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jueves, septiembre 11, 2008

How to change the Aida/Web banner

I'm in the way of use and learn Aida/Web and Scribo and I'm starting using Scribo as wiki.

In this way I need to learn a lot of things, and I will post here some small "how to's" of things that may be useful to other people in the same way as me.

After install all the needed packages in a Squeak image, and having Scribo running, the first thing may be desirable may be to change the Aida banner for an own one.

Then, you need to "save as" such banner and generate a new image of the same size that which you saved, decorate it with your own graphics and then do the following:

1. Evaluate in a workspace on your Aida image:

WebStyle new importImage: 'aidabannergif' from: 'aidabannergif.gif'.

were aidabanner.gif is the name of the graphics file on your image directory and #aidabannergif the name of the method to be created on the WebStyle class under the category imgs.

2. Replace the content of the method #aidaBannerGif of class DefaultWebStyle with the content of the recent created in the step 1 and it's all.


To end, you should delete the method #aidabannergif on class WebStyle to maintain your image as clean as possible.

Of course, this is the quick and dirty method to have things as fast as possible, but the correct way should be create your own webstyle. Surely I will talk about this topic sooner or later.

viernes, septiembre 05, 2008

Smalltalk/X site revamped


Yesterday, after a comment from Janko Mivšek (the author of Aida/Web), about a new port of his product, this time to Smalltalk/X I felt the need of visit the Exept Software AG site, that don't visited from a long time.

Was great to check that the site was completely revamped and a new version of Smalltalk/X is available.

I downloaded and installed the Linux version (see the attached pic) and it runs ok on my Xubuntu box.

After the installaton, I checked the documentation, in parts I knew from the past were incompletes and another great new! They are now completed and extended!. (At least those docs I knew from previous versions).

I already invested some time in the past in Smalltalk/X, were we used to have a wiki on the now defunct swiki.net and even a mail list, were Claus Gittinger posted sometimes.

Again, I want to give a try to ST/X, hope I will have time soon.



viernes, agosto 29, 2008

11 entre 20, no está mal!


ESUG 2008 finalizó y ClavesPC calificó 11 entre 20 trabajos presentados en el Innovation Technology Awards.

Esto es muy importante para nosotros, (el team de ClavesPC somos solamente dos personas, quien esto escribe como desarrollador y Daniel como el ideólogo del producto) y queremos agradecer a todos quienes nos votaron y a quienes se tomaron el trabajo de revisar el producto, pero muy especialmente va nuestro agradecimiento para una amiga, Natalia Esteban, quien desinteresadamente presentó el software y trabajó armando dicha presentación y fue la mayor artífice para esos votos que conseguimos. Natalia, mil gracias por la ayuda.

Por otra parte, también queremos agradecer a Hernán, quién nos contactó con Natalia, sabiendo que ella viajaba a Amsterdam, ante un pedido mío por ayuda para esta presentación ya que para nosotros es imposible un viaje de esa naturaleza.

Finalmente queremos felicitar a los productos que integraron el podio del concurso, ya que son productos realmente excelentes, así como el resto de trabajos que participaron y para nosotros es un honor y un orgullo haber podido estar ahi.

En este enlace podrán ver algunas fotos de Natalia presentando ClavesPC el 25 de Agosto en Amsterdam. Muchas Gracias también a Andrés Valloud que tomó las fotos.

martes, julio 08, 2008

Smalltalks 2008 - Buenos Aires - Argentina


Announcement

First invitation to participate in the second conference.

Place
This year, the site chosen was the Universidad Abierta
Interamericana
.

Dates
November 13 through November 15.

Costs
Once again, entry, coffee and pastries will be completely free.

Talks
The conference will be divided into two modules, Scientific Research and Software Industry.

Contest
A coding contest will be held this year.

Keynotes
Guest lectures by outstanding personalities.

Hands-on
Tutorial sessions.

Scope
This is an international conference; smalltalkers from everywhere will be attending.

Important Dates

Conference: November 13 through November 15.

Paper submission deadline (research): August 31.

Presentation submission deadline (software development): September
30.

Contest registration deadline: September 30.

Conference registration deadline: November 7.

REGISTRATIONS CAN ONLY BE MADE THOUGH THE CONFERENCE WEB PAGE (NOT AVAILABLE YET)

Important Addresses

Universidad Abierta Interamericana: Av. Montes de Oca 745.

Conference site:
http://neuquina.lifia.info.unlp.edu.ar:8001/Smalltalks-2008