Scratch has finally reached Debian repositories. Scratch is a programming learning environment created by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab designed to be accessible by young learners (over 8 years old). Scratch makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art through a visual interface based on blocks. Thus, beginners can get results without having to learn to write syntactically correct code first. It is powerful enough to have even been adopted as an entry-level computer language in computer science programs at different universities.
Today's Javascript 4 You looks at the standard effects you can apply to JQ UI widgets in JQuery. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube.
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Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at setting up a socket based listener 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 again look at using sockets for basic communication in VA Smalltalk. This time, we'll set up the socket server in VA Smalltalk, and have VW Smalltalk interact with that. To get started, load the TCP support into VA:
That loads in the basic support we need. Here's the VA code to run:
Once you have the VA side running, try the VW code. You should see the following in the Transcript in VA:
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I patched together some of the video we shot last night as we lit off some fireworks. We still have a lot left, because the festivities got cut off around 10 pm :)
Welcome to episode 26 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
Today's episode doesn't have much to do with Dawnguard - Michael Lucas-Smith and James Robertson instead turned to mods (and to a small extent, to the Dawnguard XBox exclusive). What's covered is the mods we have installed, and what they add to our Skyrim experience. That conversation took long enough that this was split into two pieces. This is part 2 - if you missed part 1, you should start there.
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 26 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
Today's episode doesn't have much to do with Dawnguard - Michael Lucas-Smith and James Robertson instead turned to mods (and to a small extent, to the Dawnguard XBox exclusive). What's covered is the mods we have installed, and what they add to our Skyrim experience. That conversation took long enough that this was split into two pieces. This is part 2 - if you missed part 1, you should start there.
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 85 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.
This week we have another session from STIC 2012 - Bob Nemec talking about PDF4Smalltalk. If you would prefer to watch the video, then head on over to the STIC site. The abstract for this talk:
At ESUG 2011 Christian Haider presented a framework for building PDF documents from VW Smalltalk. This deep and complex tool is intended to be the bottom layer of a PDF report framework. It provides a rich set of tools for building the PDF document output, but creating the report output is your responsibility. We have built a PDF Report framework that uses pdf4smalltalk. It handles the basics, like layout, alignment, justification, margins, padding, lines, tables, fonts and images. We find it to be a handy tool for building reports in Seaside applications, since the documents can be created on the server and then be provided as PDF documents to the browser for local printing.
This presentation will show how PDF Report builds report content and how it interfaces to pdf4smalltalk. We will also discuss our long term plans for the framework, which include migration to VA Smalltalk and GemStone.
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 85 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.
This week we have another session from STIC 2012 - Bob Nemec talking about PDF4Smalltalk. If you would prefer to watch the video, then head on over to the STIC site. The abstract for this talk:
At ESUG 2011 Christian Haider presented a framework for building PDF documents from VW Smalltalk. This deep and complex tool is intended to be the bottom layer of a PDF report framework. It provides a rich set of tools for building the PDF document output, but creating the report output is your responsibility. We have built a PDF Report framework that uses pdf4smalltalk. It handles the basics, like layout, alignment, justification, margins, padding, lines, tables, fonts and images. We find it to be a handy tool for building reports in Seaside applications, since the documents can be created on the server and then be provided as PDF documents to the browser for local printing.
This presentation will show how PDF Report builds report content and how it interfaces to pdf4smalltalk. We will also discuss our long term plans for the framework, which include migration to VA Smalltalk and GemStone.
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!
Pharo is a fork from the Squeak open-source Smalltalk and provides an incredibly rich development environment. As a consultant people pay me to design and write code in Ruby, Clojure, Common Lisp, and Java. That said, for non-work related experiments, Pharo is a lot of fun to use: a modern and free Smalltalk environment. I just wanted to say thanks to the Pharo team: great work! I recently downloaded the 2.0 development build - exciting to see new features. One thing in particular that strikes me as awesome about Pharo is that it is very light weight, using little memory and CPU resources. I wrote a blog 5 years ago about deploying Squeak to Linux servers. I am a little surprised that Pharo is not more widely used for rich web applications
Namespaces allow two classes with the same name to live in a single image. Creating namespaces has been a goal for Squeak since it’s creation. Nothing has seemed quite right. Using Newspeak as his inspiration, Colin Putney has created Environments. Explore this innovation with the mailing list conversation and a downloadable image
Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at some of the stock queries you can make of your VA system from the launcher. 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 some of the queries you can use - directly off the VA Smalltalk launcher - to get information about your applications. To get started, pull down the Tools menu, and then pull right at Query:
What that exposes is a set of stock ENVY queries you can use to diagnose possible issues in your library. For instance, in a large project it may be useful to select the first one - Open Editions - to see what you have going on. One thing you need to be aware of is that these queries all report answers to the Transcript:
Just try them out and see what kinds of responses you get. As you develop your codebase, come back to these tools to see what's going on.
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The above Linux command will download, install and run a Pharo Smalltalk HTTP Server on a stock Linux server. In well under a minute (in 10 seconds below, actually), you can browse http://localhost:1701 and all this with way less than 20Mb being downloaded. Mind you, this is quick hack, for some this will be old news, for others I hope this feels like magic
Today's Javascript 4 You looks at making widgets resizable (by the user) in the JQuery UI library. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube.
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Interestingly enough, I couldn't find this information from the Cincom Smalltalk website - but there was a note posted to the vw-dev mailing list earlier today in response to a question about VisualWorks 7.9:
The products (ObjectStudio 8.4 and VisualWorks 7.9) are available. You can either request a copy from your local sales representative or you can go to cincomsmalltalk.com and order a copy on your own.
That's from Suzanne Fortman in their developer's mailing list, so it's official. The embedded link goes to the request page, not the top of the site.
Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at a small thing in Monticello - how to compare versions of a package easily. 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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Memcached is a free & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system. If you want to use it with Pharo just use the ConfigurationOfMemcached.
GemStone/S 64 3.1.0 was released July 5, 2012.GemStone/S 64 Bit 3.1.0 is a major new version, including many new features as well as enhancements to existing features and bug fixes.
Today's Javascript 4 You looks at making widgets selectable in the JQuery UI library. 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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