Posted in History, Information Technology, Technology and Software on March 10, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Hi guys. Just FYI, a little more than a week ago I wrote a comment on one of Paul Murphy’s blog postings, called “The worst PC myth of all”. Murphy is a blogger on ZDNet. He liked my comment a lot, and he and I agreed to have it as a guest post on his blog, called “Managing L’Unix”. I changed it a bit [...]
Posted in Analysis, Information Technology on February 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Hi guys. I’m still very busy with other stuff right now. I’ve yearned to get back to my research, and sharing my findings on here. I’ve had to be patient and persistent. It’s going to be slow-going for a while.
I found this article on reddit, called Rental Car IT, by Neal Ford. It encapsulates what I [...]
Posted in .Net, Information Technology, Just For Fun, Squeak, Technology and Software, Uncategorized on June 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I occasionally go in and fix past blog posts as a matter of course. I decided to go through all of my past blog posts today and fix any links that have gotten out of date or don’t work anymore. In a few cases I deleted links because the sites they refer to have disappeared. In one case I got [...]
Posted in Analysis, History, Information Technology, Programming on May 16, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I found this post, by Steve Yegge, through reddit. In a lot of ways he’s saying what I’ve read Alan Kay to say, only more bluntly: The current “state of the art” in the tech industry sucks. We build software like the Egyptians built pyramids. There are better hardware designs out there that have been ignored for decades, and the programming languages that [...]
Posted in Information Technology, Squeak on March 21, 2007 | No Comments »
I did a previous post on this, pointing to Ramon Leon’s first blog post on how to scale Seaside. That was on a Windows server. He’s revisited the topic, trying his hand at scaling Seaside on Umbutu Linux Server, using HAProxy.
Posted in Information Technology, Squeak on February 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been wondering about this for a while. We hear about how the more popular web frameworks can scale with an n-tier architecture, but what about Seaside? Session state is maintained inside of the Squeak image, and unlike other web frameworks it does not save session state to a database. I imagine it lacks that [...]
Posted in Analysis, Information Technology, Programming on February 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’ve had this feeling coming over me in the last week that something significant has been happening in the computer world. To some observers it may not seem like it. With the exception of stuff moving to the web, things are “same as it ever was” to quote David Byrne. The reason I bring this [...]
Posted in Information Technology, Squeak, Technology and Software, Tutorial on December 31, 2006 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Information Technology, Programming, Squeak, Tutorial on December 6, 2006 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in .Net, Information Technology, Programming, Technology and Software on November 13, 2006 | No Comments »
Just saw today, from Mary Jo Foley, that .Net Framework 3.0 is now available. You can get it here [Update 6/9/07 - I've updated this link. It goes to the download page for the .Net Framework 3.0 SDK. It says it's "for Vista", but it will work with Windows XP or Windows Server. It also provides a link [...]
