Monthly Archives: April 2012

VASmalltalk – log4s – multiple logger creation

As you might have discovered, you can only define ONE new logger within one section (of your ini file). Therefore this is possible: [zmqlog] createLogger=(zmqlog) and this is NOT possible: [zmqlog] createLogger=(zmqlog,zmqlog2) to make the later possible you might change … Continue reading

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VASmalltalk – log4s – Transcript appender

When working under Windows you may notice – if activating log4s and you defined it – that a Transcript appender has been created for the main logger (the “root” logger) – but you will not see any output from that … Continue reading

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VASmalltalk – log4s – new loggers and their appender definitions

One thing to remember if you layout your logging structure with log4s: -> use one section for each new logger [zmqlog] createLogger=(zmqlog) [zmqstat] createLogger=(zmqstat) -> keep in mind, that you can only define ONE appender-definition per appender-key. Therefore this is … Continue reading

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Pharo, CogMT and does it work at all ???

Perhaps can someone explain me how to use the newest MT-VM from Elliot with external multi threading support together with Pharo 1.4 ?? It is very boring to produce crashes and crashes and crashes – due to minimal documentation (here … Continue reading

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SmalltalkInspect Fest in Frankfurt

Hey, also hier die ersten Eindrücke von unserer “kleinen” Runde gestern in Frankfurt. Dank an alle Teilnehmer für diesen netten Abend, die vielen Kurzvorträge und halt eben “Smalltalk” zwischendurch.

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VASmalltalk – Application specific loggers and appenders

There may be situations, where you wish to extend the log4s framework within VASmalltalk – either by introduing new loggers (because a newly loaded application just logs to a very special logger and NOT “root”, therefore the logger should only … Continue reading

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VASmalltalk – Log4s, ZeroMQ and Multicast appender

Idea and needs When thinking about building communicating components (node) with VASmalltalk and ZeroMQ I decided, that each component should always have additional capabilities: logging, independent data transfer and offering its service to other nodes. Logging: With the introduction of … Continue reading

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VASmalltalk – esvio and this stupid command window ….

If you want to write headless systems using VASmalltalk under Windows you may consider writing a NT service. I do not like this, because a service may get special rights and you have to install it – the handling is … Continue reading

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VASmalltalk – SystemTimeOffset again …

As you may know from the past I had published solutions to these DataAndTime>>primitiveSystemOffset error. Due to the fact, that this might be changed in the 8.5.2 release – but I have daylight-saving-time setting now – I changed MSKPlatformExtension to … Continue reading

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VASmalltalk – Calling Smalltalk from Lua

Ok, now the other way around – and its getting more interesting: We call a Lua program from Smalltalk and then we want to call a Smalltalk based function from that running Lua script. As you may know from other … Continue reading

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