Smalltalk Digest: September Edition

Cincom Smalltalk Team Seeks Cincom VisualWorks Senior Software Engineer

The Cincom Smalltalk team is looking for a well-qualified Cincom VisualWorks senior software engineer for its North American Smalltalk Development Team. If interested, please click here for a job description or to apply.

Cincom Smalltalk Roadmap – Arden Thomas

In this presentation, Arden Thomas, the Product Manager of Cincom Smalltalk, discusses recent, current and future product changes and developments. Click here to view the presentation.

How and Where in Glorp Tutorial – Niall Ross

In this presentation, Niall Ross presents examples of how to code some less-obvious queries in Glorp and invites attendees to bring their own examples of things on which they want advice regarding the best ways to code in Glorp. Click here to view the presentation.

Cincom Smalltalk New Native GUI Implementation Preview: A Technical Overview – Andreas Hiltner

In this talk, Andreas compares the existing architecture of Cincom® ObjectStudio® to the new framework and demonstrates some of the new widgets and features. Click here to view the presentation.

UI Unlimited: Things You Can Do with the New Cincom Smalltalk UI – Dirk Verleysen

In this talk, Dirk shows how the user interface looks in the current environment and some code on how it was created. He also shows some tests with the drawpad and shapes Cincom did to see how they could be used for upgrading the Modeling Tool. Click here to view the presentation.

Pursuing Performance in Store: Algorithms, Queries, Schemas – Tom Robinson

In this talk, Tom talks about improvements that have already been made to Store algorithms, query improvements that let the database do more of the work, exploration of schema changes to allow further performance improvements and much more. Click here to view the presentation.

Cincom Smalltalk Presentation Page

Interested in seeing Cincom Smalltalk presentations from our product team, partners and customers? We’ve gathered them all together and put them in one convenient location. Click here to check it out.

Next Mini-Survey Launched: Mobile Needs/Requirements for Cincom Smalltalk

In an effort to better understand our customers’ needs and requirements for deploying or developing applications for mobile devices using Cincom Smalltalk, product management launched the next survey in our series of mini-surveys to our customer base. This survey focuses on the mobile needs/requirements for Cincom Smalltalk. Click here for more information and to view the survey.

Visit the Cincom VisualWorks Tutorial Sites

Want to learn more about Cincom VisualWorks? We’re happy to tell you that there are a variety of Cincom VisualWorks tutorials available that walk you through the extensive capabilities of this powerful product. Click here for more information.

Cincom Smalltalk and Social Media Channels

We’re getting the word out … Cincom Smalltalk is an extraordinary and powerful product suite with amazing capabilities and a solid future! One of the tools that has been helpful in publicizing this fact is the use of Social Media. Click here for more information.

UK Smalltalk User Group to Meet

The UK Smalltalk User Group will meet at the Counting House Pub, 50 Cornhill Road in London on Monday, September 30 at 7:00 p.m. to talk about “Is simpler better? The balancing act between simplicity and power.” Click here for more information.

Plan to Attend Smalltalks 2013

Smalltalk 2013 will take place on October 30 through November 1 at the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional Rosario, located in Rosario, Argentina. Click here to find out more about this exceptional conference.

New Cincom Smalltalk Customer Portal

There’s nothing more important to the Cincom Smalltalk team than its customers. Therefore, we now have a portal on the Cincom Smalltalk website that’s devoted solely to making available information that may be useful to our valued customers. Click here to check it out.

Cincom Smalltalk Videos and Our Presence on YouTube

There are a wide variety of places where you’ll find Cincom Smalltalk and STIC on the web. You can find Cincom Smalltalk videos by clicking here. Also, Cincom Smalltalk and the Smalltalk Industry Council have their very own YouTube pages. To check out the Cincom Smalltalk YouTube page, click here. To view the STIC YouTube page, click here.

New Product Information Readily Available on the Cincom Smalltalk Website

The Cincom Smalltalk product suite is constantly being updated and improved upon. To help keep you up-to-date, we have several locations on the Cincom Smalltalk website where anyone can find out the latest product improvements, changes and release information. Click here to find out the locations.

The Cincom Smalltalk Academic Program

With a goal of increasing the quality of the available system design and engineering training, providing higher-quality engineers and developers to the industry and users, and expanding the Smalltalk community, we suggest that you look into the Cincom Smalltalk Academic Program. Click here to read all about it.

Cincom Smalltalk Community Blogs

There are many blogs run by the Cincom Smalltalk Group now. Check them out by clicking here.

News from the Cincom Smalltalk Team

Click here to get Smalltalk news from the Cincom Smalltalk team.

September 30, 2013 — UK User Group Meeting

The UK Smalltalk User Group will meet at the Counting House Pub, 50 Cornhill Road in London on Monday, September 30 at 7:00 p.m. The topic of the meeting will be “Is Simpler better? The balancing act between simplicity and power.” Click here for more information.

October 30 – November 1, 2013 — Smalltalks 2013, Rosario, Argentina

Smalltalks 2013 will take place on October 30 through November 1 at the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional Rosario, located in Rosario, Argentina. Click here for details.

Update on Smalltalk Events

Click here for an update on Smalltalk-related events you may want to attend.

Visit the Smalltalk Jobs Blog

Are you interested in a Smalltalk-related job? Cincom Smalltalk Support Engineer, James Savidge, keeps the Smalltalk community up-to-date regarding Smalltalk opportunities throughout the community. The Smalltalk Jobs Blog posts Smalltalk-related career opportunities from around the globe. Click here to see what’s available.