Category Archives: Smalltalk

VASmalltalk – Daylight Saving Time and ICU support

Posted on September 20, 2012 by

To get rid of these problems with DST I changed the startUp of ICU MSKICUApp>>startUp | estzd | MSKLocale clearCurrent. “Patching the errors in 8.5.2 – does nothing on earlier releases” “nicer way – thanks to Tom Koschate” estzd := … Continue reading →

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ESUG 2012 slides

Posted on September 20, 2012 by

The slides for this year ESUG are online available at ESUG 2012. Were these talks also recorded ?

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VASmalltalk – Installation: What happens if …

Posted on September 19, 2012 by

… I do install an update (e.g. 8.5.2) and I have a minimized VA 8.5.1 running on my platform ? Ever ask you this question ? I tried it and found out, that you might end up in a full … Continue reading →

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VA 8.5.2 – Daylight Saving Time

Posted on September 18, 2012 by

Now we have it. The relase 8.5.2 is out and now with the long awaiting Timezone support everything is fine …. … installed 8.5.2 and DateAndTime now printString -> 2012-09-18T20:45:20.939+01:00 Pretty cool and – eh wrong for my country: Germany. … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – Version 8.5.2 is out …

Posted on September 18, 2012 by

subject says it all. You get access to it via this page.

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ICU: Initial source code for Squeak/Pharo.

Posted on September 11, 2012 by

After one week of learning Squeak/Pharo and NativeBoost I published the first (in development) version of my ICU wrapper based on my wrapper fro VASmalltalk. Its available at SqueakSource2. It also needs the source code from the MSK-OS-Interface, which gives … Continue reading →

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Working with Pharo 1.4/2.0 …

Posted on September 6, 2012 by

As I mentioned in my previous posting I at last have found now some time to do actually some “serious” work with Pharo. Here are some thoughts – just to write down my first impressions: Pharo 1.4 I do most … Continue reading →

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ICU under VASmalltalk and Squeak/Pharo

Posted on September 6, 2012 by

After we interviewed Igor Stasenko about NativeBoost – a FFI implementation for Pharo/Squeak I took a closer look at it and looked for projects testing it. I found two projects I actually would need in the future: 0MQ as a … Continue reading →

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SmalltalkInspect – #019 Interview with Craig Latta

Posted on August 26, 2012 by

Just before the ESUG Joachim Tuchel talked with Craig Latta about his projects, which he will present at ESUG this week: Spoon.

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Article about Smalltalk in c’t 19/2012

Posted on August 25, 2012 by

In the new issue of the computer magazine c’t (19/2012 Page 168ff) there is an introduction article about programming in Smalltalk.

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