Smalltalk with James Robertson

Looks like a new video site devoted to Pharo has popped up - the videos are all Vimeo embeds, so there's no feed for iTunes, but you can watch over there.

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I'll be heading out to do some roadshows with the Smalltalk team at Cincom - we'll be in Seattle, Toronto, and Baltimore:

Date Location Time January 21, Seattle, Washington Crowne Plaza of Seattle Corner of 6th and Seneca 9 AM - 1 PM January 26, Toronto, Ontario Hilton Garden Inn Toronto City Centre 200 Dundas Street East 9 AM - 1 PM January 28, Baltimore, MD TBD 9 AM - 1 PM

You can register to let us know you're coming - it's free. We'll have plenty to say about the new releases of ObjectStudio and VisualWorks, as well as WebVelocity. See you there!

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Today we take a look at a new feature in VW 7.7: Embedding ActiveX components (on Windows, obviously) into VisualWorks windows.

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Here's something that hasn't been possible in VisualWorks before the 7.7 release:

That's the QuickTime ActiveX control embedded in a VW Window, with a small list of movies in the listbox to load. I think Monday's screencast will be on this :)

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VisualGST has made it to release 0.7 - looks like some good stuff made it into the build. We did a podcast with Gwenael on this at ESUG last year.

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After doing today's screencast, I got to thinking about the older idea of Smalltalk projects. Squeak still has them, I think - you could create a "project" and get a set of tools that opened in a pre-defined way. Taking the idea of a limited browser view and projects together though, and I think you could build a lightweight project browser. Consider the idea:

Instead of just "select some packages and limit the view", what if you could select some packages, give that selection set a name, and then save that name? Then, instead of having to recreate a selection set as you worked in an image, you could bounce between named "projects". Sound like a reasonable idea?

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When you are working in Smalltalk, you typically work in a small number of packages and bundles. If the names of those are separated (alphabetically speaking), going back and forth in the browser can mean a lot of scrolling. So - today's screencast introduces a small package you can load that lets you limit the package view to a small number of packages/bundles you select.

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Awhile back, Randy Coulman did some work to integrate Smalltalk (VisualWorks) with Cruise Control - now it looks like some Squeakers have done something similar with Hudson:

Yanni Chiu created a project "Hudson Build" allowing you automate a build through a shell script run by Hudson, and view the SUnit test results through Hudson. Lukas now uses this to build seaside and pharo smalltalk images and monitor the builds in his Hudson server.

This is the kind of thing I'd like to see more of...

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The Smalltalk team at Cincom is getting ready to come out to see you - we'll be visiting the following cities soon: January 21: Seattle, Washington January 26: Toronto, Ontario January 28: Baltimore/Washington

These are all free events - you can register for any of them by following this link. Each of them is a half day, 9 AM - 1 PM. We'll see you on the road!

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Sometimes it's useful to be able to track down all references to a specific primitive - primitives being the call interface between the image and the VM. Today's screencast shows you how to do that:

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