Smalltalk Daily http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/cincom/blogView?content=smalltalkDaily Cincom Product Manager jrobertson@cincom.com Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:18:55 GMT http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/images/smalltalk_videos300.png Smalltalk Daily http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/cincom/blogView?content=smalltalkDaily 300 300 no Smalltalk Daily James Robertson Short Daily videos on various aspects of Smalltalk in general, and Cincom Smalltalk in particular en-us smalltalk,cincom smalltalk,visualworks,objectstudio,web velocity,ruby,software development,IDE,object oriented James Robertson jrobertson@cincom.com James A. Robertson Copyright 2007 Cincom Systems, Inc. 2010-02-09T15:18:55-05:00 39.214103 -76.878807 Smalltalk Daily 02/09/10: Detecting Stack Overflows http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/09/10:_Detecting_Stack_Overflows&entry=3443164819 smalltalkDaily Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:40:19 GMT

Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at how you can detect stack overflows (typically caused by infinite loops) in your Smalltalk code. To watch, click on the viewer below:

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]]> 3443164819 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3443164819 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?guid=3443164819 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/09/10:_Detecting_Stack_Overflows&entry=3443164819 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/09/10:_Detecting_Stack_Overflows&entry=3443164819 Steffen 2010-02-09T11:10:06-05:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>Audio is broken!</p> </div> Re: Smalltalk Daily 02/09/10: Detecting Stack Overflows no James Robertson Detecting Stack Overflows How to detect stack overflows in your Smalltalk code 2:12 smalltalk, dynamic, stack overflow nonadult James Robertson Detecting Stack Overflows http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3443164819 Smalltalk Daily 02/08/10: Extending the FileBrowser http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/08/10:_Extending_the_FileBrowser&entry=3443077929 smalltalkDaily Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:32:09 GMT

Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at a package that extends the FileBrowser with some useful features. To watch, click on the viewer below:

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Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at how you can use WriteBarriers to track object changes. You can download the code example here. To watch, click on the viewer below:

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]]> 3442810732 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3442810732 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?guid=3442810732 no James Robertson Using WriteBarriers A simple example demonstrating how to use WriteBarriers to track object changes 3:36 smalltalk, dynamic, change tracking, write barriers nonadult James Robertson Using WriteBarriers http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3442810732 Smalltalk Daily 02/04/10: Native Printer Dialog Use on Windows http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/04/10:_Native_Printer_Dialog_Use_on_Windows&entry=3442720046 smalltalkDaily Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:07:26 GMT

Today's Smalltalk Daily looks demonstrates how to create a Document object and print it using the native print dialog on Windows (rather than the default printer, which is what will normally happen). You can download the code used in this screencast here. To watch, click on the viewer below:

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]]> 3442720046 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3442720046 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?guid=3442720046 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/04/10:_Native_Printer_Dialog_Use_on_Windows&entry=3442720046 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/04/10:_Native_Printer_Dialog_Use_on_Windows&entry=3442720046 Steffen 2010-02-04T17:24:48-05:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>Hi,</p><p>actually I would really like to see more on printing. Yesterday I tried to print some code via 'hardcopy' but I could not figure out how to configure the environment to acually print to some printer on my Mac. The settings tool offers some options, but besides an exception nothing happens.</p><p>Regards,</p><p>teffen</p> </div> Re: Smalltalk Daily 02/04/10: Native Printer Dialog Use on Windows no James Robertson Industry Misinterpretations Episode XX: Demonstrates how to create a Document object and print it using the native print dialog on Windows (rather than the default printer, which is what will normally happen). 2:10 smalltalk, dynamic, windows, print nonadult James Robertson Industry Misinterpretations Episode XX: http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3442720046 Smalltalk Daily 02/03/10: JSON Support in WebVelocity 1.0 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/03/10:_JSON_Support_in_WebVelocity_1.0&entry=3442642123 smalltalkDaily Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:28:43 GMT

Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at the JSON support built into WebVelocity 1.0. To watch, click on the viewer below:

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]]> 3442642123 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3442642123 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?guid=3442642123 no James Robertson JSON Support in WebVelocity 1.0 A look at the JSON support built into WebVelocity 1.0 2:23 smalltalk, dynamic, seaside, json, webvelocity nonadult James Robertson JSON Support in WebVelocity 1.0 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3442642123 Smalltalk Daily 02/02/10: RESTful Web Services in Seaside http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/02/10:_RESTful_Web_Services_in_Seaside&entry=3442552731 smalltalkDaily Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:38:51 GMT

Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at creating a RESTful web service using Seaside. Here's the code used in the demonstration; to watch, click on the viewer below:

