First of all, let me tell you that the most pleasant surprise with gst was the community. It's a pleasure to be here and I have to give special thanks to Stefan Schmiedl, who is investing lots of time in discussing my n00by steps and has even found the time to volunteer some code. The second thing is that being back to smalltalk is... a paradise. Back then I “learned to think” in smalltalk, so this is just like being able to communicate in one's mother language after an endless journey abroad.

There is now a public Mercurial based repository for our dictionary project, published at http://ambaradan.i-iter.org/ambaradan

Not that it contains much at the moment, apart from a few proofs of concept. Yet, I thought that if anyone was interested in the discussions about localization we are making on the mailing list, this could be of help.

This was supposed to be a mail to the list, but since I am one of those who have trouble posting from gmail, I'll better put it here.

We want to use an external CSS stylesheet on Iliad. This will make things much easier with the designers that help the project, as they shall simply edit their stuff as they usually do.

I started to adapt a basic code snippet published by Joachim Jaeckel
at http://smalltalk.gnu.org/blog/joe/first-steps-iliad-web-development-gnu-... (very useful guide! Thanks :)

So here I am, some 14 years later... That's the time that has passed since smalltalk was paying my rent. Yet, history goes in cycles, and it's smalltalk time again. I won't talk much about what I'm working on, as I'm positive I'll end up in being boring about it during the coming months. I'll rather explain why smalltalk, and why gnu-smalltalk in particular.