On Smalltalk
Posted by Damien Pollet Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:56:18 GMT
On Smalltalk is a great blog on Smalltalk and Seaside by Ramon Leon. Go read it now!
…and since it was kinda asked for in the comments, I’ll complete this post with my partial list of other blogs from the Smalltalk community. First there is a planet-style meta-blog that already aggregates most of the blogs in this list, and the weekly squeak news. Then, from my Smalltalk RSS subscriptions, the most notable entries are blogs by:
- Avi Bryant, author of Seaside and DabbleDB;
- James Robertson, product manager at Cincom,
- and Serge Stinckwich who is part of the irreductible french smalltalkers :)
To more precisely answer Sébastien’s comment, the recent community news I’d note would be the open-sourcing of Strongtalk, the Squeak license changes to APSL 2 then Apache, and that Smalltalk in general is indeed benefiting from the current momentum in dynamic languages, thanks to Python, Ruby, and again Seaside.
On the Squeak side, 3.9 final was recently released, and it’s a great step from a happy mess to an environment more suitable for serious playing, especially with traits, the cleaner closure compiler, Damien Cassou’s image for developers, and Craig Latta’s promising spoon…
Feeling a bit of information overflow, I wouldn’t be against some blog posts summing up what’s happening in the Smalltalk community these days… (hint hint ;)
Phew. Shotgun linking :-]