Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants

This week's podcast is a coversation with Chris Cunnington, the guy behind Smalltalk TV. Chris has been doing a (mostly weekly) screencast series on Squeak for awhile now; this is of interest to me because of my work on Smalltalk Daily. We talked some about tools and techniques, and about what our goals have been for doing the screencasts. You can get to Chris' YouTube page for The Smalltalk Medicine Show here.

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.

To listen immediately, use the player below:

If you like the music we use, please visit Josh Woodward's site. We use the song Effortless for our intro/outro music. I'm sure he'd appreciate your support!

If you have feedback, send it to smalltalkpodcasts@cincom.com - or visit us on Facebook - you can vote for the Podcast Alley, and subscribe on iTunes.. Interested in Cincom Smalltalk? Why not download it now and try it out yourself? If you enjoy the podcast, pass the word - we would love to have more people hear about Smalltalk!

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This week's podcast is a coversation with Chris Cunnington, the guy behind Smalltalk TV. Chris has been doing a (mostly weekly) screencast series on Squeak for awhile now; this is of interest to me because of my work on Smalltalk Daily. We talked some about tools and techniques, and about what our goals have been for doing the screencasts. You can get to Chris' YouTube page for The Smalltalk Medicine Show here.

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.

To listen immediately, use the player below:

If you like the music we use, please visit Josh Woodward's site. We use the song Effortless for our intro/outro music. I'm sure he'd appreciate your support!

If you have feedback, send it to smalltalkpodcasts@cincom.com - or visit us on Facebook - you can vote for the Podcast Alley, and subscribe on iTunes.. Interested in Cincom Smalltalk? Why not download it now and try it out yourself? If you enjoy the podcast, pass the word - we would love to have more people hear about Smalltalk!

Technorati Tags: smalltalk, squeak, screencast, cincom smalltalk

Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at using xAuth to connect to a public web service - in this case, Twitter. The code I used in the screencast is below - to load that code, get the packages OAuth and MinXAuthTwit from the public store repository. To skip to the video, click here.

"the entire conversation with Twitter"
auth := XAuthenticator 
	fromSettings: (OAuth.Settings fromFile: 'twitterOAuth.ini').
accessData := auth executeXAuthAccessTokenRequest.
postCollection := OrderedCollection new.
postCollection add: 'status' -> 'Testing xAuth to Twitter from Smalltalk'.
auth 
	executeXAuthCallFor: postCollection 
	with: accessData 
	to: 'http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.json'

"save the results as a file for addition to any RSS/Atom aware tool"
file := 'calFeed.xml' asFilename writeStream.
file nextPutAll: xml.
file close.

"Using the simpler package I published"
MiniTwitPoster tweet: 'Test Tweet from simple interface object'

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Technorati Tags: smalltalk, twitter, xAuth, http

Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at integrating a feed from Google calendar with the syndication handling code that is used in BottomFeeder. The code I used in the screencast is below - to load that code, get the packages GCal-Example2 and Syndication-Handling from the public store repository. Make sure to load the latest NetworkAppUtilities as well; the version that loads from disk is not the latest version. To skip to the video, click here.

"get the request token"
gAuth := AuthRequest 
	requestTokenFor: 'cl' 
	user: username
	password: password
	clientName: 'Cincom-VisualWorks-771'.

"get the response as XML"
serviceResponse := ServiceRequest
					makeRequestWith: gAuth 
					requestPrepObject: ExampleRequestPrep new.
xml := serviceResponse contents.

"get the feed object"
feed := Constructor getFeedFromStream: xml readStream.

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Technorati Tags: google, smalltalk, rss, atom, calendar

Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at one of the cool things about the Smalltalk image - you can save your current state completely - including debugging sessions. Have a hard problem to debug, and you don't want to stay late? Just save the image and come back to it later. To watch now, use the viewer below:

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Technorati Tags: smalltalk, debugger, smalltalk image

Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at the Counter example in Seaside 3.0 - as an example of how to get started with Seaside. To watch now, use the viewer below:

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Here's a video from ESUG 2010, which was held in Barcelona, Spain, the week of September 13, 2010. In this presentation, Cincom's Martin Kobetic talks about the Xtreams library - a modern take on streaming in Smalltalk. You can watch using the embedded player below, or follow the download links at the bottom of the post.

If you have trouble viewing that directly, you can click here to download the video directly - if you need Windows Media Format, that's here. Stay tuned - there's more to come from ESUG 2010.

Technorati Tags: smalltalk, esug2010, xstreams, barcelona, spain

Today's Smalltalk Daily takes a more detailed look at the Counter example in Seaside. To watch now, use the viewer 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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This week's podcast is Arden Thomas presenting the Cincom Smalltalk road map at ESUG on September 15, 2010 in Barcelona, Spain. He spoke about ObjectStudio, VisualWorks, and WebVelocity, and took a few questions at the end of the talk. You can see the slides he used here.

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.

To listen immediately, use the player below:

If you like the music we use, please visit Josh Woodward's site. We use the song Effortless for our intro/outro music. I'm sure he'd appreciate your support!

If you have feedback, send it to smalltalkpodcasts@cincom.com - or visit us on Facebook - you can vote for the Podcast Alley, and subscribe on iTunes.. Interested in Cincom Smalltalk? Why not download it now and try it out yourself? If you enjoy the podcast, pass the word - we would love to have more people hear about Smalltalk!

Technorati Tags: smalltalk, cincom smalltalk, roadmap, barcelona, spain, esug2010

This week's podcast is Arden Thomas presenting the Cincom Smalltalk road map at ESUG on September 15, 2010 in Barcelona, Spain. He spoke about ObjectStudio, VisualWorks, and WebVelocity, and took a few questions at the end of the talk. You can see the slides he used here.

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.

To listen immediately, use the player below:

If you like the music we use, please visit Josh Woodward's site. We use the song Effortless for our intro/outro music. I'm sure he'd appreciate your support!

If you have feedback, send it to smalltalkpodcasts@cincom.com - or visit us on Facebook - you can vote for the Podcast Alley, and subscribe on iTunes.. Interested in Cincom Smalltalk? Why not download it now and try it out yourself? If you enjoy the podcast, pass the word - we would love to have more people hear about Smalltalk!

Technorati Tags: smalltalk, esug2010, barcelona, spain, roadmap, cincom smalltalk