The author of this blog, James Robertson, passed away in April 2014. This blog is being maintained by David Buck (david@simberon.com).
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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On January 26th, there will be two Cincom Smalltalk events in Toronto, Ontario:
The evening event is at a new location, so if you've been to a TSUG meeting before, this is not in the same place.
The code editor in Cincom Smalltalk can be a bit basic - there are some loadable packages available that enhance it. Today we'll take a look at oe of them, and show you where to find others.
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The Ottawa STUG has Dave Buck on January 13:
Over the years, there have been several attempts to build a reporting framework in Smalltalk. It's difficult, though, to build a framework that has the power to produce the kind of reports expected in modern systems. David will talk about various approaches he's used in the past along with his current favorite of using Apace FOP.
Follow the link for the location and contact info. Dave is one of the best Smalltalkers I know; if you're near Ottawa then, make a point to check it out.
What do you do if you start up VisualWorks and all you see is decompiled code? This video shows you what's probably wrong, and how to fix it.
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Looks like the Gemstone folks have split video from their presentation at Smalltalks 2009 into multiple parts, and have released the first part.
Gemstone has released part 2
Gemstone has released part 3
Gemstone has released part 4
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The Cincom Smalltalk team be coming to see you later this month:
Attendance is free; you can register here. We're prepared to show you what's new and exciting in the product suite - VW 7.7 and OS 8.2 have just been released, and Web Velocity 1.0 has only been out for a little while. So... here's a question: if you plan to attend one of these events, what would you like to see? What topics would you like to see covered? Drop a comment, or send me email.
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We're closer to the NC release at Cincom - the shipments of the commercial product are just starting to go out (after the holiday break), and we thought it would bad form to get the NC in people's hands before paying customers saw the bits :)
There are also a few loose ends being wrapped up technically on the NC installlers, but we think all of this stuff is close. You should expect to see VW 7.7 and OS 8.2 NC available within a week or two (fingers crossed)
Ok, this is an interesting little trend - James Ladd has been working on a Smalltalk implementation that would run on the JVM (part of his motivation is the widespread installation of the JVM, part is the widespread usage of tools like Eclipse). Now I see that there's some work to make it possible to develop Gemstone/S on Eclipse:
GemDev is (highly) experimental implementation of Eclipse-based IDE for GemStone Smalltalk, with intention to bring mainstream tools to Smalltalk. IDE provides features like Smalltalk Browser, code editor or object inspector. Basic navigation functionality (searching for references/implementors/senders) is available together with syntax coloring, hyperlinking, on the fly syntax error checking and code warnings.
Meanwhile, the Web Velocity team has been working to make Smalltalk available in a completely new environment - native web browser based tools. One thing is for sure - there's a lot of interesting "break the traditional metaphors" work going on, which is good - stagnation is death :)
Here's Yann Monclair at ESUG 2009, talking about some of the downsides of flexibility in Smalltalk. To get a copy of his slides, click here. To watch, click on the viewer below:
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