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Thu'umcast 29: Vampiric Rage (AAC)

July 14, 2012 9:35:39.053

Thu'umcast

Welcome to episode 26 of "Thu'umcast" - a podcast where Michael Lucas-Smith, Scott Dirk, Austin Haley, Makahlua and I document our trials and tribulations in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Chris and James go back into Dawnguard, this time on the Vampire side. Chris ran into an interesting framerate issue on the XBox, which limited his ability to play, but we did cover some of the Vampire quest line, and the perk tree.

If you liked our work on That Podcast, you'll probably like this. We intend to stay with the same idea - a gameplay podcast. If you don't want spoilers, don't listen - we are going to be talking about how we play the game, and what we ran across as we played.

You can subscribe in iTunes (or any podcatcher) using this feed, or this one for the AAC edition. We'll add the iTunes specific links as soon as they are available. In the meantime, join the Facebook Group and follow us on Twitter. If you play on Steam, join the Steam Group. Like the music? Pay Sbeast a visit, we thank him for letting us use it!

Links to all episodes and other information can be found on the Thu'umcast page.

If you want to download the podcast directly, we've provided it in three formats:

Got feedback? Tweet us!. Enjoy the podcast, and we'll see you in Skyrim!

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Thu'umcast 29: Vampiric Rage

July 14, 2012 9:34:38.610

Thu'umcast

Welcome to episode 26 of "Thu'umcast" - a podcast where Michael Lucas-Smith, Scott Dirk, Austin Haley, Makahlua and I document our trials and tribulations in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Chris and James go back into Dawnguard, this time on the Vampire side. Chris ran into an interesting framerate issue on the XBox, which limited his ability to play, but we did cover some of the Vampire quest line, and the perk tree.

If you liked our work on That Podcast, you'll probably like this. We intend to stay with the same idea - a gameplay podcast. If you don't want spoilers, don't listen - we are going to be talking about how we play the game, and what we ran across as we played.

You can subscribe in iTunes (or any podcatcher) using this feed, or this one for the AAC edition. We'll add the iTunes specific links as soon as they are available. In the meantime, join the Facebook Group and follow us on Twitter. If you play on Steam, join the Steam Group. Like the music? Pay Sbeast a visit, we thank him for letting us use it!

Links to all episodes and other information can be found on the Thu'umcast page.

If you want to download the podcast directly, we've provided it in three formats:

Got feedback? Tweet us!. Enjoy the podcast, and we'll see you in Skyrim!

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ST 4U 257: Code Recovery in VA Smalltalk

July 13, 2012 11:12:56.707

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at code recovery in VA Smalltalk. Short of a drive failure, it's pretty much impossible to lose code when using VA, and we'll see why today. 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:

Code Recovery.

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Today we'll look at how easy it is to recover lost code in VA - we'll create a small application and class, and then quit without saving - relying on ENVY to pick up the pieces for us. To start, here's the small class:

Class

We quit without saving, brought a base image (i.e., not one we saved) up, and sure enough, our code is nowhere to be found:

Lost Code

From the Launcher, select browse the applications in ENVY, and scroll down to the one we just lost - it will show up as not having been released, but it's all there. Tight click and select Load.

Load

That loads the application, but we still want the classes. Right click again, and select Manage Application:

Manage

From here, we can select one or more classes in the list, and load them by version - in this case, the most recent:

Load Class

Now we can return to our workspace, and try creating an instance again:

Recovered

That's one of the nicest things about ENVY - even if you don't version your code off, it does it for you. Short of a catastrophic loss of your drive, you can't really lose code.

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 174: Selectable JQ UI Widgets

July 12, 2012 1:06:51.794

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Today's Javascript 4 You looks at making widgets selectable in the JQuery UI library. 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.

To watch now, click on the image below:

Selectable Widgets

If you have trouble viewing that directly, you can click here to download the video directly. If you need the video in a Windows Media format, then download that here.

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Gemstone Has a New Release Out

July 11, 2012 22:17:52.137

Gemstone/S 64 3.1.0 just shipped:

GemStone/S 64 3.1.0 was released July 5, 2012.GemStone/S 64 Bit 3.1.0 is a major new version, including many new features as well as enhancements to existing features and bug fixes.

Lots of details on what's new at the link

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Memcached and Pharo

July 11, 2012 13:23:03.000

Spotted in Planet Squeak

Memcached is a free & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system. If you want to use it with Pharo just use the ConfigurationOfMemcached.

