Contagious smalltalkers
Posted by Damien Pollet Thu, 07 Sep 2006 21:09:00 GMT
Besides getting more faces to put on mailing-lists posts, meeting Squeak and VisualWorks hackers during this whole week has been very motivating:
While Stef wrote tests for Regex, Oscar Nierstrasz and I started porting some good ideas from the string manipulation methods of Ruby to Squeak: and here is RubyShards.
I contributed my share of bugs to Damien Cassou’s ImageForDevelopers that will install a bunch of stuff from SqueakMap and SqueakSource and make a nicer base image.
Philippe Marschall from the Berne group spent quite some time with me trying to add static URLs for the main menu of SqueakSource, but it uses an ancient release of Seaside, so the patch would end up duplicating functionality (better help upgrading SqS to the latest Seaside I guess).
We also saw also some quite interesting talks during the research session, in particular from the team at ULB which is planning to record object histories (yes, execution traces with full state) or Romain Robbes from Lugano who wants to spy all actions the developer makes to make meaningful versioning systems.
Finally I think anyone will remember Plopp developed by the team at Impara, and winner of this year’s ESUG Awards ;-)
