Tag Archives: instantiations

Instantiations releases Beta of a Monticello Importer for VA Smalltalk

Posted on April 2, 2012 by

Porting open source contributions from Squeak or Pharo was a task that always started with setting up a working Squeak or Pharo Image and getting it up and running with Monticello. Not that it was particularly hard to do so, … Continue reading →

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MiniSMock is just learning a few new tricks

Posted on March 22, 2012 by

MiniSMock is my minimalistic approach to Mock objects, which can be extremely helpful in testing legacy code as well as code that has a lot of dependencies and is hard to set up. I wanted something that is extremely lightweight … Continue reading →

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Instantiations announces the immediate availability of VA Smalltalk 8.5.1

Posted on March 19, 2012 by

The STIC 2012 conference started today and I guess we’ll see announcements from all Smalltalk vendors there. Instantiations just announced the availability of Version 8.5.1 of VA Smalltalk. As the version number suggests, it is a maintenance release with a total … Continue reading →

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Don’t use GLORP Type Resolvers with CHAR(1) fields in DB2 on VA Smalltalk

Posted on March 5, 2012 by

[Update, 2012-04-26: Instantiations is currently working on a fix for this problem. I've been mailing back and forth with the responsible developer about this and other problems that I've had with GLORP on VAST, so I hope we'll soon see … Continue reading →

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Things they never told you about log4s [Updated]

Posted on March 2, 2012 by

I’ve been using log4s, Instantiations’ logging framework for VA Smalltalk, in several situations before and it does a nice job. I always started it with a piece of code and therefor had no problems with it. But log4s has an … Continue reading →

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Video series on VA Smalltalk’s process management

Posted on February 24, 2012 by

Marten just announced a new series of Screencasts/presentations covering the Smalltalk process model (green threads) and its implementation and use in VA Smalltalk. The first video is about 8 minutes long and is available on YouTube. After a short introduction … Continue reading →

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Instantiations about to show their progress on Unix GUI tools at STIC 12

Posted on January 12, 2012 by

So the list of talks for the Smalltalk Industry Conference in March (held in Biloxi) has just been released (I just read it on Alan’s Blog). One thing that should be interesting for users of VA Smalltalk is John O’Keefe’s … Continue reading →

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Fusion ate my caret (^) or was it the Lion?

Posted on January 10, 2012 by

sometimes I encounter strange phenomena. I hove no idea if that’s only me, but I suspect so, because I couldn’t find anything of help on the web (maybe because searching for “fusion ^” is not a good idea). So what’s … Continue reading →

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SmalltalkInspect Episode 12 in english: Continuous Integration in VA Smalltalk

Posted on December 14, 2011 by

We’ve just released our episode 12 of the Smalltalk Inspect Podcast. This is our first attempt at doing an episode in english and it’s an extremely interesting chat with Thomas Koschate who shares some of his knowledge in the field … Continue reading →

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Sometimes, it’s the little things…

Posted on November 7, 2011 by

Since the release of VA Smalltalk 8.5, the environment has a nice syntax completion feature. It’s funny how much I miss this little friend every time I work with an older version… When Dolphin Smalltalk camy up with Intellisense, it … Continue reading →

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