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<title>Swimming Against The Tide</title><link>http://object-arts.ltd.uk/index.html</link><description>Comments on Dolphin Smalltalk</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:creator>Andy Bower</dc:creator><dc:rights>Copyright 2011 Object Arts Ltd</dc:rights><dc:date>2011-09-29T11:32:03+01:00</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/" />
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<lastBuildDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:41:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Dolphin under Wine</title><dc:creator>Andy Bower</dc:creator><category>Dolphin</category><category>Tips</category><category>All</category><dc:date>2011-09-29T11:32:03+01:00</dc:date><link>http://object-arts.ltd.uk/blog/files/904294e27cec4b8dff96422f3197f603-5.html#unique-entry-id-5</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://object-arts.ltd.uk/blog/files/904294e27cec4b8dff96422f3197f603-5.html#unique-entry-id-5</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Wine is a free (open source) way of running Windows programs under other operating systems like Mac OSX or Linux. With a few simple changes the Dolphin development environment can be run under Wine but, perhaps more importantly, so can the applications created with it. This article shows you how.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Exciting News for Dolphin Users</title><dc:creator>Andy Bower</dc:creator><category>Dolphin</category><category>News</category><category>All</category><dc:date>2008-09-25T12:46:06+01:00</dc:date><link>http://object-arts.ltd.uk/blog/files/7bebbb348fabe64d02d23d60787f9db6-4.html#unique-entry-id-4</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://object-arts.ltd.uk/blog/files/7bebbb348fabe64d02d23d60787f9db6-4.html#unique-entry-id-4</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce that over the last few months we have entered into a partnership with Lesser Software with the aim of creating the Next Generation of Dolphin Smalltalk. This new version of Dolphin will be targetted towards professional software developers and will leverage the experience that Lesser Software have built up over a number of years in high performance Smalltalk virtual machines and development tools.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New Dolphin Video Library Online</title><dc:creator>Andy Bower</dc:creator><category>Dolphin</category><category>All</category><dc:date>2009-02-25T12:42:03+00:00</dc:date><link>http://object-arts.ltd.uk/blog/files/ad1c3817cc444720f749a93ce3717382-3.html#unique-entry-id-3</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://object-arts.ltd.uk/blog/files/ad1c3817cc444720f749a93ce3717382-3.html#unique-entry-id-3</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We've launched a new video library to support Dolphin programmers with a series of "how-to" videos.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Air Traffic Control Game and Tutorial Video Now Ready</title><dc:creator>Andy Bower</dc:creator><category>Dolphin</category><category>Tutorial</category><category>MVP</category><category>All</category><dc:date>2009-04-04T12:24:37+01:00</dc:date><link>http://object-arts.ltd.uk/blog/files/79beb4e1c153daf199180286d52d1289-2.html#unique-entry-id-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://object-arts.ltd.uk/blog/files/79beb4e1c153daf199180286d52d1289-2.html#unique-entry-id-2</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[As you may know, we launched the Dolphin video library about a month ago with the start of a series of in-depth screencast videos showing how to use Dolphin Smalltalk to build an animated game. Well, I've just released the final two parts to this series and also included the source files for download.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Beauty with less Beast</title><dc:creator>Andy Bower</dc:creator><category>Dolphin</category><category>Tips</category><category>All</category><dc:date>2009-09-17T12:36:39+01:00</dc:date><link>http://object-arts.ltd.uk/blog/files/50fa62949dfbac37ff66b7c698cace5b-1.html#unique-entry-id-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://object-arts.ltd.uk/blog/files/50fa62949dfbac37ff66b7c698cace5b-1.html#unique-entry-id-1</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We've always prided ourselves that Dolphin is one of the "better looking" Smalltalks out there. Indeed, when we first started, I think Dolphin was the first Smalltalk IDE to use icons to represent classes in the various browsers. As a result, it's been pretty easy to use icons to represent objects and toolbar commands, both as part of the IDE and in end-user applications. But, and here's the crunch, it has always been necessary to load these icons from external files.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>MVP just Visual Basic with &#x22;more wing nuts&#x22;?</title><dc:creator>Andy Bower</dc:creator><category>Dolphin</category><category>MVP</category><category>All</category><dc:date>2009-04-16T10:57:06+01:00</dc:date><link>http://object-arts.ltd.uk/blog/files/96883f86a8ad7d71d4f47963258666b3-0.html#unique-entry-id-0</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://object-arts.ltd.uk/blog/files/96883f86a8ad7d71d4f47963258666b3-0.html#unique-entry-id-0</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Dolphin's MVP framework continues to appear daunting to new Smalltalk users and yet it's really rather similar to Visual Basic but with "more wing nuts" to allow components to be easily taken apart and the pieces reassembled in different ways. Perhaps revisiting the design rationale behind MVP might help?]]></content:encoded></item></channel>
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