Aug 29th, 2007.

Changes and Notes


The dawning of a new millenium has provided me with the necessary impetus to finish this web site.

Last year Hal Lancaster wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal for the Managing Your Career column entitled "Personal Web Sites". See WSJ 07/27/1999. In it he suggested that a Web site should present more detailed information than one would find in a traditional résumé, and that the Web should be used to its fullest potential with regards to career management and professional development. To that end I strive, and our index page should point to most everything I've been up to.

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10/18/06

Eight years on, I undertake a review of the entire website and refactor some things

10/18/06

Altered Squeak reference page, and updated info.plist magic decoder page to list 3.8.13b1 changes

10/19/05

Add Squeak reference page

09/16/05

Changes to history overview, additions to books read.

10/30/03

Report for OOPLSA 2003 goes up (Sunday to Tuesday with Tuesday BOF pending)

11/11/02

Report for OOPSLA 2002 goes up (Sunday to Friday with Monday workshop pending)

11/9/02

Report for OOPSLA 2002 goes up

8/19/02

Changes to the resume, email if you need a copy.
Added link to source code for the PrintJob plugin
Updated comments about the MPEG V1.2 source.

6/10/02

Report for Camp Smalltalk CS4 goes up

5/22/02

Switch from broken netmind search engine to google
Spend the day fixing broken links

4/26/02

A page linking to all my trip reports, and day 2 of Smalltalk Solutions 2002 is added

4/23/02

A trip report for Smalltalk Solutions 2002 starts

12/12/01

Posted the MPEG V1.2 source. A minor change to ignore the extensions in mpg files.

11/01/01

Many of the trip reports get placed onto a swiki for you as the public to edit, with some changes and cleanup to the Smalltalk Resources page .

Then I cluelessly destroyed my site swiki as part of a maintence thrust to migrate it to OpenBSD 2.9 from Linux 2.0.38 which was running on a macintosh 68040 Quadra 950 box. This required me to rebuild my swiki using the latest Comanche software and recover (most) of the data via a small Squeak program that I wrote that filtered thru 1 GB of raw disk. Somehow that machine failed to get backed up to those 8 DLT tapes and about 100+ CD-Rs we have in safekeeping. I must say the OpenBSD 2.9 installation was VERY painless. Even found a Squeak 3.0pre2 Port to install from the ports tree.

10/18/01

OOPSLA 2001 experience report day 3

10/15/01

OOPSLA 2001 experience report day 1
OOPSLA 2001 experience report day 2

10/8/01

Updated the link to the carbon version of the mpeg plugin

09/21/01

Updated the Smalltalk book page

09/10/01

Reworked all the Gabage Collection slides.

08/30/01

Essen ESUG experience report day 1.
Essen ESUG experience report day 2.
Essen ESUG experience report day 3.
Essen ESUG experience report day 4.

08/27/01

Camp Smalltalk in Essen day 3.
Added copy of Essen Camp Smalltalk report from ESUG.

08/26/01

Camp Smalltalk in Essen day 2.

08/25/01

Camp Smalltalk in Essen starts.

07/02/01

Updated the MPEG for Squeak page. Note about change set 4110 the new MPEG player morphic
Updated my 2000's page

05/02/01

Updated the MPEG for Squeak page. New macintosh plugin and C source code changes

04/19/01

Added link to pictures from the Smalltalk Solutions 2001 story
Added link to SmallScript slides from the SmalltalkSolutions 2001 story
Added additional info to Tuesday story based on feedback from Eliot who asked one of the questions
Updated my 2000's page
Updated the MPEG for Squeak page (note about mpeg software in 3.1 update stream)

04/11/01

The Smalltalk Solutions 2001 Day 3
04/10/01

The Smalltalk Solutions 2001 Day 2
04/09/01

The Smalltalk Solutions 2001 Day 1

04/08/01

The Smalltalk Solutions 2001 report starts

04/05/01

Updated my 2000's page
Link to my GC talk at Smalltalk Solutions 2001.
Use of smalltalkconsulting.myip.org to get to the WebCam.

