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Thu'umcast 31: Where's My Stupid Dog? (AAC)

August 2, 2012 23:37:12.676

Thu'umcast

Welcome to episode 31 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 continues the cnversation about Dawnguard with Jack Quinn and Chris Grundtner. We also talk about the news - the DLC is finally out for PC (but still nowhere to be found for the PS3). We lso get into the Stray Dog glitch.

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.

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

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Thu'umcast 31: Where's My Stupid Dog?

August 2, 2012 23:35:47.564

Thu'umcast

Welcome to episode 31 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 continues the cnversation about Dawnguard with Jack Quinn and Chris Grundtner. We also talk about the news - the DLC is finally out for PC (but still nowhere to be found for the PS3). We lso get into the Stray Dog glitch.

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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JS 4U 192: Google Maps Larger Example

August 2, 2012 9:07:17.301

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Today's Javascript 4 You looks at the gt() function in JQuery. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube.

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To watch now, click on the image below:

Maps

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Roassal and Cairo

August 2, 2012 7:52:29.036

The Roassal visualizer software now supports Cairo in VisualWorks - and an Amber version is being worked on.

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ST 4U 265: SmallLint in VA Smalltalk

August 1, 2012 11:07:50.520

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at the Small Lint tools in VA Smalltalk. These exist in most other Smalltalk implementations as well. 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:

Small Lint.

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It's a good idea to periodically run some "sanity checks" over your code. SUnit tests are one form of that; Small Lint is another. If you load the "Mastering Envy Developer" feature into VA Smalltalk, one of the tools you get access to is Small Lint:

load

Small Lint

After launching the tool from the VA Launcher, you need to pick applications and classes to run it over. Select one or more applications, and then select one or more classes. You need to use the Add or Add All options in the context menu, which adds a check next to all of the selected items. That will get you to the next step, where you need to decide which lint checks to use:

Lint Checks

Select all, or a subset from the menu seen above. Then just run them:

Lint Checks

The window that comes up will show you all of the possible issues - and we say "possible", because Lint can be overly aggressive. You can select an issue and browse the specifics in the code you had it check, and then decide whether or not you need to make changes.

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 191: Using Google Maps

July 31, 2012 10:05:41.438

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Today's Javascript 4 You starts looking at the Google Maps Javascript interface. 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:

maps

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ST 4U 264: Undeclared Variables in Pharo

July 30, 2012 10:21:48.160

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at how the Undeclared dictionary works in Pharo. It operates the same way in Squeak, VisualWorks, and ObjectStudio, so you can see the same results in those products. 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:

Undeclared

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OpenQwaq in the Wild

July 30, 2012 8:24:38.922

A worldwide design competition ended up using OpenQwaq for collaboration support - check out the video:

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IM 88: Security Reloaded (AAC)

July 29, 2012 18:59:19.371

Welcome to episode 88 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week we have another recording from the STIC 2012 conference - Martin Kobetic of Cincom talking about teh changes to the security libraries in the latest release of Cincom Smalltalk. The big change is that developers can now use the Smalltalk libraries, or an interface to native platform libraries. If you would rather watch the video, head on over to the STIC website.

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 88: Security Reloaded

July 29, 2012 18:56:10.779

Welcome to episode 88 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week we have another recording from the STIC 2012 conference - Martin Kobetic of Cincom talking about teh changes to the security libraries in the latest release of Cincom Smalltalk. The big change is that developers can now use the Smalltalk libraries, or an interface to native platform libraries. If you would rather watch the video, head on over to the STIC website.

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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Does It Have to be This Hard?

July 28, 2012 14:05:54.517

Looks like we have another WS* style cluster-**** coming our way:

"The Register reports, 'Eran Hammer, who helped create the OAuth 1.0 spec, has been editing the evolving 2.0 spec for the last three years. He resigned from his role in June but only went public with his reasons in a blog post on Thursday. "At the end, I reached the conclusion that OAuth 2.0 is a bad protocol," Hammer writes. "WS-* bad. It is bad enough that I no longer want to be associated with it."'

Call me naive, but so long as you have https enabled, shouldn't username/passphrase work well? All of the attempts at "simplifying" that seem to be going in the wrong direction....

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ST 4U 263: Undeclared Variables in VA Smalltalk

July 27, 2012 9:26:23.693

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at what happens in VA Smalltalk when you leave a variable (in this case, an instance variable) undefined. The scenario being sketched is a bit artificial; you couldn't package an application in the state being shown, and ENVY does warn you about the situation. Having said that, most developers cheerfully ignore warnings, so we'll have a look. 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:

Undefined.

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When you work on a number of classes at once, you can sometimes leave a variable undeclared - i.e., you have methods that use the variable, but you've deleted it from the class definition. When you do that, you'll get a warning in the Transcript - but if you miss/ignore that warning, very bad things can happen. Let's take a small example.

We've defined a class with one instance variable, and then created an instance and set that variable in a workspace:

Small class

Having created the instance in the workspace, it'll live until we leave VA or close the workspace. Now, let's delete the variable in the browser. Notice the warnings in the Transcript, but for now, we'll ignore them. Now try sending the accessing method for the variable that's been deleted:

Undeclared

What you see above is an inspector on a class - which one you get will vary, but it indicates that you are poking where you should not be poking. To demonstrate how dangerous that can be, let's use the setter and set the variable's value.

If you inspect the results of sending the getter, you'll get back the value you tried to set. However, things are now in an odd state. Depending on where you poked, VA will likely crash after you try to do something. In development, that's annoying. In production, it could mean some pretty hard to diagnose errors.

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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Awesome Status From Twitter

July 26, 2012 12:48:07.074

Twitter is down, but that's not what I'm posting about. What's awesome is the error message I got in Firefox:

Twitter is currently down for <%= reason %>.

We expect to be back in <%= deadline %>. For more information, check out Twitter Status. Thanks for your patience!

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Lindsey Stirling Covers Skyrim

July 26, 2012 9:16:06.000

This is just awesome:

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JS 4U 178: Datepicker

July 26, 2012 7:31:09.705

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Today's Javascript 4 You looks at the Date Picker widget in JQuery UI. 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:

Date Picker

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