Posted in Cocoa, F-Script, Smalltalk on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jonathan Sterling discusses writing fully native Cocoa applications in Smalltalk with F-Script in "Writing Mac OS X applications in Smalltalk"
What I really wanted was a version of Smalltalk that used the same object model as Objective-C, like Pragmatic Smalltalk of Etoilé, or even MacRuby on Mac OS. Most of all, I wanted it to treat [...]
Posted in Cocoa, F-Script, Smalltalk on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fabian Schuiki explains how F-Script can be used as a debugging tool when developing Cocoa applications in "F-Script: The Ultimate Debugging Console".
If it weren’t for F-Script, I would have spent 5 hours today writing debugging code and creating some testing UI for Artifica which would have been another source for bugs which increases complexity of [...]
Posted in Cocoa, F-Script, Smalltalk on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The french Ruby and Smalltalk communities are organizing the first BlockCamp event in Paris on the 28th november 2009. I will be there and will talk about F-Script 2.0. Come join us! More information here…
Posted in Cocoa, F-Script, Smalltalk on November 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In this fun video clip, it takes Jeff only a few seconds to bring support for Snow Leopard’s text substitutions to WriteRoom… Cool demo of F-Script injection, for those unfamiliar with it.
Posted in Cocoa, F-Script, Smalltalk on November 17, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Blocks (aka lambda expressions or closures) are versatile and powerful. I like them. I have even implemented a programming language in which they play a central role.
However, for a number of common programming situations, I think that some alternative approaches based on higher order messaging provide better solutions than classic block-based approaches. Marcel Weiher provides [...]
Posted in Cocoa on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Stepwise has been removed from the universe. It was one of my favorite Web sites back in the 90’s and, I think, a mythical place for many NeXT and early Mac OS X developers. I remember, among other things, the wonderful WWDC reports published there.
Thanks to Scott Anguish and everyone involved.
Posted in Cocoa, F-Script, Smalltalk on November 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The NSConference 2010 setup looks great. I’ve been lucky to attend and speak at the 2009 edition, which was terrific, thanks to the vision, work and human qualities of the folks at MDN, Steve Scott and Tim Isted. The videos of the 2009 edition are all available for purchase. This includes the talk I gave [...]
Posted in Cocoa, F-Script, Smalltalk on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cédric Luthi takes control of Preview.app with F-Script Anywhere in "Watch a large number of icons with Preview.app".
