Monthly Archives: September 2012

Podcasting in a Virtual World

Posted on September 26, 2012 by schrievkrom

We had to fight pretty hard with the technology, but it was an amazing event for us and is a wonderful technology and perhaps a future of podcasting and/or virtual meetings. Smalltalkers are listening VASmalltalk in Presentation

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VASmalltalk – Reconfiguration of PlatformFunctions

Posted on September 23, 2012 by schrievkrom

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 – ICU 08.05.02-49.01.21

Posted on September 21, 2012 by schrievkrom

I’ve just published a new version to VastGoodies – the first one after the Pharo/Squeak port and introduces some of the structures from there. As the Pharo version now the VA version reconfigures itselfs according to the libraries it may … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – log4s and its design limitations

Posted on September 21, 2012 by schrievkrom

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 schrievkrom

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 schrievkrom

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 schrievkrom

… 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 schrievkrom

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 schrievkrom

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 schrievkrom

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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