Roads Less Taken

Another day in IAE Universite Savoie Mont-Blanc in Annecy.

Here we go!

I am sitting in a gate on an airport waiting to go to ESUG so I felt I should finally get this article out the door.

15-18 years ago my passion was in OODBs.

Recently when I automated a development process I looked deeper at managing virtual environments and ended up using two really nice tools complementing VirtualBox in a slick way - Vagrant and Veewee .

So ok, I really like looking at new interesting NoSQL databases.

After the conundrum with my Intel 320 SSD I did some googling and decided to invest a fair chunk of money in a really good SSD - the Samsung 840 Pro, 512GB .

As a long time Squeak/Pharo (Smalltalk) developer I have accumulated a set of packages that I have written or co-written and that have been published open source for others to use.

When I bought my Lenovo X220 - which I have been extremely pleased with to date - I chose an Intel 320 160Gb SSD disk with it, in retrospect a BAD MISTAKE.

In a customer project right now I need to be able to work and evolve code fast, with a relatively complex model.

So… I kinda got tired of Wordpress.

Recently there were a range of threads on the pharo-dev mailinglist discussing the textual format to use for Smalltalk source code metadata.

When I started my own company about a year ago I ended up buying an ASUS G73JW gaming laptop - I took a deliberate decision to focus on raw power for decent money and totally ignoring portability.

These days I am, as usual, torn between several interesting technical projects.

This day started with some stress, Nicolas and I whipped up the last details of our co-presentation on Jtalk (Nicolas decided to skip Iliad ) - and my Eris demo suddenly got b0rken.

Suddenly it is Wednesday and we are already on day three at ESUG - a superb software developer conference focused on Smalltalk .

Sooo….

Each year I try to attend at least one developer conference.

A few weeks ago I joined the Early Access program that HP/Palm has been offering for a while and I have been toying with the new WebOS 3.0 (SDK with emulator) that appeared in public on the 1st of july when the HP Touchpads hit the stores in the US.

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Two years ago I ended up creating Tirade - a new “file format” for Smalltalkers.

…is what I did yesterday.

Hmmm, after seeing the Node.js presentation at Dyncon 2011 I couldn’t help installing Nginx and Blackfoot (SimpleCGI) in a Squeak 4.2 image running on the Cog VM to make some performance tests!

So it’s monday and I am getting started with work but thought I should try writing a retrospective of Dyncon 2011 during the day.

Day one must have ended with lots of beer because people were quite late for day two. 15 minutes late Carl Lerche finally started his Ruby presentation.

In place at Dyncon 2011 at Bwin/Ongame in Stockholm.

Our ADSL broke a week ago and the operator decided to NOT repair it, since they can’t see the economy in doing so.

Before the summer I had the opportunity to do a Skype interview with Dan Ingalls , the “Guido/Larry/Linus” of Smalltalk.

I got the opportunity to make a Skype interview with Dan Ingalls , so I decided to try to record it.

I just read Joe Armstrong’s old “Why OO sucks” article , Joe Armstrong being the inventor of Erlang .

Last night I started hooking Tirade into Deltas.

In an article recently I described Tirade - a new generic “file format” for Smalltalk/Squeak, or actually a sub language!

In my revived work on Deltastreams in Squeak I ended up facing the choice of native file format for Deltas.

The guts of Ni Link to heading This article describes parts of the current design and implementation of the Ni language.