The Smalltalk Industry Conference

Object orientation has been very good to programmers. So has Moore's Law, at least until we recently hit the single thread performance wall. We are now solidly in the age of parallelism, be it multcore, manycore, or mass...

Dart is Google's new class-based programming language for creating structured applications that can run within a web browser. Developed with the goals of simplicity, efficiency, and scalability, the Dart language combines ...

Programming environments have tremendously evolved over the last decade. However, this evolution is not uniform. The range of tools available to analyze the execution is still limited and based on a fixed and static repres...

Cloud Foundry is the open "platform as a service" (PaaS) project initiated by VMware. It can support multiple frameworks, multiple cloud providers, and multiple application services all on a cloud scale platform. In this p...

Over many years, new Smalltalk Projects were a big hope. Continue existing Smalltalk projects, keeping them alive, improving them, was reality. These existing Smalltalk projects have been so shining, so resistant against m...

James has never been entirely happy using the Runtime Packager for builds, and he stopped doing so for BottomFeeder a few years ago. At the time, he had a set of scripts that used to create a build. He was tasked with cr...

A year has past since I showed the STIC community the progress being made on the VA Smalltalk product. Our engineering team has been augmented by new members and we have all been hard at work upgrading the product. I wil...

A review of new features in GemStone/64 version 3.0 and a look at what's coming in version 3.1.

An update on recent and future Smalltalk work at Cincom by Arden Thomas, the Product Manager at Cincom Smalltalk.

Code Completion allows for developers to type less by predicting how to complete what is being typed and offering these predictions to the developer to select from.

Code Completion was first introduced in VA Smalltalk 8.5...

A 2011 case-study presents the marriage of a flexible telecommunications platform to a custom-developed GIS module to provide real-time regional call routing for Childline, a child-crisis hot- line servicing all of South A...