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]]> 3442552731 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3442552731 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?guid=3442552731 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/02/10:_RESTful_Web_Services_in_Seaside&entry=3442552731 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/02/10:_RESTful_Web_Services_in_Seaside&entry=3442552731 anonymous 2010-02-02T12:38:32-05:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>Umm... how is that a RESTful web service? I might change the title to "Serving JSON using Seaside"</p> </div> Re: Smalltalk Daily 02/02/10: RESTful Web Services in Seaside blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/02/10:_RESTful_Web_Services_in_Seaside&entry=3442552731 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/02/10:_RESTful_Web_Services_in_Seaside&entry=3442552731 James Robertson 2010-02-02T14:30:03-05:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>JSON is merely the vehicle I used. The approach could be used to create a static entry point to an arbitrary service</p> </div> Re: Smalltalk Daily 02/02/10: RESTful Web Services in Seaside blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/02/10:_RESTful_Web_Services_in_Seaside&entry=3442552731 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/02/10:_RESTful_Web_Services_in_Seaside&entry=3442552731 anonymous 2010-02-02T15:24:12-05:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>When I see REST I expect that means bookmarkable, so I was disappointed.</p> </div> Re: Smalltalk Daily 02/02/10: RESTful Web Services in Seaside blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/02/10:_RESTful_Web_Services_in_Seaside&entry=3442552731 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/02/10:_RESTful_Web_Services_in_Seaside&entry=3442552731 James Robertson 2010-02-02T16:00:06-05:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>And how would it not be bookmarkable? The url in question would remain the same.</p> </div> Re: Smalltalk Daily 02/02/10: RESTful Web Services in Seaside blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/02/10:_RESTful_Web_Services_in_Seaside&entry=3442552731 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/02/10:_RESTful_Web_Services_in_Seaside&entry=3442552731 anonymous 2010-02-02T16:57:55-05:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>Bookmarkable implies that you are navigating through a site and that there are one or more places in that navigation graph where the display URL would take the user back to that place (stateful or not) at a later time.</p><p>So let's say I create a banner maker in Seaside. The initial page let's me choose a title, a background color, a graphic, and some text. Then a second page is generated. The user can then grab the URL for that generated page and use it to come back later to the resulting banner, or he can share it with others.</p><p>What you've described is only bookmarkable in the most trivial way. There's no good reason not to take the word RESTful out of your post title.</p> </div> Re: Smalltalk Daily 02/02/10: RESTful Web Services in Seaside blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/02/10:_RESTful_Web_Services_in_Seaside&entry=3442552731 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/02/10:_RESTful_Web_Services_in_Seaside&entry=3442552731 James Robertson 2010-02-02T18:34:00-05:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>Umm, I'm really not seeing your point. In the scenario I sketch here, I'm making available an interface that offers data via a static url. It happens to be JSON, but could just as easily be XML (or anything else). </p><p>For that matter, one could posit the same interface with a set of optional url arguments (like the Facebook APIs) that would allow dynamic queries through a well known url.</p><p>I have no idea what you objecting to.</p> </div> Re: Smalltalk Daily 02/02/10: RESTful Web Services in Seaside blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/02/10:_RESTful_Web_Services_in_Seaside&entry=3442552731 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/02/10:_RESTful_Web_Services_in_Seaside&entry=3442552731 Carl Gundel 2010-02-03T17:12:09-05:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>You can pass parameters into a Seaside invokation, but as far as I know you cannot programmatically set the URL that appears in the browser's URL field so that the user can bookmark a page. In other words how can I get the browser to display either of the following in the URL field in the browser when a Seaside page loads?</p><p> <a href="http://mydomain.com/?page=settings&shopid=2334">[link 1]</a></p> <p>That would be a way to do bookmarkable. Is that REST? Or how about?</p><p> <a href="http://mydomain.com/page/settings/shopid/2334">[link 2]</a></p> <p>Can Seaside do this?</p> <p> <a href="http://mydomain.com/?page=settings&shopid=2334">[1 http://mydomain.com/?page=settings&shopid=2334]</a><br/> <a href="http://mydomain.com/page/settings/shopid/2334">[2 http://mydomain.com/page/settings/shopid/2334]</a><br/> </p> </div> Re: Smalltalk Daily 02/02/10: RESTful Web Services in Seaside blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/02/10:_RESTful_Web_Services_in_Seaside&entry=3442552731 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/02/10:_RESTful_Web_Services_in_Seaside&entry=3442552731 Carl Gundel 2010-02-03T17:13:11-05:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>Those links should have been plain text, sorry.</p> </div> Re: Smalltalk Daily 02/02/10: RESTful Web Services in Seaside blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/02/10:_RESTful_Web_Services_in_Seaside&entry=3442552731 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/02/10:_RESTful_Web_Services_in_Seaside&entry=3442552731 james Robertson 2010-02-03T18:01:19-05:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>Umm, that's exactly what I did in that demo. The url in question is bookmarkable. heck, I demonstrated "static" urls in Seaside in my blog tutorial 2 years ago :)</p> </div> Re: Smalltalk Daily 02/02/10: RESTful Web Services in Seaside blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/02/10:_RESTful_Web_Services_in_Seaside&entry=3442552731 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/02/10:_RESTful_Web_Services_in_Seaside&entry=3442552731 Carl Gundel 2010-02-03T23:34:00-05:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>I'm not sure how your demo does what I described, James. Your demo showed how to return some JSON based on an unparameterized URL.</p><p>I described a use case where the Seaside app would set the URL in the browser so that the user could bookmark the page. The idea there is that the web app in question would generate some interesting content to be bookmarked. Perhaps this has nothing to do with your screencast, but it's an important aspect of RESTful-ness in a web app.</p> </div> Re: Smalltalk Daily 02/02/10: RESTful Web Services in Seaside blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/02/10:_RESTful_Web_Services_in_Seaside&entry=3442552731 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/02/10:_RESTful_Web_Services_in_Seaside&entry=3442552731 James Robertson 2010-02-04T06:25:46-05:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>I could extend that trivial example easily - It's easy to add a set of optional parameters that would execute back end queries - and any of those parametrized urls could be bookmarked.</p><p>What the example shows is Seaside being used for a service entry point, as opposed to it being used for a navigatable application. </p> </div> Re: Smalltalk Daily 02/02/10: RESTful Web Services in Seaside no James Robertson RESTful Web Services in Seaside A simple RESTful web service built in Seaside 3.0 3:02 smalltalk, dynamic, JSON, REST, seaside nonadult James Robertson RESTful Web Services in Seaside http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3442552731 Smalltalk Daily 02/01/10: RESTful Web Services http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_02/01/10:_RESTful_Web_Services&entry=3442459166 smalltalkDaily Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:39:26 GMT

