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MagLev is a Ruby VM in the works by Gemstone that is targeted for a first release around September of 2008.  I am really excited about this development.  The VM will hook up to the caches and persistent store that Gemstone provides.
Avi Bryant gave a nice demo of 100 days of work on the VM.  It […]

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I am both a Rubyist & a Smalltalker. I enjoy both environments immensely and use them for different purposes. In a recent flurry of posts, James Robertson over at Cincom completely misunderstood the point Neal Ford was making about the meta-programming facilities Ruby offers versus the facilities Smalltalk offers, or better yet the […]

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Another good post from Ramon Leon.

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Rails vs. Seaside
I have started my first app in Rails at work. Though I find it’s ease of database access really appealing, I am not convinced that I find it a better suit than Seaside. There is something about programming everything in Smalltalk that is so much more appealing than figuring out “OK, […]

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Things I like to have on my Personal Menu in Squeak...
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SMALLTALK:

|spaceTallyPath|

spaceTallyPath := FileDirectory default fullPathFor: 'STSpace.text'.

aMenu addLine.

aMenu add: 'SpaceTally [', spaceTallyPath, ']' translated

    target: SpaceTally new

    action: #printSpaceAnalysis.

aMenu add: 'Empty Trash Can' translated

    target: Utilities

    action: #emptyScrapsBook.

aMenu add: 'Clear Command History'

    target: CommandHistory

    action: #resetAllHistory.

aMenu add: 'Collect Garbage'

  [...]

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