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Independent Misinterpretations

by James Robertson

Independent Misinterpretations with James Robertson and Michael Lucas-Smith, and whatever guest(s) they can convince to come on. A weekly show about Smalltalk and dynamic language stuff

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Episodes

  1. IM 170: Reviving the Dead (Code)

    Welcome 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...

  2. IM 169: Gemtalk

    Welcome 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...

  3. IM 168: CIncom Smalltalk Roadmap 2014

    Welcome 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...

  4. IM 167: Cargo Cult Development

    Welcome 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…

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  5. IM 166: Dependency and Such

    Welcome 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...

  6. IM 165: Smalltalk and the World

    Welcome 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...

  7. IM 164: Mobile Smalltalk

    Welcome 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...

  8. IM 163: Namespaces

    Welcome 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…

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  9. IM 162: What Do I Require?

    Welcome 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...

  10. IM 161: The Trouble With Runtimes

    Welcome 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?...

  11. IM 160: Object Identity

    Welcome 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...

  12. IM 159: Loose Change

    Welcome 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…

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  13. IM 158: Dead Code

    Welcome 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...

  14. IM 157: When the Going Gets Tough

    Welcome 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…

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  15. IM 156: Smalltalk Changes?

    Welcome 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...

  16. IM 155: VA Smalltalk Roadmap 2013

    Welcome 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...

  17. IM 154: The Challenge of Old Code

    Welcome 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...

  18. IM 153: Pharo is For You

    Welcome 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...

  19. IM 152: Teaching Smalltalk to Newbies

    Welcome 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…

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  20. IM 151: Garbage Collection in Smalltalk

    Welcome 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...

  21. IM 149: Teaching Smalltalk

    Welcome 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...

  22. IM 148: GLORP at ESUG 2013

    Welcome 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...

  23. IM 147: Over-Processed

    Welcome 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...

  24. IM 146: How Much is Too Much

    Welcome 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...

  25. IM 145: Tool Breaking

    Welcome 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...

  26. IM 144: To ORM, or to not ORM

    Welcome 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…

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  27. IM 143: Smalltalk in the Cloud

    Welcome 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...

  28. IM 142: Talking with C

    Welcome 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…

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  29. IM 141: GUI Builders in Smalltalk

    Welcome 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...

  30. IM 140: tODE

    Welcome 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...

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Independent Misinterpretations with James Robertson and Michael Lucas-Smith, and whatever guest(s) they can convince to come on. A weekly show about Smalltalk and dynamic language stuff

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James Robertson

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Independent Misinterpretations with James Robertson and Michael Lucas-Smith, and whatever guest(s) they can convince to come on. A weekly show about Smalltalk and dynamic language stuff

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