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Warning: Geek Tip! Visor pimps Mac OS X’ Terminal.app so that a terminal window slides onto your screen at the push of a button.

Mit Virtualisierungslösungen können auf einem physikalischen Computer mehrere unabhängige virtuelle Systeme laufen. Doof nur, wenn die Festplatte eines virtuellen Computers kaputt ist.

I never would have thought that I’ll have to program in Smalltalk one day. I know Java and PHP quite well and compared to them Smalltalk – or specifically Squeak in my case – is awesome and very weird at the same time.

Okay, I just have to write a little wrapper layer, still I have to deal with sockets programming, implementing a Singleton, and a bit exception handling. Pretty basic if you’re an experienced Smalltalk programmer, but quite a challenge if you’re not.

I’ve learned some interesting things about the language and its development environment and I thought I share it with you. This isn’t a complete Smalltalk roundup, just some notes. Feel free to add stuff in the comments and check out www.squeak.org.

Squeak and Smalltalk is definitely worth a look, it’s actually an easy but powerful first-contact programming language, so don’t be frightened by my technical gibberish below.