Smalltalk with James Robertson

It's the labor day holiday here in the US - and Independent Misinterpretations is taking this week off. We'll be back with more Smalltalk next week.

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at compaing editions in ENVY - the nice part of this is, that includes editions that you never formally released. 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 one of the simpler, but nicer features of ENVY in VA Smalltalk - the ability to compare two Applications for differences. While that's easily possible in any version control system, ENVY tracks everything - so we can even compare to versions we never released:

Simply pop up the context menu after selecting both apps, and pick the comparison option. Note that you can include (or exclude) sub applications:

What pops up is a differences browser, showing the places where the two applications differ. If you think you may have "lost" code in an un-released edition, ENVY makes it easy to recover it.

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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It's being posted now, on YouTube

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James Foster has updated his "how to":

Some time ago I described the steps I used to add Perl as a simple runtime and framework to Cloud Foundry. Since then many changes have taken place in Cloud Foundry and those steps no longer work. I now have something that works as of 30 August 2012. To see the changes go to my github repository and view the changes to  vcap, vcap-staging, stager, and cloud_controller. Note that the recent refactoring of Cloud Foundry means that instead of isolating changes to one repository, we now make changes to four repositories.

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Yet another reason I wish I was at ESUG this year - the people in that part of the Smalltalk community are great. They just sent me this (click through for the full size version):

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If you want to try out the latest Seaside and the latest Pharo at the same time, you'll want to see this.

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Today's Javascript 4 You looks at using map markers with the Google Maps API. 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 using DDE (Windows) in 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 DDE support in VA Smalltalk. While DDE is an old way of doing inter-process communication, it still works well, and it's easy to use. To start, load the DDE-Examples package from the features tool, and then find the DDE-Examples Application:

Have a look at the DDETimeServer and the DDETimeClient. We'll be using those for the purpose of this example. Just create an instance of the server in a workspace:

Then create the client - you should see the time printing to the Transcript. All this example does is set up a topic for the client to find, and, when found, print 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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Today's Javascript 4 You looks at adding map markers (and attaching events to them) in the Google Maps API. 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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Aida/Web 6.5 is out:

Summer Edition of Aida/Web framework and application server is here with bunch of new features

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Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at using stdin/stdout 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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Welcome to episode 92 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week david and James talk about some of the stranger things they've seen in software development through the years.

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

This week david and James talk about some of the stranger things they've seen in software development through the years.

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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Andres Valloud:

The Fundación Argentina de Smalltalk (FAST, http://www.fast.org.ar) invites you to the 6th Argentine Smalltalk Conference, to be held on November 7, 8 and 9, 2012 at the Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco located in Puerto Madryn, Argentina. Everyone, including teachers, students, researchers, developers and entrepreneurs, are welcome as speakers or attendees. Registration is free and now open

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