Monthly Archives: February 2011

Definition of Good Software Developers and Software Architects

Posted on February 10, 2011 by

Alex has a very interesting post up, What the good developer and the good software architect really are. His definition (explained at length in the post): A “Skilled computer user is a person who can accomplish most of their goals … Continue reading →

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Interlude: How to get a remote server (for Seaside deployment)

Posted on February 7, 2011 by

Table of Contents: Basic Smalltalk Dev Environment Concepts Installing Seaside and Squeak Basics (saving and exiting, basic navigation) “Setting It Up Right” – Loading Useful Extensions (Except it turns out, not really) A Localhost Seaside “Hello World” Interlude: Get a … Continue reading →

Posted in Deployment, Hosting, Smalltalk/Seaside | 4 Comments

News Roundup: Social Code Commenting, User Management, and Java Interop

Posted on February 7, 2011 by

Couple of interesting items from the Pharo mailing list. Comment of the Day Contest In a thread titled The Comment Game – MMORPG for real, Laurent Laffont proposed a game. Each day, an un-commented class would be picked from the … Continue reading →

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Arlo Guthrie and the origins of the Collection protocol

Posted on February 2, 2011 by

A bit of history to make you smile: Rick DeNatale at Talk Like a Duck writes about How Arlo got injected into Ruby [via Smalltalk]. During the interview he [Dan Ingalls] was asked about the origin of those enumeration methods … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Miscelaneous | 3 Comments

A Localhost Seaside Hello World

Posted on February 1, 2011 by

Table of Contents: Basic Smalltalk Dev Environment Concepts Installing Seaside and Squeak Basics (saving and exiting, basic navigation) “Setting It Up Right” – Loading Useful Extensions (Except it turns out, not really) A Localhost Seaside “Hello World” Interlude: Get a … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic Skills, Smalltalk/Seaside, Tutorial | 2 Comments

A Secret: Passion and Your Choice of Web Framework

Posted on February 1, 2011 by

I will tell you a secret. I am passionate about Smalltalk and the Seaside web app framework. Not just on an intellectual level, “oh hey this is pretty cool, it’s got some good ideas”. But on a fire-in-my-heart level, “this … Continue reading →

Posted in Smalltalk/Seaside, Thoughts and Philosophy | 4 Comments