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The Smalltalk programming language is not only the first pure object oriented language, but has been the birthplace for many of today's best practices in software development including agile methods, design patterns, unit testing, refactoring and incremental development. In the Smalltalk Reflections podcast, David Buck and Craig Latta guide you through the world of Smalltalk covering topics from basic object oriented principles to software testing, version control and deployment techniques. ...
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Smalltalk Reflections episode 16: unit testing In this episode, Craig and Philippe discuss unit testing in Smalltalk, and how it influences the development process. We welcome special guest Jean-Christophe Mincke in our exploration of validation. https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_016.mp3 Mentioned in this episode: C…
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In this episode, Craig and new co-host Philippe Back discuss the past, present, and future of distributed live computing with Smalltalk. https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_015.mp3 Original podcast host David Buck is busy with other projects these days, and wishes us well. We hope to interview him on a future episode!…
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In this episode, David and Craig discuss Smalltalk coding style. https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_014.mp3 Items mentioned in this podcast ESUG http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015 Camp Smalltalk Ottawa http://www.simberon.com/campsmalltalkottawa2015/ Camp Smalltalk Portland http://esug.org/wiki/pier/About…
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David and Craig talk to John O'Keefe from Instantiations about VA Smalltalk. https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_013.mp3 Links to items mentioned this episode: InstantiationsBy David Buck and Craig Latta
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David and Craig talk to James Foster from GemTalk Systems about GemStone/S. https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_012.mp3 Links in this podcast: GemTalk Systems GemStone/S GLASSBy David Buck and Craig Latta
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David and Craig talk with Stéphane Ducasse about Pharo. https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_011.mp3 In this episode, we talk about Pharo http://www.pharo.org YesPlan http://yesplan.be/en/ Seaside http://www.seaside.st/ Reef http://www.smallworks.eu/web/projects/reef Amber Smalltalk http://amber-lang.net/ Tide https://…
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This week, David and Craig talk about blocks in Smalltalk and how they make Smalltalk both powerful and simple. https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_010.mp3 Also mentioned on this podcast: Pharo Days FOSDEM Raspberry Pi Camp Smalltalk Ottawa 2015 You can leave comments on our blog at smalltalkreflections.blogspot.ca, l…
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On this episode, David and Craig discuss the collections and streams libraries of Smalltalk. Along the way, they talk about Xtreams, traits and the new Treap collection introduced into VisualWorks. https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_009.mp3 You can leave comments on our blog at smalltalkreflections.blogspot.ca, leave…
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Smalltalk was one of the earliest programming languages to include automatic garbage collection. In this episode, David and Craig discuss the pros and cons of garbage collection and how it works in modern Smalltalk systems. https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_008.mp3 In this episode, we mention the Twitter tag #things…
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David and Craig talk about minimalism - the idea that you can create very small Smalltalk images that do useful and interesting things. https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_007.mp3 Check out Craig's Context site at: http://thiscontext.com/ You can leave comments on our blog at smalltalkreflections.blogspot.ca, leave us…
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In this episode, David and Craig talk about debugging in Smalltalk. The debugger is an essential tool and Smalltalkers use it for more than just finding and fixing bugs. https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_006.mp3 The video on debugging mentioned in this episode can be found here. http://smalltalkreflections.blogspot.…
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Smalltalk is dynamically typed while most mainstream object oriented languages are statically typed. In this episode, David and Craig define the terms statically typed, dynamically typed and strongly typed and talk about the differences. They cover the advantages and disadvantages of dynamic typing. https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/Sma…
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David and Craig discuss Image Based Development. Smalltalk is a development environment which runs in an image that can be saved to disk and re-loaded later. This is different from most mainstream languages these days in which runtimes are built from the ground up by compiling the source code. In image based systems, you do your development in the …
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This week, David and Craig discuss "Which Smalltalk?" Smalltalk isn't just one language from one source. It has many different dialects including commercial versions and freeware versions. On this episode, the hosts lead you through the different versions, where they came from and how to get them. https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/Small…
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This week, David and Craig discuss "What is Smalltalk?" They cover the origins of Smalltalk back in Xerox, properties of the Smalltalk language, influences it's had on modern software development and its use in modern commercial applications. In this episode, James Savidge returns to podcasting with his Smalltalk Jobs Report. https://s3.amazonaws.c…
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Whew! We've done it. Episode 1 of Smalltalk Reflections is now available online. Smalltalk Reflections is a weekly podcast discussing the Smalltalk programming language. https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_001.mp3 We haven't submitted it into iTunes yet, but we're working on that part. This episode is "A Tribute to Ja…
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