Screencast Hiatus
I have guests arriving for the holidays as I write this - The screencasts will resume next Tuesday. Merry Christmas, everyone!
JS 4U 117: The JQuery eq() Function
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Today's Javascript 4 You looks at the eq() 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. |
To watch now, click on the image below:
If you have trouble viewing that directly, you can click here to download the video directly. If you need the video in a Windows Media format, then download that here.
You can also watch it on YouTube:
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Thu'umcast 13: Stabby Stabby Stabby (AAC)
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Welcome to episode 13 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 We talk about the Dark Brotherhood quest in detail, from start to finish (with plenty of sidetracks along the way, of course) 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:
Got feedback? Tweet us!. Enjoy the podcast, and we'll see you in Skyrim!
Technorati Tags: skyrim, elder scrolls, thuumcast
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Thu'umcast 13: Stabby Stabby Stabby
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Welcome to episode 13 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 We talk about the Dark Brotherhood quest in detail, from start to finish (with plenty of sidetracks along the way, of course) 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:
Got feedback? Tweet us!. Enjoy the podcast, and we'll see you in Skyrim!
Technorati Tags: skyrim, thuumcast, elder scrolls
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ST 4U 173: VA Asist Pro
Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at some of the features that VA Assist Pro brings to VA 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:
.If you have trouble viewing that directly, you can click here to download the video directly. If you need the video in a Windows Media format, then download that here.
You can also watch it on YouTube:
Today we'll look at some of the tool support that's now part of the standard VA Smalltalk image from VA Assist Pro - something that used to be an add on. To demonstrate, we've created a small application with one simple class, Person:
First, select the class in the browser, use the context menu, and take note of the VA Assist Pro pull right. Go into that, and try All Instances>>inspect:
Since we haven't created any, you should not find any. Next, try the Hard Coded Strings check against the class:
We've hard coded the first and last names in the initialize method, and that's what turns up:
This can be a really useful way to find "magic" data that's been added to your application. Next, let's spell check the class. We've added an instance variable named phones to show what this check does not do:
As you can see below, what it actually finds are references to messages that are not in the image (note the red in the browser pane):
After creating an instance in a workspace, let's look for all instances again:
As you can see above, there's an inspector on the one instance now. Another handy (but dangerous) option is niling out all instances. In the first of the two images above, note the become nil option. Selecting that gives you this warning:
That can be useful in testing, but as the system tells you, it's dangerous. Use it with care. There are a few more options in the VA Assist Pro menus, and many of them scale across applications, not just a single class - take some time to explore.
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.
Technorati Tags: va smalltalk, smalltalk, va assist pro
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Renaming is Dangerous
The rename of SqueakDBX to DBXTalk has run into a few interesting landmines:
Thanks for the tip. I was aware of the rename to DBXTalk, but not the change to ConfigurationOfOpenDBXDriver. The new site says "Welcome to SqueakDBX", and refers only to ConfigurationOfSqueakDBX. Further offtopic but perhaps of interest to others... The DBXTalk site was difficult to find. For me google results only show it on the second page. I lament for your sake the loss of the squeakdbx.org domain. You may have had better better results holding on to it for a couple of years coupled with a 301 redirect. As well as losing the immediate redirects from the existing links on other web sites, including your own, the cybersquatter now on squeakdbx.org may compromise the ranking of your new site, along with additional "content duplication/spam" reasons discussed here.
In internet terms, it pays to give the initial naming some thought - because changing it has its own issues.
JS 4U 116: How Many Checked Items?
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Today's Javascript 4 You looks at selecting the checked checkboxes (or selected radio buttons) on a page. 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. |
To watch now, click on the image below:
If you have trouble viewing that directly, you can click here to download the video directly. If you need the video in a Windows Media format, then download that here.
You can also watch it on YouTube:
Technorati Tags: javascript, jquery, tutorial
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Thu'umcast 12: Windhelm or Solitude? (AAC)
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Welcome to episode 12 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 go into a bit of depth about the Civil War quest line - and cover some of the things to watch out for in glitches. 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:
Got feedback? Tweet us!. Enjoy the podcast, and we'll see you in Skyrim!
