Image Based or Not?
Guille Polito has a nice roundup of the pros and cons of using - or not using - an image based system like Smalltalk.
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ST 4U 240: Making External API Calls
Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at making external API calls using 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 take a look at how to make external API calls from VA Smalltalk. IN this example, we'll call the MessageBoxA API in Windows:
The code looks like this:
| pf |
pf := PlatformFunction fromArray: #('C' 'MessageBoxA' nil 'user32.dll' #(#uint32 #pointer #pointer #uint32) #int32).
pf
callWith: PlatformGlobals::HwndNull
with: 'this is some text' asPSZ
with: 'this is a caption' asPSZ
with: PlatformConstants::MbYesno
To understand what's going on in the ByteArray of arguments, have a look at class PlatformFunction:
Bear in mind that this example is a bit artificial; the class CwPrompter exists in VA< and uses this API already. However, it does give you a simple example of making an API call, and you can follow the same pattern for your own work.
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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Thu'umcast 24: Dawnguard and MMOs (AAC)
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Welcome to episode 21 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're back, and we talk about three things: the Dawnguard DLC that just had a teaser trailer released, the Elder Scrolls MMO that's been talked up, and the stuff going on with the Skyrim Steam Workshop 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. |
Here's the trailer Bethesda let loose today:
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!
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Thu'umcast 24: Dawnguard and MMOs
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Welcome to episode 21 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're back, and we talk about three things: the Dawnguard DLC that just had a teaser trailer released, the Elder Scrolls MMO that's been talked up, and the stuff going on with the Skyrim Steam Workshop 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. |
Here's the trailer Bethesda let loose today:
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!
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Amber in the Wild
http://smalltalkhub.com is not only a new website for Smalltalk. If you look at the bottom of the page you will notice that is based on Pharo, Seaside, MongoDB and also the client side Amber Smalltalk that helps running the nice looking pages.
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Dawnguard Trailer
The trailer for Dawnguard is out - looks cool!
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JS 4U 162: Matching by Element
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Today's Javascript 4 You looks at a simple matching by element query 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:
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You can also watch it on YouTube:
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Abolish the PTO
At this point, I think the only sane answer is to:
- Eliminate all existing patents in the US
- Rewind patent law to the state it was in circa 1787
- Start over
Why do I say that? Well, consider the latest idiocy coming from the US PTO:
the company [Amazon] has just received a patent on what has become a common method of giving presents — a system for selecting digital gifts such as movies, music or e-books, sending an electronic notification to a recipient, and allowing them to download the gift.
Never mind technical expertise; what kind of utter moron thought that was worthy of a patent?
Concrete Type Inference for Pharo
There's a new blog up, on the subject of type inference for Pharo
When in Doubt, Reset to Factory Settings
We bought a second AppleTV a little while ago - my wife wanted one set to her account, and the pro=ice is certainly right for that sort of thing. However, the thing had issues right from the start. Whenever we would try to watch anything (even the settings screens), the TV would lose the signal from it every minute or so for a couple of seconds. I was pretty sure that it was a hardware issue, but went ahead and did a factory reset anyway. Lo and behold, the thing updated itself, reset, and now it seems to be working fine. We'll have to see if the problem resurfaces, but right now, it looks good. Weird problem....
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ST 4U 239: Finding Open Editions
Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at open editions in VA Smalltalk (using ENVY) - specifically, how to figure out which classes you have open (in which applications) at any given time. 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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You can also watch it on YouTube:
If you follow the recommended development process using VA Smalltalk and ENVY (detailed here), you'll need to track down and release your open class editions on a regular basis. If you're working in one or two applications, that's pretty easy - but what if you have a lot of them? There's some query support in VA Smalltalk that makes this easy. Go to the Tools menu in the launcher, and pull it right at Query:
Results for each query are displayed in the Transcript, rather than in a pop up window. For instance, say you need to know about the open class editions:
You can execute a number of other queries from this menu - they all report to the Transcript
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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Pastebin for Smalltalk
This looks interesting - probably worth a screencast at some point:
This website offers a web service to easily share Smalltalk workspaces. It is a pastebin for Smalltalk. Using a subclass of the standard Workspace tool called ZnWorkspace, you can easily publish the contents of any workspace to this website.
It's built for Pharo (1.4 to be specific)
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JS 4U 161: Matching by Class
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Today's Javascript 4 You looks at using JQuery selectors to match by CSS class. 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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Smalltalk Engineers Wanted at Cincom
Cincom has a few openings for developers on the Smalltalk team - one of them a VM slot.
ST 4U 238: Finding Text In Any Method in Pharo
Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at finding string matches across any source code in Pharo. 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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Fuel 1.8 Released
We are proud to announce Fuel 1.8 with a lot of new features and documentation. Of course, we don't stop working but it was time to freeze a stable version. Fuel is an open-source general-purpose object serialization framework developed in Pharo Smalltalk environment.
IM 79: Parallelism and Objects Part 2 (AAC)
Welcome to episode 79 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.
This week we have part two of Sam Adam's keynote from STIC 2012 - if you prefer to watch the video, you should visit the STIC website. If you missed part 1, you can get it here. 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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IM 79: Parallelism and Objects Part 2
Welcome to episode 79 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.
This week we have part two of Sam Adam's keynote from STIC 2012 - if you prefer to watch the video, you should visit the STIC website. If you missed part 1, you can get it here. 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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