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ST 4U 204: Changing the Fonts in VA Smalltalk

March 9, 2012 10:34:52.267

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at changing the font used across the tools in VA Smalltalk. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:

Fonts.

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Today we'll look at changing the default font used across all VA Smalltalk tools. To start, notice the little Aa icon at the far right of the toolbar:

Fonts

Open that, and you'll get a chooser tool for fonts. Select something you would prefer - here we are picking the Impact font. Not because it's a great choice for this, but because the change will be obvious:

Fonts

After you accept the change, all the tools update. Open a few:

New Font

All of your tools now use this font.

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Money Grab

March 9, 2012 16:01:24.000

The insanity of this "search engines should pay" approach should be obvious:

Germany’s government wants search engines and news aggregators to pay news publishers for using pieces of their material.

What they want is to be paid by the people who make it easier to find their material. IMHO, Google (et. al.) should just remove all covered organizations from their search results, and see how well they like that outcome.

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IM 69: Component Studio at ESUG 2011

March 11, 2012 23:34:01.909

Welcome to episode 69 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This weekwe have another ESUG 2011 presentation - here's the abstract on the talk from Georg Heeg - this is part 1, which you can watch here if you would rather see the video.

Georg Heeg AG purchased assets of CS Component Studio GmbH including the software and rights of CS Component Set. CS Component set is a toolbox of ERP components for small and mid-size companies. It has been developed over more than a decade and is in daily use in successful companies throughout Germany. The basic idea has been to have an ERP system which has many standard components for any business and is adaptable to specific needs of special businesses and individual companies. Georg Heeg AG plans to fully support existing customers and to bring the software to an up-to-date level and to implement new and innovative applications.

You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one.

To listen now, you can either download the mp3 edition, or the AAC edition. The AAC edition comes with chapter markers. You can subscribe to either edition of the podcast directly in iTunes; just search for Smalltalk and look in the Podcast results. You can subscribe to the mp3 edition directly using this feed, or the AAC edition using this feed using any podcatching software. You can also download the podcast in ogg format.

If you like the music we use, please visit Josh Woodward's site. We use the song Troublemaker for our intro/outro music. I'm sure he'd appreciate your support!

If you have feedback, send it to jarober@gmail.com - or visit us on Facebook - you can subscribe in iTunes using this iTunes enabled feed.. If you enjoy the podcast, pass the word - we would love to have more people hear about Smalltalk!

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IM 69: Component Studio at ESUG 2011 (AAC)

March 11, 2012 23:34:34.859

Welcome to episode 69 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This weekwe have another ESUG 2011 presentation - here's the abstract on the talk from Georg Heeg - this is part 1, which you can watch here if you would rather see the video.

Georg Heeg AG purchased assets of CS Component Studio GmbH including the software and rights of CS Component Set. CS Component set is a toolbox of ERP components for small and mid-size companies. It has been developed over more than a decade and is in daily use in successful companies throughout Germany. The basic idea has been to have an ERP system which has many standard components for any business and is adaptable to specific needs of special businesses and individual companies. Georg Heeg AG plans to fully support existing customers and to bring the software to an up-to-date level and to implement new and innovative applications.

You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one.

To listen now, you can either download the mp3 edition, or the AAC edition. The AAC edition comes with chapter markers. You can subscribe to either edition of the podcast directly in iTunes; just search for Smalltalk and look in the Podcast results. You can subscribe to the mp3 edition directly using this feed, or the AAC edition using this feed using any podcatching software. You can also download the podcast in ogg format.

If you like the music we use, please visit Josh Woodward's site. We use the song Troublemaker for our intro/outro music. I'm sure he'd appreciate your support!

If you have feedback, send it to jarober@gmail.com - or visit us on Facebook - you can subscribe in iTunes using this iTunes enabled feed.. If you enjoy the podcast, pass the word - we would love to have more people hear about Smalltalk!

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ST 4U 205: A Pharo Launcher

March 12, 2012 11:26:33.454

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at the Pharo Launcher in Pharo - it works somewhat like the project launcher for VisualWorks, but it's specific to the Mac (and OS X Lion at that). You can find it in the app store. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:

Pharo Launcher

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Gemstone in the Cloud

March 12, 2012 19:22:32.113

More good cloud stuff from Gemstone:

In our previous post we used Chef to install GemStone/S 64 Bit into Cloud Foundry. Now we add code so that GemStone is recognized as a service offered by Cloud Foundry.

