Category Archives: Smalltalk

Soek.goodies.st improved

Posted on September 29, 2010 by ernest

The site soek.goodies.st gives access to the sources of open-source Smalltalk libraries and frameworks. A big advantage to developers is that they can explore Smalltalk classes without having to successfully load them into one of the Smalltalk dialect platforms. Recently, … Continue reading →

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Melissa for VA Smalltalk

Posted on July 29, 2010 by ernest

Melissa is a simple tool that can help in building development and runtime images in a continous integration environment. It is being used extensively to create daily builds for Smalltalk images. This post describes the steps to use Melissa for … Continue reading →

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Google API access from Smalltalk using JNIPort

Posted on April 29, 2010 by ernest

JNIPort for VisualWorks provides a way to use Java and its huge number of available libraries directly from Smalltalk. For example, to access the Google Spreadsheets APIs and Tools, you need to download the Java client libraries and all its … Continue reading →

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JQTouch library support for Seaside

Posted on January 23, 2010 by ernest

One way to build applications for the iPhone is to create a Web application that tries to look and behave like a native one. Currently, many Javascript libraries are being developed that try to accomplish just that. One of the … Continue reading →

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soek.goodies.st – exploring open-source Smalltalk libraries

Posted on November 13, 2009 by ernest

Soek is a Smalltalk application that provides a different way to navigate through documentation and source code of a Smalltalk library. Instead of the classic multi-list browser view in an image, Soek offers a flat view on all methods and … Continue reading →

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Making a package visible to WebVelocity

Posted on September 12, 2009 by ernest

If you want an existing package to register as a WebVelocity one and as a result make it visible to the browser page, you can evaluate this script: which I found when looking for the newApplication functionality in the image.

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HypertextLogger for server application logs

Posted on June 22, 2009 by ernest

Logging can be very helpful in analyzing the (faulty) behavior of a server application in response to client requests. HypertextLogger is a simple component that produces HTML in response to logging instructions. Continue reading →

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Getting started with Glare-DataServices

Posted on May 26, 2009 by ernest

Glare-DataServices is a framework for building Flex Remoting services in VisualWorks Smalltalk. In this post, I will guide you through the steps for creating a small application that demonstrates the use of the framework. Install the bundle First, you have … Continue reading →

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VAStGoodies.com services API

Posted on April 24, 2009 by ernest

To make the VAStGoodies client work right from the VA image, I needed a service API in addition to the Seaside application that is running on VAStGoodies.com. Requirements for that service include “get all available configuration map names” and “get … Continue reading →

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Getting Monticello package changes into VisualWorks

Posted on April 23, 2009 by ernest

The Cloudfork project is available for the three larger Smalltalk implementations: Squeak/Pharo, VA Smalltalk and VisualWorks. For maintaining the ports based on the Squeak implementation, we use the Package-Exporters package. For porting to VA Smalltalk, we are using the VAPackageExporter … Continue reading →

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