My latest article, “Smalltalk for Everyone” is up on O’Reilly’s OnLAMP site. With this I article, I’m hoping that someone who is initially approaching Smalltalk will get their bearings on the language and the environment in a way that helps them navigate the vast array of information about Smalltalk that’s available.
One of things it seems that people have some trouble getting used to when getting into Smalltalk development is the use of the browser (leave aside for the moment getting used image based development in general). I’ve seen a number of comments about the difficulty of seeing only one method at a time and […]
I’m working on a couple of personal projects using Seaside and I’m looking into using Seaside’s impressive script.aculo.us support. Here are a couple of things I found out while digging through the Seaside mailing list:
The easiest way to get a fairly recent version of Seaside and it’s script.aculo.us support is to load Pier from […]
Periodically throughout my career, I’ve resolved to learn Smalltalk. I first encountered the Blue Book in the technical library during a co-op at IBM in Rochester MN. My first encounter with a Smalltalk environment was on a DEC MicroVax in the mid-80’s when I worked there.More recently I’ve looked at Squeak. Squeak’s interesting […]