See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
What happened to my dreams?
I was working for a company as a contractor a few years ago, and the job was turning sour. I quit the job several months later. While I was working I started to wonder why I had gotten into this field. [...]
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My journey, Part 6
Posted in Squeak, tagged career, computer, finding purpose, inspiration, Lisp, medium, Squeak, the machine that changed the world, web on January 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The state of PCs
Posted in Squeak, Technology and Software, tagged Circuit City, Mac, Macbook, PCs, Windows on November 11, 2008 | 5 Comments »
My 4-year-old Windows laptop died on me about a week ago. I think it was the hard drive controller. I set up my Windows desktop machine which I haven’t used in a year or two. That took some work, getting it set up the way I wanted, getting all the security updates, and updating drivers. Anyway, I’m shopping for a [...]
Update on Seaside hosting
Posted in Squeak, tagged hosting, seaside, Squeak on September 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I deleted a post I wrote in the past on Seaside hosting, since it was out of date. I brought one I wrote on June 10, 2007 up to date with new information, and gave it a current posting date. There are 4 comments you’ll see on it that are dated from around June 10 last year.
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It looks like Seaside Parasol, the Canadian [...]
The computer as medium
Posted in Education, History, Programming, Squeak, Technology and Software, tagged alan kay, chris crawford, computer, culture, etoys, gutenberg, History, media, medium, printing press, Programming, societal influence, Squeak, squeakers, squeakland, writing on September 14, 2008 | 13 Comments »
In my guest post on Paul Murphy’s blog called “The PC vision was lost from the get go” I spoke to the concept, which Alan Kay had going back to the 1970s, that the personal computer is a new medium, like the book at the time the technology for the printing press was brought to Europe, [...]
Is OOP all it’s cracked up to be?: My guest post on ZDNet
Posted in Analysis, Programming, Squeak, Technology and Software, tagged .Net, C++, History, Java, OOP, Smalltalk on June 2, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Paul Murphy saw fit to give me another guest spot on his blog, called “The tattered history of OOP”, talking about the history of OOP practice, where the idea came from, and how industry has implemented it. If you’ve been reading my blog this will probably be review. I’m just spreading the message a little [...]
The Joy of Squeak
Posted in Education, Programming, Squeak on March 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I found this through The Weekly Squeak. Randal Schwartz demo’d the current Squeakland version of Squeak/EToys on Leo Laporte’s show, “The Lab” (video link). I just think it’s neat it’s getting some mainstream recognition.
Schwartz and Laporte gave a quick history of Smalltalk at the start, and they told it pretty accurately. For the uninitiated it may go by too [...]
Squeak by Example 2.0 is out
Posted in Programming, Squeak on March 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The 2nd edition of Squeak by Example is out now (h/t to The Weekly Squeak for this). Like the first edition, it’s a book released as a PDF under the Creative Commons Share-Alike license. You can also get a hardcopy edition of it for $20.10 USD. They also welcome donations. Another tidbit of news is that the [...]
GNU Smalltalk to support Seaside
Posted in Programming, Squeak, Technology and Software on February 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I found this item on reddit. An entry in the GNU Smalltalk FAQ, under the heading “Does GNU Smalltalk run Seaside?” says that it will support Seaside in a release scheduled for March 8th. Now, the FAQ posting that says this is dated June 20, 2007. I’ve asked about this on reddit. Has the release date slipped any [...]
Ramon puts up a wiki example for Seaside
Posted in Programming, Squeak, Tutorial on September 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Ramon Leon at On Smalltalk posted a tutorial wiki app. in Seaside. Give it a try.
—Mark Miller, http://tekkie.wordpress.com
Learning Squeak is easier now
Posted in Programming, Squeak, Technology and Software, Tutorial on September 14, 2007 | 3 Comments »
If you’re a software developer and you’ve wanted to learn Squeak, it’s been a struggle for a while now.
In 2001 and 2002 Mark Guzdial wrote two books on it: Squeak: Object-Oriented Design with Multimedia Applications, and Squeak: Open Personal Computing and Multimedia (co-authored with Kim Rose). These are two books I found that have a [...]
