Long-time Smalltalker. Started in 1992 on ObjectWorks ! Then Visual Smalltalk Enterprise, then VisualWorks, then VisualAge then Dolphin. Nowadays, mostly coding with Pharo, playing with Squeak and working with VisualWorks and VisualAge Smalltalk.
Always had a love/hate (but let’s be honest, it’s more lovin’ than hating!) relationship with databases, especially when using them with Smalltalk. I’ve worked with DB/2, SQL Server, Oracle and MySQL mostly but in all cases, it was usually a nightmare for the development team trying to fit a square in a circle! Until I landed in a place using TOPLink. And then Gemstone/S. Since then, trying to find the right balance between transparency and control in a world dominated by RDBMS. That’s why I’ve also tried GlORP. That’s also why I’m coding my own object-relational mapping framework!
You can also sometimes hear me discuss about literature and mathematics.
Based on your article titles — and the blog itself — you must be the world’s biggest Rush fan.
Awesome!