Category Archives: Smalltalk

VASmalltalk – how to create a zip archive …

Posted on May 16, 2013 by

Today I was in the need to create a zip archive in VASmalltalk and zip-code had been introduced with the new Monticello Importer in version 8.5.2 (application: MZZipUnzipApp) Documentation is spare and therefore a simple code example how to create … Continue reading →

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What is Object Oriented Programming: A Critical Approach

Posted on March 4, 2013 by

I read the blog post from Torsten Bergman about an article he has just read and I looked after that article at OOP – A Critical Approach – and I think, that the original writer did not point out the … Continue reading →

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Portobello – Teil2/Was kommt dabei raus …

Posted on February 1, 2013 by

Nachdem in dem ersten Teil Basisvoraussetzungen beschrieben wurden, die eher dem Smalltalk insgesamt zuzurechnen sind, möchte ich jetzt erst einmal zeigen, was für den Benutzer dabei rauskommt. Wie bereits beschrieben, sollte das Endsystem auch als Einzelsystem unter Windows nutzbar sein. … Continue reading →

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Portobello – Teil 1/Bekannte Grundlagen

Posted on January 31, 2013 by

this collection of articles are written in German simply due to the fact, that they should become the documentation of my framework and it is much easier for me to describe the stuff in German. Warum ? Einer der Stärken … Continue reading →

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VA852 – Ubuntu 12.04.1/64, Installation and Locale

Posted on January 14, 2013 by

Perhaps I’ve not written it down. Just some notes how to install VA 8.52 under Ubuntu and get a German locale and make it work at all. I just installed the Ubuntu 12.04.1/64Bit from disc and with that system you … Continue reading →

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Raspberry PI, RISC OS and Linux

Posted on December 26, 2012 by

Now, after playing with this computer over Christmas I think, that this is a wonderful system and it reminds me back to the eighties (:-)))), where we had computer we believed we knew all about – like old 8bit systems … Continue reading →

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Podcasting in a Virtual World

Posted on September 26, 2012 by

We had to fight pretty hard with the technology, but it was an amazing event for us and is a wonderful technology and perhaps a future of podcasting and/or virtual meetings. Smalltalkers are listening VASmalltalk in Presentation

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VASmalltalk – Reconfiguration of PlatformFunctions

Posted on September 23, 2012 by

When accessing the ICU library one could consider to handle the problem of using different versions of ICU. The creators of ICU actually have a very “pessimistic” view of using a DLL: for each new version they create new names … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – ICU 08.05.02-49.01.21

Posted on September 21, 2012 by

I’ve just published a new version to VastGoodies – the first one after the Pharo/Squeak port and introduces some of the structures from there. As the Pharo version now the VA version reconfigures itselfs according to the libraries it may … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – log4s and its design limitations

Posted on September 21, 2012 by

Perhaps you have read this last year and now the problems with the TimeZone management I mentioned with the 8.5.2 release. In that release log messages were used in the timeZone-code. The most interesting part is how the author of … Continue reading →

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