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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 ...