Monthly Archives: March 2009

Corsa, Fiesta und Aygo … und eine Entscheidung

Posted on March 29, 2009 by

Es ist die Zeit der Abwrackprämie und wer kommt nicht auch auf die Idee, sein altes Auto durch ein neues Auto zu ersetzen. Wir auch – schon seit Monaten, aber nun ist es in der letzten Woche konkreter geworden und … Continue reading →

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UMLDesigner 800-05

Posted on March 29, 2009 by

To do a right configuration is a hard work. Therefore a new configuration, which NOW should (!) work under 7.52 and 8.00: umldesigner-800-05

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PostgreSQL Wrapper

Posted on March 24, 2009 by

Adding all this support for the native binary result format is pretty hard. The reason is pretty simple: it is not documented. One has to query the conversion methods for each datatype from a running PostgreSQl database, then lookup the … Continue reading →

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PostgreSQL-0-0-19

Posted on March 20, 2009 by

A new version is available. This version now works either with VA 8.00 beta 1 or VA 7.52. It also runs under Linux. I tested it using Ubuntu64 (with 32 bits libraries installed) and Windows XP-SP3. The repository also contains … Continue reading →

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PostgreSQL – 0.0.10

Posted on March 15, 2009 by

Whenever a new project is started, one has to consider, how to get persistence of your objects. One typical way is to use relational databases and VA has support for ODBC, DB2 and Oracle databases. In commercial projects Oracle and … Continue reading →

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PostgreSQL – some code

Posted on March 11, 2009 by

Today I started a new wrapper code for PostgreSQL. The upload contains code for connecting and disconnectng to/from databases and execute commands – nothing more. The result of queries are not available. But here is this early code – for … Continue reading →

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FreeImage-Wrapper – Performance

Posted on March 7, 2009 by

I did some simple tests about performance about loading a picture file up to the point where the application gets a Smalltalk device independent image format. Tests were done using the “jpg”-format and a 1900x1200x24 picture. The results are: using … Continue reading →

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How to create a new application !

Posted on March 1, 2009 by

One of the goals when doing source code generation is the definition, in which application the source should be generated in. You need an application for that. It’s very easy to create a new application before you may use this … Continue reading →

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Change the source code templates for public and private methods

Posted on March 1, 2009 by

The definition of the template string for public and private methods are located in the class EtTools. The following example shows how to create method template which follow a more structured way (which e.g. is common in the SST code): … Continue reading →

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