Comments on: Minding Your Business With Smalltalk (Part 1 of 4) http://news.squeak.org/2007/02/27/minding-your-business-with-smalltalk-part-1-of-4/ What's new in the world of Squeak Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:08:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Hannes Hirzel http://news.squeak.org/2007/02/27/minding-your-business-with-smalltalk-part-1-of-4/#comment-8910 Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:24:19 +0000 http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/02/27/minding-your-business-with-smalltalk-part-1-of-4/#comment-8910 Michael Rueger says that different “forks” (Croquet, Tweak, Spoon, Scratch, and Sophie) of Squeak have happend. And he thinks it is not good. However it is as easily possible to see this as a sign of a healthy community. I means that Squeak is actually used to produce interesting products. In fact every programmer who wants to come up with an application (the mentioned Squeak variants are all “autohring systems”) has to take a base image of a specific version to build upon. He comes up with a “fork” as soon as he passes on the result of his work. That is the way the image concept works. With commercial Smalltalk versions this is the same but it is not so visible as it is used mostly in in-house applications.

In addition there is an exchange between the different variants of Squeak. Code from various variants of Squeak have been folded back into the main development branch which is fine.

An interesting interview indeed: The conclusion is that to offer commercial services around Squeak means to offer support (bug fixing) and quality assurance making use of the various code collections openly available. And it seems that a comparatively small company can offer a substantial quality service as the example shows.

]]> By: Minding Your Business With Smalltalk (Part 3 of 4) « The Weekly Squeak http://news.squeak.org/2007/02/27/minding-your-business-with-smalltalk-part-1-of-4/#comment-7429 Thu, 17 May 2007 15:00:14 +0000 http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/02/27/minding-your-business-with-smalltalk-part-1-of-4/#comment-7429 [...] we spoke with Michael Rueger and Steve Hunter. From Michael we found out about the perspective of writing and supporting open [...]

]]> By: Minding Your Business With Smalltalk (part 2 of 4) « The Weekly Squeak http://news.squeak.org/2007/02/27/minding-your-business-with-smalltalk-part-1-of-4/#comment-2774 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:55:17 +0000 http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/02/27/minding-your-business-with-smalltalk-part-1-of-4/#comment-2774 [...] our last article we spoke with Michael [...]

]]> By: T.B. http://news.squeak.org/2007/02/27/minding-your-business-with-smalltalk-part-1-of-4/#comment-2611 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:13:38 +0000 http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/02/27/minding-your-business-with-smalltalk-part-1-of-4/#comment-2611 Great! Thanks Ron

]]> By: Plopp en anglais et en français bientôt at #doesNotUnderstand: http://news.squeak.org/2007/02/27/minding-your-business-with-smalltalk-part-1-of-4/#comment-2602 Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:37:44 +0000 http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/02/27/minding-your-business-with-smalltalk-part-1-of-4/#comment-2602 [...] a commencé une série d’interview concernant les entreprises utilisant Squeak et Smalltalk. La première interview (publiée sur WeeklySqueak) est celle de Michael Ruger, qui travaille à Impara et qui donne son [...]

]]> By: Karl Boutin http://news.squeak.org/2007/02/27/minding-your-business-with-smalltalk-part-1-of-4/#comment-2584 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:19:02 +0000 http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/02/27/minding-your-business-with-smalltalk-part-1-of-4/#comment-2584 Yes indeed a very good interview. Good job Ron.

Even though I have been away from Smalltalk and Squeak for a while. I really appreciate keeping up to date with the current development in the field. The Weekly Squeak RSS feed helps and lead me to this article.

I had neve heard of Plopp and indeed I was surprosed by the look&Feel knowing about the Squeak roots.

I have the hope that the OLPC project will succeed and that with it, Smalltalk will succeed. This could propel this inspiring tool/technology forward on the consciousness of the informatician community.

]]> By: Ron Teitelbaum http://news.squeak.org/2007/02/27/minding-your-business-with-smalltalk-part-1-of-4/#comment-2580 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:16:05 +0000 http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/02/27/minding-your-business-with-smalltalk-part-1-of-4/#comment-2580 Considering that it received a 5 year grant from the National Science Foundation http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/02/05/getting-the-message/
and is being run by Alan Kay’s group http://www.VPRI.org I would say that we should see some very interesting developments.

I have to say that more and more I agree that there is a real problem with the extreme bloat of software and operating systems. I would be interested what would happen if we could go back to a simple extensible model. I am currently working with technology in my business that is truly revolutionary. It is sad when you think about it because this technology is so great that it should already be widely adopted. The barriers include OS’s, software, and considerable corporate interests that maintain the status quo.

I suggest that you follow these development and OLPC http://www.laptop.org. I know I am.

Ron Teitelbaum
President / Principal Software Engineer
US Medical Record Specialists
http://www.usmedrec.com

]]> By: coke drinker http://news.squeak.org/2007/02/27/minding-your-business-with-smalltalk-part-1-of-4/#comment-2572 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:27:40 +0000 http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/02/27/minding-your-business-with-smalltalk-part-1-of-4/#comment-2572 I have just recently been reading about Coke and it seems *very* promising. What do you think the chances are for such a “dynamic movement”?

]]> By: Ron Teitelbaum http://news.squeak.org/2007/02/27/minding-your-business-with-smalltalk-part-1-of-4/#comment-2568 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:25:56 +0000 http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/02/27/minding-your-business-with-smalltalk-part-1-of-4/#comment-2568 You are welcome!

Thanks for the comment!

Ron

]]> By: milan zimmermann http://news.squeak.org/2007/02/27/minding-your-business-with-smalltalk-part-1-of-4/#comment-2566 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:22:53 +0000 http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/02/27/minding-your-business-with-smalltalk-part-1-of-4/#comment-2566 Ron, a captivating beginning of a great series! Thanks for working on it,
Milan

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