Methods and Messages: Randal Schwartz on Smalltalk

Interviewed on Linux Outlaws and The Command Line podcasts

2009-11-01T03:20:52Z

I was recently interviewed on both The Linux Outlaws and The Command Line podcasts. While the interviews are general coverage of my life so far, I did manage to sneak a bit of Smalltalk and Seaside content into both of them. I especially made it c...

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Why is Cincom not mentioning GemStone/S in application wins?

2009-08-27T01:50:02Z

Apparently, according to James Robertson in 2004, GemStone/S played a significant part to have JP Morgan's Kapital application be a success. But when I look at the much hailed press release in 2009 from Cincom Corporate Marketing (including the d...

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Smalltalk Week at OSCON

2009-07-14T21:34:25Z

Next week at OSCON 2009 in San Jose is going to be a very busy week for me. I'm managing the Stonehenge/LinuxFund party on Wednesday night, which includes hanging out at the LinuxFund booth during the day on Wednesday. I'm also appearing at the ...

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Industry experts predicting losses

2009-06-07T16:52:30Z

From a comment on a recent post on James Robertson's "Industry Misinterpretations" blog (offered without comment): "Industry experts estimate that the collective worldwide programmer productivity losses by failing to use Smalltalk-based environme...

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Why I like Smalltalk: lots of reflection

2009-05-30T03:08:16Z

From a recent post by Travis Griggs .... p := 4 @ 3. p changeClassTo: (p class copy superclass: p class). p class methodDictionary at: #negated put: (p class methodDictionary at: #transpose). p negated Amazing. This creates a new anonymous cl...

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The Io Language - so close, yet so far

2009-05-04T05:06:45Z

It’s too bad the Io language has an implicit non-overridable “asBoolean” method in the Object base class. That’s a mistake… the same one Ruby and Perl made. Only Smalltalk gets that right. it’d be ok if I could at least override “asBoolean” for m...

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Lightning strikes in Omaha, not once, but twice

2009-04-08T02:26:11Z

I'm presenting my "Seaside: Your next web framework" advocacy talk next week in Omaha. Not once, but twice. First, I've been scheduled for a few months to be a speaker at Infotec on April 15. That's a paid conference with a lot of interesting ...

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Great quote about the Smalltalk IDE

2009-03-22T14:03:13Z

Found in a recent Stackoverflow comment: Trying to get your head around smalltalk without using the IDE is like going to Paris and eating at McDonalds. Sure, you're in Paris, but you aren't really exposing yourself to what it's all about.

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Putting my hat in the ring for Squeak Leadership Team 2009

2009-02-20T02:01:39Z

As I just posted to squeak-dev: In trying to recap this past year, my first year of being back into the Smalltalk world, I googled "randal schwartz squeak", and saw: Results 1 - 10 of about 5,910 for (randal OR randall) schwartz squeak. I t...

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Comparing Smalltalk and Java

2009-02-07T19:53:14Z

In "On OOA and Simplicity (Part 1)", Samuel Falvo says: In short, it'll take you, the programmer, substantially longer to implement a properly OO solution to any problem in Java than it would in Smalltalk. What this means is that a company will sh...

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