Smalltalk with James Robertson

Via Randal Schwartz:

Looks like you can finally play "Scratch" projects on your jailbroken iPhone! Don't know anything about this... just passing it along.

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Mariano has some Pharo tips:

Hi guys. It is going to be 4 years since I have started to develop with Squeak/Pharo. In the last months, talking with people or by reading the mailing list, I noticed that I may know some tricks and tips of Pharo that not everybody know. If you are an advanced Pharaoer, you probably won't learn anything new but, if you are a beginner or so, this post may help you.

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Welcome to episode 78 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week we have part one of Sam Adam's keynote from STIC 2012 - if you prefer to watch the video, you should visit the STIC website. Part two will be posted next week. Sam's talk was on massive parallelism and objects - it was very well received at the conference.

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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Welcome to episode 78 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week we have part one of Sam Adam's keynote from STIC 2012 - if you prefer to watch the video, you should visit the STIC website. Part two will be posted next week. Sam's talk was on massive parallelism and objects - it was very well received at the conference.

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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Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at the standard development process using VA Smalltalk and ENVY. 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 we'll take a look at the normal development process in VA Smalltalk using ENVY. The general pattern works as follows:

• Create a Configuration Map
• Create your Application(s) and add them to your configuration map
• Create your classes and extensions with your application(s), versioning and releasing the classes as you develop them
• Leave the Application(s) and Config Map "open", only versioning them as you reach development checkpoints
• As you begin work each day, load the latest open edition of the config map

To start, create the config map:

Now create the Applications you need, and write code inside of them:

Version and release the classes in your Applications, leaving the Applications "open":

Make sure you add all of your Applications to the config map, in the correct order for loading. Also specify the necessary pre-reqs. If you mess this up (i.e., the map won't load), don't worry - you can edit the config map details without having it loaded:

Now, as you begin each working day, load the latest open edition of the config map, with all developers working within the open edition:

You only need to version and release the Applications and Config Map as you reach checkpoints. When and how you reach them will depend on your process, of course - but the process we've sketched here is the one you'll want to follow.

Need more help? There's a screencast for other topics like this which you may want to watch. Questions? Try the "Chat with James" Google gadget over in the sidebar.

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Today's Javascript 4 You looks at finding the things that are not matched by a JQuery selector. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. Join the Facebook Group to discuss the tutorials. You can view the archives here.

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Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at some of the options you have with VA Assist 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 we'll take a look at the various configuration options that are available for VA Smalltalk through the VA Assist Pro interface. To start, go to the Tools menu in the launcher:

The setup tool presents a tabbed interface of the options - and there are a lot of them. You can configure the editor, color syntax highlighting, and a ton of other things:

It turns out that you have other options as well - go back to the launcher's Tools, and find Settings in the VA Assist Pro submenu:

As with the options in the previous interface, there's a lot here - you should step through them and experiment.

Need more help? There's a screencast for other topics like this which you may want to watch. Questions? Try the "Chat with James" Google gadget over in the sidebar.

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Today's Javascript 4 You looks at partial matching by the start of a word in JQuery. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. Join the Facebook Group to discuss the tutorials. You can view the archives here.

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Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at the saving and restoring your VA Assist Pro Settings. 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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Last time we looked at the plethora of settings available for VA Assist Pro, all of which can customize your experience with VA Smalltalk. Today we'll look at how you save those settings so that you can restore them in a new image.

To save those settings, pull the menu for VA Assist right through Save/Restore, as shows below:

Note that you can save the settings either to flat files or the ENVY repository. Either way works fine, and integrates well with a build process. Follow the same pull rights to restore the settings in a new image:

Need more help? There's a screencast for other topics like this which you may want to watch. Questions? Try the "Chat with James" Google gadget over in the sidebar.

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Spotted in The Hitchhiker's Guide to ...

Exotic but possible: Squeak virtual machine now also runs on JSLinux using the mini.image. JSLinux is a x86 PC emulator written in JavaScript and running in a web browser. Here is the video and announcement from Pavel. I expect more and more emulators running on top of JavaScript. Maybe one day it is fast enough to load and run Windows or Ubuntu on top of the JS engine right within your pc/tablet/phones web browser. Interesting times...

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