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.
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.
The Pharo website is finally online: http://www.pharo-project.org/.
Some questions and answers that got raised with my recent post on Seaside Ajaxification:
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.
Several people have pointed out that Google is displaying a montage of the work of René Magritte in honor of his 110th birthday:
From Programming Gems (on GemStone) by James Foster:
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:
Add the following 15 lines of Javascript to your Seaside application — and you'll get a full blown Ajax web application for free:
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.