02/21/01

Updated the MPEG for Squeak page (Added link to Windows DLL)

02/09/01

Corrected some spelling errors

01/22/01

Updated the MPEG binaries based on Linux/Unix feedback

01/22/01

Updated the MPEG for Squeak page (Consolidated change sets)
Updated my 2000's page
Updated why does Windows Freeze

12/7/00

Updated the MPEG for Squeak page to link to Bob Hartwig SqueakAmp player

12/7/00

Updated the OOPSLA 2000 day 5 page

11/27/00

Updated the Smalltalk book page

11/20/00

Updated the MPEG for Squeak page to reflect a patch to fix some problems

11/19/00

Updated the MPEG for Squeak page to reflect a patch to fix some problems

11/18/00

Updated the MPEG for Squeak page to reflect new changesets, source and the like.

11/3/00

Updated the MPEG for Squeak page to reflect new license, and Windows DLL

10/28/00

Audit site to fix broken links
Added a page for the TIFF plugin

10/27/00

A link to Instantiations / Smalltalk Systems papers

And as my back was turned the web site turns one year old, Ya! So a link cleanup is going to take place since a few dead ones now exist.

10/23/00

OOPSLA 2000 Trip report (link to more pictures added)

10/20/00

OOPSLA 2000 Trip report (link to pictures added)
Updated the MPEG for Squeak page

110/19/00

OOPSLA 2000 Trip report

10/18/00

OOPSLA 2000 Trip report
MPEG3 Plugin for Squeak

10/17/00

OOPSLA 2000 Trip report

8/3/00

Added a new Squeak VM to the code fragment page

7/27/00

Updated my great grandfathers page

7/20/00

Thursday @ Camp Smalltalk 2000 goes live

7/19/00

Wednesday @ Camp Smalltalk 2000 goes live

7/18/00

Tueday @ Camp Smalltalk 2000 goes live

7/17/00

Started the Camp Smalltalk 2000 story

7/8/00

Updated my code fragment page to reflect the work done on Craig Latta's Correspondents/flow conversion to the Disney primitives
Updated The Story of Smalltalk
Added another article or two to my neat articles page

7/5/00

Yes I will be attending Camp Smalltalk 2000 #2 commonly known as CS2
Updated my 2000's page May/Jun was a busy month for squeak coding
Updated my code fragment page to reflect the work done on Craig Latta's Correspondents/flow conversion to the Disney primitives.
Added another article or two to my neat articles page

6/16/00

Updated my 2000's page
Added notes on the Squeak Open Transport plugin I wrote
Updated my code fragment page to reflect the testing code I wrote for Squeak Sockets.
To avoid copyright Issues I removed some movies and pointed to Apple's offical versions
Added another article or two to my neat articles page

4/7/00

Updated my 2000's page, fixed some links and polished my resume.

3/21/00

Wrap up of Camp Smalltalk 2000 & SqueakEnd'00, a story
Updated my 2000's page
I manged to do some reading

2/27/00

Added a link to a Linux on OS/390 review on our neat articles page.

2/19/00

Added a link to some linux history on our neat articles page
And a link to the story behind the Lisa (remember that Apple computer?)
Also a link to the archived webcast of Progress on the Frontiers: Technology and Progress with Doug Engelbart and Alan Kay.
Some cleanup and start of work on the Linux Links.
Added a few more book links

2/6/00

Added a link to David Ungar's paper on a high performance smalltalk system.
Added a link to Apple's Linux page (kid you not)
Added my 2000's page
Added a link to IBM Linux for OS390. (real iron)
Added some links to most above where required

1/9/00

Added some pictures to my personal page, via sub-links.
Added some notes on MacWorld 2000.
Added articles I've found interesting
Upgraded to Adobe Go-Live, so I'll be reworking some things in the future

1/3/00

Added a change set for force Inline VM improvement.


12/7/99

Added a quote about iMacs from Linus Torvalds.
Added a link to some wonderful Squeak docs at Andrew C. Greenberg's site.
Added a link to the WebCam on our main page.
Added a change set for rgbMap performance improvement.
Added some missing pages to our master index page.

12/3/99

Altered our code source page. Added 2.6 68881 VM with deferred updates.
Added a copy of Apple, a Fools perspective?


12/1/99

Finally altered our code source page.
Added a change set for Squeak deferred screen updates.
Added a Squeak 68K 68881 based VM.

11/17/99

The bird asked me to add a feather.
Updated our Cincom is not ObjectShare page.
Updated our Smalltalk Links page added IBM.


