I found that installing Oracle on Linux and CentOS for that matter was not a straightforward process but for that matter there were also some issues in hooking VisualWorks up that made for a bumpy ride. Any senior Smalltalker / developer probably would eventually figure things out but in the hopes of saving others some [...]
It had been probably about 1.5 years since I last tried to use Postgres on Windows as a backend for StORE, the source code versioning environment for VisualWorks. It was not happening at all. At that time I decided to use the Interbase/Firebird backend because it was a multi-user solution which was stable and that [...]
I don’t have much spare time to spend on non-compensated Smalltalk work. Sure, I enjoy coding with Smalltalk but nowadays I have returned to my original passion which is playing the guitar. My quota is a minimum 10.5 hours of guitar per week although it is difficult to consistently achieve that. Then there is walking [...]
One very easy way of sending text messages from a VisualWorks application is to simply send email to a provider that forwards the email to your cell phone. See my previous blog for an example of SMTP in VW.
One such provider is Verizon Wireless. Email sent to yourPhoneNumber@vtext.com will get forwarded. Messages are truncated [...]
The other day I decided to play with the idea of facilitating the notification of issues back to us. Our users are off-site.. So I decided to hook up to the SMTP capabilities of VW. As a proof of concept, I decided to modify the Notifier so that instead of providing a “copy stack” button [...]