I have some pictures to share for people that missed the London Geek Nights with the title Seaside: The Revenge of Smalltalk last Monday. The following shot was taken shortly before I started with my presentation, an introduction to the basic concepts of Seaside. The slides are available online.
We just announced Seaside 2.8.4, the fourth maintenance release for Seaside 2.8.
In the past weeks Seaside has been mentioned several times in the context of application development for the iPhone.
Gmail considers some of its own mail from Google Code as spam and tags it accordingly. What does this tell us?
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:
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 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.
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.
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 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.