http://www.stic.st Smalltalk makes the hard things easy and the impossible possible Thu, 10 May 2012 19:44:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.stic.st/2012/05/vancouver-smalltalk-developer-group-to-conduct-its-first-meeting/ http://www.stic.st/2012/05/vancouver-smalltalk-developer-group-to-conduct-its-first-meeting/#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 06:39:32 +0000 STIC http://www.stic.st/?p=2654 The meeting will be a friendly opportunity to share a cup of coffee with fellow attendees, and decide on the type of format to adopt for future meetings, including venues, topics, etc.
The meeting will take place at 6:00 p.m. at Waves Coffee Shop on Howe and Smithe inVancouver.
Currently the group has 11 members. If you’re in ...]]> http://www.stic.st/2012/05/vancouver-smalltalk-developer-group-to-conduct-its-first-meeting/feed/ 0 http://www.stic.st/2012/04/styled-text-editor-for-cuis-4-0-smalltalk/ http://www.stic.st/2012/04/styled-text-editor-for-cuis-4-0-smalltalk/#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2012 20:28:41 +0000 STIC http://www.stic.st/?p=2550 I am very happy to announce that the Styled Text Editor for the brand new Cuis 4.0 is now available on GitHub [1]. The Styled Text Editor was first presented by me at last year’s ESUG in Edinburgh [2]. Thanks to ESUG the presentation was recorded [3].
The Styled Text Editor is a framework for rich text editing using styles as known from popular word processors like Apple Pages or Microsoft Word. It features paragraph and character styles, ...]]> http://www.stic.st/2012/04/styled-text-editor-for-cuis-4-0-smalltalk/feed/ 0 http://www.stic.st/2012/04/georg-heeg-continues-as-stic12-executive-director/ http://www.stic.st/2012/04/georg-heeg-continues-as-stic12-executive-director/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:31:53 +0000 STIC http://www.stic.st/?p=2527 Georg is happy and proud to represent STIC, and apparently the STIC board members are quite pleased with Georg’s contributions, since this will be his sixth year as Executive Director.
Georg says, “Thanks to all of you who have made the work for STIC so easy and successful over the last five years. ...]]> http://www.stic.st/2012/04/georg-heeg-continues-as-stic12-executive-director/feed/ 0 http://www.stic.st/2012/04/revisiting-stic12-presentations-now-available-online/ http://www.stic.st/2012/04/revisiting-stic12-presentations-now-available-online/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:47:58 +0000 STIC http://www.stic.st/?p=2520 Now you can revisit these presentations online by visiting http://www.stic.st/conferences/stic12/stic12-abstracts/.
For those of you who could not attend STIC’12, this is your opportunity to see what you missed, and for those who attended the conference, we ...]]> http://www.stic.st/2012/04/revisiting-stic12-presentations-now-available-online/feed/ 0 http://www.stic.st/2012/04/stic12-keynote-videos-now-available/ http://www.stic.st/2012/04/stic12-keynote-videos-now-available/#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2012 01:43:57 +0000 STIC http://www.stic.st/?p=2517 However, you’ll be happy to know that videos of the two Keynote presentations are now available online.
Visit http://www.stic.st/conferences/stic12/stic12-abstracts/dart/ for the keynote presentation on “Dart”—Google’s new class-based programming language for creating structured applications that can run within a web browser—or visit http://www.stic.st/conferences/stic12/stic12-abstracts/massive-parallelism-object-oriented-programming/ to view the keynote presentation on “Massive Parallelism + Object Oriented Programming = Big POOP.”
Both keynote presentations are definitely ...]]> http://www.stic.st/2012/04/stic12-keynote-videos-now-available/feed/ 0 http://www.stic.st/2012/04/facebook-photo-galleries-remembering-stic12/ http://www.stic.st/2012/04/facebook-photo-galleries-remembering-stic12/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:54:31 +0000 STIC http://www.stic.st/?p=2514

We’re happy to announce that you can now remember STIC’12 via the photo galleries that can be found on Facebook. The conference was held at the Beau Rivage Resort and Casino in Biloxi,Mississippion March 19-21.





The conference holds a ton of great memories, and now you’ll be able to recapture the experience. Visit the official STIC’12 Facebook page to check it out!


]]> http://www.stic.st/2012/04/facebook-photo-galleries-remembering-stic12/feed/ 0 http://www.stic.st/2012/03/stic-executive-director-participates-in-german-interview-for-smalltalkinspect/ http://www.stic.st/2012/03/stic-executive-director-participates-in-german-interview-for-smalltalkinspect/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:16:54 +0000 STIC http://www.stic.st/?p=2477 The interview was conducted in Germanand will be included in SmalltalkInspect.  To view the SmalltalkInspect website, visit http://smalltalkinspect.podspot.de.
]]> http://www.stic.st/2012/03/stic-executive-director-participates-in-german-interview-for-smalltalkinspect/feed/ 0 http://www.stic.st/2012/03/esug-20th-international-smalltalk-joint-conference-call-for-contributions/ http://www.stic.st/2012/03/esug-20th-international-smalltalk-joint-conference-call-for-contributions/#comments Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:49:30 +0000 STIC http://www.stic.st/?p=2470 This year’s conference will be held in Gent, Belgiumon August 27-31, withCampSmalltalkpreceding it on August 25-26.
This year’s edition of the largest European Smalltalk event will include:
Conference organizers are asking ...]]> http://www.stic.st/2012/03/esug-20th-international-smalltalk-joint-conference-call-for-contributions/feed/ 0 http://www.stic.st/2012/03/the-smalltalk-industry-council-heads-to-arizona-in-june-2013/ http://www.stic.st/2012/03/the-smalltalk-industry-council-heads-to-arizona-in-june-2013/#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:45:59 +0000 STIC http://www.stic.st/?p=2351 STIC recently unveiled the location for their next conference, which will be held in June of 2013.  The beautiful state ofArizonahas several nicknames, including “The Copper State,” “The Grand Canyon State” and many more.  Now Arizona can also be known as the state that will be hosting the 2013 Smalltalk Industry Conference.
More information about the conference ...]]> http://www.stic.st/2012/03/the-smalltalk-industry-council-heads-to-arizona-in-june-2013/feed/ 0 http://www.stic.st/2012/03/getting-ready-for-smalltalk-in-the-cloud/ http://www.stic.st/2012/03/getting-ready-for-smalltalk-in-the-cloud/#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:13:30 +0000 STIC http://www.stic.st/?p=2467 1.    Install Ruby and Rubygems (if they aren’t present on your machine).
2.    You do not need to apply for a Cloud Foundry account. We have our own cloud for this demo and I have pre-allocated an account for you.
3.    Instead ...]]> http://www.stic.st/2012/03/getting-ready-for-smalltalk-in-the-cloud/feed/ 0