Welcome to episode 81 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.
This week David and I talked about the perils of upgrading - or of not upgrading - your Smalltalk application. There are risks either way, but in th eend, it usually pays to keep as current as business conditions allow for.
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 81 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.
This week David and I talked about the perils of upgrading - or of not upgrading - your Smalltalk application. There are risks either way, but in th eend, it usually pays to keep as current as business conditions allow for.
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!
Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at an interesting feature of the Finder in Pharo - if you know what a method does, but can't come up with the name, you still have some options. 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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Back in April, I forgot to put a few of the relevant federal forms into the mail for the state of Maryland (I had to mail because TurboTax told me that my forms couldn't be e-filed - go figure). I got a penalty notice a month later, which was not a huge surprise. I called, was told to send the forms in, and did so.
Wait one month, another notice arrives. I call again - this time, I'm told that if I mailed the forms, they would get lost. This was, shall we say, a surprise - I asked whether a check would get lost if I had sent one (that yielded an awkward silence). Fine, fine - what's the right procedure? I'm supposed to fax the documents.
Hmmm - fortunately, I have an ancient (20 years old!) fax/printer sitting in the corner. I get the phone line plugged into it, have the half remembered arguments with it over paper jams, and proceed to fax the 20+ pages. Then I call back, and ask whether they got the fax - "who knows", is the response.
And people wonder why I'm cynical over any plan that involves a bigger role for government....
Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at the settings code in Pharo - specifically, how do you figure out what the code behind a setting is if you need that?. 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's Javascript 4 You looks at the datepicker widget in the JQuery UI widget set. Note that the screencast shows it unstyled; to see the default style, you'll want to include a link to the stock CSS included in the widget set. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube.
Join the Facebook Group to discuss the tutorials. You can view the archives here.
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Still interested in submitting something for IWST at ESUG 2012? You now have until June 25:
We would like to inform you that we will extend the deadline for IWST 2012 submission to Monday, June 25th. We have received several requests asking for a delay concerning the submission deadline. Please can you disseminate this information and use the CFP to invite some of your colleagues/students/partners to submit papers. Your support is essential to make IWST 2012 a success.
Today's Smalltalk 4 You starts looking into the XML support 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:
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Today we'll start looking at the XML support in VA Smalltalk - what to load, and how to get started with it. In the Features list, you'll want to load two things:
XML Support
XML Examples
As a starting point, let's look at the base XML parser - we're going to read in a large XML file (something produced by BottomFeeder).
To get an XML Document, you just need to execute the following (note that we aren't using validation; if you have a schema, you can provide that and turn validation on):
The argument can be either a file path or URI. You should see something like this if you inspect that:
That's about it for today - we'll start doing some more involved work with XML over the next few screencasts.
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.
Arden Thomas, Cincom's Smalltalk product manager, has asked for feedback on a new text editor that's being built for VW:
We are in the process of revamping and modernizing our text editor, which is used in a number of places in the product. What are your wishes/needs/requirements in a text editor? Any api level access you have dreamed about to accomplish some tasks? Any current restrictions that are an obstacle?
If you subscribe to the VW-Dev or VWNC mailing lists, drop them a line there.
Chris presented his work on the Cairo Graphics Kit (CGK) for Cincom's VisualWorks. The GCK is a collection of packages that further enhance the CairoGraphics and Pango packages already provided by Cincom. It provides new views, widgets and wrappers that leverage the cairo and Pango bindings. The development effort started out of necessity for more advanced UI graphics while still using familiar VisualWorks UI development tools. The CGK is also a free bundle licensed under LGPL for use in VisualWorks 7.7 and above. Detailed information about the Cairo Graphics Kit can be found at www.mycairographics.com. I'll also explain how the CGK is used within our own products at Lam Research and I'll talk about how we were successful in integrating Cairo into an existing, large scale VisualWorks Smalltalk project without sacrificing the expected quality of our code.
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!
Chris presented his work on the Cairo Graphics Kit (CGK) for Cincom's VisualWorks. The GCK is a collection of packages that further enhance the CairoGraphics and Pango packages already provided by Cincom. It provides new views, widgets and wrappers that leverage the cairo and Pango bindings. The development effort started out of necessity for more advanced UI graphics while still using familiar VisualWorks UI development tools. The CGK is also a free bundle licensed under LGPL for use in VisualWorks 7.7 and above. Detailed information about the Cairo Graphics Kit can be found at www.mycairographics.com. I'll also explain how the CGK is used within our own products at Lam Research and I'll talk about how we were successful in integrating Cairo into an existing, large scale VisualWorks Smalltalk project without sacrificing the expected quality of our code.
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!