Ernest Micklei and Jan van de Sandt present Cloudfork - an interface to the Amazon Web Services in Smalltalk - at ESUG 2009 in Brest, France.

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Georg Heeg, speaking in his role as STIC director, talks about Smalltalk's rising prominence at ESUG 2009 in a talk titled "Smalltalk is Hot"

This morning finally got a modified version of HttpView2 to load into Pharo. It then failed to respond in localhost due to two missing methods in ByteString (they stubbed in fine ) so at the moment all is running in the demo examples except the Painter ( that was true in Squeak as well - but I have coded my own to Paint Curl into a Canvas there so that should fileIn fine for Pharo.)

Now to tackle generating Curl web content in Iliad in Pharo ( and if that bogs down I have a Seaside and Aida to… Continue

So close - but still so far - when did GST stop being Tcl/Tk? The make croaked on an undefined symbol for OpenGL

After a 45 minute configure fest you would think that some son-of-autoconf would have detected that GL_BLEND_COLOR_EXT is not defined anywhere ...

So I try adding glut.h here and DLL there and glutwin32.lib here and now we get ONE step further and the make finally croaks on undeclared first use of GL_BLEND_EQUATION_EXT

GLUT comes with a def file but no mention of where the def file… Continue

I could not get GNU ST to build under Windows XP cygwin or Msys

And it was not much fun trying ot get it to build under EeeBuntu where I routinely do builds with GCC

First: it was essential to use Synaptic to UNINSTALL GST 3.0

Anyway later today I got ICON 9.5 to build from CVS without a hitch ... but getting Iliad up was worth it in spite of the vexation.

I went back to Windows and had no end of grief with VisualWorks Store (nothing new there - in that respect Smalltalk other than VSE with… Continue