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ST 4U 256: Comparing Versions in Monticello

July 11, 2012 7:33:44.273

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at a small thing in Monticello - how to compare versions of a package easily. 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:

Monticello

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Cincom Smalltalk Latest Release Out

July 10, 2012 18:17:13.345

Interestingly enough, I couldn't find this information from the Cincom Smalltalk website - but there was a note posted to the vw-dev mailing list earlier today in response to a question about VisualWorks 7.9:

The products (ObjectStudio 8.4 and VisualWorks 7.9) are available. You can either request a copy from your local sales representative or you can go to cincomsmalltalk.com and order a copy on your own.

That's from Suzanne Fortman in their developer's mailing list, so it's official. The embedded link goes to the request page, not the top of the site.

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JS 4U 173: Resizing JQ UI Widgets

July 10, 2012 7:21:49.978

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Today's Javascript 4 You looks at making widgets resizable (by the user) in the JQuery UI library. 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.

To watch now, click on the image below:

Resize

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A Pharo HTTP Server in One Minute

July 9, 2012 14:03:53.000

I have a Linux VM lying around somewhere, so I'll have to give this a try:

How easy and how fast can you download, install and start a complete Pharo Smalltalk based HTTP Server on a bare Linux machine ?

$ curl http://zn.stfx.eu/zn/pharo-server.sh | bash

The above Linux command will download, install and run a Pharo Smalltalk HTTP Server on a stock Linux server. In well under a minute (in 10 seconds below, actually), you can browse http://localhost:1701 and all this with way less than 20Mb being downloaded. Mind you, this is quick hack, for some this will be old news, for others I hope this feels like magic

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ST 4U 255: Querying ENVY for Problems

July 9, 2012 7:45:58.996

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at some of the stock queries you can make of your VA system from the launcher. 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:

Envy Queries.

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Today we'll look at some of the queries you can use - directly off the VA Smalltalk launcher - to get information about your applications. To get started, pull down the Tools menu, and then pull right at Query:

Queries

What that exposes is a set of stock ENVY queries you can use to diagnose possible issues in your library. For instance, in a large project it may be useful to select the first one - Open Editions - to see what you have going on. One thing you need to be aware of is that these queries all report answers to the Transcript:

Query Results

Just try them out and see what kinds of responses you get. As you develop your codebase, come back to these tools to see what's going on.

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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Squeak Namespaces?

July 8, 2012 23:14:38.000

Colin Putney has put forth a working proposal:

Namespaces allow two classes with the same name to live in a single image. Creating namespaces has been a goal for Squeak since it’s creation. Nothing has seemed quite right. Using Newspeak as his inspiration, Colin Putney has created Environments. Explore this innovation with the mailing list conversation and a downloadable image

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Appreciation for Pharo

July 8, 2012 9:19:01.000

Pharo is starting to get noticed:

Pharo is a fork from the Squeak open-source Smalltalk and provides an incredibly rich development environment. As a consultant people pay me to design and write code in Ruby, Clojure, Common Lisp, and Java. That said, for non-work related experiments, Pharo is a lot of fun to use: a modern and free Smalltalk environment. I just wanted to say thanks to the Pharo team: great work! I recently downloaded the 2.0 development build - exciting to see new features. One thing in particular that strikes me as awesome about Pharo is that it is very light weight, using little memory and CPU resources. I wrote a blog 5 years ago about deploying Squeak to Linux servers. I am a little surprised that Pharo is not more widely used for rich web applications

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IM 85: PDF4Smalltalk at STIC 2012 (AAC)

July 8, 2012 0:41:21.575

Welcome to episode 85 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week we have another session from STIC 2012 - Bob Nemec talking about PDF4Smalltalk. If you would prefer to watch the video, then head on over to the STIC site. The abstract for this talk:

At ESUG 2011 Christian Haider presented a framework for building PDF documents from VW Smalltalk. This deep and complex tool is intended to be the bottom layer of a PDF report framework. It provides a rich set of tools for building the PDF document output, but creating the report output is your responsibility. We have built a PDF Report framework that uses pdf4smalltalk. It handles the basics, like layout, alignment, justification, margins, padding, lines, tables, fonts and images. We find it to be a handy tool for building reports in Seaside applications, since the documents can be created on the server and then be provided as PDF documents to the browser for local printing.

