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

Re: [Pharo-project] About certain

by Arnout

StÃ©phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@...> writes: > > Hi guys > > I do not like to do that but in the past we got problems with Merik Voswinkel. So I would like to warm you against > him. Several of you got approached and my advice is run away. Here are some simple facts that happened to us. > > Stef > > From Lukas: > > Starting in 2007 Merik contacted various people from the Smalltalk community offering them to take part in > his startup. His projects and goals constantly changed and nobody quite followed what he wanted to do. > When he discussed with me it was a mash up of Pharo, Seaside, Pier, Cola, and Croquet all running on some > custom cloud hardware ... > > Merik was working together with a "fake" research institute that only existed as a website. I also learned > that Merik is broke and lives from support of the dutch government. Merik aggressively applies for > venture capital and writes huge proposals with weird ideas. On some of these proposals (that I found on the > web) he added Avi Bryant and myself as key team members (with picture, bio and all), even if we both never > accepted to do anything with him. > > From marcus: > We got a note from the local organzier that a "Venture Capitalist" wanted to attend ESUG and we could even use > his Boat for the social event. But strangely, this Venture Capitalist was not able to pay 400 EUR to attend. > But he was not able to say that. (we later learned that he is living of social wellfare... so it would have > been no problem to get him a free entrance). So he offered to make videos. With very expensive > "Professional" equipment. > > Later it turned out this kamera was actually the one of the guy organizing the remote croquet talk, and he got > somehow pissed too because Merik promised him something for the camera use... > > Of course, Merik did have to operate the "Professional" Camera himself (not often, maybe a day he did?). We > had to threaten him violently to get the completely useless tapes. (which are in some strange format and unprocessed). > > so, that's Merik. > > He was sending around "Business Plans" to people using team members that never agreed. For example Lukas > was used like that. If Lukas does not object, I can send these "professional" business plans.. so you can > ROFL, too. > (Lukas an me did a course right at that time about venture funding: http://venturelab.ch/, so we know a > little bit about these things...) > > > Then people could hack his machine on his seaside hosting because the ports were open so :) > No, he was running seaside with development tools enabled. He is completely clueless. > > So pay attention. > > Stef > Please send me an example of one of his businessplans. It seems he is trying to start something up in the Netherlands and I would like to make my own assesment. best regards >

Sept. 19, 2012

Re: [Pharo-project] Gofer meets Metacello

by Tobias Pape

Am 18.09.2012 um 19:28 schrieb Esteban Lorenzano: > years ago I made an extension who was called "Gofer Project Loader" > And you can do things like this: > > Gofer project load: 'NativeBoost'. > Gofer project load: 'NativeBoost' version: #development. > > ..etc... > > nobody cared about it... and I think now Dale is preparing something a lot better :) *raiseshand* I cared! and I liked it :) Best -tobias

Sept. 19, 2012

Re: [Pharo-project] pharo on ipad3 -- tiny image shown only

by Johan Brichau

Hi Esteban, Thanks for sharing the secret ;-) I checked out latest sources and ran ConfigurationOfPharoVM version 2.0-4 but it does not work out-of-the-box. Right now, I just forced to always use the SqueakUIViewCALayer. Need to check why it took the other one.. Johan On 17 Sep 2012, at 22:34, Esteban Lorenzano wrote: > secret is not use OpenGL but CALayer... ensure you start with SqueakUIViewCALayer instead SqueakUIViewOpenGL (btw... if you were using my sources, that should be out of the box). > > I'm working to doit with a better mechanism (OpenGL or CG), but so far... no time :) > > Esteban > > On Sep 17, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Hilaire Fernandes <hilaire.fernandes(a)edu.ge.ch> wrote: > >> Esteban should be able to tell. >> >> Hilaire >> >> > >

Sept. 18, 2012

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo friendly code & repositories

by StÃ©phane Ducasse

thanks for this question. I think that we should really move to SmalltalkHub. SmalltalkHub will have soon projects and > Hello everyone, > > It's been a while since I've worked with Pharo and I was wondering if Pharo has some kind of "official" repository for code that has been ported to Pharo (from Squeak or any other Smalltalk platform in fact). > > If I have fixes for, let's say, the ODBC "package", where should I put it ? if the owner of the project accept fixes it would be good that the fixes are placed close to the code. > Do we have a Pharo-only repository ? If I should work on fixes, from which repository should I get the "base" version ? And where should I commit my changes/fixes ? with smalltalkhub every project has an inbox. so this is the natural place. > squeaksource.com (original SqueakSource) > http://ss3.gemstone.com/ss (SqueakSource 3) > http://www.smalltalkhub.com/ > > Any other repository I could have missed ? We should really migrate soon but before doing that I want smalltalkHub to be replicated and accept that it will break down :) Tomorrow morning we have a discussion about network and that question is part of the questions I have. > > tia > > > > ----------------- > Benoit St-Jean > Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean > A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero. > (Albert Einstein)

