Independent Misinterpretations
30 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 10 years ago - ★★★★ - 3 ratingsSmalltalk Evangelist, Industry Watcher
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IM 170: Reviving the Dead (Code)
April 13, 2014 22:56 - 35 minutes - 12.2 MBWelcome to episode 170 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck. This week James and David talk about "dead" code - and how sometimes, you need to bring that code back to life. You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one. To listen now, you can either download the mp3 edition, or the AAC edition. The AAC edition comes...
IM 169: Gemtalk
April 06, 2014 20:31 - 48 minutes - 16.8 MBWelcome to episode 169 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck. This week James and David talk to James Foster of Gemtalk - about the spinout of Gemtalk from VMWare, the current state of Gemstone/S, and what the future holds for the product suite. You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one. To listen now, you can eit...
IM 168: CIncom Smalltalk Roadmap 2014
March 30, 2014 09:51 - 51 minutes - 17.8 MBWelcome to episode 168 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck. This week James talks to Arden Thomas, Cincom Smalltalk Product Manager, about some of the new work going into ObjectStudio 8.6 and VisualWorks 8. Of particular interest is the new editor work, which you can see for yourself if you are part of the vw-dev or os-dev programs - visit Cincom's website for details on what their requirements are f...
IM 167: Cargo Cult Development
March 23, 2014 22:29 - 35 minutes - 12 MBWelcome to episode 167 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck. This week James and David talk about "Cargo Cult Development" practices - things that become common practice in a developent shop that may have once made sense, but no longer do. You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one. To listen now, you can either d...
IM 166: Dependency and Such
March 16, 2014 12:08 - 31 minutes - 10.8 MBWelcome to episode 166 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck. This week James and David talk about the various event mechanisms in Smalltalk (primarily speaking of VisualWorks) - Dependency, Trigger Events, and Announcements. You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one. To listen now, you can either download the mp3...
IM 165: Smalltalk and the World
March 09, 2014 18:04 - 37 minutes - 12.8 MBWelcome to episode 165 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck. This week James and David talk about connecting Smalltalk to other languages and environments - whther via direct interconnect, or via intermediating systems such as web services. You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one. To listen now, you can either ...
IM 164: Mobile Smalltalk
March 02, 2014 20:10 - 31 minutes - 10.8 MBWelcome to episode 164 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck. This week James and David talk about Smalltalk for mobile devices - david has been building an implementation for Android (with some thoughts towards eventual IO support as well). You can read more about Dave's work in progress over on his site You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed di...
IM 163: Namespaces
February 23, 2014 21:18 - 36 minutes - 12.6 MBWelcome to episode 162 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck. This week James and David talk about namespaces in Smalltalk (specifically in Cincom Smalltalk, as that's the only formal implementation in Smalltalk to date). You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one. To listen now, you can either download the mp3 edi...
IM 162: What Do I Require?
February 16, 2014 21:48 - 35 minutes - 12.1 MBWelcome to episode 162 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck. This week James and David talk about pre-requisites, and building applications up from your source code repository. You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one. To listen now, you can either download the mp3 edition, or the AAC edition. The AAC edition c...
IM 161: The Trouble With Runtimes
February 09, 2014 23:01 - 35 minutes - 12.3 MBWelcome to episode 161 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck. This week David and James discuss runtimes in Smalltalk - why are they harder to build than we think they ought to be, and what can you do about that? You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one. To listen now, you can either download the mp3 edition, or ...
IM 160: Object Identity
February 02, 2014 17:09 - 30 minutes - 10.3 MBWelcome to episode 160 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck. This week James and David discuss Object Identity - a simple idea that gets complex at times in application development. Especially with different persistence mechanisms. You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one. To listen now, you can either download...
IM 159: Loose Change
January 19, 2014 10:20 - 39 minutes - 13.6 MBWelcome to episode 159 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck. This week David and James pick at a number of Small things in Smalltalk - like whether or not to have a period at the end of a method. You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one. To listen now, you can either download the mp3 edition, or the AAC edition....
IM 158: Dead Code
January 12, 2014 19:41 - 33 minutes - 11.4 MBWelcome to episode 158 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck. This week David and James talk about dead code - how it tends to pile up in a project, and how difficult it can be to get rid of. You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one. To listen now, you can either download the mp3 edition, or the AAC edition. The...
IM 157: When the Going Gets Tough
January 05, 2014 18:35 - 34 minutes - 11.9 MBWelcome to episode 157 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck. This week David and James talk about risk taking in software development. You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one. To listen now, you can either download the mp3 edition, or the AAC edition. The AAC edition comes with chapter markers. You can subscr...
IM 156: Smalltalk Changes?
December 22, 2013 21:44 - 34 minutes - 12 MBWelcome to episode 156 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck. This week David and James talk about things they wish were part of Smalltalk You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one. To listen now, you can either download the mp3 edition, or the AAC edition. The AAC edition comes with chapter markers. You can sub...
