Idiots from Seattle

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Some one has to say it, James Robertson takes Scoble to task for his gushing over OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language).

I don't know why anyone takes anything that idiot Scoble says with any
seriousness at all.

He's a marketdroid from whose mouth spews nothing but
spam and stupid blatherings. Sure there are a large number of people that
hang on his every word "because he is influential." He acts like some
petulant 4 year old girl learning to be a floozy that she saw in one
of her mother's soap operas; either gushing about some M$ "innovation"
or blathering about anything negative said about some other product by
any other company but M$.

As for his self-proclaimed "geek" status, I
don't think so. It's all in his feeble imagination.

Blog version 2

Category: General Smalltalk

Moving my blog from http://homepage.mac.com/smalltalker2/iblog/ here because
a) the iBlog software was a pain to use. Not easy to run the blog from multiple machines and I moved the main machine behind a firewall and the machine now has no access to the internet at large.
b) I now have access to the blog from anywhere.

I do miss being able to easily categorize posts like I could in iBlog. And Blogger could use a trackback facility. I think I'm still looking for good blogging software.

I may move all the entries over here and get rid of the old one, not that I'll need the space since .Mac space is now up to 1 GB. But one never knows...

James Robertson, where are you?

Category: Cincom Smalltalk

Have you publicized the new CST (that's Cincom SmallTalk) Tech Tips blog? I know there's nothing there yet, but just the same...

Maybe that'll get the tips started.

Preferences panel

Category: Squeak Smalltalk

The Preferences panel may be in for an update. There was a mail in squeak-dev on July 22 (Preference Panel Enhancements by Brad Fuller) and Scott Wallace suggested that it might be time to add general capabilities to the Preference Panel instead of the hard-coded ones that are there now.

Luck

Category: Squeak Smalltalk

Can't cut a break, BFAV 2.11 wont let me submit a test report for deprFixSM. I get a MessageNotUnderstood: ReviewerPost>>morph. Saved the bummed image as Squeak3.7gamma-5978wBFAVbug.image.

Welcome to VW

Category: Cincom Smalltalk

This section of this blog will cover general Smalltalk topics that are VisualWorks related. If you aren't already aware of it, Cincom's Non-Commercial version is the same thing as the $3500 commercial version. The only thing that's different about the two packages is the license,

Welcome

Category: Coconut Smalltalk

From the coconut.swiki.net home page:

It seems that the Pocket Smalltalk project is in limbo, so I decided to take the initiative to start this project which is based on the work that Eric Arseneau had done on the Squeak version and expand on it.

This project seeks to extend the work of Eric Arseneau and others to develop a tool to code applications for handhelds (currently Palm OS handhelds). The tool allows programmers to use Smalltalk to develop those applications.

This is a swiki, so technically you should be able to add content to the pages. However, having seen the mess that the yahoo groups procket smalltalk site has become, I have locked down the pages so that I have to allow you to add content. You also need to register with www.swiki.net to get an account. Sorry for the situation, but this is the best arrangements I could find for now.

-- October 30, 2003

I've moved this here because the swiki seems to be down more often than up.