Re: Some sample code to help understand Morphic applications

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

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Matthew Fulmer