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IM 44: ESUG 2011 Retrospective (AAC)

September 4, 2011 23:56:45.425

Welcome to episode 44 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson, Michael Lucas-Smith, and David Buck.

This week we have a chat with Francisco Garau, to get a retrospective on the recently ended ESUG 2011 conference. Francisco hadn't been at an ESUG event in a few years, so his thoughts on this year's events are pretty interesting. Next week we'll have another retrospective on the conference, with Instantiations' Mike Taylor.

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 44: ESUG 2011 Retrospective

September 4, 2011 23:56:32.345

Welcome to episode 44 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson, Michael Lucas-Smith, and David Buck.

This week we have a chat with Francisco Garau, to get a retrospective on the recently ended ESUG 2011 conference. Francisco hadn't been at an ESUG event in a few years, so his thoughts on this year's events are pretty interesting. Next week we'll have another retrospective on the conference, with Instantiations' Mike Taylor.

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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Parallels 7 and Gaming

September 3, 2011 10:52:25.442

I downloaded Parallels 7 last night, and immediately tried out two games: Deus Ex: Human Revolution (which I've been playing in 6) and Fallout: New Vegas (which I played extensively in 6). Deus Ex was laggy in Parallels 6, and while it's not perfect in 7, it's much better. The real change was in FNV.

As I documented here, you had to muck around to get FNV to play at all in Parallels 6. In 7, you don't. If you did muck around, you need to remove the d3d9.dll file you tossed in for it to work in 6. The graphics look a lot better after that, too. So far, so good - I think Skyrim will be the big test though :)

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Redline Reboots the Blog

September 2, 2011 21:13:43.424

James Ladd is rebooting the Redline blog:

What still needs to change are some of the posts here that are no longer correct as they don’t refer to the current implementation of Redline Smalltalk. I’m confident the current incarnation of Redline will be the one that makes it to a V1.0. As such it is now time to delete these old incorrect posts and begin a new series that is correct.

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RTalk - Smalltalk on the JVM

September 2, 2011 16:58:00.988

Redline isn't the only place this is happening - there's a video of a talk from the JVM language summit, as well as the slide deck.

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ST 4U 128: Using HTML Widgets in AidaWeb

September 2, 2011 8:32:58.791

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at the basics of using HTML in AidaWeb. 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:

AidaWeb

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More Stupidity on Copyright

September 1, 2011 16:35:53.000

The drive to "protect" intellectual property is getting dumber, and it's not limited to the US - Look at what's happening in New Zealand:

The Government's Copyright Amendment Act comes into force today and anyone caught downloading copyrighted content illegally could face fines of up to $15,000 and have their internet cut off.

So say you run a Starbucks in New Zealand, and someone decides to download a few songs via bittorrent while they have a latte. That leaves Starbucks open to the penalties.

The unintended consequences of this are going to be really, really bad.

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ESUG 2011 Slides

September 1, 2011 14:22:38.000

The slides from ESUG 2011 are (mostly) online now - this is from Marcus Denker in the ESUG mailing list:

All Slides that we got are now at

The missing ones are apparently from presenters who forgot to share their slides with the ESUG folks, but they are trying to track those down, too.

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JS 4U 87: Filtering based on a Selector

September 1, 2011 8:28:32.655

Javascript 4 U

Today's Javascript 4 You. Today we look at the filter() function in JQuery. 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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How Not to Use a Treadmill

September 1, 2011 8:02:53.000

This guy should probably stick to the stationary bike :)

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Full Bore Polymorphism

August 31, 2011 22:58:59.323

Torsten Bergman explains just how deep the Smalltalk polymorphism rabbit hole goes:

While a function/method name in a class has to be unique so it could be called it usually is a Symbol. You know all these #foo, #bar, #negated, ... In Java you may call it foo() or bar() or negated(). But in Smalltalk this selector could be ANY object. Yes, yes - this is not a type.

