Smalltalk with James Robertson

No podcast this weekend - too busy with the holiday and birthdays (the entire family has them this month, 2 right around Thanksgiving). We'll be back next week though, so stay tuned :)

It's Thanksgiving, so no screencast today or tomorrow - check the archives for now, and new casts will return next week!

Welcome to episode 5 of "Thu'umcast" - a podcast where Michael Lucas-Smith, Scott Dirk, Austin Haley, Makahlua and I document our trials and tribulations in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Today we were joined by Madjinn, who has logged an impressive number of hours in the game (averaging 10 per day since it was released :) ). We talked about some of the more glaring quest glitches (including the nasty one for Jagged Crown/Season Unending). We also talked about monster leveling, followers, and how we've been playing our characters. If you liked our work on That Podcast, you'll probably like this. We intend to stay with the same idea - a gameplay podcast. If you don't want spoilers, don't listen - we are going to be talking about how we play the game, and what we ran across as we played.

You can subscribe in iTunes (or any podcatcher) using this feed, or this one for the AAC edition. We'll add the iTunes specific links as soon as they are available. In the meantime, join the Facebook Group and follow us on Twitter. If you play on Steam, join the Steam Group. Like the music? Pay Sbeast a visit, we thank him for letting us use it!

Links to all episodes and other information can be found on the Thu'umcast page

If you want to download the podcast directly, we've provided it in three formats:

• MP3 Edition
• AAC Edition
• Ogg Vorbis Edition

Got feedback? Tweet us!. Enjoy the podcast, and we'll see you in Skyrim!

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Welcome to episode 5 of "Thu'umcast" - a podcast where Michael Lucas-Smith, Scott Dirk, Austin Haley, Makahlua and I document our trials and tribulations in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Today we were joined by Madjinn, who has logged an impressive number of hours in the game (averaging 10 per day since it was released :) ). We talked about some of the more glaring quest glitches (including the nasty one for Jagged Crown/Season Unending). We also talked about monster leveling, followers, and how we've been playing our characters. If you liked our work on That Podcast, you'll probably like this. We intend to stay with the same idea - a gameplay podcast. If you don't want spoilers, don't listen - we are going to be talking about how we play the game, and what we ran across as we played.

You can subscribe in iTunes (or any podcatcher) using this feed, or this one for the AAC edition. We'll add the iTunes specific links as soon as they are available. In the meantime, join the Facebook Group and follow us on Twitter. If you play on Steam, join the Steam Group. Like the music? Pay Sbeast a visit, we thank him for letting us use it!

Links to all episodes and other information can be found on the Thu'umcast page

If you want to download the podcast directly, we've provided it in three formats:

• MP3 Edition
• AAC Edition
• Ogg Vorbis Edition

Got feedback? Tweet us!. Enjoy the podcast, and we'll see you in Skyrim!

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Today's Smalltalk 4 You starts making use of of the Glorp code we wrote 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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Today we'll start using our basic Glorp setup to insert and query data from Oracle. To start out, we need to login and get a session (this uses code we created in the last screencast).

login := Login new
database: OracleODBCPlatform new;
username: username;
password: password;
connectString: 'orcl11g';
yourself.

"login and logout"
accessor := DatabaseAccessor forLogin: login.
accessor login.

"create a session"
session := GlorpSession new.
session system: (EmpSystem forPlatform: login database).
session accessor: accessor.

Now we can create an instance and have it inserted into the database. In the code below, ou would normally use #register: - I used #registerAsNew: to ensure that Glorp would treat my object as a new one bound of the database:

"Now insert one"
emp := Emp new.
emp firstName: 'Fred'.
emp lastName: 'Flintstone'.

"insert"
session beginUnitOfWork.
session registerAsNew: emp.
session commitUnitOfWork.

Note the beginning and ending of the transaction. Now, let's use a query to get the data back:

"login"
accessor := DatabaseAccessor forLogin: login.
accessor login.

"query"
emps := session readManyOf: Emp.

It's worth looking at class GlorpSession for the full API range of what you can do; we'll be exploring some of that in future screencasts. Below are two images - a screencap of the inspector on the queried data, and a sqlplus wind showing the same thing:

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 the context() function 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 installing GlorpDBX into Pharo. Yes, I did this screencast just recently, but: there were installation issues then. They've been fixed since, so I didn't want that one hanging out there as "authoritative". 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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I had a brain cramp in the editing process for episode 4 - I've reposted all three audio files.

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Welcome to episode 4 of "Thu'umcast" - a podcast where Michael Lucas-Smith, Scott Dirk, Austin Haley, Makahlua and I document our trials and tribulations in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Today we talk about a lot of things, but mostly about the different paths we're all taking through the game. Enchanting, swordplay, smithing, and magic - this game is so big, we're all diverging a lot - and we're all looking forward to our next playthrough so we can try something different (even though we haven't nearly finished our first :) ). If you liked our work on That Podcast, you'll probably like this. We intend to stay with the same idea - a gameplay podcast. If you don't want spoilers, don't listen - we are going to be talking about how we play the game, and what we ran across as we played.

