Smalltalk with James Robertson

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at command line arguments in Cincom Smalltalk (VisualWorks and ObjectStudio). Not th eones supported out of the box - ones you set up for your own applications. 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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Tags: smalltalk, command line

Amber is approaching the 1.0 milestone:

The Amber language is deeply inspired by Smalltalk. It is designed to make client-side development faster and easier. Amber includes a live development environment with a class browser, workspace, unit test runner, transcript, object inspector and debugger.

Tags: amber, javascript

Today's Javascript 4 You looks at streetview again. 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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Tags: javascript, maps

You can register now - early bird registration at the lower rate is available. Register now to save a few bucks. We'll have the list of speakers and talks available fairly soon - stay tuned to the STIC site for that.

Tags: smalltalk

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at getting Moose into a Pharo image. 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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Tags: smalltalk, pharo, moose

Welcome to episode 118 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week Dave and I wrap up our talk with Michael Lucas-Smith (Cincom Smalltalk Engineer) about Text2 - a new text editor for VisualWorks. This is part 2 of 2. If you missed part 1, you can get that here

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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!

Tags: visualworks, smalltalk

Welcome to episode 118 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week Dave and I wrap up our talk with Michael Lucas-Smith (Cincom Smalltalk Engineer) about Text2 - a new text editor for VisualWorks. This is part 2 of 2. If you missed part 1, you can get that here

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!

Tags: smalltalk, visualworks

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at default file handling in VisualWorks (and ObjectStudio). If you use the ExternalWebBrowser (badly named) class, you don't need to keep track of executable locations. 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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Tags: smalltalk, visualworks, objectstudio

Looks like it's out of beta and in general release

Tags: pharo

Today's Javascript 4 You looks at some of the options for Streetview using Javascript. 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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Tags: javascript, maps

What does STD stand for? Why, Student Loan Debt. What were you thinking?

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at launching external applications from within VA Smalltalk - outside of the Composition Editor 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 starting external applications from within VA Smalltalk. Previously, we've looked at doing that from the Composition Editor; today we'll just use Smalltalk code that can be dropped anywhere.

starter := AbtProgramStarter new. 
starter programName: 'C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe'.
starter startProgram

That's all there is to it - just create an instance of AbtProgramStarter, and off you go. You will need to provide the full path (or ensure that the application's location is in your system's path).

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.

Tags: smalltalk, va smalltalk

Pharo is moving away from the "one click image" concept. I'm pleased by that - while it's somewhat simpler for newbies, it makes it much more difficult to save to a new image name and then start that new image.

Tags: pharo