If Smalltalk is dead - why is it my most read post?

Somehow I topped 2gb of traffic on the blog this month so I went in search of my stats, unfortunately I found nothing which highlighted any untoward usage, but I did find that my most read blog post is for that dead language Smalltalk: If Smalltalk
Comments (3) . Tuesday, 1 July 2008

Dolphin Smalltalk - so long and thanks for all the fish.

So long and thanks for all the fish - that's what the Dolphin's told us in the Hitchhikers Guide, however it's quite what Object Arts have told us regarding the decision to discontinue the Dolphin Smalltalk product: It is with great regret and more
Comments (2) . Saturday, 11 August 2007

XML WithStyle is no more...

It's been a while since I last looked at the Smalltalk based XML editor "XML WithStyle", at the time I was looking around for alternatives to XXE from XMLMind. When I last looked it was starting to look good, so it was a shock to see the following e
Comments (0) . Sunday, 19 November 2006

Java can be agile, but...

java -can- be agile - not as agile as smalltalk/ruby thou - but the biggest detractor to agility is management imho. Every day I hear people bagging on Java and Java developers for not being part of the dynamic langu
Comments (1) . Wednesday, 29 March 2006

The Power of Smalltalk IDE's

So it seems that every man and his dog is commenting on the power of Smalltalk IDEs in response to Cedric's interview with Vanguard Technologies.Now I'll admit that Cedric is partially wrong, and that all the Smalltalkers are right, Blaine Buxton wri
Comments (4) . Sunday, 11 December 2005

Dolphin Smalltalk 6 now available!

Congrats to the boys and girls at Object Arts for the release of Dolphin Smalltalk 6 - and special congratulations for a full swath of documentation.Now where was that purchase request form?
Comments (0) . Wednesday, 23 November 2005

Sick of the caught/uncaught exception arguments? Try caught/uncauch casting with RuntimeObject's for a change...

I've been toying with writing various versions of my "uber simple" rule engine in java, smalltalk, python, and ruby and the process left me firm in mind that my biggest pet hate with java is not so much thats its strictly typed, but strictly compiled
Comments (2) . Sunday, 14 August 2005

A Ruby rule engine

Yet another rule engine, first there was the java, smalltalk, and python versions, and after James Robertson mentioned I'd also done a Ruby version I thought I best actually do one... I've been following alot of Ruby blog posts but as yet havn't a
Comments (1) . Saturday, 13 August 2005

Planet Smalltalk

Just came across Planet Smalltalk ( rss feed ) - a good common phone for all blogs Smalltalk ( which seem to be popping up all over the place now ).
Comments (0) . Monday, 7 February 2005

Smalltalk - Self Modifying code

In this wee Smalltalk application I'm writing I'm pulling out the version number to use as a custom header in SMTP messages, it's a small thing, but the code I was using was:SessionManager current versionInfo productVersionStringWhich is all well and
Comments (0) . Friday, 3 December 2004