Ernest Micklei's Blog

The Cloudfork project is available for the three larger Smalltalk implementations: Squeak/Pharo, VA Smalltalk and VisualWorks.

Today I spent some time figuring out if and how I could change to default text font of the Smalltalk browsers in VisualWorks (76nc).

Glare< is a Flex Remoting and Messaging server written in VisualWorks Smalltalk by Philipp Bunge.

Method categorization is an important part of documenting the interface of classes, which is quite unique to Smalltalk to my knowledge.

The Classes Interface Browser is a small search tool to quickly find a Smalltalk class or one of its methods.

VAStGoodies.com is the open source software repository for the VA Smalltalk community which was launched early this year by Adriaan van Os.

This goodie is also known as the “Diving” inspector as it allows you to navigate through an object structure by following each variable on a double-click.

FileBrowser is a new addition to the configuration map “Philemon Tools” , available at VAStGoodies.com, for VA Smalltalk.

if your application does not yet actually use that client Class.

Every now and then I need a small piece of functionality that perfectly fits into a single, minimal-behavior thus single-purpose class.

The configuration map “Philemon Tools” , available at VAStGoodies.com, now contains an application that enhances the source code browser in VisualAge for Smalltalk.

A small but handy enhancement of the previous submitted VAStGoodies tooling, is the ability to import configuration maps from VAStGoodies directly into your library.

InstanceCounter is a tool that can be used to watch the number of instances present in your image.

One of my favorite features of the Cincom VisualWorks IDE is the interactive compiler error handler.

Early this year, Adriaan van Os announced VAStGoodies.com that wants to be the open source software repository for the VA Smalltalk community.

Following the advice of Dave Thomas who said: “any developer should learn a new language every year” on RailsConf 2007 in Berlin, I decided that Erlang was going to be my challenge for 2008.

SelfDianogse is a library of tasks to diagnose a running system with respect to its dependent external resources.

Just want to share the result of a small puzzle I had about sorting elements of an XMLListCollection by one of the attributes of such an element.

Initialization of the SelfDiagnose component is done by reading the resource selfdiagnose.xml which must be located on the classpath of the Web application.

In the upcoming release 1.1 of the SelfDiagnose task library, a new task has been added called CheckEndecaService.

Designing and implementing applications that make use of Amazon Web Services such as S3, SQS and SimpleDB, require extensive testing to ensure a robust integration.

I wanted to associate version and build information with every compilation of a Flex project.

Capistrano is a deployment tool initially created to support the remote installation of Rails applications.

On a Mac, accessing the current application from QuickSilver provides interesting new possibilities as can been on an episode of the Merlin Show.

For the Dunelox library, I needed a simplified Flex version of the Spring ApplicationContext which is a generic Hash object containing model objects accessed by a key (String).

For some time now, Amazon S3 Web Services are available to the developer community.

Too often developers put logic in so-called Helper classes.

How can I provide programs with self diagnostic behavior?

Another example of how negative publicity can have a big learning effect (if understood).