Last week’s Friday podcast ran afoul of travel craziness but the series continues this week with a further exploration of Dabble DB, the through-the-web database that was also featured in a screencast. In my conversation with Avi Bryant and Andrew Catton we explore some of the underpinnings of Dabble, including the remarkable fact that it’s written in the Squeak implementation of Smalltalk.

I’ve underplayed that point until now, because I’m trying to broaden the appeal of what I do, but it turns out that Dabble DB is a great example of how dynamic languages can produce effects that people see, interact with, and care very much about. Programmers aren’t the only ones to benefit from direct manipulation of objects, continuous refinement, and always-live data. We all need things to work that way, so it’s cool to see how the dynamic qualities of Dabble’s Smalltalk engine bubble up into the application.