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Merry Christmas!

December 24, 2013 17:17:01.566

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PY 4U 29: VarArgs 2

December 24, 2013 9:44:39.296

Today's Python 4 You continues with the topic of variable argument lists - if you missed the first screencast on this, you can watch that here. 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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Full Wrapper for UnQLite for Pharo

December 24, 2013 9:10:20.581

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ST 4U 509: Profiling in Pharo

December 23, 2013 10:31:44.577

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at the profiling tools in Pharo. 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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IM 156: Smalltalk Changes? (AAC)

December 22, 2013 21:45:49.125

Welcome to episode 156 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week David and James talk about things they wish were part of Smalltalk

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 156: Smalltalk Changes?

December 22, 2013 21:44:50.439

Welcome to episode 156 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week David and James talk about things they wish were part of Smalltalk

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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Unsafe in the UK

December 22, 2013 18:11:16.515

I guess writing about Smalltalk, gaming, and copyright issues is unsafe for kids in the UK. WItness the glorious results of the new censorship regime on this website:

And people wonder why I periodically say "if the answer was government, the question was stupid"

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Best Take on Windows 8

December 22, 2013 10:17:41.542

I haven't used Windows 8 yet, but I have read many, many of the pundits talking about it. This may be the funniest paragraph I've read on it yet:

I think it’s pretty clear that the Windows 8 bet is failing. Windows 8 is being pre-installed on a lot of PCs, but that’s because Microsoft is pushing it through the OEMs. Microsoft could ship a hamster wrapped in duct tape, label it Windows, and a lot of OEMs would bundle it.

The rest of the post is good too - albeit more serious :)

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Smalltalk Expands to JS and JVM

December 22, 2013 10:13:55.976

Bert Freudenberg has created SqueakJS - meanwhile, Gravel ST is out, running on the JVM.

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Do Not Annoy the Decorators

December 21, 2013 21:57:27.482

Somebody ticked off the people who put up the lights:

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PR Fail With Ducks

December 20, 2013 11:15:06.520

Never mind the swirling culture war aspects of the Duck Dynasty kerfuffle - there's a far simpler failure here, and it's of PR. Exactly which people at A&E were surprised by the GQ interview? Who wasn't smart enough to imagine what kinds of questions GQ would ask (pageviews!), and what kind of answers Phil would have for them? When you decide to make money off of what you see as the foilbles of people who aren't like you, you have to understand the full package you are paying for.

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ST 4U 508: Dictionaries in VA Smalltalk

December 20, 2013 9:25:59.672

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at Dictionaries in VA Smalltalk, and how the implementation ensures that you can scale to any size 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:

Dictionaries in VA

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PY 4U 28: Variable Arguments to Functions

December 19, 2013 10:18:42.446

Today's Python 4 You introduces functions that take a variable number of arguments. 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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Content ID Goes Full Bozo

December 18, 2013 16:53:36.320

You never want to go full bozo....

This one's via Twitter and there appear to be more and more like it, with creators seeing their own work deemed by YouTube's copyright bots as the property of someone else.

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ST 4U 507: LDAP in Pharo

December 18, 2013 9:53:38.229

Today's Smalltalk 4 You takes an overview of the LDAP support in Pharo. 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:

LDAP

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PY 4U 27: The Pass Command

December 17, 2013 10:01:55.680

Today's Python 4 You looks at the pass statement. 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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