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PY 4U 52: Object Tests

March 13, 2014 10:13:22.237

Today's Python 4 You looks at how you can identify the class or type of any Python object. 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:

Object Types

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ST 4U 543: Squeak Dependency Browser

March 12, 2014 11:45:37.578

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at the dependency browser in Squeak. 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:

Dependency Browser

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March 12, 2014 9:49:19.152

This sounds good - Peter Hines of Bethesda talking about regular updates to ESO - but I'm skeptical:

"We want to do the version that we think is the best game and the coolest experience," Hines continued. "And that means putting a lot of people and a lot of content creators towards having stuff that comes our regularly; every four weeks, five weeks, six weeks. Big new stuff that you want to do."

Why am I skeptical? Look at the timelines for the DLC packs for the last few games they've done - Skyrim, Fallout: New Vegas, and Fallout 3. The gap between the significant chunks of content was long, and the stream typically dried up around the 1 year mark after release. I simply have my doubts that they can sustain a system of significant DLC size output at that rate without completely burning out their content development teams. I also wonder what that kind of schedule will do to the development of the more interesting (to me, anyway) single player games they do. Sure, the studios aren't the same ones, but resources from corporate are not unlimited....

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PY 4U 51: Overriding Base Methods

March 11, 2014 10:16:53.150

Today's Python 4 You looks at how you override inherited methods in a subclass. 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:

Overriding Inherited Methods

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ST 4U 542: A Look at Squeak 4.3

March 10, 2014 10:17:50.164

Today's Smalltalk 4 You takes a look at Squeak 4.3. 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:

Squeak 4.3

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IM 165: Smalltalk and the World (AAC)

March 9, 2014 18:05:54.350

Welcome to episode 165 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week James and David talk about connecting Smalltalk to other languages and environments - whther via direct interconnect, or via intermediating systems such as web services.

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 165: Smalltalk and the World

March 9, 2014 18:04:57.409

Welcome to episode 165 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week James and David talk about connecting Smalltalk to other languages and environments - whther via direct interconnect, or via intermediating systems such as web services.

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 541: Basic VA Usage 2

March 7, 2014 10:43:21.121

Today's Smalltalk 4 You continues with basic usage in VA Smalltalk - how do you recover code you didn't formally release? With Envy, that's never a problem. 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:

Code Recovery

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PY 4U 50: Subclasses

March 6, 2014 9:40:40.003

Today's Python 4 You looks at subclassing in Python. 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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Zero Degrees 1, Zero Tolerance 0

March 6, 2014 0:11:34.632

When you run a system - any system - based solely on policy, with no allowance for common sense - you end up with things like this:

On Wednesday morning, the temperature was 5 below, and the wind chill was 25 below. “So the alarm went off, and I thought it was like just a drill, like: Do I have to go outside?” Hagen-Tietz said. “And then he was like no, we usually don’t have fake ones in the winter.” Hagen-Tietz says she and the another student were rushed out by the teacher. Her classmate had clothes by the pool, hers were in her locker. So she grabber her towel and went outside.

Where did the policy enter into it, where a kid in a wet bathing suit and without shoes is left to stand outside for 10 minutes?

But due to school policy, she wasn’t allowed to sit in a faculty-member’s car

So rather than make the obvious judgement call, and let the kid into a car with the heater running, they let her get frostbite. For her own safety, of course. The response after the fact?

In a statement, St. Paul Public School officials said they continue to work with the St. Paul Fire Marshal to regularly review these procedures, including cold weather modifications, and they will make any changes based on their recommendations.

Here's what the response should have been: "We promise not to be such utterly stupid morons next time, and will ignore written policy when it obviously makes no sense".

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