Smalltalk with James Robertson

If you hear someone yelling at the TV for pizza, they probably haven't lost it - they've just found the Pizza Hut app on the XBox:

The app makes ordering a pizza pretty much like yelling at your parents to make you one when you were 10. Just pause your Halo 3 game and use voice commands or the motion-sensing Kinect to compose and confirm your order. You’ll only have to put your controller down when the delivery guy arrives.

Once Amazon gets those drones ready, maybe they can even serve it to you while you play....

Today's Smalltalk 4 You delves into callbacks for widgets in VA Smalltalk and WindowBuilder Pro. 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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Today's Python 4 You looks at deleting items from Lists. 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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Tags: python, lists

If you've been itching to run a Smalltalk server, but haven't wanted to set up a VPS to get there, you should have a look at PharoCloud.

Tags: pharo, cloud

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at the current state of Pharo 3.0. 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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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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For Columbia, this is pretty cold:

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at a package for task scheduling 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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Tags: smalltalk, pharo, task

Welcome to episode 157 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week David and James talk about risk taking in software development.

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!

Tags: smalltalk

Welcome to episode 157 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week David and James talk about risk taking in software development.

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!

Tags: smalltalk

This is a nice, concise explanation of how the move towards data caps in US internet service plans makes digital distribution (for instance, games) much more difficult than it should be. Steam a few HD movies and download a few games, and you could hit the "large" 300 GB cap Comcast has pretty fast.

Tags: games, streaming

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at some of the "miscellaneous" widgets in WindowBuilder Pro. 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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Tags: smalltalk,, va smalltalk,, windowbuilder