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Smalltalk Reflections

Further podcasts by David Buck and Craig Latta

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Smalltalk Reflections
from 2016-11-03T20:56

Smalltalk Reflections episode 16: unit testing In this episode, Craig and Philippe discuss unit testing in Smalltalk, and how it influences the development process. We welcome special guest Je...

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Smalltalk Reflections episode 15: distributed live computing from 2016-09-19T19:17

In this episode, Craig and new co-host Philippe Back discuss the past, present, and future of distributed live computing with Smalltalk. https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkRefle...

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Smalltalk Reflections #014: Coding Style from 2015-05-26T02:33

In this episode, David and Craig discuss Smalltalk coding style.    https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_014.mp3 Items mentioned in this podcast    ...

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Smalltalk Reflections #013: Interview with John O'Keefe from Instantiations from 2015-05-19T08:36

David and Craig talk to John O'Keefe from Instantiations about VA Smalltalk.      https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_013.mp3 Links to items mentioned ...

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Smalltalk Reflections #012: Interview with James Foster from GemTalk Systems from 2015-03-29T16:29

David and Craig talk to James Foster from GemTalk Systems about GemStone/S. https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_012.mp3 Links in this podcast:       Ge...

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Smalltalk Reflections #011: Interview with Stéphane Ducasse from 2015-03-13T00:12

David and Craig talk with Stéphane Ducasse about Pharo. https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_011.mp3 In this episode, we talk about     Pharo http://www.phar...

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Smalltalk Reflections #010: Blocks from 2015-02-16T00:51

This week, David and Craig talk about blocks in Smalltalk and how they make Smalltalk both powerful and simple. https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_010.mp3 Also menti...

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Smalltalk Reflections #009: Collections and Streams from 2015-01-29T02:20

On this episode, David and Craig discuss the collections and streams libraries of Smalltalk.  Along the way, they talk about Xtreams, traits and the new Treap collection introduced into Visual...

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Smalltalk Reflections #008: Garbage Collection from 2015-01-20T03:36

Smalltalk was one of the earliest programming languages to include automatic garbage collection.  In this episode, David and Craig discuss the pros and cons of garbage collection and how it wo...

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Smalltalk Reflections #007: Minimalism from 2015-01-13T00:13

David and Craig talk about minimalism - the idea that you can create very small Smalltalk images that do useful and interesting things. https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflec...

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Smalltalk Reflections #006: Debugging from 2015-01-06T00:39

In this episode, David and Craig talk about debugging in Smalltalk.  The debugger is an essential tool and Smalltalkers use it for more than just finding and fixing bugs.     ht...

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Smalltalk Reflections #005: Types from 2014-12-29T15:47

Smalltalk is dynamically typed while most mainstream object oriented languages are statically typed.  In this episode, David and Craig define the terms statically typed, dynamically typed and ...

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Smalltalk Reflections #004: Image Based Development from 2014-12-22T02:10

David and Craig discuss Image Based Development.  Smalltalk is a development environment which runs in an image that can be saved to disk and re-loaded later.  This is different from most...

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Smalltalk Reflections #003: Which Smalltalk? from 2014-12-15T23:03

This week, David and Craig discuss "Which Smalltalk?"  Smalltalk isn't just one language from one source.  It has many different dialects including commercial versions and freeware versio...

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Smalltalk Reflections #002: What is Smalltalk? from 2014-12-07T16:27

This week, David and Craig discuss "What is Smalltalk?"  They cover the origins of Smalltalk back in Xerox, properties of the Smalltalk language, influences it's had on modern software develop...

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Smalltalk Reflections Podcast Episode 1 - A Tribute to James Robertson from 2014-11-29T21:20

Whew!  We've done it.  Episode 1 of Smalltalk Reflections is now available online. Smalltalk Reflections is a weekly podcast discussing the Smalltalk programming language. https://s3.amaz...

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