Smalltalk Digest: December Edition

Be Part of Our Growing Cincom Smalltalk Team!

Cincom is seeing increased interest for Cincom Smalltalk and with that increased interest comes more requirements for enhancing, improving and advancing Cincom ObjectStudio and Cincom VisualWorks. Our Cincom Smalltalk engineers are very busy keeping pace with our existing partners, and just as we need to enhance our products, we need to enhance our product team. Why not join an exciting, growing team that’s making innovative strides at an astonishing pace? If you’re interested in applying for a position as a Cincom Smalltalk engineer for Cincom’s North American Smalltalk Development Team, please click here for a job description or to apply.

Cincom ObjectStudio 8.5 Now Available!

Cincom ObjectStudio 8.5 is now available with notable feature changes that make it better than ever! Click here to find out the latest improvements for this outstanding product.

Cincom VisualWorks 7.10 Now Available!

Cincom VisualWorks 7.10 has been released, and the product includes many new feature changes that you’ll definitely want to know about. Click here to read more about the new release.

Concurrency and Leveraging Multi-Core PCs — The Solution? MatriX

For a while now, companies have been using concurrency in their development. But going all-out into concurrency is difficult. We have a solution to that problem: MatriX. Click here to read about some of the problems involved in concurrency, click here to read about the solution to the currency dilemma: MatriX, click here to access the video, “Getting More from Your Multi-Core with MatriX,” and click here for an answer to “How Can We Get the Most Out of Our Modern CPUs?”

Interested in learning an alternative for getting the most out of your PC? Click here to try it, and see how you can use MatriX to leverage the most from your multi-core PCs.

Are You Looking to Boost Application Performance?

The Cincom Smalltalk team strives to deliver tools to simplify daily tasks for application developers. The complexity of concurrency can sometimes cause difficulties. However, we’re happy to tell you about a powerful solution to your concurrency issues. Click here for more information.

A Shared Cornerstone — The Cincom Smalltalk Foundation

The Cincom Smalltalk Foundation is the shared virtual machine and object libraries shared by the Cincom Smalltalk products. For more information, please watch Cincom Smalltalk Product Manager, Arden Thomas’, latest presentation from the 2013 Smalltalk Industry Conference here.

Cincom VisualWorks-Related Tool Top Finalist in Competition

Dr. Georg Grossmann and a group of his students recently entered a data-transformation tool built in Cincom VisualWorks using DoME into a competition in Hungary. Click here to see the final outcome.

Oil and Gas Interop Project Demo Features Transformation Powered by Cincom VisualWorks

The Open O&M Initiative group has organized a demonstration pilot project of information interoperability powered by Cincom VisualWorks using DoME modeling techniques. 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.

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.

Cincom Embraces the Partner Channel Successfully

In its most recent fiscal year, Cincom more than tripled its number of signed partner contracts from the prior two years, and its goal is to eventually have three quarters of new business revenue coming from partners. Click here for the press release.

Ninety-Six Percent of Cincom Customers Report Good, Very Good or Excellent Service

Software provider Cincom Systems recently announced the results of its customer-service survey, and 96 percent of customers rated the overall quality of the support they received from Cincom as good, very good or excellent. Click here for more.

Cincom Systems, Ohio’s Longest-Serving Software Company, Salutes Ohio’s Longest-Playing Orchestra

As Cincom celebrates its 45th anniversary as the first modern software technology company in Ohio, the company is saluting another long-standing Ohio organization, the Cincinnati Symphony and Pops Orchestra. Click here for the entire story.

The Cincom ObjectStudio GUI Files: LogFileViewer

In this article, we take a look at a LogFileViewer (not unlike the UNIX tool “tail”) using a RichEdit control and what we can do with it. Click here for the article.

News from the Cincom Smalltalk Team

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

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.