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JS 4U 139: JQuery Grep 1

March 13, 2012 11:11:00.675

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Today's Javascript 4 You looks at the grep() function in JQuery. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube.

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grep()

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Patents and Copyrights Jump the Shark

March 13, 2012 22:16:07.052

I think it's time to seriously consider ending copyrights and patents completely. Ask yourself - could a complete free for all be worse than what we have now?

While most of the tech world was partying at South by Southwest in Austin yesterday, Yahoo announced it was filing a lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly infringing on 10 patents from their 1,000+ patent warehouse.

As if all of that crap Yahoo claims as their work wasn't already done on some BBS system back in the early 90's. Seriously - wipe the slate clean, and just start over.

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Pharo and Squeak Roundup

March 14, 2012 8:39:06.344

Lots of news from Torsten - just start at the top and keep scrolling

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ST 4U 206: Introducing Log4s

March 14, 2012 11:01:42.253

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at log4s (a logging framework) in VA Smalltalk. Today we just scratch the surface; there will be more screencasts on this topic. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:

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Today we'll look at the logging framework that ships with VA Smalltalk - log4s (A Smalltalk port of the well known log4J package). It's already in your image, so there's no need to load it from ENVY. There are a couple of different ways to get started, but today we'll look at setting it up via the ini file. Every VA image has a corresponding (same base name) ini file - you'll want to append a new "stanza" to it. Here we are setting up a basic file logger, using the default root level logger. You can have multiple logging streams (each filtered separately) on a single logger; today we'll just look at a simple file logger. Here's the way we define that in the ini file:


[log4s]
debugEnabled=true
quietMode=false
globalLevel=All
dailyRollingFileAppender =(fileAppender, root, vaLog.log, false, Info, EsPatternLayout,
 'ڴe{ISO8601}: [%level] %message', true, topOfDay )


What that sets up is a file logger off the root (technically, a new appender - each logger can have any number of appenders associated with it). When you log something, it will appear in that log file (we specified vaLog.log above). The pattern specified how the log entry appears; the VA documentation goes through in great detail how you can customize that. To log a warning, you can do something like this:


"simple log event"
EsLogManager warn: 'This is a warning, beware!'

One caveat - the doc talks about class LogManager, while it's actually EsLogManager. The output for what we did above?

Logging

We'll get into filtering, programmatic setup and more in the future screencasts

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VA Smalltalk, .NET, and PDF

March 15, 2012 8:47:19.739

Schrievkrom talks about the twisty path he took to get all of those moving parts working together in an application.

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JS 4U 140: grep() Part 2

March 15, 2012 9:56:29.017

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Today's Javascript 4 You finishes up our look at grep(). To see part 1, go here If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube.

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grep()

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ST 4U 207: Using log4s in VA Smalltalk

March 16, 2012 9:41:29.250

Today's Smalltalk 4 You continues our examination fo log4s, setting up a new logging channel (called an appender in the framework). If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:

Logging.

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Today we'll add a new logging stream (called an appender in the framework) using log4s. The same information gets logged to all streams for a given logger; we'll look at how to add new loggers in another screencast. First, recall how we specified the root level logger in the VA ini file:


[log4s]
debugEnabled=true
quietMode=false
globalLevel=All
dailyRollingFileAppender =(fileAppender, root, vaLog.log, false, Info, EsPatternLayout,
 'ڴe{ISO8601}: [%level] %message', true, topOfDay )


Now, if we send a logging event, as we do below, it drops out to our specified log file:


"simple log event"
EsLogManager warn: 'This is a warning, beware!'

What if we wanted another stream, on the Transcript? We could specify that in the ini file, or in code - as follows:


"Add a transcript appender programmatically"
level := EsLogManager getLevel: 'All'.
pattern := EsPatternLayout new: 'ڴe{ISO8601}: [%level] %message'.
transcriptAppender := EsTranscriptAppender level: level layout:  pattern.
logger addAppender: transcriptAppender.

Now, if we send that logging event again, it'll not only go to the file, but also to the Transcript:

Logging

We'll get into setting up new loggers in a future screencast

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On Mass Effect 3

March 16, 2012 17:03:28.061

I'm not going to give away any spoilers in this post - I'll link to this, which explains in very good detail what's wrong with the ending. Which is too bad, really - the rest of ME3 is quite good.

Here's what BioWare should do: release DLC that gives players the kinds of ending choices discussed in the linked article.

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