The author of this blog, James Robertson, passed away in April 2014. This blog is being maintained by David Buck (david@simberon.com).
The good news: I got xAuth working against Twitter this morning - my mistake was stupid - you have to double encode things, and I wasn't doing that. So that's good. The bad news?
This server (and the one over at Cincom) is running on VW 7.6. My first try at backporting ran into a number of small problems, so I've decided to take the other route: updating the servers to 7.7.1. It's probably a good idea anyway :)
I finally figured out what I've been doing wrong with the base access token requests - you have to toss an ampersand at the end of the consumer secret. Small thing, but it was the dumb thing I was forgetting. Now I'm looking at making API calls, and that looks kind of painful - you have to embed the API call into the xAuth signature, and the arguments for that need to be sorted. Which makes the whole thing way more painful than it needs to be.
Anyway, if I have time over the weekend, I think I'll have this working against Twitter.
- Learn how to install Cherokee Web Server on Ubuntu Linux through Launchpad
- configure Cherokee to serve static files for a Seaside application
- start an headless Seaside image
Between Smalltalk TV, PharoCasts, and the Smalltalk Daily work I do, there's a ton of video tutorial content for Smalltalk out there now.
The folks behind SqueakDBX - a high level database interface for Squeak - have pushed out version 1.2:
Hi folks. We are realeasing SqueakDBX 1.2, just an small release. For those who doesn't know, SqueakDBX is a database driver to connect to most of the existing databases. For more details, please read www.squeakdbx.org
Follow the link for more details.
Smalltalk Solutions is back in 2011 - March 13-16 in Las Vegas, Nevada. A call for participation will be going out soon - you can look for updates here, and on the STIC site.
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Bernard Pottier sent me an update on the network simulation stuff I saw last year at ESUG:
a simulation for a bus encountering networks of wireless sensors that could be installed on bus stop, and computing on the fly on these networks (bounding box)
a similar simulation for a virtual boat reproducing the Azenor navigation in a distribution of sensors along the shore.
It's a pretty cool project, with the CUDA integration done by one of Bernard's students, Thibault Failler. Cool stuff!
There have been some updates to the internals of Store in VW 7.1.1 and OS 8.2.1 - the database layer is all Glorp now. Aditionally, the UI has gotten a facelift. When you browsed code in a repository in past releases, you got the ugly (and very outdated) 5i browser. Now you get the RB, although it's in read-only mode. When you start a browse operaton, you'll see this:
Once the package or bundle loads (in this case, a bundle), you'll see this - I've expanded the tree:
Finally, after selecting a class and a method:
The whole experience matches browsing in-image code a lot better now.
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There's a Smalltalk User's Group in India now
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The PetitParser is availabel for Cincom Smalltalk, Pharo, and GNU Smalltalk - and there are loading instructions for all of those dialects at the link above. As well, there's a post explaining how to get started with the tool here.
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The NYC Smalltalk User's Group has their next meeting set for September 22 - follow the link for time and location details:
Sean DeNigris is the President and Lead Scientist of Clipper Adams, a NYC-based consulting firm. His mission is to support people in fulfilling on what matters to them. Therefore, most of his current work is on realizing Doug Engelbart’s vision of making a difference in the world by using computers to enhance human intellect. For ten years, he has gotten into the minds of users and created the business software they would have created (if they knew how to program). He is also a regular contributor to Squeak and Pharo, and participates in the Smalltalk community and its conferences world-wide.
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