Smalltalk Reflections

Smalltalk Reflections episode 16: unit testingIn this episode, Craig and Philippe discuss unit testing in Smalltalk, and how it influences the development process. We welcome special guest Jean-Christophe Mincke in our exploration of validation.https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_016.mp3Mentioned in this episode:Context

In this episode, Craig and new co-host Philippe Back discuss the past, present, and future of distributed live computing with Smalltalk.https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_015.mp3Original podcast host David Buck is busy with other projects these days, and wishes us well. We hope to interview him on a future episode!Items mentioned in this episode:ESUG 2016, Prague in AugustCamp Smalltalk Marquette 2016SPLASH 2016, Amsterdam in October

In this episode, David and Craig discuss Smalltalk coding style.   https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_014.mp3Items mentioned in this podcast   ESUG   http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015   Camp Smalltalk Ottawa   http://www.simberon.com/campsmalltalkottawa2015/   Camp Smalltalk Portland http://esug.org/wiki/pier/About/ESUGblog/2015-05-07   Pharo 4 http://pharo.org/news/pharo-4.0-released   Pharo Coding Sprint at ECOOP  http://2015.ecoop.org/track/Pharo-2015   Chip computer https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-worlds-first-9-computer?ref=nav_search   Shout on Squeak http://map.squeak.org/package/e5c1aec2-0eb9-492d-8cb1-44f64c5b631aThe Smalltalk Jobs Report can be found here:   https://smalltalkjobs.wordpress.com/author/jsavidge/

David and Craig talk to John O'Keefe from Instantiations about VA Smalltalk.     https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_013.mp3Links to items mentioned this episode:   Instantiations

David and Craig talk to James Foster from GemTalk Systems about GemStone/S.https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_012.mp3Links in this podcast:      GemTalk Systems      GemStone/S      GLASS

David and Craig talk with Stéphane Ducasse about Pharo.https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_011.mp3In this episode, we talk about    Pharo http://www.pharo.org    YesPlan http://yesplan.be/en/    Seaside  http://www.seaside.st/    Reef  http://www.smallworks.eu/web/projects/reef    Amber Smalltalk http://amber-lang.net/    Tide https://github.com/tide-framework/tide    Cog https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm    Spur https://clementbera.wordpress.com/category/spur/    Sista https://clementbera.wordpress.com/category/sista/    Native Boost https://code.google.com/p/nativeboost/    Pharo Consortium http://consortium.pharo.org/    GT Inspector and GT Spotter http://gt.moosetechnology.org/    NetStyle http://www.netstyle.ch/    Sorabito  http://www.sorabito.com/    Synetique&nb

This week, David and Craig talk about blocks in Smalltalk and how they make Smalltalk both powerful and simple.https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_010.mp3Also mentioned on this podcast:   Pharo Days   FOSDEM   Raspberry Pi   Camp Smalltalk Ottawa 2015You can leave comments on our blog at smalltalkreflections.blogspot.ca, leave us a review on iTunes or email us at smalltalkreflections@thiscontext.com.  You can tweet us at @buckdk or @ccrraaiigg.

On this episode, David and Craig discuss the collections and streams libraries of Smalltalk.  Along the way, they talk about Xtreams, traits and the new Treap collection introduced into VisualWorks.https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_009.mp3You can leave comments on our blog at smalltalkreflections.blogspot.ca, leave us a review on iTunes or email us at smalltalkreflections@thiscontext.com.  You can tweet us at @buckdk or @ccrraaiigg.

Smalltalk was one of the earliest programming languages to include automatic garbage collection.  In this episode, David and Craig discuss the pros and cons of garbage collection and how it works in modern Smalltalk systems.https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_008.mp3In this episode, we mention the Twitter tag #thingsPeopleBuiltWithSmalltalkhttps://twitter.com/hashtag/thingsPeopleBuiltWithSmalltalk?src=hashYou can leave comments on our blog at smalltalkreflections.blogspot.ca, leave us a review on iTunes or email us at smalltalkreflections@thiscontext.com.  You can tweet us at @buckdk or @ccrraaiigg.

David and Craig talk about minimalism - the idea that you can create very small Smalltalk images that do useful and interesting things.https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_007.mp3Check out Craig's Context site at:http://thiscontext.com/You can leave comments on our blog at smalltalkreflections.blogspot.ca, leave us a review on iTunes or email us at smalltalkreflections@thiscontext.com.  You can tweet us at @buckdk or @ccrraaiigg.

In this episode, David and Craig talk about debugging in Smalltalk.  The debugger is an essential tool and Smalltalkers use it for more than just finding and fixing bugs.    https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_006.mp3The video on debugging mentioned in this episode can be found here.    http://smalltalkreflections.blogspot.ca/2015/01/debugger-video.htmlYou can leave comments on our blog at smalltalkreflections.blogspot.ca, leave us a review on iTunes or email us at smalltalkreflections@thiscontext.com.  You can tweet us at @buckdk or @ccrraaiigg.

Smalltalk is dynamically typed while most mainstream object oriented languages are statically typed.  In this episode, David and Craig define the terms statically typed, dynamically typed and strongly typed and talk about the differences.  They cover the advantages and disadvantages of dynamic typing.    https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_005.mp3You can leave comments on our blog at smalltalkreflections.blogspot.ca, leave us a review on iTunes or email us at smalltalkreflections@thiscontext.com.  You can tweet us at @buckdk or @ccrraaiigg.

David and Craig discuss Image Based Development.  Smalltalk is a development environment which runs in an image that can be saved to disk and re-loaded later.  This is different from most mainstream languages these days in which runtimes are built from the ground up by compiling the source code.  In image based systems, you do your development in the image then strip out the development tools to deploy the program.  This episode discusses the pros and cons of this approach.In this episode we talk about Craig's object memory visualization animations.   https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_004.mp3You can leave comments on our blog at smalltalkreflections.blogspot.ca, leave us a review on iTunes or email us at smalltalkreflections@thiscontext.com.

This week, David and Craig discuss "Which Smalltalk?"  Smalltalk isn't just one language from one source.  It has many different dialects including commercial versions and freeware versions.  On this episode, the hosts lead you through the different versions, where they came from and how to get them.https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_003.mp3The versions listed in this episode include:   Cincom Smalltalk (http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com)      including VisualWorks and ObjectStudio   VA Smalltalk from Instantiations (http://www.instantiations.com)   GemStone from GemTalk Systems (http://gemtalksystems.com/)   Squeak (http://www.squeak.org/)   Pharo (http://pharo.org/)   GNU Smalltalk (http://smalltalk.gnu.org/)   Smalltalk MT from Object Connect (http://www.objectconnect.com/)   Smalltalk/X from eXept Software AG (http://www.exept.de/en/products/smalltalkx)   Amb

This week, David and Craig discuss "What is Smalltalk?"  They cover the origins of Smalltalk back in Xerox, properties of the Smalltalk language, influences it's had on modern software development and its use in modern commercial applications.  In this episode, James Savidge returns to podcasting with his Smalltalk Jobs Report.https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_002.mp3

Whew!  We've done it.  Episode 1 of Smalltalk Reflections is now available online.Smalltalk Reflections is a weekly podcast discussing the Smalltalk programming language.https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_001.mp3We haven't submitted it into iTunes yet, but we're working on that part.This episode is "A Tribute to James Robertson".