Monthly Archives: May 2011

Simple persistence …

Posted on May 30, 2011 by schrievkrom

I was notified about a posting about simple persistence in Smalltalk. The original posting was more than 2 years old. It was said, that in most cases only a simple persistency approach is needed. Perhaps the right words would be … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – ICU and IDNA

Posted on May 29, 2011 by schrievkrom

IDNA – International Domain Names in Applications. Actually I have never heard about this before, but some of the API calls are now wrapped in the 0.0.13 version at vastgoodies.com, which is work-under-development. But honestly: I have to learn how … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – ICU and CodePage Converters

Posted on May 29, 2011 by schrievkrom

After another day of work I added API wrappers for some of the available CodePage converter C-API calls. At the end I hope, that better codepage support and conversion routines from/to UTF-16 (DBString) The methods are located in the class … Continue reading →

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The real world …

Posted on May 28, 2011 by schrievkrom

Sometimes numbers rules the world or simply should readjust my view of the programming world :-(. On this blog I have only two (!) postings about .NET and many, many more postings about Smalltalk – and actually I get each … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – ICU, DateAndTime

Posted on May 27, 2011 by schrievkrom

When working with Dates and Times, you will not only work with the classes Date and Time – but also with DataAndTime, which combines both classes. This class is available in most (all) Smalltalks, but the implementations are pretty different … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – ICU – now using ICU 4.8

Posted on May 26, 2011 by schrievkrom

Yesterday a new release of the ICU library has been published. Therefore I changed the low API calls to use the new libraries and uploaded the source code to vastgoodies.com – now at version 0.0.9. Please be aware of the … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – Students and why not !?

Posted on May 4, 2011 by schrievkrom

I heard the interview of Mike Taylor (the CEO from Instantiations) and his wish, that more students are entering the VA community and bring the same innovation into this world as it can be seen from Squeak/Pharo. I do not … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – ICU under Ubuntu 11.04

Posted on May 2, 2011 by schrievkrom

Ubuntu 11.04 delivers ICU 4.4 – and therefore it does not work with my wrapper code – and the initial installation even does not have the correct links (library names without version numbers). You have to install the debug package … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – Ubuntu 11.04

Posted on May 2, 2011 by schrievkrom

New Ubuntu version is out and I tried VASmalltalk 8.03 on that platform – and guess what: it does not work any more out of the box. Installation was fine (at least seems to be so), but no keyboard events … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – Ubuntu 11.04, Wine and VASmalltalk

Posted on May 2, 2011 by schrievkrom

I tested it with Wine 1.3 under Ubuntu 11.04 and it simply does not work any more …

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