On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 11:40:27AM +0100, Michael Davies wrote:
For instance, I'm now working on a simple rss reader which might sit nicely alongside this (grabbing content from the BBC news rss, parsing xml, and displaying the articles on a map background). I'd be interested in seeing if other people have some simple applications that could demonstrate other aspects which I know can be difficult to 'get' eg, communicating with the OS, use of DBs, persistency solutions. If there was a reasonable cross-section of code, it would be striaghtforward to have a set of "SampleCode-..." packages on SqueakMap to provide easy access.
An RSS reader? You may want to work with Derek O'Connell, who is working on a similar newbie project. His project is a Stock chart that shows rising companies in blue and falling ones in red, and he has also written a simple RSS reader: http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/5873