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Name: Mark Brady

Homepage: www.metaconcepts.com

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25 Apr 2004  »

I'm really enjoying learning Smalltalk and Squeak in particular. Seaside could be Squeaks killer application. I had been aware of Squeak for years but it had always seemed like just an educational toy. Of course I should have looked into it in more depth but I couldn't really see how it could be used for production grade development. I believed that server side development was completely outside Squeaks capabilities due to its graphical nature. Seaside changed all this and as an added bonus gave me something to convince others about the latent power of Squeak.

I'm still not so certain about Squeak on the client side. it seems ironic that a platform designed for multimedia usage has such poor support for the client side. Morphic is very cool but I'd be very tempted to use the Squeak Dot-Net bridge for client side development. One of the main areas Morphic seems to lack in is codec support, things like Mpeg4, QuickTime, Ogg, etc.. I also think a decent HTML display component could help things a lot. These are only small problems and I plan on contributing what I can to improve the situation.

We are getting excited about our application. There is a very good chance we will develop it fully in Squeak (using a Seaside based front-end). Our planned app is still in the research and prototype stage but involves agents, data mining and encryption. I can not believe how perfect Squeak is for this. I am working on the constraint system and I am trying to decide if a Squeak port of Kenny Tiltons (common lisp) Cells system would be a good starting point. Any libraries we develop in the course of our commercial development will be release as open source (standard Squeak/MIT licenses) as we believe that we owe the community for providing us with such a great platform for free. Thank God there is more choices than Java or Python for high level application development. Smalltalk purity and consistency has made coding fun again (Lisp and Scheme also have this but I prefer Smalltalk).

18 Feb 2004  »

Finally updated our website. At last I have cleared up time to get fully into Squeak.

I'm hoping to prototype our commercial application in Squeak, if it works out there is a good chance I can persuade the rest of the team to run with it for production. We are building multi agent systems. Squeak and Smalltalk in general seem perfect for this task.

Our team's 'native' language has been Python but over the last 6-8 months we have evaluated many other languages such as Java, C#, Ruby, Common Lisp, Scheme and Prolog. Smalltalk was easily the best fit for our needs and is a joy to develop in. Hopefully I will also be able to contribute to some of the fine Squeak projects out there over the coming months.

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