Preview of new Seaside Visual Interface Builder
16 October, 2007
Hernán Morales and his colleagues have been working for a while on an interface builder tool to generate Seaside components (pages) dynamically, and they have just released a video showing their work so far. The ideas are based on a visual programming tool for Windows called WindowBuilder Pro.
The tool, called Seaside Builder, has support for most common web controls (TextField, Panel, RadioButton, TextArea, Label, Button, Anchor, CheckBoxGroup, RadioButtonGroup, ListBox, FieldSet).
See the video (19 MB) at:
http://smartware.com.ar/builder.avi http://cs.hernanmorales.com.ar/SeasideBuilder.avi
(Image from Torsten Bergmann’s blog)
Seaside being used with Answers.com
10 October, 2007
Ramon Leon just announced on the Seaside mailing list that Answers.com has just launched a new hotel-booking widget that gives access to a site developed by reserve travel using Seaside.
Searching for a city, eg http://www.answers.com/Phoenix?cat=travel, shows the widget directly beside the city name. Doing a search in this widget launches the Seaside-based affiliate booking engine.
Congratulations to the team at reserve travel for this high-profile exposure for their great work!
Don’t Miss Cincom’s Seaside Podcasts Next Week
30 September, 2007
From Michael Lucas-Smith:
Hi Everyone,
Just a heads up that Industry Misinterpretations, our Smalltalk podcast, has three podcasts specifically about Seaside coming out over the next week.
Podcast #1: Myself, James Robertson, Tamara Kogan, Martin Kobetic, Arden Thomas
Podcast #2: Myself, James Robertson, Michel Bany, Alan Knight, Arden Thomas
Podcast #3: Myself, James Robertson, The entire Gemstone GLASS team
The podcasts will be appearing here:
http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/cincom/blogView?content=podcasts
You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (just search for smalltalk) or with: http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/rssBlog/blog_podcast.xml
They’ll also be announced on James’s blog:
http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView
Cheers,
Michael
How to build a wiki in 98 lines of code
27 September, 2007
Ramon Leon’s blog, always a great resource for tips on Squeak and Seaside, has a nice post on how to build a simple file-based wiki using Seaside built with only one class and 98 lines of code. It’s intended as a learning tool, so it doesn’t make use of other useful resources such as Magritte or Magma (or even Ramon’s own version of ActiveRecord for Smalltalk). Indeed, if you’re interested in building a production-strength wiki, then as Ramon points out, you should investigate Lukas Renggli’s work on Pier.
New Seaside Paper
18 September, 2007
See IEEE Software
September/October: Dynamically Typed Languages
Yabba Dabble Do!
8 August, 2007
Smallthought Systems, the authors of the Seaside-based online spreadsheet app Dabble dB, have a brand new application for the Facebook crowd: Dabble Do (no relation to Fred Flintstone, but “Yabba Dabble Do!” could be their tagline!)
ToDo Lists are aplenty, but this one has a couple of neat features. Instead of a calendar popping up, the user can simply write: “tomorrow” or “next Wednesday” (although I did find a bug when entering “next wednesday”. The icon displayed “this week” instead of “next week”.) Another interesting feature is assigning events for your friends. You simply type your friend’s name, assign a task to him and press “Do it!”. I don’t know how this will pan out, but it will be interesting to track how friends bang on each other. It could prove to be a fun way for friends to communicate with one another.
If you’re a Facebook user, it’s worth checking out!
More about Dabble Do:
- Andrew has more on their blog.
- TechCrunch
New Seaside website
15 July, 2007
Phlippe Marshall wrote to the Seaside mailing list:
After too many delays the new Seaside homepage has finally gone online. Since we switched hosts it might take a moment until the DNS update propagates to you. The first thing you’ll notice is the updated look for which we no longer have to excuse. We cleaned up the content and added a lot of new stuff. Among others you’ll find interactive examples, feed aggregation Monticello commit logs and the answers to often asked questions like ‘What is the best Swiss cheese?’. Under the hood we made a lot of technology upgrades. We finally run on Seaside (2.8) and the Pier CMS with several plug-ins, we are also hosted at Seaside-Hosting. The only way to eat more dog food would be running on SqueakNOS.
The page is not yet fully finished (and probably never will be) but we feel we’re at the point where it’s significantly better than the old one. So if you have suggestions for improvements or want to help get in contact with us.
Supporting Seaside, OR Mapping vs. OODBMS
28 June, 2007
Cincom recently reiterated their support for Seaside. Not long ago Gemstone announced something similar. What will these two commercial companies lend to Seaside?
It is certainly true that Seaside will benefit from additional resources. Resources devoted to documentation, compatibility, and testing will help the community. Working on new solutions for persistence is a great idea, and having different options to solve your persistence requirements can only help developers. Read the rest of this entry »
Sophie-Croquet?
29 May, 2007
Don’t Miss Smalltalk Solutions – April 30th – May 2nd 2007
28 April, 2007
Smalltalk Solutions is this weekend! There will be a number of talks on Seaside. Check out the presentation listing in DabbleDB (which is written using Seaside). Gemstone will be talking about their work porting Seaside and Monticello to Gemstone and are announcing a free version of Gemstone.
Carl Gundel announced a Seaside Birds of Feather Session Wednesday May 2nd from 5 to 7pm.
Don’t miss Boris Popov’s Seaside Experience Report. Boris and DeepCove Labs have done some really excellent work! Check it out.
Don’t Miss Bert Freudenberg’s Keynote presentation about OLPC! The One Laptop Per Child initiative is a wonderful way for all smalltalkers to get involved and contribute to something that is really worthwhile!
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