I like both of these, but I do have a preference. Which one do you prefer?

Update: I was very unclear. What I'm really after is whether you like either (or both) of these as things Cincom would use in a booth, at a trade show. Sorry about that.

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A few weeks back I put together this tutorial for Seaside on Cincom Smalltalk - in both screencast and standard web tutorial formats. So I have a couple of questions:

• Is that material useful?
• What could/should I add to it?

Thanks!

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This news about iTunes - movies being available there on the same day as DVD release - is huge. Combine that with "On Demand", and you can see that DVD sales are headed to the same place that CD sales went:

Hollywood Reporter says that Apple is expected to announce today an across-the-board deal to sell new release films at its iTunes Store. The deal is said to allow Apple to offer a "broad slate of top-shelf films" day-and-date with home video releases -- a long time sticking point with brick-and-mortar interests who want to keep their early-release edge on digital downloads. The deal includes Fox, Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal, Sony Pictures, Lionsgate, New Line and more -- all of which are currently inked to deliver rentals through iTunes.

IMHO, Sony isn't going to enjoy the Blu-Ray win for long.

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On today's Smalltalk Daily, we look at a common problem people have with Smalltalk's process model - by using a bug that cropped up in the server you're reading this on :)

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It looks like Psystar isn't a hoax after all - Engadget has a benchmark test. I can say this - I wouldn't want one, at least not until they get the fan to not run all the time. It's loud.

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Joel Spolsky is even harsher on Mesh than I was:

It's Groove, rewritten from scratch, one more time. Ray Ozzie just can't stop rewriting this damn app, again and again and again, and taking 5-7 years each time.

And the fact that customers never asked for this feature and none of the earlier versions really took off as huge platforms doesn't stop him.

How on earth does Microsoft continue to pour massive resources into building the same frigging synchronization platforms again and again? Damn, they just finished building something called Windows Live FolderShare and I haven't exactly noticed a stampede to that. I'll bet you've never even heard of it. The 3,398th web site that lets you upload and download files to a place on the Internet. I'm so excited I might just die.

That's pretty much why I yawned through the announcement. MS is just floundering in terms of direction. Maybe they do have a fit with Yahoo - two large, directionless companies that manage to make money based on legacy...

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You'll find a lot of people who look down on Gary Gygax, and the game system (D&D) he created - heck, back when I ran a game myself, I not only created a game world, I devised my own magic and combat systems, because I thought the D&D one "sucked". However - I wouldn't have been inspired to do that had D&D not been created first.

This article makes an even bigger point - Gygax was the progenitor of all modern video games:

In creating Dungeons & Dragons, Gygax and co-creator Dave Arneson didn't just build a blueprint for the digital RPGs to come; they built the progenitor of most contemporary video games, irrespective of genre.

because video games - unlike older games - have a story to tell:

Today most gamers take it for granted that games have stories, yet most traditional games -- chess and checkers, tag and hide-and-seek, baseball and basketball -- don't have any story.

We have Gygax to thank for a lot of that. Sure, his magic system had holes, as did his combat system. He was the pioneer though, who paved the roads that other people followed and improved. Anyone who likes the places those roads have taken us owes Gygax some thanks for that.

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Sounds like Gemstone is building a Ruby environment? InfoQ has the scoop.

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Cincom is expanding the business team for Cincom Smalltalk:

Smalltalk Marketing Collaboration Specialist
As a Marketing Collaboration Specialist, you will be responsible for activities to produce very high quality collateral pieces, email and web content, as well as audio and video promotional events in print and electronic media. You will be team oriented and possess outstanding communications abilities. You will be able to juggle competing priorities in a fast-paced professional environment to deliver outstanding results with minimum supervision. Manage consistent, ongoing communications with external and internal customers. Maintain the Cincom Corporate and Smalltalk website to meet or exceed Customers needs and attract prospects. As well as manage customer reference database and help improve and increase overall customer experience.

Key Qualifications

• Four year degree in business or marketing, or an equivalent undergraduate education
• Minimum four (4) years experience with print and electronic media and customer collateral oriented to the computer technology sector
• Outstanding interpersonal skills and advanced writing abilities
• Solid knowledge of internet technologies and experience with the following:
• Microsoft Office Applications and Adobe Photoshop (or equivalent applications)

If you are interested in becoming a member of the Cincom Smalltalk STAR Team, please forward your resume to employme@cincom.com. Please reference PRF 3063.

RESUMES ACCEPTED UNTIL POSITION IS FILLED
...an equal opportunity employer

About Cincom®
Now in our 40th year, Cincom delivers software and services to clients worldwide who need to innovate and simplify complex business processes. Cincom's easy-to-use, high-value solutions empower clients to overcome operation obstacles, paving the way to higher productivity, sustainability, and profit. Cincom serves thousands of clients on six continents.

Cincom Smalltalk
Cincom Smalltalk [VisualWorks® and ObjectStudio®] is an object-oriented application software development suite for creating and maintaining portable, cross-platform business applications. Developers of scalable internet, intranet, and client/server applications utilize Cincom Smalltalk programming tools to build applications quickly and efficiently and to deliver significant productivity benefits vs. Java, C#, C++, or Visual Basic®.

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Gemstone has gotten their GLASS beta out the door:

The beta is shipped with GLASS.230-dkh.130 and GemStone-dkh.270 (both can be found in the GLASS project on GemSource). GLASS.230-dkh.130 is equivalent to GLASS-dkh.114, except for references to the UTF8 and HTML encoding primitives.

If you want to find out more about Seaside - in Gemstone, Squeak, or Cincom Smalltalk - then head on over and register for Smalltalk Solutions now. If you don't know Smalltalk, but would like to learn about Seaside? Well, I'm giving a tutorial on that exact subject!

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