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 Jean-Christophe Mincke in our exploration of validation.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_016.mp3

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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/SmalltalkReflections_015.mp3

Original podcast host David Buck is busy with other projects these days, and wishes us well. We hope to interview him on a future episode!

Items mentioned in this episode:

In this episode, David and Craig discuss Smalltalk coding style.

   https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_014.mp3

Items mentioned in this podcast

   ESUG   http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015

   Camp Smalltalk Ottawa   http://www.simberon.com/campsmalltalkottawa2015/

   Camp Smalltalk Portland http://esug.org/wiki/pier/About/ESUGblog/2015-05-07

   Pharo 4 http://pharo.org/news/pharo-4.0-released

   Pharo Coding Sprint at ECOOP  http://2015.ecoop.org/track/Pharo-2015

   Chip computer https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-worlds-first-9-computer?ref=nav_search

   Shout on Squeak http://map.squeak.org/package/e5c1aec2-0eb9-492d-8cb1-44f64c5b631a

The Smalltalk Jobs Report can be found here:

   https://smalltalkjobs.wordpress.com/author/jsavidge/

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 this episode:

   Instantiations

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:

      GemTalk Systems

      GemStone/S

      GLASS

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.pharo.org

    YesPlan http://yesplan.be/en/

    Seaside  http://www.seaside.st/

    Reef  http://www.smallworks.eu/web/projects/reef

    Amber Smalltalk http://amber-lang.net/

    Tide https://github.com/tide-framework/tide

    Cog https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm

    Spur https://clementbera.wordpress.com/category/spur/

    Sista https://clementbera.wordpress.com/category/sista/

    Native Boost https://code.google.com/p/nativeboost/

    Pharo Consortium http://consortium.pharo.org/

    GT Inspector and GT Spotter http://gt.moosetechnology.org/

    NetStyle http://www.netstyle.ch/

    Sorabito  http://www.sorabito.com/

    Synetique http://www.synectique.eu/en/

    Context http://thiscontext.com/

    PharoNOS http://pillarhub.pharocloud.com/hub/mikefilonov/pharonos

    PharoCloud http://pharocloud.com/

James T Savidge includes his Smalltalk Jobs Report.

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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 mentioned on this podcast:

   Pharo Days

   FOSDEM

   Raspberry Pi

   Camp Smalltalk Ottawa 2015

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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 VisualWorks.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_009.mp3

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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 works in modern Smalltalk systems.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_008.mp3

In this episode, we mention the Twitter tag #thingsPeopleBuiltWithSmalltalk

https://twitter.com/hashtag/thingsPeopleBuiltWithSmalltalk?src=hash

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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/SmalltalkReflections_007.mp3

Check out Craig's Context site at:

http://thiscontext.com/

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