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Smalltalk books for sale
by Steve Edwards Feb. 1, 2023

Feb. 1, 2023

Hi, I have old Smalltalk books for sale. Be good if they could go to a good home. Thinking of selling them as packages of related books to simplify buying and posting. Anybody interested? (Not sure if best means is to use eBay?) =================================================================== Package A - Smalltalk 80 Smalltalk-80 - Bits of History, Words of Advice Glenn Krasner Addison Wesley 1983 Smalltalk-80 - The Interactive Programming Environment Adele Goldberg Addison Wesley 1984 (HB) Smalltalk-80 (2 copies) - The Language Adele Goldberg, David Robson Addison Wesley 1989 An Introduction to OO Programming and Smalltalk Lewis Pinson, Richard Wiener Addison Wesley 1988 =================================================================== Package B - The Object People Inside Smalltalk - Vol 1 Wilf LaLonde, John Pugh Prentice Hall 1990 (HB) Inside Smalltalk - Vol 2 Wilf LaLonde, John Pugh Prentice Hall 1991 (HB) Discovering Smalltalk Wilf LaLonde Benjamin Cummings 1994 Smalltalk/V - Practice and Experience Wilf LalOnde, John Pugh Prentice Hall 1994 =================================================================== Package C - VisualWorks Smalltalk - An Introduction to Application Development using VisualWorks Trevor Hopkins, Bernard Horan Prentice Hall 1995 The Art and Science of Smalltalk (2 copies) - An Introduction to OO Programming using VisualWorks Simon Lewis Prentice Hall (HP) 1995 The Smalltalk Developer's Guide to VisualWorks Tim Howard SIGS Books 1995 =================================================================== Package D - Smalltalk/V, Windows, OS2 A Quick Trip to ObjectLand - OO Programming with Smalltalk/V Prentice Hall 1992 Smalltalk Programming for Windows Dan Shafer Prima Publishing 1993 IBM Smalltalk Programming for Windows and OS/2 Don Shafer, Scott Herndon Prima Publishing 1995 IBM Smalltalk - The Language David Smith Benjamin Cummings 1995 VisualAge for Smalltalk Distributed Walter Fang, Sven Guyet, Randy Haven, Matti Vilmi, Eduardo Eckmann Prentice Hall 1996 =================================================================== Package E - Practice, Patterns Rapid Software Development with Smalltalk Mark Lorenz SIGS Books 1995 Smalltalk with Style Suzanne Skublic, Edward Klimas, David Thomas Prentice Hall 1996 Smalltalk - Best Practice Patterns Kent Beck Prentice Hall 1997 Guide to Smalltalk - A Sorted Collection Kent Beck Cambridge University Press 1999 =================================================================== HB = Hard Back -- Steve Edwards Formerly of The Object People

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UK Smalltalk User Group meeting - Wednesday June 30th
by Giovanni Corriga June 23, 2021

June 23, 2021

The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be on Wednesday, June 30th. Hernan Wilkinson ( https://twitter.com/HernanWilkinson ) will talk about his LiveTyping project. Currently, almost all mainstream dynamically typed languages support type annotation a la Strongtalk. Python calls it "type hints", TypeScript is JavaScript+type annotations, PHP calls it "type declarations" and Ruby does it through a tool called Sorbet. All of them annotate the types in the source code and it is the programmer who must write and maintain the annotation. In all cases, it is not mandatory for the system to correctly type check for it to run. LiveTyping ( https://github.com/hernanwilkinson/LiveTyping ) is a type system proposal for Smalltalk, that seeks similar objectives but implemented in a different way. First, it is the environment itself that collects and maintains the types based on the execution of the system, not the programmer. Second, the types are not interleaved in the source code, thus maintaining the syntax and simplicity of the language. And finally, the main objective is not to carry out a static type checking (although it supports it), but to augment the programmers experience increasing the usability of current tools such as searching for senders and implementers, and performing more accurate and safe refactorings. In this talk Hernan will briefly show how LiveTyping is implemented to later concentrate on the improvements made to the tools and the benefits it brings when developing software with Smalltalk. LiveTyping is currently implemented in Cuis Smalltalk ( https://cuis-smalltalk.org/ ) and has been successfully used for the last two years in three different universities in Argentina when teaching Object Oriented Programming and Design. Given the current COVID-19 restrictions, this will be an online meeting from home. If you'd like to join us, please sign up in advance on the meeting's Meetup page ( https://www.meetup.com/UKSTUG/events/cbklbryccjbfc/ ) to receive the meeting details. Don’t forget to bring your laptop and drinks!

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F.A.S.T. & Instantiations Presentations Now Available Online...
by Mariano Martinez Peck June 18, 2021

June 18, 2021

Hello Smalltalk Community, Earlier this year, F.A.S.T. <https://www.fast.org.ar/> invited us (Instantiations) to speak to their community about what Instantiations is doing from a business, marketing, and technical perspective. The event, *Constant Refinement and Continuing Progress at Instantiations*, took place on May 20, 2021. *Read more about it on our website.* <https://www.instantiations.com/news/fast-instantiations-online-event-may-20…> *Presentation YouTube Links:* *Advancement & Expansion with Smalltalk as a Foundation* <https://youtu.be/FZTwV0vDz88> *Speaker: Seth Berman, President & CEO at Instantiations* Realigning a Brand to Improve Marketing <https://youtu.be/QvjZQ20LwgM> *Speaker: Greg Schultz, Marketing & Creative Director at Instantiations* *VAST Platform Technology Demo: 2021 and Beyond <https://youtu.be/QtpyPMiUrgE>**Speaker: Mariano Martinez Peck, Senior Software Engineer at Instantiations* -- Mariano Martinez Peck Email: marianopeck(a)gmail.com Twitter: @MartinezPeck LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mariano-martinez-peck <https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariano-mart%C3%ADnez-peck/> Blog: https://marianopeck.wordpress.com/

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Senior Smalltalk Developer/Team Leader available
by Sasa Prokic June 11, 2021

June 11, 2021

Hello, let me introduce myself and announce my availability to companies who are looking for Senior Smalltalk professional. I am Software engineer (MS) - Senior Smalltalk Developer/Team Leader, with strong (20+ years) experience working with multiple smalltalk dialects: Visual Works, Visual Age, Pharo, Dolphin,... and many different industries. My experience stretches across network-service operations, financial, online accounting, desktop publishing and healthcare industries. I am SAFE and Agile practitioner, making sure to make things work and getting things done. Since 2017 I am working in Ericsson Canada as Team Leader with other great technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, Nifi, Cassandra, NodeJs Javascript, Java and other. More details about everything will be provided in my resume. I am dual Citizen of Canada/Serbia. I am currently resident of Canada and I am looking into moving to Serbia and back to Smalltalk. At this Covid time I will be ideally looking for remote job position, and I will be happy to respond to any inquires, share ideas, and to forward my resume on demand. Best regards,Sasha

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