Monthly Archives: April 2011

VASmalltalk – ICU under Ubuntu 10.10

Posted on April 27, 2011 by

Ok, now I switched my code to Ubuntu 10.10 and noticed, that on this platform only ICU 4.2 is delivered and even here some links were missing in my /usr/lib directory, that I had to set manually (the main links … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – ICU: working with time zones

Posted on April 26, 2011 by

To get a first impression here are some code examples: // create a special calendar with a time zone and a country information localCalendar := UCalendar openDefaultWithLocale: ‘de_DE’ timezone: ‘Europe/Berlin’. // localCalendar now contains the local time binded to // … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – Repairing DateAndTime with ICU

Posted on April 26, 2011 by

I uploaded version 0.0.3 to vastgoodies.com and here are some simple examples to fix all these bugs I mentioned in my earlier posting. To get a correct DateAndTime instance with the current local date/time I added DateAndTime class>>currentLocalDateAndTime. This method … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – ICU, International Components for Unicode

Posted on April 26, 2011 by

Another day, another playground. I was thinking about questions (which never got answered from the company – by the way: why ?) in the Instantiation forum, why there is no call to retrieve a platform independent call to get an … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – MSC001-VastGoodies

Posted on April 21, 2011 by

After publishing it at smalltalkinspect.podspot.de I noticed, that I had lots of problems with the content of my video file. Therefore I changed my host site for this episode to … MSC001-VastGoodies

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VASmalltalk – #004 – VA Smalltalk – Teil 03 – unendliche Weiten…

Posted on April 17, 2011 by

Heute haben wir den dritten Teil unserer Betrachtungen über VASmalltalk veröffentlicht. Wir haben dann in einem lockeren Gespräch all die Punkte abgehandelt, die wir in den beiden beiden ersten Episoden auslassen mussten. Viel Spass beim Zuhören von VASmalltalk – 3.ter … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – Simple REST GET framework

Posted on April 7, 2011 by

I needed a playground for a simple REST GET based framework. I converted the code from Seaside-REST from Squeak to VASmalltalk – but after one day of work I stopped the work on that, because several SUNIT tests were failing … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – JSON and the delivered JSJsonParser

Posted on April 4, 2011 by

Perhaps you have noticed, that in VASmalltalk, there is a built-in JSON parser. It’s the class JSJsonParser in the subapplication JavascriptCoreJSON. Using this class you may read any JSON stream and get a dictionary containing all resulting values you would … Continue reading →

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