Amber Smalltalk Games
Ludus is a game framework for Amber Smalltalk (the Smalltalk on top of JavaScript). Today I checked out the Sokoban game example which is written in it.
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The author of this blog, James Robertson, passed away in April 2014. This blog is being maintained by David Buck (david@simberon.com).
Ludus is a game framework for Amber Smalltalk (the Smalltalk on top of JavaScript). Today I checked out the Sokoban game example which is written in it.
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Today's Javascript 4 You looks at setting JQuery UI widgets to be draggable on the canvas. 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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BOSS is the "binary object storage service" in VisualWorks Smalltalk. But now BOSS also depicts a project on robots simulation written in Smalltalk done at the Ecole des Mines de Douai.
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Colin Putney announced his "Altitude" web framework for Squeak Smalltalk as open source under MIT license. It's a brand-new, from-scratch HTTP server and application framework written on top of Xtreams. One needs an up to-date 4.4. image. Code is here and Colin provided a load script.
Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at the inspector in VA Smalltalk - a powerful tool for examining objects. 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 inspectors in VA Smalltalk. Specifically, the general inspector, and the inspector used for dictionaries. To start with, we'll inspect a couple of simple objects: an array and a dictionary:
Now, select the array, and inspect it. You should see what we have below: the indices of the array on the left (if this were a non-array, those would be instance variables), and the values held in those slots to the right:
Next, inspect the dictionary - it looks much the same, with the keys on the left, and their values on the right:To see something a bit different for the dictionary inspector, let's evaluate something with a lot more keys: CwConstants.
Notice how groups of keys are on the top left (Alphabetically organized, in this case), and, if we select a group, we can see each individual key on the lower left. The values still appear on the right
Now, for dictionaries like this one, we can see a specific addition for the inspector on dictionaries. Right click on a key - notice the menu that pops up? It's different than the one we saw for arrays:
Try browsing references. For the one shown above, you'll see where that key is used in the system:
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.
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We integrated 30 fixes (the rounded number is completely casual) and integrated some tools that users feedback showed as necessary, specially the inclusion of OmniBrowser as part of the core for 1.4. As a result of all this changes and fixes, the stability of this version is a lot better and we are really happy with it.
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Welcome to episode 30 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 covers the sad tale of "when mods attack". Michael's level 70 character is fatally broken due to a bad interaction between the Skyrim game engine and the mods that he installed. We talk about how that happened, and go fairly deep into the technical details. 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. |
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Links to all episodes and other information can be found on the Thu'umcast page.
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Got feedback? Tweet us!. Enjoy the podcast, and we'll see you in Skyrim!
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Welcome to episode 30 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 covers the sad tale of "when mods attack". Michael's level 70 character is fatally broken due to a bad interaction between the Skyrim game engine and the mods that he installed. We talk about how that happened, and go fairly deep into the technical details. 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. |
You can subscribe in iTunes (or any podcatcher) using this feed, or this one for the AAC edition. We'll add the iTunes specific links as soon as they are available. In the meantime, join the Facebook Group and follow us on Twitter. If you play on Steam, join the Steam Group. Like the music? Pay Sbeast a visit, we thank him for letting us use it!
Links to all episodes and other information can be found on the Thu'umcast page.
If you want to download the podcast directly, we've provided it in three formats:
Got feedback? Tweet us!. Enjoy the podcast, and we'll see you in Skyrim!
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Today's Javascript 4 You looks at setting up JQ UI widgets to be user sortable (rearrangeable). 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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Today's Smalltalk 4 You goes deeper into the VA Smalltalk inspector. 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 continue with inspectors in VA Smalltalk. One thing to bear in mind is that you are inspecting the live object - try inspecting the code below:
1 to: 100 by: 20.
You should see an inspector on the Interval object. The instance variables are on the left, with the values on the right. For self, we see a printable representation of the entire object:
Now, on the left, select by, and change the value to something else - like 11. Pop up the menu in the right pane, and select save:
See what happened? By changing the value of one of the attributes, we changed the object:You can do that for any object in the system, but be careful - if you were to inspect something like CwConstants, which is used across the system, and make changes, you could damage the way things operate. With Smalltalk, you have a lot of power, but you need to be careful about how you wield it.
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.
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Yes, it's gotten to the point that I now believe patents are - on balance - a bad thing. Check out this stupidity: a patent troll claiming the right to shutdown Mojang based on a client/server license check.
Welcome to episode 87 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.
This week we have another recording from the STIC 2012 conference - Donald MacQueen talking about Instantiations' port of log4j to VA Smalltalk (log4s). This session was fairly heavy on live demo, so if you would rather watch the video, head on over to the STIC website.
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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Welcome to episode 87 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.
This week we have another recording from the STIC 2012 conference - Donald MacQueen talking about Instantiations' port of log4j to VA Smalltalk (log4s). This session was fairly heavy on live demo, so if you would rather watch the video, head on over to the STIC website.
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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Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at setting up a common local cache for all of your Pharo images. 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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Mark Roos will present RTalk (a Smalltalk on the JVM) at the JVM Language Summit (July 30 to August 1, 2012). Mark Roos has two talks - one about RTalk and one about "invokedynamic" (a new bytecode for dynamic method invocation).
Today's Javascript 4 You looks at the "accordion" widget 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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