Month: October 2006

The trick to installing Cincom Smalltalk on Ubuntu

I'd easily gotten Cincom Smalltalk (also known as VisualWorks) working on my PowerBook, but it would not install on my Ubuntu (Dapper Drake) Linux box. It took a while but I eventually found the solution. (more…)...

ProgrammingSmalltalk

links for 2006-10-08

Cincom Smalltalk You can download a non-commercial version of Cincom/VisualWorks Smalltalk for free (tags: visualworks smalltalk cincom)...

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My sister’s family in town

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ProgrammingSmalltalk

links for 2006-10-06

Secrets of lightweight development success, Part 8: Seaside (tags: seaside smalltalk squeak continuations programming)...

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Ctrl-left and Ctrl-right in bash and Emacs

Sometimes the small things make a big difference. I noticed that the control-left and control-right keys weren't working in bash or Emacs on my FreeBSD box accessed over X11.app on OS X. Easily fixed. .inputrc "\e[1;5C":...

ProgrammingSmalltalk

links for 2006-10-05

A Seaside tutorial A tutorial on Seaside, a web framework for certain Smalltalks, such as Squeak and VisualWorks (tags: seaside smalltalk tutorial squeak programming)...

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Sony KDL-46V25L1 LCD HDTV @ Costco

Dropped by Costco this evening and noticed that Costco is carrying a new Sony 46" LCD HDTV, the KDL-46V25L1. A few weeks ago we had given up finding an HDTV because we couldn't find one that had everything we wanted, but this new...