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ST 4U 360: Starting External Programs in VA Smalltalk 2

March 22, 2013 9:39:24.273

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at some variations on calling external applications from VA Smalltalk. 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:

External Apps.

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Today we'll continue looking at starting external applications from within VA Smalltalk. Previously, we've looked at simply starting an external application - today we'll add command line arguments:


starter := AbtProgramStarter new. 
starter programName: 'C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe'.
starter programInput: 'http://www.jarober.com'.
starter startProgram

That's all there is to it - just make sure that your argument string is valid for the application in question.

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Earth to Om Malik: What Did You Pay For That?

March 21, 2013 13:45:37.858

I love the way some of the tech pundits have gone on and on about Google Reader - take Om Malik:

I spent about seven years of my online life on that service. I sent feedback, used it to annotate information and they killed it like a butcher slaughters a chicken. No conversation — dead. The service that drives more traffic than Google+ was sacrificed because it didn’t meet some vague corporate goals; users — many of them life long — be damned.

So.... remind me again - exactly how much did you pay for that service you devoted 7 years to? Nothing, right? You knew all along that it was going to live so long as it met Google's ad driven revenue model, right?

Companies don't push out products out of the goodness of their hearts. These things cost money to run, and that money comes from one of two places - ad revenue, or license revenue. We know that Google doesn't make money via licensing (at least not for their web facing products) - so that leaves ads. If a service isn't good at ad conversions, then it's not something Google can maintain. For the mountains of ink spilled by people like Malik, this apparently simple fact is... just beyond their grasp.

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STIC 2013 Early Bird Registration

March 21, 2013 13:15:02.923

STIC 2013 Registration

Time to register for STIC 2013 - Early Bird registration is available for 10 more days (expiring on Easter Sunday). Get it done now - we have a great lineup of speakers, and we'll be getting information out about that soon.

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JS 4U 255: Toggling Streetview

March 21, 2013 6:55:40.721

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Today's Javascript 4 You looks at toggling Streetview via the API. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube.

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Moving on From One Click

March 20, 2013 12:59:47.000

Pharo is moving away from the "one click image" concept. I'm pleased by that - while it's somewhat simpler for newbies, it makes it much more difficult to save to a new image name and then start that new image.

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ST 4U 359: Starting External Programs in VA Smalltalk

March 20, 2013 6:55:32.457

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at launching external applications from within VA Smalltalk - outside of the Composition Editor 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:

External Apps.

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Today we'll take a look at starting external applications from within VA Smalltalk. Previously, we've looked at doing that from the Composition Editor; today we'll just use Smalltalk code that can be dropped anywhere.


starter := AbtProgramStarter new. 
starter programName: 'C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe'.
starter startProgram

That's all there is to it - just create an instance of AbtProgramStarter, and off you go. You will need to provide the full path (or ensure that the application's location is in your system's path).

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Funny Take on Student Loans

March 19, 2013 17:47:01.469

What does STD stand for? Why, Student Loan Debt. What were you thinking?

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JS 4U 254: Streetview Options

March 19, 2013 7:30:15.452

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Today's Javascript 4 You looks at some of the options for Streetview using Javascript. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube.

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streetview

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Pharo 2.0 Released

March 18, 2013 13:32:37.000

Looks like it's out of beta and in general release

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ST 4U 358: Opening the Default App in VW or OS

March 18, 2013 7:30:29.089

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at default file handling in VisualWorks (and ObjectStudio). If you use the ExternalWebBrowser (badly named) class, you don't need to keep track of executable locations. 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:

Default App

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IM 119: Text2 for VisualWorks Part 2 (AAC)

March 17, 2013 16:44:08.987

Welcome to episode 118 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week Dave and I wrap up our talk with Michael Lucas-Smith (Cincom Smalltalk Engineer) about Text2 - a new text editor for VisualWorks. This is part 2 of 2. If you missed part 1, you can get that here

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 119: Text2 for VisualWorks Part 2

March 17, 2013 16:43:30.808

Welcome to episode 118 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week Dave and I wrap up our talk with Michael Lucas-Smith (Cincom Smalltalk Engineer) about Text2 - a new text editor for VisualWorks. This is part 2 of 2. If you missed part 1, you can get that here

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 357: Getting Moose

March 15, 2013 5:21:01.730

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at getting Moose into a Pharo image. 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:

Moose

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