You can subscribe in iTunes (or any podcatcher) using this feed, or this one for the AAC edition. We'll add the iTunes specific links as soon as they are available. In the meantime, join the Facebook Group and follow us on Twitter. If you play on Steam, join the Steam Group. Like the music? Pay Sbeast a visit, we thank him for letting us use it!

Links to all episodes and other information can be found on the Thu'umcast page

If you want to download the podcast directly, we've provided it in three formats:

• MP3 Edition
• AAC Edition
• Ogg Vorbis Edition

Got feedback? Tweet us!. Enjoy the podcast, and we'll see you in Skyrim!

Technorati Tags: skyrim, elder scrolls

Welcome to episode 4 of "Thu'umcast" - a podcast where Michael Lucas-Smith, Scott Dirk, Austin Haley, Makahlua and I document our trials and tribulations in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Today we talk about a lot of things, but mostly about the different paths we're all taking through the game. Enchanting, swordplay, smithing, and magic - this game is so big, we're all diverging a lot - and we're all looking forward to our next playthrough so we can try something different (even though we haven't nearly finished our first :) ). If you liked our work on That Podcast, you'll probably like this. We intend to stay with the same idea - a gameplay podcast. If you don't want spoilers, don't listen - we are going to be talking about how we play the game, and what we ran across as we played.

You can subscribe in iTunes (or any podcatcher) using this feed, or this one for the AAC edition. We'll add the iTunes specific links as soon as they are available. In the meantime, join the Facebook Group and follow us on Twitter. If you play on Steam, join the Steam Group. Like the music? Pay Sbeast a visit, we thank him for letting us use it!

Links to all episodes and other information can be found on the Thu'umcast page

If you want to download the podcast directly, we've provided it in three formats:

• MP3 Edition
• AAC Edition
• Ogg Vorbis Edition

Got feedback? Tweet us!. Enjoy the podcast, and we'll see you in Skyrim!

Technorati Tags: skyrim, elder scrolls

Welcome to episode 55 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week Dave and I address the (completely misguided, in our opinion) meme that "you don't need a debugger". As you might expect from a couple of experienced Smalltalk hands, we don't think much that :)

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 55 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week Dave and I address the (completely misguided, in our opinion) meme that "you don't need a debugger". As you might expect from a couple of experienced Smalltalk hands, we don't think much that :)

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!

Technorati Tags: smalltalk, debugger

Welcome to episode 3 of "Thu'umcast" - a podcast where Michael Lucas-Smith, Scott Dirk, Austin Haley, Makahlua and I document our trials and tribulations in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Today we talk about our characters, and the widely different paths through the game we've taken. Not all of us have done the main quest yet, so we aren't talking about that yet - probably next episode. The title comes from me - I keep managing to get my companions killed :) If you liked our work on That Podcast, you'll probably like this. We intend to stay with the same idea - a gameplay podcast. If you don't want spoilers, don't listen - we are going to be talking about how we play the game, and what we ran across as we played.

You can subscribe in iTunes (or any podcatcher) using this feed, or this one for the AAC edition. We'll add the iTunes specific links as soon as they are available. In the meantime, join the Facebook Group and follow us on Twitter. If you play on Steam, join the Steam Group. Like the music? Pay Sbeast a visit, we thank him for letting us use it!

Links to all episodes and other information can be found on the Thu'umcast page

If you want to download the podcast directly, we've provided it in three formats:

• MP3 Edition
• AAC Edition
• Ogg Vorbis Edition

Got feedback? Tweet us!. Enjoy the podcast, and we'll see you in Skyrim!

Technorati Tags: skyrim, elder scrolls

Welcome to episode 3 of "Thu'umcast" - a podcast where Michael Lucas-Smith, Scott Dirk, Austin Haley, Makahlua and I document our trials and tribulations in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Today we talk about our characters, and the widely different paths through the game we've taken. Not all of us have done the main quest yet, so we aren't talking about that yet - probably next episode. The title comes from me - I keep managing to get my companions killed :) If you liked our work on That Podcast, you'll probably like this. We intend to stay with the same idea - a gameplay podcast. If you don't want spoilers, don't listen - we are going to be talking about how we play the game, and what we ran across as we played.

You can subscribe in iTunes (or any podcatcher) using this feed, or this one for the AAC edition. We'll add the iTunes specific links as soon as they are available. In the meantime, join the Facebook Group and follow us on Twitter. If you play on Steam, join the Steam Group. Like the music? Pay Sbeast a visit, we thank him for letting us use it!

Links to all episodes and other information can be found on the Thu'umcast page

If you want to download the podcast directly, we've provided it in three formats:

• MP3 Edition
• AAC Edition
• Ogg Vorbis Edition

Got feedback? Tweet us!. Enjoy the podcast, and we'll see you in Skyrim!

Technorati Tags: skyrim, elder scrolls