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MVC: A brief history of Models, Views and Controllers

Posted by Rahoul Baruah on January 31st, 2009 under Beautiful Code, Designing Great Software, Smalltalk Tags: , , , ,  •  Comments Off

Any web-developer Rubyist knows about models, views and controllers. The MVC paradigm is embedded in the structure of Rails and Merb and encouraged by Ramaze and Sinatra. If you’re a Mac developer or an iPhone bod then MVC is common practice there as well. Same goes for Sproutcore and even Microsoft is [...]

Loading the MySQL drivers into GNU Smalltalk

Posted by Rahoul Baruah on November 14th, 2008 under Beautiful Code, Smalltalk Tags: , ,  •  2 Comments

It’s an unfortunate fact that many Open Source projects have documentation that is sadly lacking. A case in point is GNU Smalltalk.
Smalltalk is one of my favourite languages but a decent Smalltalk implementation that fits with your native window manager is hard to find. The point of GNU Smalltalk is that [...]