Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants

This week Michael and I spoke to Bruce Badger - long time open source contributor to the Smalltalk community. He's the author of the widely used PostgreSQL database driver and of the PDF document library. If you listen to the podcast, you'll also learn what other projects Bruce has up his sleeve.

We spoke a bit about the OpenSkills project, and about open source licensing - what license Bruce uses for his code and why. We also covered Sport - Bruce's cross dialect portability library, and what Bruce would like to see happen in that direction. It was a fun talk, and we'd love to get Bruce back on the podcast again.

To listen now, you can either download the mp3 edition, or the AAC edition. The AAC edition comes with chapter markers. You can subscribe to either edition of the podcast directly in iTunes; just search for Smalltalk and look in the Podcast results. You can subscribe to the mp3 edition directly using this feed, or the AAC edition using this feed using any podcatching software.

To listen immediately, use the player below:

If you like the music we use, please visit Josh Woodward's site. We use the song Effortless for our intro/outro music. I'm sure he'd appreciate your support!

If you have feedback, send it to smalltalkpodcasts@cincom.com - or visit us on Facebook or Ning - you can vote for the Podcast Alley, and subscribe on iTunes. If you enjoy the podcast, pass the word - we would love to have more people hear about Smalltalk!

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This week Michael and I spoke to Bruce Badger - long time open source contributor to the Smalltalk community. He's the author of the widely used PostgreSQL database driver and of the PDF document library. If you listen to the podcast, you'll also learn what other projects Bruce has up his sleeve.

We spoke a bit about the OpenSkills project, and about open source licensing - what license Bruce uses for his code and why. We also covered Sport - Bruce's cross dialect portability library, and what Bruce would like to see happen in that direction. It was a fun talk, and we'd love to get Bruce back on the podcast again.

To listen now, you can either download the mp3 edition, or the AAC edition. The AAC edition comes with chapter markers. You can subscribe to either edition of the podcast directly in iTunes; just search for Smalltalk and look in the Podcast results. You can subscribe to the mp3 edition directly using this feed, or the AAC edition using this feed using any podcatching software.

To listen immediately, use the player below:

If you like the music we use, please visit Josh Woodward's site. We use the song Effortless for our intro/outro music. I'm sure he'd appreciate your support!

If you have feedback, send it to smalltalkpodcasts@cincom.com - or visit us on Facebook or Ning - you can vote for the Podcast Alley, and subscribe on iTunes. If you enjoy the podcast, pass the word - we would love to have more people hear about Smalltalk!

Technorati Tags: smalltalk, open source, pdf, postgresql, openskills

Here's a question that came up in comp.lang.smalltalk:

I'm curious if there's a Smalltalk that's managed to move into a shared library yet.

Well, a few things come to mind. For VisualWorks, there's some preview level work that allows you to deploy a VW based app as a Windows DLL. It might require some help from support to get going, but it's there. More broadly, you can do either of these things pretty easily on any platform:

• Deploy a RESTful Http server
• Deploy a WS* or Xml-Rpc based service

Technorati Tags: deployment, dll

Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at what's coming next for the Store Repository browsers in VisualWorks and ObjectStudio. To watch, click on the viewer below:

If you have trouble viewing that directly, you can click here to download the video directly

You can also watch it on YouTube:

Technorati Tags: smalltalk, store, code browser, refactoring browser

At 2PM EDT (10 minutes from when this is being posted), we'll be talking to Bruce Badger for the podcast. Listen live here.

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Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at using stdin and stdout from Smalltalk. To watch, click on the viewer below:

If you have trouble viewing that directly, you can click here to download the video directly

You can also watch it on YouTube:

Technorati Tags: smalltalk, stdin, stdout

If Amazon is smart, they'll push out a Kindle for iPad app (one would think that the iPhone app should work, given Apple's staements about apps). The app for the Mac is a nice "complete the stack" thing, but not the end game. Amazon needs to remember that their core business is not, in fact, selling hardware - the Kindle is a means to an end, not an end in and of itself.

Technorati Tags: amazon, kindle, mac, e-book