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by James Robertson.
Original Post: What's great about Smalltalk
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One of the people now running a blog on this site asked me about improving the look and feel of the pages. I'll admit, I'm no whiz when it comes to laying out web pages - I settled on what's here now more out of exasperation than anything else. The upshot of the request was for a few new, convenient API's for getting content from the back end - allowing for a more flexible layout. That's where the power of Smalltalk helped me out again. I fired up the test server here, wrote some new code, tested it out (against the running test server) - and then versioned it off. Once I did that, I posted two things to the server
The incremental changes I just made
The new version of the loadable components
I didn't have to restart the server - it has a convenient patch interface. So I loaded up the patch, and now the new interfaces are available for use. No fuss, no muss, no restarts. That's what I love about Smalltalk
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