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ST 4U 127: AidaWeb and Domain Objects

August 31, 2011 7:38:49.736

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at the more traditional way of using AidaWeb - registering a domain object as the application "root", and then building up a view that displays that object. 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:

AidaWeb

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Pharo Powers Forward

August 30, 2011 20:47:19.799

Spotted in Planet Squeak

Pharo 1.3 is in release candidate mode. The last action needed for release is to package the OneClick image with the right Cog VM. On this side Igor is working on a few critical fixes that should be ready in a couple of days. So you can put the Champagne in the fridge now. Pharo 1.4 is in alpha mode. Note that starting from 1.4 only one image will be released. Releasing two images actually needs too much effort for our community. Furthermore the core developers usually work on PharoCore and it's hard for them to follow bugs on a image (Pharo) they don't use. So one small image with easy package loading (and unloading) seems a better way to go. Only one Pharo. About infrastructure, continuous integration server is moving from Hudson to Jenkins. The Hudson server will be stopped when the migration is finished. For Cog VMs, Pharo 1.4 and current projects, check the Jenkins server.

Lots of interesting things happening with Pharo these days...

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JS 4U 86: Selecting a Specific Element

August 30, 2011 7:50:40.224

Javascript 4 U

Today's Javascript 4 You looks at the eq() function, which lets us narrow down a search to a specific page element. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube.

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VA Smalltalk 8.5 Released

August 29, 2011 12:10:06.918

Instantiations has pushed out VA Smalltalk 8.5:

We're very happy to announce the availability of Version 8.5 of VA Smalltalk. This latest release is available now and includes a number of powerful new capabilities and enhancements.

Follow the link to see what's new!

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Scripting with Pharo

August 29, 2011 12:08:01.968

Damien Pollet's ESUG 2011 slides for Coral are online.

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Photos from Edinburgh and ESUG 2011

August 29, 2011 10:34:50.568

James Foster has a nice assortment of photo links from ESUG 2011.

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ST 4U 126: Adding Style to a Seaside Application

August 29, 2011 0:53:08.656

Today's Smalltalk 4 You continues the VA Smalltalk Seaside tutorial with CSS. Today we'll add that support directly in the image (application code) - next time, we'll look at external file resources. 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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In this section we'll add some CSS to our application, directly in the image. IN a future tutorial, we'll look at adding external file resources (images, CSS files, etc) as well. To start with, go to class BlogServerView and add the following method:


style
	'h1 {color: green; }'

You can put arbitrary CSS in that method - the CSS you add will apply to the component you add it to. Now, refresh the view in the browser:

Styling

That's it - this method is useful when you want to hand a prototype over to someone else with a minimum amount of fuss - you simply give them the image and the VM, and off they go. Next time we'll look at adding external file resources to our application

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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Monkeying in the Meta

August 28, 2011 20:51:27.525

Michael van der Gulik has some interesting notes on playing around at the meta levels of Smalltalk:

I want to add more instance variables to Class. How difficult is this? Pretty. I suspect that for vanilla Squeak or Pharo, you'd need to carefully remake every single Metaclass instance and Class instance. For me, my Packages architecture means I only need to recompile my own private Metaclasses and all its instances which can be done safely.

Read the whole thing; Michael is working where angels fear to tread :)

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Less Bad than Isabel

August 28, 2011 11:23:56.639

As bad as the storm sounded last night (and I woke up to some howling winds) - things didn't go so badly here in my neighborhood. The power went out at midnight, but just came back on. The freezer is still frozen, so it looks like we caught a break that way. There are still a lot of people on the east coast without power though, so I count myself lucky.

Oh, the title - after the last big storm (Isabel) that hit us, we were out of power for four days. That was a lot more exciting, but not the good kind :)

Update: I have no idea whether it's related, but maybe a data center somewhere had a problem. My Xbox Live profile had to be recovered - which meant resetting my password, as I had no idea what it was. As much of a pain as that was, if that's the most damage we took, it's all good.

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