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onsmalltalk.com is a personal blog at onsmalltalk.com about programming and systems. Since 2008, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “On the Smalltalk Browser (2007)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link onsmalltalk.com for Smalltalk and Seaside web development, including tutorials, page-template and screencast posts, and notes on Smalltalk's object history. Commenters cite it as a reference rather than praising it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- On the Smalltalk Browser (2007)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-12-27
What Hacker News says?
I build custom apps based heavily on what is described here - http://onsmalltalk.com/sandstonedb-simple-activerecord-style... (more towards the bottom).
Comment linking /sandstonedb-simple-activerecord-style-persistence-in-squeak
on “The Importance of Excel”Submitted SandstoneDb, Simple ActiveRecord Style Persistence in Squeak as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHere's an interesting discussion of a s-expression editor: http://alan.dipert.org/post/445462664/the-s-expression-edito... (and a follow-up post: http://alan.dipert.org/post/17375691572/structural-editing-r... ). The above article refers to Interlisp (also mentioned elsewhere in this discussion), which still(?) survives in the form of Medley ( http://www.venue-medley.com/ ). (I emailed Jill Sybalsky a few months bac…
Comment linking /aha-moments-in-lisp
on “Pretty Lisp”Submitted On the Smalltalk Browser (2007) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe same philosophy is applied in the Seaside framework for Smalltalk. See for example [1]. [1]: http://onsmalltalk.com/page-templates-and-seaside
Comment linking /page-templates-and-seaside
on “Noir - The Clojure web framework”Submitted Languages of the Gods as a story · 2 points
HN discussionmy company's front end is all in smalltalk. My boss designed his entire site with smalltalk. http://onsmalltalk.com/
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on “The Early History Of Smalltalk (1993)”Submitted The Smalltalk Browser (2007) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGoing back to Smalltalk, it seems like original OO was prototypal. I wonder what made them change this. Here's the article I was just looking at: http://onsmalltalk.com/objects-classes-and-constructors-smal... Choice quotes But a constructor would really help pretty this up and encapsulate the knowledge about what fields are required for construction rather that forcing the client to individually initialize the obje…
Comment linking /objects-classes-and-constructors-smalltalk-style
on “Ask HN: What's the point of a constructor function anyways?”Submitted Seaside for the .Net Developer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhere is a recent on for ruby on rails: http://sixrevisions.com/web-development/how-to-create-a-blog... and for python's django: http://www.djangorocks.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-basic-b... here are two for seaside: http://onsmalltalk.com/screencast-how-to-build-a-blog-in-15-... http://smalltalk.gemstone.com/tutorial.html
Comment linking /screencast-how-to-build-a-blog-in-15-minutes-with-seaside
on “Ask HN: Tutorials to break free from PHP?”Submitted Just for Jeff Atwood: Seaside for the .Net Developer as a story · 1 points
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