-fixes and some new features that make the creation of dynamic web sites even simpler. A quick migration guide was posted as well.
VA Smalltalk Goodies Announced
Adriaan van Os announced VAStGoodies, a SqueakSource clone for VisualAge Smalltalk using Envy as a backend. VAStGoodies is running on VA Smalltalk, it is built on top of Seaside 2.9 Alpha 1 and it extensively uses the brand new JQuery Seaside integration.