GNU Smalltalk

I spent the last couple of weekends hacking with GTK making some custom widgets. The idea is that after 3.1 is out I would like to work on a nice (and innovative) GUI for GNU Smalltalk, and I wanted to get up to speed with GTK . I made quite a few ... [More] widgets (I'm at 6 classes right now). All of them are interesting things on their own, even though each of them has at least 50% of the code copied from somewhere else. I published them in a git repository at http://www.inf.unisi.ch/phd/bonzini/webdav/gtk-widgets.git (expect rebasing on all branches but master).read more [Less]

GNU Smalltalk 3.0.4 will shortly be available from     ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/smalltalk/smalltalk-3.0.4.tar.gz This is a bug fix release with the following changes:read more

GNU Smalltalk 3.0c will shortly be available from     ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/smalltalk/smalltalk-3.0c.tar.gz Version 3.0c is a feature complete development release. The new features compared to 3.0b are:read more

I just had one of the most hilarious (for me) e-mail exchange I ever experienced. From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: Time stamp I need to know how to set up a UNIX terminal log so that the time stamp is always ... [More] displayed. You help will be appreciated! From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Time stamp > I need to know how to set up a UNIX terminal log so that the time stamp > is always displayed. You help will be appreciated! And why should I know it?read more [Less]

I was looking at XML these days. It is really interesting language. It is very useful and I like it a lot and I used it in some of my projects to save data but as I learn how I can extend it or use the not well known features, it confuses me. For ... [More] example, you can create entities, which are like variables in other languages. You can define/declare entities like this: <!ENTITY client "Canol">read more [Less]

Today, I've just broken my old record of writing an errorless program at the first try with 29 lines of code which includes creating classes, subclasses, methods, comments and doing some test :) Hooray Smalltalk! What is your record and in what language? Leave a comment :)

I found that someone has a working use for java.net.SocketImplFactory, that is adding SOCKS support to Java sockets. The code is here. I thought I'd mention this just for the sake of completeness

I realized one important thing which pulls me towards Smalltalk, subconsciously. Smalltalk's syntax resembles Turkish in some ways. I will try to show it via examples. The first thing which seperates Turkish from other English like languages is that ... [More] verbs are put at the end of sentences, not after the subject. In English, the order of sentence components is: Subject verb object. In Turkish: Subject object verb. In Turkish, you can join subject and verb into 1 word. In that case it is like: Object verb.read more [Less]

I just committed unix-domain sockets (AF_UNIX) for GNU Smalltalk. GNU Smalltalk's socket library is more or less based on the java.net library, but java.net does not have AF_UNIX sockets! Okay, they are not portable to Windows, but you'd expect ... [More] someone to have written an extension library for that. But no, there is none. Why? It turns out that there are two problems.read more [Less]

Did you tried Pardus? It is a GNU/Linux distribution not as well known as Ubuntu or Fedora but a really serious 3 year project developed by Turkish National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (UEKAE), which is under the Scientific and ... [More] Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK). They just released their third major version, Pardus 2008, so I thought, it might be good to mention about Pardus for people who does not know it.read more [Less]