Arden Thomas started the Hidden Gems screencast series to share shortcuts, tips, and techniques that might make it easier for others to use or jumpstart their Cincom Smalltalk usage.In these screencasts, Arden shares how he uses various components of Cincom Smalltalk, as well as features that he uses for his own productivity that he considers “hidden gems.”
You can hear more details directly from Arden in this
Introduction to Hidden Gems. Additionally, Suzanne Fortman, the Cincom Smalltalk Program Director, Engineering and Support Manager, shares her thoughts on the impact of these videos in
What Are the Benefits of Hidden Gems?
- Tools Series—The Tools series explores some tools and product features that developers should find useful.
- Techniques Series—The Technique series shows various techniques of how to accomplish or solve different tasks such as automating image build to creating a custom parser.
- ValueModel Series—The ValueModel series shows the principles, capabilities and use of the powerful ValueModel framework.
- DomainMaster Series—The DomainMaster series introduces an application framework that leverages the principles of the ValueModel to make application development easier, faster, capable and reliable.
- Persistence Series—The Persistence Series shows multiple techniques of how to save and load objects to disk, where using a full database might be overkill or unwieldy.
- Collections Series—The Collection series shows some lesser-known collections that may be beneficial for your collections toolbox.