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Smalltalk web app deployment on headless Linux server

We wrote a small prototype web app using Pharo and Seaside and we want to now demonstrate to the suits that the app can be deployed into our standard Linux build. We use a mix of CentOS, Ubuntu Server and Gentoo which are run headless since most of our apps are JAVA/Apache based. Only port 80 and 443 are open to the outside world. What ...

Working with Excel files in web app frameworks like Seaside

Ive been reading about seaside and like the sound of it but i cant see an easy way for handling data files, primarily importing Excel. Of course csv files would be more straight forward, but are there any ways to import the various Excel formats (xls,xlsx) without writing your own file parsing routines? I've heard that the need to open...

Is there an easy way to add an API to a Seaside web app?

Is there an easy way to add an API to your Seaside web application, just something to allow users to submit a new record with a few plaintext fields for example? (REST would be ideal) ...

How to access the jQuery event object in a Seaside callback

Basically, I want to translate the following into Seaside Smalltalk: $(".myDiv").bind('click', function(e) { console.log(e); }); Besides that I don't want to console.log the event, but access it in my ajax callback. The most promising approach seemed to be something like html div onClick: (html jQuery ajax callback: [:v | s...

Is Seaside still a valid option?

Seaside just released a release candidate for the upcoming 3.0 version, so it appeared on my radar again. As I'm currently pondering what web framework to use for a future project, I wonder whether it's something to consider. Alas, most of the publicity for Seaside is from '07, which is probably one or two generations for the web. So I'm...