IM 155: VA Smalltalk Roadmap 2013
December 15, 2013 21:36 - 37 minutes - 12.8 MBWelcome to episode 155 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck. This week we have a recording from Smalltalks 2013 - Instantiations' John O'Keefe laying out the VA Smalltalk roadmap. You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one. To listen now, you can either download the mp3 edition, or the AAC edition. The AAC editio...
IM 154: The Challenge of Old Code
December 08, 2013 18:16 - 33 minutes - 11.5 MBWelcome to episode 154 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck. This week David and James talk about the challenges that come with working on a long lived project that has some very old code associated with it. You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one. To listen now, you can either download the mp3 edition, or the ...
IM 153: Pharo is For You
December 01, 2013 21:04 - 36 minutes - 12.6 MBWelcome to episode 153 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck. This week we have a recording from Smalltalk 2013 - Stephanne Ducasse talking about Pharo Smalltalk You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one. To listen now, you can either download the mp3 edition, or the AAC edition. The AAC edition comes with chapte...
IM 152: Teaching Smalltalk to Newbies
November 24, 2013 15:32 - 34 minutes - 12 MBWelcome to episode 152 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck. This week david and I talk about teaching Smalltalk again - but to new developers, as opposed to experienced ones who just don't know Smalltalk. You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one. To listen now, you can either download the mp3 edition, or the AA...
IM 151: Garbage Collection in Smalltalk
November 17, 2013 19:46 - 34 minutes - 11.9 MBWelcome to episode 51 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck. This week David and James talk about garbage collection in Smalltalk - how memory is stuctured and allocated (in broad terms), and what that means for application developers. You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one. To listen now, you can either downlo...
IM 149: Teaching Smalltalk
October 27, 2013 22:10 - 36 minutes - 12.5 MBWelcome to episode 149 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck. This week David and James talk about teaching Smalltalk - specifically, David relates his recent experience teaching Smalltalk to a group of Java developers. You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one. To listen now, you can either download the mp3 editi...
IM 148: GLORP at ESUG 2013
October 20, 2013 20:36 - 1 hour - 30.8 MBWelcome to episode 148 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck. This week we have a recording from ESUG 2013 - Niall Ross (Cincom) talking about GLORP's progress. You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one. To listen now, you can either download the mp3 edition, or the AAC edition. The AAC edition comes with chapter...
IM 147: Over-Processed
October 13, 2013 18:29 - 37 minutes - 12.7 MBWelcome to episode 147 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck. This week Dave and James talk about how an overly burdensome set of development processes can take a moving project and grind it to a halt. Risk aversion, when taken too far, can simply halt all possible progress and create bigger problems. You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed direct...
IM 146: How Much is Too Much
October 06, 2013 10:24 - 25 minutes - 8.85 MBWelcome to episode 146 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck. This week Dave and James talk about the potential issues involved in giving end users too much power in an application. If you extend scripting support (or even full Smalltalk access) to them - but don't give them any other development tools, you haven't really done them any favors. You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other p...
IM 145: Tool Breaking
September 29, 2013 17:43 - 34 minutes - 11.7 MBWelcome to episode 145 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck. This week Dave and James talk about aspects of Smalltalk (differing a bit between implementations) can "break" the tools. For example - messages constructed via string concatenation and then turned into symbols are effectively invisible to the senders/implementors tools. You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching s...
IM 144: To ORM, or to not ORM
September 22, 2013 21:09 - 38 minutes - 13.3 MBWelcome to episode 144 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck. This week Dave and James talk about ORM systems - and whether they are worth it for software projects You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one. To listen now, you can either download the mp3 edition, or the AAC edition. The AAC edition comes with chap...
IM 143: Smalltalk in the Cloud
September 15, 2013 19:45 - 45 minutes - 15.6 MBWelcome to episode 143 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck. This week we have a talk from ESUG 2013 - James Foster talking about Smalltalk in the Cloud. You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one. To listen now, you can either download the mp3 edition, or the AAC edition. The AAC edition comes with chapter marke...
IM 142: Talking with C
September 09, 2013 00:26 - 32 minutes - 11.2 MBWelcome to episode 142 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck. This week we discuss connecting C to Smalltalk. We covered some of the general issues, and then spent most of the time talking specifically about Cincom Smalltalk and VA Smalltalk (although we touched on Native Boost in Pharo). You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTun...
IM 141: GUI Builders in Smalltalk
September 01, 2013 23:32 - 33 minutes - 11.6 MBWelcome to episode 141 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck. This week Dave and James discuss GUI building tools in VW, VA, and ObjectStudio. You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one. To listen now, you can either download the mp3 edition, or the AAC edition. The AAC edition comes with chapter markers. You can...
IM 140: tODE
August 25, 2013 22:44 - 43 minutes - 14.8 MBWelcome to episode 140 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck. This week we have a recording from STIC 2013 - Gemtalk's Dale Henrichs talking about tODE - a ew development tool for GLASS You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one. To listen now, you can either download the mp3 edition, or the AAC edition. The AAC ...