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This website offers a web service to easily share Smalltalk workspaces. It is a pastebin for Smalltalk. Using a subclass of the standard Workspace tool called ZnWorkspace, you can easily publish the contents of any workspace to this website.
Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at open editions in VA Smalltalk (using ENVY) - specifically, how to figure out which classes you have open (in which applications) at any given time. 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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If you follow the recommended development process using VA Smalltalk and ENVY (detailed here), you'll need to track down and release your open class editions on a regular basis. If you're working in one or two applications, that's pretty easy - but what if you have a lot of them? There's some query support in VA Smalltalk that makes this easy. Go to the Tools menu in the launcher, and pull it right at Query:
Results for each query are displayed in the Transcript, rather than in a pop up window. For instance, say you need to know about the open class editions:
You can execute a number of other queries from this menu - they all report to the Transcript
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We bought a second AppleTV a little while ago - my wife wanted one set to her account, and the pro=ice is certainly right for that sort of thing. However, the thing had issues right from the start. Whenever we would try to watch anything (even the settings screens), the TV would lose the signal from it every minute or so for a couple of seconds. I was pretty sure that it was a hardware issue, but went ahead and did a factory reset anyway. Lo and behold, the thing updated itself, reset, and now it seems to be working fine. We'll have to see if the problem resurfaces, but right now, it looks good. Weird problem....
the company [Amazon] has just received a patent on what has become a common method of giving presents — a system for selecting digital gifts such as movies, music or e-books, sending an electronic notification to a recipient, and allowing them to download the gift.
Never mind technical expertise; what kind of utter moron thought that was worthy of a patent?
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http://smalltalkhub.com is not only a new website for Smalltalk. If you look at the bottom of the page you will notice that is based on Pharo, Seaside, MongoDB and also the client side Amber Smalltalk that helps running the nice looking pages.
Welcome to episode 21 of "Thu'umcast" - a podcast where Michael Lucas-Smith, Scott Dirk, Austin Haley, Makahlua and I document our trials and tribulations in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
We're back, and we talk about three things: the Dawnguard DLC that just had a teaser trailer released, the Elder Scrolls MMO that's been talked up, and the stuff going on with the Skyrim Steam Workshop
If you liked our work on That Podcast, you'll probably like this. We intend to stay with the same idea - a gameplay podcast. If you don't want spoilers, don't listen - we are going to be talking about how we play the game, and what we ran across as we played.
Welcome to episode 21 of "Thu'umcast" - a podcast where Michael Lucas-Smith, Scott Dirk, Austin Haley, Makahlua and I document our trials and tribulations in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
We're back, and we talk about three things: the Dawnguard DLC that just had a teaser trailer released, the Elder Scrolls MMO that's been talked up, and the stuff going on with the Skyrim Steam Workshop
If you liked our work on That Podcast, you'll probably like this. We intend to stay with the same idea - a gameplay podcast. If you don't want spoilers, don't listen - we are going to be talking about how we play the game, and what we ran across as we played.
Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at making external API calls using 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:
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Today we'll take a look at how to make external API calls from VA Smalltalk. IN this example, we'll call the MessageBoxA API in Windows:
The code looks like this:
| pf |
pf := PlatformFunction fromArray: #('C' 'MessageBoxA' nil 'user32.dll' #(#uint32 #pointer #pointer #uint32) #int32).
pf
callWith: PlatformGlobals::HwndNull
with: 'this is some text' asPSZ
with: 'this is a caption' asPSZ
with: PlatformConstants::MbYesno
To understand what's going on in the ByteArray of arguments, have a look at class PlatformFunction:
Bear in mind that this example is a bit artificial; the class CwPrompter exists in VA< and uses this API already. However, it does give you a simple example of making an API call, and you can follow the same pattern for your own work.
Need more help? There's a screencast for other topics like this which you may want to watch. Questions? Try the "Chat with James" Google gadget over in the sidebar.
Welcome to episode 80 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.
This week we have David Buck talking about Fluid Positioning (automated layout adjustment) for VisualWorks at the STIC conference held in March, 2012.
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!
Welcome to episode 80 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.
This week we have David Buck talking about Fluid Positioning (automated layout adjustment) for VisualWorks at the STIC conference held in March, 2012.
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!
Is Nintendo signalling a desire to expand beyond the casual gaming niche they've done so well with? Take a look at the "pro" controller they are showing off for the next gen console:
Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at the new Spotlight style search in Pharo. This is in Pharo 2.0, which is not released yet - so be aware that you may run into some rough edges with it. 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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PharoConf was held at Inria Lille the 24 and 25 of May 2012. Two days of Pharo, lots of talks, discussions and short presentations of companies using Pharo.
You can browse the slides (and see some photos snapped at the conference) here.
Today's Javascript 4 You uses JQuery to count the number of elements (of a specific sort) on a page. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube.
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