Archive for the ‘Squeak’ Category

Web Velocity released

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

I have a note over at my Curl blog that Web Velocity is now available. So “Borges” for Ruby should look out even if running on rubinious …

Actually, CINCOM’s framework will likely see adoption in the enterprise (in recent years, financials) and Ruby on Rails remain the small ISV temptation that it already is … and no, Smalltalk is not dead: just look at the CINCOM client list.

Nor is PROLOG dead. One of the vendors simply chooses to mention their software and their clients, not their language. Competitive advantage, I suppose. What Seaside has done for Smalltalk we may yet see Logtalk do for PROLOG.

As for Curl, there should be an announcement soon …

Smalltalk on the iPhone

Monday, June 15th, 2009

Over at my LogiqueWerks blog I posted a note on Squeak Smalltalk on the iPhone.

In that interview John McIntosh mentions Esteban Lorenzano working on a limited Squeak called Mars to run as an MVC framework on Mac Cocoa.

I will try to keep an eye on this Mars project …