Joachim and his views on software development
The title says it all: Peter announced the next Smalltalk Meetup in Zürich on April 24th, 2026, at 6:00 pm. As always, it s going to be a round of short presentations followed by a get-together in a nearby restaurant. Both will be taking place in short distance to the Zürich Main Station, so it is [ ]
The Business Problem We ve had a severe problem with previously uploaded files that were corrupted when downloaded back from the web server in one of our projects. The spicy detail here is that some of the files were corrupted also in Backups. Made for a few interesting days and calls with users So one of [ ]
It is with deep sadness that we bid farewell to Christian Haider developer, forward thinker and Smalltalk enthusiast who passed away on April 7, 2025 at the age of 64. Christian was much more than just a programmer. For him, Smalltalk was not just a language it was a tool for thinking, understanding and creating. His [ ]
The Zürich Smalltalk Meetup on October 18th now has an Agenda of 4 very interesting talks: So if you are into Smalltalk and web development or are a user of VAST Platform or would like to see what people thinking ahead are up to, this event is sure going to be a blast for you. [ ]
Come meet Smalltalk developers and enthusiasts in Zürich on October 18th, 2024
Come meet Instantiations and Users of VAST Platform on October 16th, 2024 in Stuttgart, Germany
End of next week there will be a Smalltalk meetup in Zürich, Switzerland. I really look forward to meeting with the nice people there and learn something new. If you still wonder if you d like to attend, you should definitely be made aware of the announced talks: If these talks and names aren t reason enough [ ]
I wasn t planning on writing a second installment on this little journey this soon. But instead of going back to my normal work I wanted to go the extra mile and see if and how I can add a UnicodeString to the Database from VAST. Of course I found myself struggling with writing a UncodeString. [ ]
I made my first experiments with VAST 2024, Unicode and PostgreSQL.
A few releases ago, Instantiations introduced a very nice Framework named Native Process Framework to control external processes from VAST. In some cases, constructing pipelines of external jobs can be extremely handy. It is extremly easy to chain two (or more) external processes with this wonderful tool: just concatenate them with the operator starter1 [ ]