The following are publications written by employees of Instantiations.

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John O'Keefe's presentation from the Smalltalk Solutions '08 conference:

• "VA Smalltalk 8.0 Preview" (2008)   (1.5mb)

John O'Keefe's presentation from the European Smalltalk User's Group (ESUG) '07 conference:

• "VA Smalltalk 7.5 and Beyond" (2007)   (3.9mb)

Eric Clayberg's presentations from the Smalltalk Solutions '04 conference:

• Advanced VisualAge Development (PPT format - 594KB)

Eric Clayberg's presentations from the Smalltalk Solutions '02 conference:

• Eclipse for Smalltalkers (PDF format - 845KB)
  • PPT format - 831KB
• Advanced VisualAge Development (PDF format - 739KB)
  • PPT format - 329KB
• Sample Code for Advanced VisualAge Development (DAT format - 98KB)

Eric Clayberg's presentation from the Smalltalk Solutions '01 conference:

• Advanced VisualAge Development
  • ss01t1_ppt.zip - 375KB
  • ss01t1_pdf.zip - 472KB
  • ss01t1_htm.zip - 885KB
• Sample Code for Advanced VisualAge Development (SmalltalkSolutionsT1.zip -76KB)

Eric Clayberg's presentation from the Smalltalk Solutions '99 conference:

• Advanced VisualAge Development (ss99s2ppt.zip - 463KB)
• Sample Code for Advanced VisualAge Development (ss99s2dat.zip - 71KB)

Allen Wirfs-Brock's Keynote presentations from the Smalltalk Solutions '97 conference:

• A short paper that summarizes the presentations
• Full presentation

Allen Wirfs-Brock & Pat Caudill paper on "A Smalltalk Virtual Machine Architectural Model":

• A Smalltalk Virtual Machine Architectural Model (avmarch.pdf - 50KB)

Allen Wirfs-Brock's proposal for Smalltalk name spaces presented at the OOPSLA'96 Workshop on Extending Smalltalk:

• Subsystems Proposal (subsys.pdf - 32KB)

Brian Wilkerson's proposal for extending Smalltalk message patterns:

• Extending the Message Pattern (varargs.pdf - 15KB)

These articles were written by Eric Clayberg and originally published in the VisualAge Magazine.
Click on any of them to download the document in Word format.

• Extending theEnvironment, Part 1 - October, 1997 (258KB)
• Extending theEnvironment, Part 2 - November, 1997 (253KB)
• Extending theEnvironment, Part 3 - February, 1998 (28KB)

• Extending theEnvironment - Source Code
  Source code examples for the above articles. Import and load the "MyTools" version 1.0 application from the MYTOOLS.DAT file.

These articles were written by Juanita J. Ewing and originally published in the Smalltalk Report.
Click on any of them to download the document in Word format.

• How Should Classes Be Initialized?
• Should Classes Have Owners?
• Class Instance Variables for Smalltalk/V
• How to Use Class Variables and Class Instance Variables
• The Dangers of Storing Objects
• Constants, Defaults and Reusability
• Exceptional Power and Control
• How to Create Smalltalk Scripts
• How to Manage Source Without Tools
• Don't Use Arrays?
• How Should Teams Organize their Applications?
• Techniques for Platform Independence
• Pools: An Attractive Nuisance
• Return Values
• Creating Subclasses
• Extending the Collection Hierarchy

Eric Clayberg's "WindowBuilder Pro: Tips and Techniques" presentation at the 1996 ParcPlace-Digitalk User's Conference

• WindowBuilder Pro: Tips and Techniques (zipped PPT 328K)