Today's Smalltalk Daily shows you how to build a simple, RESTful web service using the VisualWorks Web Toolkit (the same code may be used in ObjectStudio). Here's a zip file with the example service. If you would prefer a text and image based walkthrough, try my earlier post on this. Here's a zip file with the example code. To watch, click on the viewer below:

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Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at the COM interface browser - a tool that lets you investigate COM APIs on Windows from the comfort of a Smalltalk Browser. To watch, click on the viewer below:

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Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at the Web Support package, and how it makes programmatic usage of web resources (such as forms) simpler. To watch, click on the viewer below:

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]]> 3442113127 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3442113127 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?guid=3442113127 no James Robertson Automating Web Form Access How to make programmatic access to web forms simpler with a small add on 1:57 smalltalk, dynamic, web, forms nonadult James Robertson Automating Web Form Access http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3442113127 Smalltalk Daily 01/27/10: Subsystem Load Order http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_01/27/10:_Subsystem_Load_Order&entry=3442003921 smalltalkDaily Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:12:01 GMT

Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at how you can determine the load order of your subsystems. To watch, click on the viewer below:

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Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at using the loadable Spellchecker in your own applications. To watch, click on the viewer below:

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Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at adding a spellchecker to your system - one that knows aboutc the symbols used in methods across the system. To watch, click on the viewer below:

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]]> 3441858673 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3441858673 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?guid=3441858673 no James Robertson Spellchecking your Code Every week James Robertson and Michael Lucas-Smith give their take on IT Industry news, with a focus on Smalltalk and dynamic languages. How to add a spellchecker (that is aware of the symbols in the method dictionary) to your system smalltalk, dynamic, spellchecker nonadult James Robertson Spellchecking your Code http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3441858673 Smalltalk Daily 01/22/10: Tar Files http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_01/22/10:_Tar_Files&entry=3441575184 smalltalkDaily Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:06:24 GMT

Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at working with tar files in Smalltalk. To watch, click on the viewer below:

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Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at how to read Zip files from Smalltalk. To watch, click on the viewer below:

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Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at selectively renaming with the Refactoring Browser, rather than the "all or nothing" approach. After I recorded this screencast, Travis let me know that you can pick and choose renamings from the "Show Changes" option without the add-on covered here, so you should give that a try as well and see which you like better. To watch, click on the viewer below:

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]]> 3441423114 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3441423114 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?guid=3441423114 no James Robertson Industry Misinterpretations Episode XX: Every week James Robertson and Michael Lucas-Smith give their take on IT Industry news, with a focus on Smalltalk and dynamic languages. 2:03 smalltalk, dynamic, refactoring, renaming nonadult James Robertson Industry Misinterpretations Episode XX: http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3441423114 Smalltalk Daily 01/19/10: Adding Trippy to the Debugger http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_01/19/10:_Adding_Trippy_to_the_Debugger&entry=3441343464 smalltalkDaily Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:44:24 GMT

Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at Diggy, a small add on that brings Trippy to the debugger's inspector panes. To watch, click on the viewer below:

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Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at adding Regex searching to the Smalltalk Browser. To watch, click on the viewer below:

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]]> 3441267242 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3441267242 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?guid=3441267242 no James Robertson Regex Browser Searching How to ad Regex support to browser searches in Smalltalk 1:22 smalltalk, dynamic, code browser, regex, search nonadult James Robertson Regex Browser Searching http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3441267242 Smalltalk Daily 01/15/10: Searchlight http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Daily_01/15/10:_Searchlight&entry=3440997164 smalltalkDaily Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:32:44 GMT

Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at the Searchlight tool - a new searching tool for Cincom Smalltalk, inspired by Apple's Spotlight tool. To watch, click on the viewer below:

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Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at some incompatible settings for password fields in VW 7.7 - that you might run into when upgrading from 7.6 or earlier. To watch, click on the viewer below:

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Today's Smalltalk Daily looks using the ActiveRecord support in the Glorp Object/Relational mapping framework.

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