Smalltalk with James Robertson

The Squeak Oversight Board has announced the 4.3 release.

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We are very pleased to see this in the "Games and Hobbies" section of iTunes:

Thanks to everyone who subscribes! In answer to a question on our Facebook group, you can subscribe using:

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To subscribe in iTunes without using the feed from the iTunes podcast section, just pull down the "Advanced" menu, and use the "Subscribe to Podcast..." option. While we don't have a feed for OGG files, each post contains a link to that format - and if you check the Thu'umcast Page, you'll find all of those download links. Thanks Again!

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I have guests arriving for the holidays as I write this - The screencasts will resume next Tuesday. Merry Christmas, everyone!

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.

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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:

• 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 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:

• 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 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:

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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.

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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.

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.

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You can also watch it on YouTube:

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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:

• 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, thuumcast

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:

• 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, thuumcast