March 2012 - Pharo-dev - lists.pharo.org

[Pharo-project] about pharo1.4
by Fernando Olivero March 11, 2012

March 11, 2012

However redid the FileBrowser in Pharo1.4 did an excellent work. Also the other standard tools in the kernel seem to got simpler and easier to use, thanks! Fernando

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[Pharo-project] Increase populatity of Pharo by doing some Killer-OpenSource-Tools
by Torsten Bergmann March 11, 2012

March 11, 2012

Hi Stefan, I'm not sure if it is a killer app that is required to get more visibility for Pharo or a better adoption of Smalltalk. We already have nice open-source apps ranging from Seaside, Pier, Moose, Swiki, ... up to other Smalltalk apps that are sucessfull also in business life. Look at JPMorgans Kapital project done in VW, other big Smalltalk projects or the Pharo success stories [2] meanwhile known to the world. Still Smalltalk is very unknown among developers ... I agree with Dave Thomas who said that the object abstraction is too complex for the majority of programmers. [1] Most people are happy with (boring) CRUD applications and I doubt a killer app implemented in Smalltalk will change this. Most of them see no need for switching from Java, C#, ... Not that I would not want to see Trac/Bugzilla/... one-click replacements done in Smalltalk - but building them will eat up our resources to build something that should be even better than current Smalltalks. I doubt that Pharo will become the "next big thing". I'm not sad about that since most hype technologies will easily fade away when the next hype comes up. Maybe you remember auctomatic.com - these guys have built an app with Seaside and sold the company for lots of money. So it must have been a killer app. One of them (Patrick) shares some nice thoughts on his page [3] - if you replace "auctomatic" with Pharo and "ebay" with one of the mainstream technologies like Java it is an interesting guide for a future of Pharo too. Especially regarding internationalization which is I think an interesting area to get more people into Smalltalk. Bye Torsten [1] http://smalltalk-bob.blogspot.com/2012/03/who-needs-objects.html [2] http://www.pharo-project.org/about/success-stories [3] http://patrickcollison.com/blog/2009/10/surprises -- Empfehlen Sie GMX DSL Ihren Freunden und Bekannten und wir belohnen Sie mit bis zu 50,- Euro! https://freundschaftswerbung.gmx.de

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[Pharo-project] [update 1.4] #14387
by Marcus Denker March 11, 2012

March 11, 2012

14387 ----- Issue 5453: change CurrentMajorVersionNumber in ScriptLoader http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=5453 Issue 5457: improve semantic source links http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=5457 Issue 5455: fix for simpleSwitchMorph http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=5455 Issue 5451: Workaroung for Green tests http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=5451 Issue 5441: Fixing timestamp coherence http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id= 5441 -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

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[Pharo-project] Enjoyed the reading..
by Igor Stasenko March 10, 2012

March 10, 2012

According to this guy, we're using 3rd most powful programming language (or, well one of 4.. to not insult anyone ;). http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html So, we're not that bad, eh? :) A very good explanation to 'pointy-haired' why 'mainstream' language are not best choice.. as well as good illustration that in order to compete and stay popular, all mainstream languages will slowly converge to lisp. -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.

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[Pharo-project] GSoC idea: Improving the GSoC website
by Janko MivÅ¡ek March 10, 2012