This presentation will show how PDF Report builds report content and how it interfaces to pdf4smalltalk. We will also discuss our long term plans for the framework, which include migration to VA Smalltalk and GemStone.

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 85: PDF4Smalltalk at STIC 2012

July 8, 2012 0:39:45.615

Welcome to episode 85 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week we have another session from STIC 2012 - Bob Nemec talking about PDF4Smalltalk. If you would prefer to watch the video, then head on over to the STIC site. The abstract for this talk:

At ESUG 2011 Christian Haider presented a framework for building PDF documents from VW Smalltalk. This deep and complex tool is intended to be the bottom layer of a PDF report framework. It provides a rich set of tools for building the PDF document output, but creating the report output is your responsibility. We have built a PDF Report framework that uses pdf4smalltalk. It handles the basics, like layout, alignment, justification, margins, padding, lines, tables, fonts and images. We find it to be a handy tool for building reports in Seaside applications, since the documents can be created on the server and then be provided as PDF documents to the browser for local printing.

This presentation will show how PDF Report builds report content and how it interfaces to pdf4smalltalk. We will also discuss our long term plans for the framework, which include migration to VA Smalltalk and GemStone.

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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Thu'umcast 28: Mods and Exclusives, Part 2 (AAC)

July 7, 2012 18:16:39.755

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Welcome to episode 26 of "Thu'umcast" - a podcast where Michael Lucas-Smith, Scott Dirk, Austin Haley, Makahlua and I document our trials and tribulations in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Today's episode doesn't have much to do with Dawnguard - Michael Lucas-Smith and James Robertson instead turned to mods (and to a small extent, to the Dawnguard XBox exclusive). What's covered is the mods we have installed, and what they add to our Skyrim experience. That conversation took long enough that this was split into two pieces. This is part 2 - if you missed part 1, you should start there.

If you liked our work on That Podcast, you'll probably like this. We intend to stay with the same idea - a gameplay podcast. If you don't want spoilers, don't listen - we are going to be talking about how we play the game, and what we ran across as we played.

You can subscribe in iTunes (or any podcatcher) using this feed, or this one for the AAC edition. We'll add the iTunes specific links as soon as they are available. In the meantime, join the Facebook Group and follow us on Twitter. If you play on Steam, join the Steam Group. Like the music? Pay Sbeast a visit, we thank him for letting us use it!

Links to all episodes and other information can be found on the Thu'umcast page.

If you want to download the podcast directly, we've provided it in three formats:

Got feedback? Tweet us!. Enjoy the podcast, and we'll see you in Skyrim!

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Thu'umcast 28: Mods and Exclusives, Part 2

July 7, 2012 18:14:48.313

Thu'umcast

Welcome to episode 26 of "Thu'umcast" - a podcast where Michael Lucas-Smith, Scott Dirk, Austin Haley, Makahlua and I document our trials and tribulations in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Today's episode doesn't have much to do with Dawnguard - Michael Lucas-Smith and James Robertson instead turned to mods (and to a small extent, to the Dawnguard XBox exclusive). What's covered is the mods we have installed, and what they add to our Skyrim experience. That conversation took long enough that this was split into two pieces. This is part 2 - if you missed part 1, you should start there.

If you liked our work on That Podcast, you'll probably like this. We intend to stay with the same idea - a gameplay podcast. If you don't want spoilers, don't listen - we are going to be talking about how we play the game, and what we ran across as we played.

You can subscribe in iTunes (or any podcatcher) using this feed, or this one for the AAC edition. We'll add the iTunes specific links as soon as they are available. In the meantime, join the Facebook Group and follow us on Twitter. If you play on Steam, join the Steam Group. Like the music? Pay Sbeast a visit, we thank him for letting us use it!

Links to all episodes and other information can be found on the Thu'umcast page.

If you want to download the podcast directly, we've provided it in three formats:

Got feedback? Tweet us!. Enjoy the podcast, and we'll see you in Skyrim!

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Picasa From Pharo

July 7, 2012 17:13:13.443

The latest PharoCast shows you how to get access to your Picasa photo stream using Pharo:

Display Picasa photos from Laurent Laffont on Vimeo.

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Fourth of July Party

July 7, 2012 16:49:22.750

I patched together some of the video we shot last night as we lit off some fireworks. We still have a lot left, because the festivities got cut off around 10 pm :)

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