Cincom Smalltalk Update
- 1. Cincom Smalltalk “TdF” News 2012 An ESUG Update by Arden Thomas Cincom Smalltalk Product Manager
- 2. Cincom Talks: • Building a Business with Cincom Smalltalk by Arden Thomas, Dirk Verleysen • Cincom News by Arden Thomas
- 3. “What does Cincom Smalltalk and the Tour de France have in common?”
- 4. Contents • TdF – TdF terms • International Appeal • Teams – Teamwork to get it done • Peloton – Mass appeal • Domestique – The workhorses! • Maillot Jaune – The Yellow Jersey • Team Manager • “It’s not about the bike” … (your name here)
- 5. TdF - Cincom Smalltalk’s “Tours de Force”
- 6. TdF terms • The International Community (Int’l) (makeup of our team too!) • Smalltalk is the common language • Team Manager • Peloton • GC • Domestique • Jerseys: White Green Polka dot Maillot Jaune (Yellow Jersey)
- 7. TDF History Past > Present > Future • ObjectStudio 8.2 (8.2.1) > 8.3 (8.3.1) > 8.4 (8.4.1) • VisualWorks 7.7 (7.7.1) > 7.8 (7.8.1) > 7.9 (7.9.1)
- 8. Tour de Force Peloton (Mass Appeal) Cincom Smalltalk Foundation
- 9. Our Tour de Force – Breakaways ObjectStudio VisualWorks Cincom Smalltalk Foundation
- 10. The International Community • Cross Platform • Unicode VM
- 11. White Jersey – Best New Feature • Past WSDL 2.0 / SOAP 1.2 revamp COM revamp • Present External Encryption option • Flexibility • Speed • standards • Future TextEditor IPV6
- 12. Green Jersey – Sprinter • Past Delays • Present Skins – An innovative UI approach • Future TextEditor
- 13. Polka Dot Jersey – Climbing to New Heights • Future Font Framework Revamp Store configuration management Store speed
- 14. Domestique • Polycephaly • Polycephally II • GC performance improvements • Database driver refinements Future • Code completion • Code highlighting • (TextEditor) parsing
- 15. The Maillot Jaune - • Past Polycephaly • Present Polycephaly II • Future Stay tuned!
- 17. International Community • Windows 7 Compatibility logo
- 18. International Community • Past Move to shared foundation (OS8) • Present Mapping tool moved to shared O/R mapping (GLORP) • Future Move to shared COM
- 19. White Jersey – Best New Feature • Past Revitalized Modeling & Mapping • Present Mapping tool move to new O-R technology (GLORP) • Future More flexible/powerful GUI framework Other (top secret!)
- 20. Green Jersey – Sprinter • Past Vista Certified • Present Windows 7 logo • Future Continued Windows certifications
- 21. Polka Dot Jersey – Climbing to New Heights • Past OS8 • Present Round trip engineering • Future
- 22. The Maillot Jaune - Future - NEW GUI and Infrastructure Work • Use the native Windows Common Controls, like other Windows "Standard Applications“ • Windows Procedure and MessageMap in Smalltalk you can define your own messages, no filtering • All Smalltalk code no primitives, no hiding of code, no "magic“ • Extensable everything is in Smalltalk, clients can change the style of the controls • Adaptable can be easily updated to the next Windows UI changes. • Goal: a new UI, implemented in Smalltalk, that is backwards compatible, but also implements the new or current features of the Windows Common Controls
- 24. The International Community Past CLDR-based Internationalization Seaside latest version Present Xtreams Future Better Font rendering, kerning Unicode 6.1 standards Rendering of non Latin characters
- 25. White Jersey – Best new feature Past • Project Launcher • Cairo graphics Present • Windows 64 bit
- 26. Domestique • Past Polycephaly • Present Windows 64 COM 64 Oracle 64 ODBC 64
- 27. Green Jersey – Sprinter • Past Delays • Present Skins – An innovative UI approach • Future Font work
- 28. Polka Dot Jersey – Climbing to New Heights • Past 64 bit foundation work (Linux, Solaris) • Present Store • Future Store configuration management
- 29. The Maillot Jaune - • Past Polycephaly • Present External Encryption • Future TextEditor work • Built in auto-completion • Built in highlighting • Base for community improvements • Better rendering • Unicode 6.1 standards • Rendering of non-latin characters
- 30. Sprints! Process Refinements • More sprints! R&D work • More tests • Store configuration management experiments
- 31. Release Changes Just because it is not broken, doesn’t mean we cant make it better! - Recent experiments in releases
- 32. Release Changes Customers asked for true maintenance releases: • We heard you! • ObjectStudio 8.3.1 and VisualWorks 7.8.1 are true maintenance releases • ObjectStudio 8.4.1 and VisualWorks 7.9.1 will be maintenance releases
- 33. Release Changes Future: • Annual major releases • True maintenance releases • Support • Resolutions • Resolution bundles
- 34. Sportsmanship • Sponsorship of ESUG, STIC, others • Xtreams Open sourced for ST community • Direct and indirect employment of Smalltalkers!
- 35. The Cincom Smalltalk Team Committed to Smalltalk Excellence and working together • Engineering • Support • Product management • Executive management
- 37. “It’s not about the bike” …. It is about the customer and developer – You! Our aim is to help software developers aim high and achieve their goals
- 38. Your goals Please tell us about your goals! Customers and industry users should contact Cincom Smalltalk Product management at: athomas@cincom.com - Cincom is listening Please send product management your requirements, ideas and wishes!
- 40. Thank You! Cincom Smalltalk Contacts • Arden Thomas - Product Manager - athomas@cincom.com • Suzanne Fortman – Program Director - sfortman@cincom.com • Jeremy Jordan – Marketing Manager - jjordan@cincom.com
- 41. Show and Tell • ObjectStudio GUI brief - Andreas