About Tideland
Philosophy
Many software solutions tend to be more complex than needed. The reason often is the usage of standard technology and products to reduce the risk. But this way ignores the risk of not handable or maintainable products due to these overcomplex standard products.
Tideland is a small free group of software developers which use software products and designs that support a fast and easy development and a good maintainability for the future. Our free software is based on dynamic languages like Smalltalk, Python and Ruby and we've got no fear to create solutions off the beaten track.
Enjoy ...
News
June 26th, 2006 at 22:00 — Tideland SOS
SOS 1.0.0 beta 2006-06-26 is available
The initial SOS Release 1.0.0 beta 2006-06-26 is available. You can
download it here. Informations about it
are in our 
wiki.
June 26th, 2006 at 21:55 — Tideland CSL
CSL 1.0.0 beta 2006-06-26 is available
The initial CSL Release 1.0.0 beta 2006-06-26 is available. You can
download it here. Informations about it
are in our wiki.
February 08th, 2006 at 22:45 — Tideland DCP
DCP 1.5.0 is available
The new DCP Release 1.5.0 now can create DIVs with a given CSS class. You can download it here.
January 04th, 2006 at 16:14 — Miscellaneous
Happy New Year 2006
Hello, we wish you all a happy new year 2006 and that all your whishes and plans become true. So here are a few informations about our plans in 2006. After some time spending in the exploration of VisualWorks and Ruby we now continue our activities with Squeak.
First of all our Smalltalk Object Sink (SOS) will now really reach beta early this year. Two strategies for PostgreSQL und SQLite as backends are working with navigational access and queries. Additionally an in-memory database backend with a flat file for storrage is currently under development. Missing parts are only some unit test refactorings and two components for the integration into the tiny components container of the Common Smalltalk Library (CSL).
Because the CSL is the base library for all Tideland Smalltalk projects it will released as beta together with the SOS. Another important foundation for our web-based applications is the Net Business Library (NBL). It will undergo a greater refactoring in 2006. Why that? Because we detected an architectural problem handling multiple forms in one portal. Even if this could be solved technologically the question is why a web application should emulate a multi windowed environment while every one can open multiple browsers or browser tabs. So the refactoring will focus ergonomic web applications.
The first greater application using the CSL, SOS and NBL will be the Dynamic Content Processor (DCP) Release 2.0.0. It will move the logic from a CGI script into an application server with more features and online editing. The beta release is targeted for summer 2006.
Beside this we're doing some research for a project named My Geographical Environment (MGE). This will be a web application integrated into the DCP. So users can manage and visualize points of interest or GPS tracks.
So this year will be an exciting year. Stay tuned ...
July 21th, 2005 at 20:48 — Tideland SOS
Almost reached beta
After a pause I've continued the SOS implementation. Today the basic framework seems to be ready. All units tests are green, but there's still no caching. The strategy for the usage of PostgreSQL as backend is also working. This includes the garbage collection. I'll now extend the unit testing for mass tests.