Archive for October, 2006

New Smalltalk article series

Friday, October 6th, 2006

I didn’t find writing a tutorial very satisfactory, so I’m going to try another take on introducing Smalltalk, by talking about those features of the language that really amaze me.
Wow Smalltalk!

SVG Browser pt. 2

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

The SVG browser has the problem that putting text at angles seems to make Firefox start working the processor hard, even after the image is rendered. Don’t know why.
Anyway, here’s a reworking of the Class diagram with the methods all horizontal. Maybe it’s more readable too…

Here’s a mockup of a class hierarchy diagram:

Obviously, I don’t [...]

SVG Browser

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

Some screenshots of the SVG browser I was playing with a while back:
A class diagram (inspired by the ‘donut’ diagrams in “Smalltalk, Objects, and Design”):

A namespace tree - the maths needs a bit of work, and the tree is way too cramped: