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This week I kicked off a campaign to increase the awareness and use of Redline Smalltalk, and get some financial support as well. The financial support will enable me to focus full time at least for a short while on getting Redline Smalltalk to Version 1.0. Things have come a long way since this Fan Letter To Redline Smalltalk.

Of course I could not have done this without the help of some very nice individuals: Sean T Allen, Pat Maddox, Peter Michaux, Jeff Heon, Brandon Hays, Robert Roland and Andrew Kiellor.

Hopefully you will help me too. You should follow this link to support Redline Smalltalk. You can be a Redliner too!

Bill Birch (local in Melbourne Australia) has released Genyris, a new language, derived from LISP.

Lisp is great, Bill is local and also great, so check it out here !

I’ve used many database centric IDE’s like dbVisualizer and Squirrel but none of them stack up against ExecuteQuery. It’s feature rich, simple to use and free. So if you database, don’t leave home without it !

I’m a big fan of Maven and have considered writing a book on Maven2, however that’s not necessary now as Jason Van Zyl has posted his book, Maven: The Definitive Guide. It’s almost complete and when I’m finished reading it end-to-end I’ll post more comments, but since good Maven2 information is hard to find I’m posting now. There is also a downloadable version of the book.

Please give it a read and send your feedback to Jason.

I’m a big fan of the work of Jef Raskin (creator of Apple’s Macintosh) and the Humanized guys have made a really kewl tool called Enso that makes computing simpler, using some of the ideas pioneered by Jef.

I wonder how long until this is part of Windows Vista?

I’m told that Macintosh OSX has a similar feature, and so does Linux (Catapult).