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.
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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.
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.
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.
Seaside Ajaxification FAQ
Some questions and answers that got raised with my recent post on Seaside Ajaxification:
Seaside Clarification
From Programming Gems (on GemStone) by James Foster:
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.
Seaside Sprint Bern September 2008 Wrap-up
Another Seaside 2.9 Sprint is over. We are trying to do these sprints more regularly now. This time the sprint took place in Bern. The participants were Michael Davies, Julian Fitzell, Philippe Marschal (from left to right in the picture below) and myself (taking the picture). We continued to work on what we started in Amsterdam.