Smalltalk with James Robertson

ESUG has announced the timing and venue:

The ESUG board is glad to announce that the 2012 ESUG conference will be held at Gent in Belgium 27-31 August; Camp Smalltalk 25-26 August

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I noticed last week in one of the mailing lists that the build tool I published awhile ago (BuilderBundle in the Cincom Repository) was out of date. I did much of the work for that in VW 7.6 (which the shop I work in is still using) - but I did update the tools to 7.8 earlier this year for one of the internal customers we have that is on 7.8. Long story short, I finally updated the package. It should work in in anything from 7.6 on up, but you should verify that yourself :)

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Scripy does that:

Scripy is a repository for scripts written in a Workspace. It allows people to share install scripts and preferences/settings. The repository has been seeded with install scripts from Squeak's Extending The System and Pharo's DEVImageWorkspaces. You don't need the plugin.

Follow the link for more details, and a video of Scripy in action.

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The Squeak Oversight Board has announced the 4.3 release.

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The rename of SqueakDBX to DBXTalk has run into a few interesting landmines:

Thanks for the tip. I was aware of the rename to DBXTalk, but not the change to ConfigurationOfOpenDBXDriver. The new site says "Welcome to SqueakDBX", and refers only to ConfigurationOfSqueakDBX. Further offtopic but perhaps of interest to others... The DBXTalk site was difficult to find. For me google results only show it on the second page. I lament for your sake the loss of the squeakdbx.org domain. You may have had better better results holding on to it for a couple of years coupled with a 301 redirect. As well as losing the immediate redirects from the existing links on other web sites, including your own, the cybersquatter now on squeakdbx.org may compromise the ranking of your new site, along with additional "content duplication/spam" reasons discussed here.

In internet terms, it pays to give the initial naming some thought - because changing it has its own issues.

The next UK Smalltalk meeting is on December 19th:

Just a quick reminder that the next UK Smalltalk User Group ( http://www.uksmalltalk.org/ ) meeting is on this coming Monday, 19th December at 6.30pm at it’s usual location The Counting House.

It has a Christmas theme. Mulled wine and mince pies courtesy of Cincom when you arrive and drinks at their expense for the evening.

If that isn’t enough to tempt you we are discussing the ideas for next year’s meet ups. We have around 50 ideas and only 12 evenings. This is your chance to help decide which will make interesting and entertaining events.

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Spotted in Planet Squeak

This post summarises the result of discussion on the pharo-project mailling list where I sought assistance getting ODBC working on Pharo 1.3.  Credit goes to Mariano Peck and Eliot Mirranda for assistance troubleshooting, providing a slightly older configuration that worked, and then the latest VM build.  I am happy to report that ODBC appears to be working with the Pharo 1.3 image on MS Windows 7 using CogVM version 2522.

There's a lot of detail in the post, so go ahead and follow the link for all of that.

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Everything that was recorded at the 2010 conference is now uploaded to the ESUG Video Channel

Update: Video from the 2011 conference is still being processed. They have over 4GB of raw feed, and trust me - it's a lot of work dealing with that :)

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I may have to try this out - I upload to S3 a lot:

I needed a client to interface with S3 from Linux to store and retrieve archives and backups up to 100s of Mb large. Although I had already written a client for this web service in Pharo some time ago, I thought it would not be good enough for these amounts of data. Furthermore, it had no command line interface. So I Googled and found s3cmd. This installed easily and quickly in Ubuntu. Uploading/downloading some small test files went OK. However, uploading large files gave all kinds of strange errors, even though I was doing this from EC2 directly on the Amazon network. I don't know Python so I was not capable of debugging the tool.

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I've posted the slide decks (PDF) from yesterday's talks in Chicago. It was a lot of fun, and I think the audience enjoyed the talks as well.

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