Earlier in the week Nic Wise pinged me on the How I got started in software development meme, I'd been meaning to post my entry sooner but ended up getting sidetracked. How old were you when you started programming? Way way way back in the da

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

Via Cedric's blog I came upon Marty Alchin's post on the perils of returning None or Null from your methods: That is, of course, until you try to use your shiny, newly-retrieved object. Java then falls over itself and dies a horrifically painful d

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

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?

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 ).

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

I'm sitting here having on of those "enlightened" moments when you suddenly grok the power of something, in this case its closures/blocks. I've been loving the power and flexability Smalltalk's blocks provide for sometime now, and whilst J

As with everyone in the blogging world I noticed all the announcements over the new "Edit & Continue" functionality in C#, Sam Gentile's says: As a C# MVP, I am obligated to tell you that Edit & Continue is in C# now in this build regardless of my

James Robertson recently updated the development versions of BottomFeeder with WithStyle as the browsing component - mixing this with a customized stylesheet and you've got a whole new blogging experience... My hat goes off to James and Michae

I'm starting to get something of a more working/functional set of classes to drive XMPP/Jabber from Dolphin Smalltalk. Now at the point that I need to think about HOW I want to use XMPP from Dolphin; how the API should look and be used. From a fr

Via Bruce Badger in #smalltalk, I find a screenshot Robert Collins work on a GTK/Blox based browser for GNU Smalltalk. Damm thats looking nice, I'll definitely keep an eye on this project...

The other day someone in comp.lang.smalltalk.dolphin posted asking about sockets and "direct access to the internet" in Dolphin Smalltalk. Frankly, I still have no idea exactly what he was asking, but the subject at least made sense: "Newsgroup po

So whats a self respecting jabber geek to do with a new development environment and language, and a desire to import his roster into a simple messaging application he's working on? Write a library of course! It was only a few years ago when every

Spotted in Cincom Smalltalk Blogs I thought people might find it useful to have a random introduction to Smalltalk syntax. It's not as hard as it seems, but it does take a while to get your head around it. So, lets start with the basics. M

So I was standing there in the shower and the thought struck me to give this Smalltalk thing another go, it was more the "damnit - I want to at least do SOMETHING in it before I write it off" so I sit down at the PC and load up Visual Works, check th