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IM 126: History of Gemstone

May 12, 2013 20:48:30.563

Welcome to episode 126 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week was going to feature an interview with Dale Herichs, about the new Gemtalk - but I had an unfortunate flood in my basement that required lots of quality time with the ShopVac. That conversation is being rescheduled, but in the meantime, here's Martin McClure talking about the gistory of Gemstone, at the Smalltalks 2012 conference

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IM 126: History of Gemstone (AAC)

May 12, 2013 20:49:19.408

Welcome to episode 126 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week was going to feature an interview with Dale Herichs, about the new Gemtalk - but I had an unfortunate flood in my basement that required lots of quality time with the ShopVac. That conversation is being rescheduled, but in the meantime, here's Martin McClure talking about the gistory of Gemstone, at the Smalltalks 2012 conference

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 383: Pharo Command Shell

May 13, 2013 11:01:23.365

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at the command shell package that's available in Pharo 2.0. 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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ST 4U 384: VisualWorks and Multi-Monitor on Mac

May 14, 2013 10:29:50.055

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at an interesting multi-monitor issue in VisualWorks when running on the Mac. 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:

multi-monitor issue

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Pharo and the Web: A Conference

May 15, 2013 8:59:07.726

From Stephane:

We are organizing a conference around the web and pharo on 6 June 2013 at http://www.euratechnologies.com.

Great speakers (J. Brichau from Yesplan, N. Petton from Amber and objectfusion, N Hartl from 2Denker,...) will present their business and products as well as some of the technology they use. Do not miss this key event.

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ST 4U 385: Pharo Browser Tools

May 15, 2013 10:22:59.044

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at some of the convenient little tools available on the right side of the Pharo browser's code pane. 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:

Pharo Browser

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Don't Know Much About History

May 15, 2013 13:35:24.941

It looks like you could fill volumes based on what Jaron Lanier doesn't know. Consider this bit from a recent interview:

Of course jobs become obsolete. But the only reason that new jobs were created was because there was a social contract in which a more pleasant, less boring job was still considered a job that you could be paid for. That’s the only reason it worked. If we decided that driving was such an easy thing [compared to] dealing with horses that no one should be paid for it, then there wouldn’t be all of those people being paid to be Teamsters or to drive cabs. It was a decision that it was OK to have jobs that weren’t terrible

Right... That's why there was no social upheaval when the economy started shifting from around 90% of workers being in agriculture to factory work. There was no late 19th/early 20th century populist movement, laborers in the new factories were just as happy as could be, and driving the same screw into the same steel plate on an assembly line for 12 hours a day was pleasant. Sure.

Can someone buy this guy a history book? He should start with something simple, probably with small words.....

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ST 4U 386: Code Critic in Pharo

May 16, 2013 10:31:43.089

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at the code critic tools in Pharo 2.0. 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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ST 4U 387: Cascades and yourself

May 17, 2013 10:01:47.066

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at cascades and #yourself. 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:

Cascades.

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Using Smalltalk, you'll often run across the cascade syntax:


ct := CTest new.
ct options
	add: 1;
	add: 2;
	add: 3;
	add: 4;
	yourself

Here we have a small class with an instance variable, and the variable holds a collection. The use of #add: is followed by a cadcade (the semi-colon). What that does is ensure that the next message (#add: in this case) is sent back to the original receiver (the collection) rather than to the return object (#add: answers the object sent).

So in the example above, without the #yourself at the end, the last message send would answer 4 rather than the collection.

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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IM 127: Native Boost

May 19, 2013 21:14:01.436

Welcome to episode 127 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week we have another recording from the Smalltalks 2012 conference - Igor Stasenko talking about Native Boost for Pharo.

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!

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IM 127: Native Boost (AAC)

May 19, 2013 21:14:42.864

Welcome to episode 127 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week we have another recording from the Smalltalks 2012 conference - Igor Stasenko talking about Native Boost for Pharo.

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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