Ramon Leon at On Smalltalk has written a couple of posts on how to connect a Seaside application to a database.
First he talks about selecting a database. He chooses PostgreSQL, and talks about his experience in setting it up. He chooses Glorp for object-relational mapping (ORM). Next, he shows how to take his Build-a-blog-in-15-minutes example and instead of using [...]
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Posted in Art, Just For Fun on December 20, 2006 | No Comments »
A while back I said I wouldn’t write about art that often. Not that I don’t like art. I just figured this would be a technical blog and so I wouldn’t think to write much about it. Oh well. So much for that. I found this today and just HAD to post about it. This guy [...]
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For some months I’ve taken time to study dynamic languages, particularly Lisp and Smalltalk. I’ve kind of wondered why though. There is a certain elegance that attracts me to them. I also like the philosophy that Dr. Edsgar Dijkstra espoused, which is that the computer should enable the programmer to express his/her idea to it, and [...]
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The classic Ruby on Rails demo that usually gets presented is how to build a blog in 15 minutes. This is what you usually get with the RoR screencasts. Ramon Leon at On Smalltalk did a similar demo in his own screencast, “How to build a blog in 15 minutes”, using Smalltalk (Squeak) and Seaside, of course. A [...]
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Posted in Art, Just For Fun on December 6, 2006 | No Comments »
Weird Al Yankovich has been around for ages. I remember when he was just a budding parody artist back in the 1980s, appearing on the Dr. Demento Show (on radio), when all he had was an accordian, some bandmates, some objects to bang on, and some squeaky cute fart noises. He was singing songs like ”I Love Rocky [...]
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I was hoping something like this would come along. I saw a response from Victor to my blog post “Exploring Squeak and Seaside” saying there is a commercial host site for Smalltalk/Seaside available in Toronto, Canada. I got in contact with Chris Cunnington, the man setting this up. He didn’t have it all set up then, but he [...]
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Posted in Art on December 3, 2006 | No Comments »
I’ve been an avid watcher of the new Battlestar Galactica series, partly because I really liked the original series as a kid. They’ve had very good writing on the show. So in a way it stands on its own.
In the last episode shown on Friday it was revealed that Starbuck and Apollo fell in love with each other, [...]
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