Sunday, April 29, 2007
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Sudoku Solver in Seaside
Martin J. Laubach has created a Sudoku Solver in Seaside.
It shows how easy it is to create web applications with the Smalltalk web application framework.
If you want to learn more read his blog.
It shows how easy it is to create web applications with the Smalltalk web application framework.
If you want to learn more read his blog.
OmniBrowser docu
Alexandre Bergel announced a new paper on Omnibrowser:
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Archive/Papers/Berg07cOmnibrowser.pdf
OmniBrowser is a browser framework started by Colin Putney that supports the definition of browsers based on an explicit metamodel. A first implementation is available for Squeak.
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Archive/Papers/Berg07cOmnibrowser.pdf
OmniBrowser is a browser framework started by Colin Putney that supports the definition of browsers based on an explicit metamodel. A first implementation is available for Squeak.
UI patents
Found a nice summary on the history of user interfaces and how Smalltalk has influenced user interfaces we know from modern operating system today.
Looks like Apple is sued by a user interface patent today. The patent was originally filed by Xerox.
What if the first cave man would have patented how to start a fire ...
Looks like Apple is sued by a user interface patent today. The patent was originally filed by Xerox.
What if the first cave man would have patented how to start a fire ...
2D in 3D
Channel 9 (the Microsoft MSDN tech channel) showed a video on interactive 2D controls on WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) surfaces. There is also a new blog on this topic.
Maybe this feature of WPF will soon be highlighted as the best thing since sliced bread - but Squeak Smalltalk had some of these features since years. Maybe you remember the bunny demo where you can easily mix 2D and 3D in Smalltalk.
Have a look at Croquet - there you can easily use 2D morphic projects and mix them with interactive 3D scenes. You can select 2D objects in 3D, interactively change them and even type and select text.
And it's based on Smalltalk - therefore it is platform independent and completely open source ...
Maybe this feature of WPF will soon be highlighted as the best thing since sliced bread - but Squeak Smalltalk had some of these features since years. Maybe you remember the bunny demo where you can easily mix 2D and 3D in Smalltalk.
Have a look at Croquet - there you can easily use 2D morphic projects and mix them with interactive 3D scenes. You can select 2D objects in 3D, interactively change them and even type and select text.
And it's based on Smalltalk - therefore it is platform independent and completely open source ...
Thursday, April 19, 2007
The Blue Book as PDF
The so called "blue book" (Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation by Adele Goldberg and DavidRobson) is now available as PDF on the Free Books page.
