A while ago Colin Putney announced the Filesystem framework, a nice and extensible replacement for the ugly FileDirectory class in Pharo. While all core classes are well commented, there is a quick start missing that explains how end users are supposed to adopt the framework. This blog post should fill that gap.
The PDF version of the book Dynamic Web Development with Seaside is available to download now: http://book.seaside.st/book/introduction/pdf-book.
I'll be attending the BlockCamp the coming Saturday in Paris, a joint event between Smalltalk and Ruby. I am prepared to give 3 short presentations:
While most people prefer to run SmallLint (Smalltalk Code Critics) from within OmniBrowser, the question arises from time to time on how to do the same from within a workspace script:
The second part of the Superpowers Workshop of the Ottawa Smalltalk user's group caught my interest. The attendees are discussing on how to implement break and continue in Smalltalk.
The open-source book Pharo by Example has been announced. It is a new, improved and adapted version of Squeak by Example to Pharo, the new Smalltalk that is quickly approaching its 1.0 release. One of the particularly exciting additions to the book is the chapter Seaside by Example.
An integrated diff viewer for Pier is long overdue. The latest development version of Pier has a first implementation with a simple GUI. The implementation is not perfect, but it already starts to be quite useful for the engineering course here at the university.
Gofer, a person who runs errands. Origin 1960s: from go for, i.e. go and fetch.
The New Oxford American Dictionary
We are proud to announce the release of the free online book http://book.seaside.st/.
I am currently preparing for the International Smalltalk Conference (ESUG) in Brest, France.