I'm still trying to get things going with VisualWorks and OAuth - I just realized that the timestamp needed to be in terms of GMT, not whatever my local time is. Makes per ...

Today's Smalltalk Daily llooks at a package that adds code completion to VisualWorks and ObjectStudio. It's contributed code, so it could do more than it does - but it's ...

Ramon Leon talks about his implementation of a thread pool for Smalltalk (in the context of a Seaside app): I had a search result page in Seaside that launched about 10 ...

Smalltalkers have more choices than ever in terms of platform (dialect) and framework - AidaWeb now runs on Pharo (it already supported Cincom Smalltalk and Squeak). From ...

Tim Bray would like more choices for development on the Android platform: And finally, as a citizen primarily of the Web, I can’t help but notice that in recent ye ...

This is why I dislike DRM so much - it doesn't hit pirates at all, but it periodically slaps legitimate users in the face: Valve, the company responsible for the game Mod ...

Editor's note: There are enough questions coming in via the comments that I am prepping a slave-related Q&A for later this week. If you have a question that has not yet been ...

I wonder about the lawsuit claiming that iPads should work better (i.e., not overheat) in the sun - take this rationale from PC World: This may actually be a very real pro ...

Today's Smalltalk Daily llooks at a package that adds code completion to VisualWorks and ObjectStudio. It's contributed code, so it could do more than it does - but it's ...

Apparently, we're (my wife and I, that is) members of the selfish elites - and no one even gave us membership cards: It’s not exactly official, but should also surpr ...

Netflix is available on every major computing system - Macs, Windows, iPads - and on all the gaming systems - Wii, Xbox, and PS3. I think the on-demand thing is going to e ...

I may still be obsessed with Mass Effect 2, but I've been waiting for Starcraft II for a long time Technorati Tags: starcraft, blizzard ...

I decided to take a serious look at OAuth again - since I have a Twitter account and a set of application keys, I'm using Twitter as the service to test against. I had pro ...

Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at inserting a breakpoint programmatically. To do that, you need to grab this code and file it in, and then use code like this: "get the ...

Looks like the Pharo sprint at Camp Smalltalk London paid off: Pharo 1.1 was released on July 26, 2010. This is the second release. It provides bug fixes, system cleanup, ...