<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Tags @ www.talios.com</title><link>http://www.talios.com/</link><description>(Tags) </description><copyright>Copyright 2010 www.talios.com</copyright><generator>Mark Derricutt</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 13:46:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Tags @ www.talios.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://www.talios.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Illegal Argument #5</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.talios.com/illegal_argument_5_1.htm</guid><link>http://www.talios.com/illegal_argument_5_1.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 21:17:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Episode #5 of our new java podcast Illegal Argument is has been posted focusing on language diversity and Microsoft's new Axum programming language, static vs dynamic templates and much more.]]></description></item><item><title>If Smalltalk is dead - why is it my most read post?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.talios.com/if_smalltalk_is_dead__why_is_it_my_most_read_post.htm</guid><link>http://www.talios.com/if_smalltalk_is_dead__why_is_it_my_most_read_post.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:38:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[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]]></description></item><item><title>A Little Head Trauma...: Returning None is Evil</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.talios.com/a_little_head_trauma_returning_none_is_evil.htm</guid><link>http://www.talios.com/a_little_head_trauma_returning_none_is_evil.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:59:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[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]]></description></item><item><title>XML WithStyle is no more...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.talios.com/xml_withstyle_is_no_more.htm</guid><link>http://www.talios.com/xml_withstyle_is_no_more.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2006 19:10:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[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]]></description></item><item><title>Java can be agile, but...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.talios.com/java_can_be_agile_but.htm</guid><link>http://www.talios.com/java_can_be_agile_but.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2006 23:29:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[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]]></description></item><item><title>The Power of Smalltalk IDE&apos;s</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.talios.com/the_power_of_smalltalk_ides.htm</guid><link>http://www.talios.com/the_power_of_smalltalk_ides.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:46:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[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]]></description></item><item><title>Dolphin Smalltalk 6 now available!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.talios.com/dolphin_smalltalk_6_now_available.htm</guid><link>http://www.talios.com/dolphin_smalltalk_6_now_available.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:41:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[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?]]></description></item><item><title>Sick of the caught/uncaught exception arguments?  Try caught/uncauch casting with RuntimeObject&apos;s for a change...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.talios.com/dynamicjava.htm</guid><link>http://www.talios.com/dynamicjava.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2005 01:08:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[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]]></description></item><item><title>A Ruby rule engine</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.talios.com/a_ruby_rule_engine.htm</guid><link>http://www.talios.com/a_ruby_rule_engine.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2005 18:54:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[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]]></description></item><item><title>A squeaky rule engine</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.talios.com/a_squeaky_rule_engine.htm</guid><link>http://www.talios.com/a_squeaky_rule_engine.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2005 00:35:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Following on from the weekends simple java rule engine, I thought I'd give a squeak implementation a try.  Following a similar API I have two classes: RuleManager and RuleSet, as initially defined as:


Object subclass: #RuleManager
	instanceVari]]></description></item></channel></rss>