March 10, 2012

Hi guys, To help the GSoC admins but also mentors and students, maybe this would be a good project to do. Would someone help being a second mentor? Improving the GSoC website -------------------------- Level: Intermediate Possible mentor: Janko MivÅ¡ek Possible second mentor: Description Our special website for Smalltalk GSoC (http://gsoc2012.esug.org and more complete past http://gsoc2010.esug.org) has a public and administration part to help running the annual GSoC process smoothly. It helps students, mentors and administrators in all phases, from collection of ideas, preparing the projects, inviting the students, pairing them with the projects, voting, running the projects with the interim and final evaluation. This project is meant to improve both public and administration part of the website to ease the work for everyone and to upgrade it to the most modern web technologies. Technical details Possible improvements: Facebook like timelime of personal page adding realtime updates (using WebSockets), notifications by email, more HTML5 support, improving the administration interface, collection of project ideas by proposers directly, integration with the Google GSoC site and mentors and students mailing list, REST API, mobile app, ... Benefit for the Student Getting in touch with current bleeding edge of the Smalltalk web technologies with Aida/Web framework (http://www.aidaweb.si) and Amber Smalltalk (http://amber-lang.net) Contributing to the community with valuable and immediately useful work. Benefit for the Community Well and easier run GSoC process, with a good website, up-to date with modern web technologies, is important for us to improve our visibility and have a showcase of our strengths on the web field to the broader open source community. -- Janko MivÅ¡ek Aida/Web Smalltalk Web Application Server http://www.aidaweb.si

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[Pharo-project] All Pharo Kernel jobs working
by Pavel Krivanek March 10, 2012

March 10, 2012

Hi, I created an ad-hoc fix of Pharo Kernel Tests job, pushed small fix of Pharo Kernel Seaside and re-enabled Pharo Kernel Report. So all the Pharo Kernel Jenkins jobs are in working order. https://ci.lille.inria.fr/pharo/view/Pharo-Kernel/ Cheers, -- Pavel

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[Pharo-project] GSoC application submitted, 22 ideas collected
by Janko MivÅ¡ek March 10, 2012

March 10, 2012

Dear Smalltalkers, We just submitted the application to this year GSoC, now let we wait with fingers crossed for Google until next Friday to decide. I think we have quite some chance, specially because we collected and very well described 22 project ideas: http://gsoc2012.esug.org/ideas There is still a time for ideas, so if someone has still half finished one, please finish and publish it. Also authors of ideas please check if your idea is put correctly on above page. Best regards Janko and Carla -- Carla F. Griggio, Janko MivÅ¡ek Smalltalk GSoC Admin Team http://gsoc2012.esug.org

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[Pharo-project] uMorphic job
by Pavel Krivanek March 9, 2012

March 9, 2012

Hi, I created a Jenkins job for uMorphic too (together with a little update. https://ci.lille.inria.fr/pharo/view/Pharo-Kernel/job/Pharo%20Kernel%20uMor… Cheers, -- Pavel

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[Pharo-project] [OT] OOP survey
by NicolÃ¡s Paez March 9, 2012

March 9, 2012

Hi folks, I am collecting information about the languages used to teach Object-Oriented Programming. This is part of an academic research at Fiuba <http://www.fi.uba.ar/> whose results will be published at the University website at not cost. So if you want to collaborate it will take you less than 2 minutes to fill the survey (there are just 5 questions). Here is the link to the survey: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?pli=1&formkey=dHhOMmJnZmZfYmVY… And it would be great if you can forward it to your colleagues. Thanks! NicoPaez Nico. blog: nicopaez.wordpress.com

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[Pharo-project] ClassBuilder depending -in some way- on text
by Guillermo Polito March 9, 2012

March 9, 2012

ClassBuilder>>validateClassName: aString "Validate the new class name" | allowed | aString isSymbol ifFalse: [ ^ false ]. allowed := ($0 to: $9), {$_}, ($A to: $Z), ($a to: $z). (aString detect: [:c | (allowed includes: c) not] ifNone: [ ]) ifNotNil: [ :c | self error: 'Invalid character: ''', c printString, ''''. ^ false]. aString first canBeGlobalVarInitial ifFalse:[ self error: 'Class names must be capitalized'. ^false]. environ at: aString ifPresent:[:old| (old isKindOf: Behavior) ifFalse:[ *self notify: aString asText allBold, * ' already exists!\Proceed will store over it.' withCRs]]. ^ true Is it right to do that asText allBold there? :S Shouldn't an exception be raised instead? Do I open a ticket? Guille

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