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Randal Schwartz on All Things Smalltalk

Second-tier Gemstone/S Seaside web execution engine now *free* (formerly $7k/year)

At ESUG, the GemStone/S team announced that the free web edition of GemStone/S has had its limits raised. Maximum repository size is now 16GB (up from 4), shared page cache is 2GB (up from 1), CPU limit is 2 (up from 1), and the limit on the total number of objects in the repository has been eliminated. So if it was possible to fit ‘em in 16GB, you could keep track of 2^40 objects (approx. 1 trillion).
via kentreis.wordpress.com

This is very cool!

seaside.st: Seaside 3.0 Release Announcement

The Seaside core developers are pleased to announce the release of Seaside 3.0.

This release began development as the 2.9 codebase, but the significant scope and nature of the changes led us to realise that the work justifies bumping the version to 3.0. This change reflects the maturity of Seaside, and we believe the 3.0 codebase will be a solid foundation for the foreseeable development of the premier web application development framework in Smalltalk and for the applications and frameworks built upon it. We are confident that the new architecture will allow Seaside to continue to grow, while minimising the impact on our user base.

via seaside.st

A Ruby guy rails on about Seaside

In an interview with Pad Maddox, he remarks:

Okay as for what's so interesting to me about Seaside... it's 50% the framework and 50% the Pharo environment. Seaside itself represents a step forward in web development similar to how Rails did.  Rails takes care of a lot of the plumbing for you - you don't have to parse query params, set up response headers, manage the session (unless you want to of course).  Seaside does all that of course but also manages application state for you.  So you don't have to worry about putting stuff into a database, then pulling it back out and operating on it.  I can't do it justice in a few sentences, but that's why I'll be showing lots of examples at the conference! :)  At any rate, that same feeling you get when you code Rails for the first time and see how much easier things are, you get that same feeling with Seaside.  It's not a replacement for Rails by any means - Rails definitely has a sweet spot, particularly when it comes to RESTful websites and interoperability with the unix ecosystem - but for the things that Seaside is strong at (which for me so far has been complex and/or configurable workflows), it runs circles around everything else.
It's nice that he's going to be presenting Seaside with such enthusiasm at a Rails Conference. Yeay.

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