Technorati Tags: skyrim, elder scrolls, thuumcast
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Thu'umcast 12: Windhelm or Solitude?
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Welcome to episode 12 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 go into a bit of depth about the Civil War quest line - and cover some of the things to watch out for in glitches. 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:
Got feedback? Tweet us!. Enjoy the podcast, and we'll see you in Skyrim!
Technorati Tags: skyrim, elder scrolls, thuumcast
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ST 4U 172: Modifying Completion Settings in Pharo
Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at configuring the code completion in Pharo to not do "smart character" matching.. 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:
If you have trouble viewing that directly, you can click here to download the video directly. If you need the video in a Windows Media format, then download that here.
You can also watch it on YouTube:
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IM 58: Adventures in Teaching Smalltalk (AAC)
Welcome to episode 58 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.
This week I have a recording from ESUG 2010 - Nicholas Paez, talking about adventures in teaching Smalltalk.
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 58: Adventures in Teaching Smalltalk
Welcome to episode 58 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.
This week I have a recording from ESUG 2010 - Nicholas Paez, talking about adventures in teaching Smalltalk.
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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The Computer Boneyard
We got my wife a new Mac Mini - the old PC died, and she's about had it with Windows. Setting it up we discovered a few things:
- The old LCD monitor she had is shot
- The Mini has no DVD/CD drive ( I knew this, but forgot about it)
- We forgot to get a USB keyboard (her PC had an old style connector)
So... off to my boneyard. We grabbed an old CRT, a USB keyboard I had lying around, and a really old external CD/DVD drive - and it all worked fine. Good thing I didn't throw my "junk" away :)
Technorati Tags: mac
Copyright Madness
The Megaupload/Universal spat tells you everything you need to know as to why SOPA is a really, really bad idea. If you give the clowns in the entertainment industry this kind of power, it will be abused. Heck, since SOPA lets them shutdown (without any warning, mind you) any site that links to allegedly infringing content, no website is safe. Which I'm sure the MPAA and RIAA are happy wth.
Meanwhile, Eric Raymond has a wake up call for the many good netizens who are shocked, shocked to see this happening. As he says, what did they expect?
Thu'umcast 11: The Dark Doorway (AAC)
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Welcome to episode 11 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 The Thieves Guild quest line looks like the longest one in the game - we talk about that, the Dark Brotherhood quests, and how patch 1.3 doesn't seem to have completely fixed dragons yet. Also, check out Austin's new website. 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:
Got feedback? Tweet us!. Enjoy the podcast, and we'll see you in Skyrim!
Technorati Tags: skyrim, elder scrolls, thuumcast
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Thu'umcast 11: The Dark Doorway
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Welcome to episode 11 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 The Thieves Guild quest line looks like the longest one in the game - we talk about that, the Dark Brotherhood quests, and how patch 1.3 doesn't seem to have completely fixed dragons yet. Also, check out Austin's new website. 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:
Got feedback? Tweet us!. Enjoy the podcast, and we'll see you in Skyrim!
Technorati Tags: skyrim, elder scrolls, thuumcast
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Smalltalk in London
The next UK Smalltalk meeting is on December 19th:
Just a quick reminder that the next UK Smalltalk User Group ( http://www.uksmalltalk.org/ ) meeting is on this coming Monday, 19th December at 6.30pm at it’s usual location The Counting House.
It has a Christmas theme. Mulled wine and mince pies courtesy of Cincom when you arrive and drinks at their expense for the evening.
If that isn’t enough to tempt you we are discussing the ideas for next year’s meet ups. We have around 50 ideas and only 12 evenings. This is your chance to help decide which will make interesting and entertaining events.
Technorati Tags: london
ST 4U 171: Setting up a Wiki with VisualWorks
Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at setting up a wiki using VisualWorks. 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:
If you have trouble viewing that directly, you can click here to download the video directly. If you need the video in a Windows Media format, then download that here.
You can also watch it on YouTube:
Technorati Tags: smalltalk, visualworks, wiki
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