Monthly Archives: December 2009

Schneeleoparden sind lausige Samba-Tänzer

Posted on December 31, 2009 by

Über die Feiertage war es Zeit, die IcyBox abzulösen und die Daten vom NAS auf den neuen Server zu übertragen. Die Einrichtung von OpenSUSE 11.2 von der c’t-CD war schmerzlos, und auch SAMBA einzurichten, war keine große Sache (allerdings ist … Continue reading →

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Smalltalk Vendors Ask for Feedback

Posted on December 17, 2009 by

Maybe it’s just a coincidence of a certain kind, but all major Smalltalk Vendors are currently encouraging their customers and users to give feedback. This is what James Robertson from Cincom  just posted on his blog: Now that OS 8.2 … Continue reading →

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Forms in Seaside and Iliad: helpers to make life easier

Posted on December 17, 2009 by

Seaside has come up with a very nice way of building html in code. Coding a component in the renderContentOn: method is different than what other frameworks did before, but it also is powerful and makes many things easy. But … Continue reading →

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(VA) Smalltalk is stable and growing

Posted on December 16, 2009 by

One of the major concerns of former Smalltalkers or people who are not using Smalltalk is that it might be a niche technology or even a dying one. There are many indications of the opposite:  The Smalltalk Community is neither … Continue reading →

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VAST 8.0.1 / Seaside: How to enable Halos

Posted on December 15, 2009 by

Halos in Seaside can be extremely helpful when you need to inspect your components in the web browser or understand what your code rendered and sent out to the browser. In many Seaside tutorials and books you’ll find mention of … Continue reading →

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On VAST 8.0.1 and Seaside

Posted on December 14, 2009 by

Reading some of my Blog posts about VAST 8.0.1 and Seaside, you might get the impression that there’s a lot wrong with Seaside in VA Smalltalk. That’s not true. The only shortcoming of VA Smalltalk is that it currently doesn’t … Continue reading →

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VAST 8.0.1 / Seaside: Using the JQuery UI Plugins

Posted on December 14, 2009 by

If you want to use some of the JQuery UI plugins on VASTGoodies.com repository, you might get an exception like this: JQUIPluginAutocomplete class does not Understand: #on: It’s easy to solve. Just change the method: JQueryInstance>>#autocomplete (or the one for … Continue reading →

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Lieber ein Ende mit Schrecken…

Posted on December 14, 2009 by

…als ein NAS-Gerät, das ständig zickt. Monatelang waren wir mit der IcyBox IB NAS 4220 B ganz zufrieden. Es ist ein leises und sparsames Gerät, das seinen Job als NAS ganz gut macht, wenn man die richtigen Platten drin hat. … Continue reading →

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VAST 8.0.1 / Seaside Tips: Registering an Error Handler in your application

Posted on December 11, 2009 by

VAST 8.0.1 doesn’t support continuations, and this can make a few things a little complicated, since many packages in Seaside 3.0 alpha 5 need Continuations even though I think they shouldn’t. The configuration application which is used to vsiually change … Continue reading →

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Icy Box NAS und Firmware-Update: Licht und Schatten

Posted on December 11, 2009 by

Ich hatte ja bereits von meinem RAID-Problem auf unserer Icy Box IB-NAS 4220 erzählt. Kurz gesagt stellte sich das ganz so dar: alles schien zu funktionieren, aber die Web-Oberfläche meinte stets, es sei am Wiederhesrstellen des RAIDs, und behauptete sogar, … Continue reading →

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