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Lost and Found

October 5, 2013 23:51:06.528

This is kind of cool - a da Vinci painting that had been missing for centuries turned up in a private collection:

But a 500-year-old mystery was apparently solved today after a painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci was discovered in a Swiss bank vault. The painting, which depicts Isabella d’Este, a Renaissance noblewoman, was found in a private collection of 400 works kept in a Swiss bank by an Italian family who asked not to be identified.

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IM 146: How Much is Too Much

October 6, 2013 10:24:58.391

Welcome to episode 146 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week Dave and James talk about the potential issues involved in giving end users too much power in an application. If you extend scripting support (or even full Smalltalk access) to them - but don't give them any other development tools, you haven't really done them any favors.

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 146: How Much is Too Much (AAC)

October 6, 2013 10:26:06.215

Welcome to episode 146 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week Dave and James talk about the potential issues involved in giving end users too much power in an application. If you extend scripting support (or even full Smalltalk access) to them - but don't give them any other development tools, you haven't really done them any favors.

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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The Civil War in Color

October 6, 2013 21:54:50.083

Colorized images from the US Civil War - these are amazing:

Two professional colorists have combined their skills with photographs and fascination with the American Civil War to create a remarkable series of color photographs from the era. British colorist Jordan Lloyd, 27, met fellow colorist Mads Madsen, 19, from Denmark when he started posting on Madsen's subreddit 'Colorized History'. Initially it was Madsen who was colorizing images from the Civil War era, but Lloyd eventually got interested and now the two work together restoring the images, improving their technique by giving each other critiques.

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ST 4U 476: Compressing a VW Image

October 7, 2013 9:57:45.837

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at how you can make a CST runtime image smaller using image conpression. While we are demonstrating with VisualWorks, the same technique works in ObjectStudio. 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:

Image Compression

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PY 4U 7: Python from a File

October 8, 2013 9:08:44.665

Today's Python 4 You introduces Idle, the basic Python development tool you get when you download the environment. 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:

Idle

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ST 4U 477: The Class Cloner

October 9, 2013 10:58:40.920

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at the class cloner in Cincom Smalltalk. It's a tool that provides a service you probably won't need often, but when you do, it can save you a heap of time. 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:

Class Cloner

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PY 4U 8: Writing a Small Program

October 10, 2013 9:20:25.318

Today's Python 4 You creates a small program to illustrate the main parts of one in Python. 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:

Python Program

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IOS is Not Just For Casual Gaming Anymore

October 10, 2013 15:54:29.861

Not only is XCom: Enemy Unknown around for IOS (that's been true for awhile) - they just added multi-player. Once the impact of Apple's new controller interface starts to appear, I think we'll be seeing big games making it to the iPad, with the idea that you can play on the pad, or via controller from the couch.

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ST 4U 478: Connecting Widgets in WB Pro

October 11, 2013 10:01:36.938

Today's Smalltalk 4 You builds a simple UI using WindowBuilder Pro, and then demonstrates how to use the tools to hook up two widgets on the UI to each other. 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:

Widget Connections in WB

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