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ST 4U 302: Adding To the Pharo Help System

October 29, 2012 10:19:10.243

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks a little deeper at the help system in Pharo - you can extend it easily to include your own help for your own projects. 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:

Help

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This is a Weather Event

October 29, 2012 10:37:35.744

I have to admit, the radar map is impressive:

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Power Down

October 29, 2012 14:57:21.755

Sandy has knocked us off the grid for now - and with how bad the storm looks on the radar maps, I don't expect to see it restored anytime soon.  I hope I'm wrong about that, but at this point, we'll probably end up losing most of the stuff in the fridge and freezer....

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Smalltalk Tag Support in Amber

October 29, 2012 15:55:14.000

This new feature of Amber looks pretty fun:

I just pushed a small change that allows us to write script tags in smalltalk. You can now add scripts like the following to you HTML pages:


<script type='text/smalltalk'> window alert: 'Hello from Amber!' </script> 

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The Power Came Back!

October 29, 2012 16:56:32.034

I have low hopes for it staying on, but I'm hoping it does for another 35 minutes at least - we tossed some chicken we had in the fridge in the oven, and we're hoping for the best :)

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The Big Apple Gets Hammered

October 30, 2012 8:31:37.705

Sounds like NYC got hammered. Not sure there's a good way to prepare for a storm this big ahead of time, either - at least not on a metro-wide basis....

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One More Power Bounce

October 30, 2012 11:49:40.204

With any luck, that was the last one - we had about 2 hours without power this morning, but it bounced back on. We have a little bit of water damage that needs to be looked into, but things are good now.

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JS 4U 217: Custom Map Overlay Images

October 30, 2012 12:23:01.213

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Today's Javascript 4 You looks at dropping customized (drawn) icons onto a map overlay using Javascript If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube.

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custom icons

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Would He Panic if he Saw Smalltalk?

October 30, 2012 14:46:41.000

If the IDE is a Code Smell for this guy, you have to wonder whether Smalltalk would give him the shakes :)

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ST 4U 303: Using the VA Smalltalk Benchmark Tool

October 31, 2012 10:04:42.448

Today's Smalltalk 4 You takes an overview of the benchmarking tools in VA Smalltalk. If you don't know what to load, get started here. 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:

Benchmarking.

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Today we'll run the benchmarking tools in VA Smalltalk and see what they do. If you don't know what to load, get started here.

Following on from last time, create a small benchmark test, and then click the "run" button in the tool:

benchmark

You should see something like what's above. There are a number of view/benchmark options to explore - we'll get to those next time

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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JS 4U 218: Dashed Lines In an Overlay

November 1, 2012 9:29:02.900

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Today's Javascript 4 You looks at using dashed lines in your map overlay. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube.

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dashed line

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WebSockets and Smalltalk

November 2, 2012 11:11:36.588

Looks like the new release of AidaWeb - for Pharo, Squeak, and VisualWorks - is the first place to see WebSocket support in Smalltalk.

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ST 4U 304: VA Smalltalk Benchmarking Options

November 2, 2012 13:11:43.175

Today's Smalltalk 4 You goes into more depth on the VA Smalltalk benchmarking tool. 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 options in the VA Smalltalk benchmarking tool. If you want to start at the beginning of this tutorial section, get started here - and then have a look at the second installment.

Following on from last time, create a small benchmark test, make sure to save it. Now pull down the "View" menu. Notice the different options? Select them one at a time, try running the test, and see what results you get in the view.

view

Notice which part of the UI changes. Now pull down the "Time" menu - again, try a few of those:

time

Finally, run the tests with a few of the combinations and look at the results:

results

Finally, have a look at the "Results" menu - note that you can save and load benchmarks for later review and comparison.

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DragonBorn DLC Coming?

November 2, 2012 17:47:18.396

Spotted in Polygon - All

A teaser image for what may be upcoming downloadable content for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was posted to Bethesda's Twitter account this afternoon, along with the announcement of a full trailer coming Monday, Nov. 5.

I wonder if they'll time it for the one year anniversary of the game's release?

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Torsten Bergmann: Smalltalk is cool

November 2, 2012 18:31:31.000

Via Torsten:

A popular german computer magazine (ct') has a special issue on programming. On the title it states: "Cool Languages: Haskell, Smalltalk and D".

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IM 101: Object Memory Management in VisualWorks

November 4, 2012 13:15:36.420

Welcome to episode 101 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 - Andres Valloud talking about memory management in VisualWorks. 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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IM 101: Object Memory Management in VisualWorks (AAC)

November 4, 2012 13:16:49.618

Welcome to episode 101 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 - Andres Valloud talking about memory management in VisualWorks. 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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ST 4U 305: Recently Visited in Pharo

November 5, 2012 7:30:28.001

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at the "recently visited" support in Pharo. 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:

Recently Visited

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