11/15/99

Cleanup & reflection.
Altered the Smalltalk Microsoft joke.
Altered Linux on a Quadra 950 you say?
Added my story about fonts
Altered my personal notes and pictures page

11/14/99

Added 99 bottles of Beer on the Wall
Added the Smalltalk Microsoft joke.
Added Linux on a Quadra 950 you say?
Added Macintosh/Smalltalk History.
Added Building this site.

11/11/99

Added a link to Can you trust this penguin?
Pleas from fans made me change the OOPSLA 1999 friday page.
Fixed a link or two.

11/10/99

Added a Swiki for Consultants, are you listed there?
Added a Cincom is not ObjectShare page.
Added a Smalltalk-72 page, thanks Dan.
Altered the Rocky Rhodes page.
Altered the Sprint page.
Altered the Java not so hot page.
Started altering my parcplace/objectshare links to Cincom.

11/9/99

Added a link to the OOPSLA VM Work shop to the OOPLSA 99 trip report.
Added a picture of the Squeak team.
Added more links to the Links to people in the industry.
Added a link to some Xerox Altos.
Added a Jitter 3 mouse.
Some cleanup.

11/8/99

Alter some links.
Added a link to the 1998 Squeak BOF.
Updated our Smalltalk Links page added Smalltalk/X links
Added some story to our square bracket page.

11/7/99

Added OOPSLA 1999 trip report. A five page report
Added MacWorld SF 1999 trip report.
Updated our Smalltalk Links page added Cincom links

10/30/99

Altered my personal page.


10/26/99

The WebCam (buried in our comments page) goes to a faster machine, along with the comments swiki too.
Added more to Corba a distributed Journey which now totals 6 pages.
Added the Java not so hot article.
Added a Wall Street Journal article on Sprint, go find it...

10/25/99

Cleanup, altered some links.
Added my story (part of it) on Corba a distributed Journey

10/23/99

Cleanup, and added some links on my book pages.
Added my story on MetaClasses Bite Back.
Updated the Garbage Collection Latency article.
Made the GC Paper slides bigger to solve the readability issue.
Updated the index page, and added some links here and there.

10/22/99

Added some more books to my Smalltalk book page.
Added some books to the Linux book page.
Added a new book page called other books.
Created a client support page. (password protected)

10/20/99

Fiddled with the WebCam, added a link to a really neat site that has satellite imagery.
Added another picture of John R. McIntosh
Added a link to my great Grandfather John McIntosh M.P. (Member of Parliament)
Added pictures of my Mother.
Added link to 1988 Olympic winter games service award
Found my notes on the Mac memory allocation problem.
Added old paper on Mac Virtual Memory.
Added old paper on Old Mac Secrets.
Fixed a broken link or two.

10/19/99

Moved the WebCam (buried in our comments page) outside and altered some of the HTML, now it reports the time the picture was taken using Smalltalk to build the timestamp, along with Squeak VM statistics. PS Yes I mostly broke it for the day.
Added some more books to my Smalltalk book page.
Added some books to the Linux book page.
Added the Macintosh memory problem.
Yes it's confirmed the search engine works just great to find things within my site, try it. Say on starboard pier

10/18/99

Added a WebCam (buried in our comments page, go look for it under "it's slow").
It will move outside once I finish some woodwork. It's hosted on a Mac IIvx which is running Squeak.

Added Large Space Maddness.
Added Integer Madness.
Added papers from Others.
Added Tips and Thoughts. Covers VisualWorks MemoryPolicy issues and other technical details.
Added Barry Hayes Notes.
Reference to the duplicate MetaClass problem description
Added Allocation failure for stable frame
You say your image crashes after 24.86 days?
Altered Smalltalk resource page to include Why Smalltalk?
Altered some pages to hyperlink to newly added pages.
Made some typo corrections.
Added the URL Minder you see above.
Added search engine link you see above, also added it to our navigation/help and index page

10/15/99

Added the Smalltalk Web Ring to the front page.
Found a public link to the full article cited in  Why does windows crash?
Added my PGP Key
Altered the header to take to you Help and Navigation page, versus the comments page.
Altered the Navigation page.
Added headers to the index page for the PPDT and GC slides.
Added some more books to the Smalltalk Book page.
Added all the pages for Hoboes of the Steamer Lanes

10/13/99

Changed the look/feel of the front page.
Added index, navigation, comment page
Reviewed and fixed all powerpoint slides
{Look at our index page to see if you've missed something}
{Kick the tires on our comment page}