Smalltalk with James Robertson

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at "Teachable Objects" - a little library in Pharo that make it simple to pull off the standard DNU/dictionary trick in 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:

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Tags: pharo, smalltalk, teachable

I spent most of the weekend driving, so no podcast this week. We should be back next weekend.

Today's Smalltalk 4 You takes a look at Servlets in VA Smalltalk's Server Smalltalk implementation. 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, servlet

Today's Python 4 You compares lists and tuples. 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, tuples

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at how breakpoints work 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, breakpoint,, pharo,, debug

It's come to this:

Wearing Google Glass recently proved perilous for a movie patron in Columbus, Ohio. On Monday, The Gadgeteer posted a frightening story apparently from a member of the Glass Explorer program. An hour into watching Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit wearing his prescription version of Glass, he said, he'd been abruptly pulled from the theater and interrogated at length by "feds," who accused him of attempting to pirate the movie by recording it.

Exactly who is benefiting from the current system of copyright enforcement?

Today's Python 4 You looks at Stacks and Queues using Python collections. For more documentation on this, you should visit the Python documentation pages. 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, stack, queue

This is why I'm starting to think that a system with no patents or copyright would be better than what we have now. Amazon got a patent for... predictive stocking:

So Amazon says it may box and ship products it expects customers in a specific area will want based on previous orders and other factors — but haven’t yet ordered. According to the patent, the packages could wait at the shippers’ hubs or on trucks until an order arrives.

You see that stuff your grocery store does each week? Same thing. But some set of morons at the USPTO couldn't figure it out.

Tags: stupidity, patents

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at the repository capabilities built on top of Fuel 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, fuel, pharo