Links and Readings

• eXtreme Programming
• Java
• Miscellany
• Object-Orientation
• Smalltalk
  • Pharo: an open-source Smalltalk for professional development.
  • Introduction to Smalltalk
  • Squeak: an open source free smalltalk
  • Squeak GUI and Visual Programming (Morphic & E-toys)
  • Lightweight Smalltalks
  • Advanced Features
• XML and Web Services

Object-Orientation

• Everything I know about programming, I learned from Dilbert (Smalltalk Chronicles Vol. 2, No. 1, March 2000).
• When it comes to good OO design, keep it simple. Feature-rich OO design tools fail where simple solutions succeed (Java World January 11, 2002).

Smalltalk

Introduction to Smalltalk

• Smalltalk Books on Lulu.com
• Squeak by example
• Smalltalk FAQ
• Course I give at the Ecole des Mines of Douai (in french)
• An introductionary article entitled "Basic Aspects of Squeak and the Smalltalk-80 Programming Language"
• A serie of introductionary articles about Squeak by Stéphane Ducasse (most of them in french)
• Mailing lists where to find help
  • Beginners The mailing list for people new to Squeak/Smalltalk.
  • squeak-fr The fench Squeak/Smalltalk mailing list backed by the French Smalltalk Users Group
  • squeak-dev the main Squeak developers' list

Web development using Seaside

• Seaside : Framework for web development
• Shore Components : Wev components for Seaside
• Free Seaside hosting service

Squeak (a free Smalltalk)

• Main sites
  • Squeak.org
  • Squeak Wiki
  • Squeak FAQ
• Projects using Squeak
  • Pharo: A Squeak fork that is aimed to be a clean open-source Smalltalk for professional development.
  • SqueakMap : a web catalog of applications and packages available on-linefor Squeak. This catalog is accessible within Squeak and available applications and packages can be downloaded and installed without exiting Squeak or requiring any extra tools.
  • Other projects
  • Commercial projects using Squeak
• Bibliography of Smalltalk and Squeak: Contains a huge amount of references and documents.
• Magma a multi-user object database for Squeak
• Distributing applications built using Squeak
  • How to make a Squeak executable that can be distributed
  • How to disable programming facilities (debugger, morphic halos, ...)
  • How to prepare an image/executable to start up with some application
  • How to shrink the image to get a smaller one

Squeak GUI and Visual Programming (Morphic & E-toys)

• Quick start guide
• A (partial though interesting) Morphic tutorial
• Morphic
• Easy Morphic GUI allows building visually and interactively GUIs using Morphic capabilities

Lightweight Smalltalks

• Smalltalk YX (Syx) a Smalltalk embeddable in C programs
• OOVM a new Smalltalk created by a new company working on embeded systems.
  • Talk of Lars Bak about OOVM given at ESUG 2003 Conference (slides in PDF)
• PocketSmalltalk : A Smalltalk for PDA
• PIC/Smalltalk allows me to write code for the PIC microcontroller in Smalltalk, and then translate it to assembler.
• SmallSqueak
• Spoon
• Squeak for Lego MindStorm Robots
• DynaPad : a PDA operating environment based on Squeak

Other Documents

• An excellent book (in french) wrote by Xavier Briffaut and Stéphane Ducasse. Some chapter are freely available online
• A Set of books on Smalltalk freely available online
• Alan Kay's forward for the Mark Guzdial's book Squeak: Object-oriented design with multimedia applications. In his forward, Alan claims that late-biding is of tremendous importance for building software.
• The Early History of Smalltalk , Alan Kay, History Of Programming Languages - II. April, 1993, MA, USA.
• Smalltalk Report Archive
• Smalltalk on top of Java VM
• Smalltalk in Academia

Advanced features

• Smalltalk Reflective facilities : Presented in paper "Smalltalk: a Reflective Language" [PDF 337KB, PS 500KB, GZip Compressed PS 151KB] - Paper of Fred Rivard - Reflection'96 Conference.
• Smalltalk Compiler : Presented in paper "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Smalltalk Compiler" by Vassili Bykov (Smalltalk Chronicles Vol 2, No 1, March 2000).
• Method Wrappers introduced by John Brant et al in the ECOOP'98 paper Wrappers to the Rescue. A port of method wrappers for Squeak was done by Robert Hirschfeld.
• MetaclassTalk a refective extension of Smalltalk that supports Aspect-Oriented Programming and Mixin-Based inheritance.

Java

General links

• Sun tutorials
• Java Developer Connection
• Java World

Reflection

• The Reflection API (published in The Java Tutorial Continued: The Rest of the JDK )
• Java Reflection : Not just for tool Developers (published in Dr. Dobb's Journal January 1998)
• Make an EJB from any Java class with Java Reflection (Java World 2000)
• Building a Java servlet framework using reflection (Java World)
  1. Part 1: Reflective code provides more functionality in fewer lines of code (1999)
  2. Part 2: Gain greater functionality with less code using these reflective code samples (2000)

Performance

• Design for performance (Java World 2001) : A serie of 3 short papers about performance in Java. Presents some design decisions that can have important impact on performance.
  1. Part 1: Interfaces matter
  2. Part 2: Reduce object creation
  3. Part 3: Remote interfaces
• Tweak your IO performance for faster runtime (Java World 2000)
• Accelerate your RMI programming (Java World 2001)

Misc

• A quick tour of assertions (new feature of JDK 1.4)

XP (eXtreme Programming)

Web

• XP FAQ
• Extreme Programming: A Gentle Introduction
• Wiki Pages on XP
• XP magazine
• XP Test Frameworks
• Junit test framework for java

Books

• "Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change" by Kent Beck. ISBN 0-201-61641-6
• "Planning Extreme Programming" by Kent Beck, Martin Fowler. ISBN 0201710919
• "Extreme Programming Installed" by Ron Jeffries, Chet Hendrickson, and Ann Anderson ISBN 0201708426

Miscellany

A Conversation with Virtual Reality Pioneer Jaron Lanier

• Coding from Scratch Part 1. Discusses limitations of how we build software today.

Open Access

Linux

• A very good on-line book for everybody especially beginners (in french) Guide de Survie du Débutant sous Linux

Peer-to-peer

• Gabriel Antoniu collection of links

XML and Web Services

XML

• XML Cover Pages
• Mutualize the effort of rise in competence on XML (a fench site with both english and french versions)
• XML glossary: Gives a short description of 34 different XML related acronyms.

Web Services

• A birds-eye view of Web Services (Java World 2002)
• Overview of SOAP (Java Developer Connection 2002)

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• Miscellany last edited on 13 June 2008 at 2:51:37 pm by gate2.ensm-douai.fr