Monthly Archives: August 2011

VASmalltalk – 8.5 – “Deprecation Exception support”

Posted on August 31, 2011 by

One of new feature is the “Deprecation Exception support”. This feature allows Instantiations (or for your own frameworks) to tell the users (programmers), that using a special method is not a good idea any more. When looking for a new … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – emsrv als Dienst einrichten

Posted on August 30, 2011 by

Wie ich ja bereits in einem Posting gestern angemeckert hatte, ist es nicht so ganz einfach, dieses Tools als Dienst lauffähig zu machen. Daher mal eine kleine Anleitung, wie man das unter einem Windows 7 (ohne Domänenverwaltung) machen kann. a) … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – Update 8.5 – CodeAssist, usability at its best !

Posted on August 29, 2011 by

Another new feature in VASmalltalk 8.5 is CodeAssist. This goodies helps you via a pop-up window to find suitable method names, when entering the first characters in the source code pane. Though other Smalltalk implementation have this feature already, I … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – Update 8.5 – primitiveSystemOffset

Posted on August 29, 2011 by

What do you think ? Have they fixed the four year old bug in 8.5 ? No, here in Germany we still get … DateAndTime now -> 2011-08-29T22:19:00.777+01:00 And yes: correct would be +02:00. But, who cares for 8.5 !? … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – Update 8.5 – headless packaging

Posted on August 29, 2011 by

Packaging gets not much easier in 8.5 – at least, when hardly stopped by my first problem. I just tried to port a headless Seaside application (which always uses the application GreaseCoreApp). The application GreaseCoreApp is delivered with the ConfigurationMap … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – emsrv under Windows: usability at its worst

Posted on August 29, 2011 by

With the new 8.5 I started to install the new stuff and as a special task I wanted to use emsrv under Windows and not simple file I/O. I know I made that stuff running years ago – but then … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – EMan Update

Posted on August 24, 2011 by

I uploaded new configuration maps of EMan to VASTGoodies. A user send me a small fix to prevent an error, when closing socket connections under special circumstances. Obdobion, EMan – Developer (Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:10:29 +0100) Obdobion, EMan – … Continue reading →

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SmalltalkInspect – Smalltalk aus Deutschland – Smalltalk/X

Posted on August 16, 2011 by

Etwas außerhalb unseres Musters hier nun die 9.te Folge unseres Podcasts rund um die Programmiersprache Smalltalk. In dieser Folge besprechen wir mit Claus Gittinger von der Exept-Software die Smalltalk-Implementation Smalltalk/X, die man von Exept Software AG kostenlos herunterladen kann. Dabei … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – Embedding a Common-Lisp system

Posted on August 9, 2011 by

I’ve refactored the stuff, corrected some errors, uploaded the 0.0.10 version and created a little GUI to interact with the LISP system: My main attempt was to call the embedded system with the static future feature of VASmalltalk – but … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – Connection to Common LISP systems …

Posted on August 5, 2011 by

I had the idea to play with a Common Lisp system from VA and decides to build a minimal wrapper around the Common Lisp implementation ECL under Windows. Under the application MSKECLTestsAndResourcesApp I have included a precompiled ecl.dll for use … Continue reading →

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