Tag 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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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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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 – 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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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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VASmalltalk – Mono and Sending EMails …

Posted on June 13, 2012 by

Reading Joachim Tuchel’s posting about problems with SMTP and sending EMails I tried the Mono interface to use the Mono infrastructure to send emails. First to reduce complexity I created a new class under Mono to reduce the number of … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – Embedding Mono – more examples …

Posted on June 7, 2012 by

In this posting I would like to document some added possibilities with the latest version – and actually it has reached a state, where the software may be tested in our projects. Starting with the following CSharp code we can … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – Embedding Mono Runtime system ….

Posted on June 5, 2012 by

There are several IT-system infrastructures out there, where interaction would be nice to have within Smalltalk. The most important is of course the old and easy one: the plain C-programs. Other infrastructures are Java (interaction possible with JNIPort – not … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – ZMQ Binding under Ubuntu 12.04LTS/64

Posted on May 31, 2012 by

Ubuntu 12.04LTS/64 comes with zmq 2.1.11 installable – which is a stable and relative new version – but of course only the 64bit version. Therefore you have to install the 32bit version of the library via: sudo apt-get install libzmq1:386 … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – Ubuntu LTS12.04/64 Bit and emsrv

Posted on May 22, 2012 by

After my Windows installation crashed again I decided to give Ubuntu a next try (and run Windows under VirtualBox) and installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Desktop) 64 Bit. Surprise: The Linux setup program of VASmalltalk started out of the box – … Continue reading →

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