tODE: And Now for Something Completely Different... ESUG 2013 Dale Henrichs GemTalk Systems

1. tODE:
And Now for
Something Completely
Different...
ESUG 2013
Dale Henrichs
GemTalk Systems
Wednesday, September 11, 2013

2. • the
• Object-centric
• Development
• Environment
• A dev environment for doing remote
Smalltalk development over theWAN
tODE
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3. Goals
• remote Smalltalk dev over WAN
• address “Smalltalk dev environment
deficiencies”
• emphasis on objects and tool development
tODE
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5. Ultra Thin Client
• all application logic executes on the server
• predictable network round trips
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6. Ultra Thin Client
Pharo GemStone
tODE
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7. Ultra Thin Client
Pharo GemStone
tODE
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8. ST Dev
Deficiencies
• difficult to write Smalltalk scripts
• “window clutter”
• monolithic tools hide objects
tODE
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9. • Bash-stye shell command processor
• shell console window
• objects instead of files
• Smalltalk is the script programming
language
Scripting in tODE
tODE
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10. tODE Shell Demo
tODE
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11. • Emacs-inspired “tiled” window layout to
address “window clutter”
• named window locations
• named windows
Windows in tODE
tODE
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12. Named Window
Locations
Configurations
Packages
Class Definition
Methods
Instance
Methods
Class
Methods
Hierarchy
Definitions
&
Debugger
Shell Inspector
Class
Definitions
tODE
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13. Keyboard
Shortcuts
tODE
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14. System Browser Demo
tODE
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15. • I’ve been using tODE almost exclusively
since February
• tool set duplicates about 95% of
GemTools functionality
• starting to recruit beta testers
• hope to release tODE as 3.x GemTools
replacement during first quarter 2014
Status
tODE
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16. • GemTalk Systems: http://gemtalksystems.com/
• GLASS: http://gemtalksystems.com/index.php/community/community-for-glass-seaside/
• tODE: https://github.com/dalehenrich/tode
• Pharo: http://www.pharo-project.org/home
• Dale dot Henrichs at gemtalksystems.com
tODE
Questions/Resources
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