Monthly Archives: February 2012

VASmalltalk – Screencast, Multitasking, The Basics

I’m in the process of creating some additional screencasts about multitasking in VASmalltalk. The first episode is out at YouTube. It contains basic introduction into the process scheduling and how this all works together. Another different (and perhaps easier) introduction … Continue reading

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VASmalltalk – IC Infrastructure – rollback

Over the last months I talked about IC infrastructures and how they could get created and managed under VASmalltalk. Today I decided to terminate the work on a finer granulated IC infrastructure. Handling problems were too difficult. Tools are missing, … Continue reading

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VASmalltalk – CouchDB interface V 4.0

I had to change the CouchDB wrapper to introduce a connection pool with each database. I have actually never thought about this, but when creating heavy traffic against the VASmalltalk interface using Seaside I noticed lots of sessions and with … Continue reading

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VASmalltalk – Headless IC Infrastructure

The IC infrastructure for headless operation is growing. I added wrappers for SQLite, PostgreSQL, LibHaru, FreeImage and ODBC to the list of the generated ICs. As mentioned in earlier posting. The creation of now 35 ICs becomes a time consuming … Continue reading

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SmalltalkInspect – #014, Interview with Adriaan v. Os

A new episode is out there. We were talking with Adriaan van Os about VASTGoodies and the Smalltalk community in the Netherlands: Adriaan van Os, VastGoodies and the Netherlands

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Personal IT history :-)

I’m working now with machines with GigaBytes of RAM – so much memory to use with Smalltalk. But there were times in my personal history, with system with 4MByte RAM and Smalltalk (like the Mega ST4). But there was IT-life … Continue reading

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VASmalltalk – LibHaru Wrapper

MSKLibHaruInterface is now obsolete. I just uploaded a new version to vastgoodies.com and named the version of this map “obsolete-finished”. The development is now done under the map “MSKICXDLibHaruDM”, which is part of my IC building process. I uploaded an … Continue reading

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