Spring Not Found
I picked an awesome day to be back in Minneapolis:
Rain and snow this evening, becoming all snow overnight. Snow may be heavy at times. Low near 30F. Winds NNW at 15 to 25 mph. Snow accumulating 5 to 8 inches.
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The author of this blog, James Robertson, passed away in April 2014. This blog is being maintained by David Buck (david@simberon.com).
I picked an awesome day to be back in Minneapolis:
Rain and snow this evening, becoming all snow overnight. Snow may be heavy at times. Low near 30F. Winds NNW at 15 to 25 mph. Snow accumulating 5 to 8 inches.
Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at using CSV formatted files 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 124 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.
This week Dave and I talked about reporting from Smalltalk applications. In the process of doing that, we touched on file formats, and the interesting issues that crop up when exporting specific file formats from an application
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 124 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.
This week Dave and I talked about reporting from Smalltalk applications. In the process of doing that, we touched on file formats, and the interesting issues that crop up when exporting specific file formats from an application
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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I'm heading to Minneapolis next week, and I've been working from home this week. Here's spring (out my window) here at home today:
And here's what I found on a webcam shot of Minneapolis, taken 15 minutes before I posted this:
Guess I'll need my boots next week - either for the snow, or the running water from melting runoff....
Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at the GF/ST graphics framework - which you can use in VA Smalltalk, and in other dialects as well. 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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If you need a simple, cross dialect graphics framework, then you should probably have a look at GF/ST. In VA Smalltalk, simply load it from the "Load/Unload Features" UI. Once you've done that, you can have a look at class GFThreeDEditor for some example usage. Try this code:
GFThreeDEditor new open
You can play with the examples in there - here's the cube:
You'll want to see things in the browser to get an idea as to how they work. Take a look at the Application GFTesting, and its sub app GFTestingES. From there, you can start tracing the drawing code:
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.
Tags: smalltalk, va smalltalk, graphics
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Today's Javascript 4 You looks at Places searches in maps. 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 continues looking at the usage of JSON 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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Today's Javascript 4 You looks at using autocomplete (on search fields) with the Places 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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You can also watch it on YouTube:
Tags: javascript, maps
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Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at using JSON in Pharo 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:
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