http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ Transcript show: 'Just another Smalltalk hacker,' en Vox Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:20:52 -0700 Copyright 2009 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/interviewed-on-linux-outlaws-and-the-command-line-podcasts.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Randal Schwartz) http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/interviewed-on-linux-outlaws-and-the-command-line-podcasts.html?_c=feed-rss http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/interviewed-on-linux-outlaws-and-the-command-line-podcasts.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:20:52 -0700 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/interviewed-on-linux-outlaws-and-the-command-line-podcasts.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398cc856f00050123dddfc27f860d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> podcast seaside smalltalk linux outlaws floss weekly the command line http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/why-is-cincom-not-mentioning-gemstones-in-application-wins.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Randal Schwartz) http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/why-is-cincom-not-mentioning-gemstones-in-application-wins.html?_c=feed-rss http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/why-is-cincom-not-mentioning-gemstones-in-application-wins.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:50:02 -0700 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/why-is-cincom-not-mentioning-gemstones-in-application-wins.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398cc856f000501101867aefd860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> smalltalk gemstone kapital cincom jpmorgan http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/smalltalk-week-at-oscon.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Randal Schwartz) http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/smalltalk-week-at-oscon.html?_c=feed-rss http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/smalltalk-week-at-oscon.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:34:25 -0700 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 ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/smalltalk-week-at-oscon.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398cc856f000501101673f4fb860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> san jose squeak seaside smalltalk oscon avi bryant http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/industry-experts-predicting-losses.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Randal Schwartz) http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/industry-experts-predicting-losses.html?_c=feed-rss http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/industry-experts-predicting-losses.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 07 Jun 2009 09:52:30 -0700 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/industry-experts-predicting-losses.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398cc856f0005011017d32d3b860e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> smalltalk losses theonion cincom james robertson http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/why-i-like-smalltalk-lots-of-reflection.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Randal Schwartz) http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/why-i-like-smalltalk-lots-of-reflection.html?_c=feed-rss http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/why-i-like-smalltalk-lots-of-reflection.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 29 May 2009 20:08:16 -0700 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/why-i-like-smalltalk-lots-of-reflection.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398cc856f0005011017cec22c860e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> classes smalltalk travis griggs http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/the-io-language---so-close-yet-so-far.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Randal Schwartz) http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/the-io-language---so-close-yet-so-far.html?_c=feed-rss http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/the-io-language---so-close-yet-so-far.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 03 May 2009 22:06:45 -0700 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/the-io-language---so-close-yet-so-far.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398cc856f00050110181f1de3860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> perl ruby io smalltalk asboolean http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/lightning-strikes-in-omaha-not-once-but-twice.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Randal Schwartz) http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/lightning-strikes-in-omaha-not-once-but-twice.html?_c=feed-rss http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/lightning-strikes-in-omaha-not-once-but-twice.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:26:11 -0700 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 ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/lightning-strikes-in-omaha-not-once-but-twice.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398cc856f0005011018177883860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> perl omaha seaside smalltalk infotec andy lester http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/great-quote-about-the-smalltalk-ide.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Randal Schwartz) http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/great-quote-about-the-smalltalk-ide.html?_c=feed-rss http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/great-quote-about-the-smalltalk-ide.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 22 Mar 2009 07:03:13 -0700 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. <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/great-quote-about-the-smalltalk-ide.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398cc856f00050110163871d2860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> ide smalltalk stackoverflow http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/putting-my-hat-in-the-ring-for-squeak-leadership-team-2009.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Randal Schwartz) http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/putting-my-hat-in-the-ring-for-squeak-leadership-team-2009.html?_c=feed-rss http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/putting-my-hat-in-the-ring-for-squeak-leadership-team-2009.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:01:39 -0800 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/putting-my-hat-in-the-ring-for-squeak-leadership-team-2009.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398cc856f0005011015ea92bd860b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> squeak smalltalk leadership team http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/comparing-smalltalk-and-java.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Randal Schwartz) http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/comparing-smalltalk-and-java.html?_c=feed-rss http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/comparing-smalltalk-and-java.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:53:14 -0800 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/comparing-smalltalk-and-java.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398cc856f0005011017a7b82e860e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> java smalltalk ooa