Sept. 18, 2012

Re: [Pharo-project] Gofer meets Metacello

by Dale Henrichs

The new Metacello Scripting API[1] does exactly that and more: Metacello new configuration: 'NativeBoost'; squeaksource: 'NativeBoost'; load. does what you want ... there are additional shortcuts that you can use once you have a project loading in your image ... I am looking for some folks to take the Metacello Preview[2] (which includes the Metacello Scripting API) for a spin to give me feedback from real usage before releasing it ... so I'd love to hear from you ... Of course the preview doesn't work on Pharo2.0 ... yet ... I've got several stacked up in front of me before I'll be able to tackle getting the preview to run on Pharo2.0 .... it seems that the preview is hit hard by the RPackage bugs and I know that I've got more FileSystem porting to do as well:( Dale [1] https://github.com/dalehenrich/metacello-work/blob/master/docs/MetacelloUse… [2] https://github.com/dalehenrich/metacello-work/blob/master/README.md ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Camillo Bruni" <camillobruni(a)gmail.com> | To: "Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr Development" <pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr> | Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 10:21:12 AM | Subject: [Pharo-project] Gofer meets Metacello | | I hate typing "sooo much" when loading a configuration. So how about | integration part of that into Gofer? | | Gofer new | squeaksource: 'NativeBoost'; | configuration; | loadStable | | for a working implementation see | https://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6696 | | best | cami | |

Sept. 18, 2012

[Pharo-project] [NB-Cog] New VMs Available

by Igor Stasenko

Please, read details here: http://dailyvmotion.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/new-vms-with-nativeboost-callb… -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.

Sept. 18, 2012

[Pharo-project] Pharo friendly code & repositories

by Benoit St-Jean

Hello everyone, It's been a while since I've worked with Pharo and I was wondering if Pharo has some kind of "official" repository for code that has been ported to Pharo (from Squeak or any other Smalltalk platform in fact). If I have fixes for, let's say, the ODBC "package", where should I put it ?Â Do we have a Pharo-only repository ?Â If I should work on fixes, from which repository should I get the "base" version ?Â And where should I commit my changes/fixes ? squeaksource.comÂ (original SqueakSource) http://ss3.gemstone.com/ss (SqueakSource 3) http://www.smalltalkhub.com/ Any other repository I could have missed ? tia Â ----------------- Benoit St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero. (Albert Einstein)

Sept. 18, 2012

Re: [Pharo-project] Gofer meets Metacello

by Camillo Bruni

On 2012-09-18, at 19:26, Guillermo Polito <guillermopolito(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Isn't that what Dale already did with the scriptable metacello? :S could be :) > BTW, what do you expect from expression like > > Gofer it > ss3: 'project1'; > ss3: 'project2'; > configuration; > blah It will take the last repository and try :), for more specific configs I have #configurationOf: selector :)

Sept. 18, 2012

Re: [Pharo-project] Gofer meets Metacello

by Esteban Lorenzano

years ago I made an extension who was called "Gofer Project Loader" And you can do things like this: Gofer project load: 'NativeBoost'. Gofer project load: 'NativeBoost' version: #development. ..etc... nobody cared about it... and I think now Dale is preparing something a lot better :) E On Sep 18, 2012, at 7:21 PM, Camillo Bruni <camillobruni(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I hate typing "sooo much" when loading a configuration. So how about > integration part of that into Gofer? > > Gofer new > squeaksource: 'NativeBoost'; > configuration; > loadStable > > for a working implementation see > https://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6696 > > best > cami >

Sept. 18, 2012

Re: [Pharo-project] Gofer meets Metacello

by Guillermo Polito

Isn't that what Dale already did with the scriptable metacello? :S BTW, what do you expect from expression like Gofer it ss3: 'project1'; ss3: 'project2'; configuration; blah ? On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Camillo Bruni <camillobruni(a)gmail.com>wrote: > I hate typing "sooo much" when loading a configuration. So how about > integration part of that into Gofer? > > Gofer new > squeaksource: 'NativeBoost'; > configuration; > loadStable > > for a working implementation see > https://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6696 > > best > cami > >

Sept. 18, 2012