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[ESUG 2014] Student Volunteer Program - Cambridge, England 18-22 August
by Damien Cassou May 23, 2014

May 23, 2014

Student Volunteer Program ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you are a student wanting to attend ESUG at Cambridge this summer, have you considered being a student volunteer? Student volunteers help keep the conference running smoothly; in return, they have free accommodations, while still having time to enjoy the conference. More information at http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2014 http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2014/StudentVolunteers -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm." Winston Churchill

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Pharo in Rasbian ?
by Alexandre Bergel May 22, 2014

May 22, 2014

Hi! A friend of mine recently bought a Raspberry pi and installed Rasbian, a Debian-like OS for Raspberry. Squeak and Scratch are installed per default. There is room to fill here... Cheers, Alexandre -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.

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Re: [Pharo-dev] Pharo in Rasbian ?
by jannik laval May 22, 2014

May 22, 2014

Thank you Tim for all these precisions. Jannik 2014-05-21 19:43 GMT+02:00 Chris Muller <ma.chris.m(a)gmail.com>: > Okay, thanks for filling in the background for me. > > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 12:00 PM, tim Rowledge <tim(a)rowledge.org> wrote: > > (I donât have a subscription to the pharo list so I imagine this will > bounce from there) > > > > > > On 21-05-2014, at 9:47 AM, jannik laval <jannik.laval(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Yes, we already discussed about that with Tim. > >> Our goal is not the same. > > > > Exactly; there are quite different needs to fill. Scratch is part of the > UK (and some US) school curricula and so the basic version must be exactly > as expected. People get very hot under the collar anytime I suggest even > the smallest change other than making it faster. > > > > There is certainly room for expansions *later* but it will be a > difficult job to get people invested in the idea. Teachers have a hard > enough time without being blind-sided by new âimprovedâ software. > > > >> I don't want to say something wrong, but Tim want to do Scratch on a > recent Squeak, then including BYOB. He is working hard to integrate it on > RPi. > > > > Yup. Porting Scratch forward was a *lot* of work. Thereâs still a lot to > do. > > > > > >> Phratch is something different: it is based on Scratch, but the goal is > to be as much extendable as possible. For example, I use it for robotics. > This is not possible in Scratch. Yes there is Enchanting, but it is based > on a plugin if I understood well. > > > > Enchanting is very cool and largely based on the original BYOB IIRC. > There are quite a few other robot-contolling systems based on âplainâ > Scratch though, especially on the Pi where we have all those nice GPIO pins > to play with. Sadly a lot of them use a Python âserverâ to handle Scratch > broadcasts and then talk to the GPIO or other attached hardware add-ons. > Iâd like to work around that. > > > >> Another goal is to access to Smalltalk code. As a good learning > language, I think that using phratch should help developers to learn > smalltalk, which is not a goal of Scratch. > > > > True, and also very foolish of MIT. I think making Smalltalk available > through Scratch is a great aim. > > > >> > >> So, as I said, we already discussed with Tim, and I am sure we will > reuse our work. If I remember, Tim already has a look at phratch source > code. For my part, if Tim do plugins that work on RPi, I will probably use > them. > >> And I hope to meet Tim at ESUG if he will come to discuss about all of > that. > > > > Iâm still planning on attending, so I look forward to talking. > > > > > > tim > > -- > > tim Rowledge; tim(a)rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim > > Never do card tricks for the group you play poker with. > > > > > -- ~~Jannik Laval~~ Ãcole des Mines de Douai Enseignant-chercheur http://www.jannik-laval.eu http://www.phratch.com http://car.mines-douai.fr/

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VM bug when loading from filetree repositories in Pharo 3
by Johan Brichau May 22, 2014

May 22, 2014

Hi all, When loading filetree repositories using Metacello in Pharo3 with the latest published stable vm, you continuously hit this vm bug [1]. Since there is no end in sight to solve that problem in the vm, it would be good to work around the problem and change the Metacello code as per the changes I attach to this email The changes are to change this: reader := MCStReader on: fileStream. (defs := reader definitions) size <= 1 ifFalse: [ self error: 'we should be writing exactly 1 definition per file' ] ]. into this: reader := MCStReader on: fileStream. defs := reader definitions. defs size <= 1 ifFalse: [ self error: 'we should be writing exactly 1 definition per file' ] ]. This at least fixes the loading problem for everyone. @Dale: I can make a pull request for you but I'm not sure what branch corresponds to the Pharo 3 Cheers Johan [1] https://pharo.fogbugz.com/default.asp?11130

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Open position for a Permanent Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Robotics
by Noury Bouraqadi May 22, 2014

May 22, 2014

Hi, We're hiring an associate professor who will work on computer science and robots, and we'd really like to have yet another Smalltalker join the team :-) Applicants should be citizens of the EU (few exceptions are possible such as Switzerland). Dead-line for applications : 23rd of June Application form can be requested from Mrs. Catouillard: +33 (0)3.27.71.25.36 â daniele.catouillard@minesâdouai.fr More info at: http://car.mines-douai.fr/2014/05/open-permanent-position/ Best, Noury -- http://twitter.com/#!/NouryBouraqadi http://car.mines-douai.fr/noury

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Source.squeak.org is down ?
by Jean Baptiste Arnaud May 22, 2014

May 22, 2014

Source.squeak.org is down? answer to ping but not reachable Best Regards Jean Baptiste Arnaud jbaptiste.arnaud(a)gmail.com

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Understanding Workspace
by kilon alios May 22, 2014

May 22, 2014

Hello guys, I have started a new experiment of mine, a tool I call "Talos". I want Talos to become workspace on steroids. The first thing I want to implement is emacs like navigation. With that I mean keyboard shortcuts for moving inside the text like you can do with arrow keys already and the ability to move to the next word , the first character of next word, the last character of next word , previous world, quickly rename variables and all the great things one can do with emacs and vim. Of course I don't want to do all that at once, one step at a time. Now I have take a look at Workspace and it seems that it uses PlaggableTextMorph , it also looks like I can get the contents via PluggableTextMorph>>text instance side. The source code returned is also send to RBParser using the parseBlock method , I think for syntax highlighting. However because the PluggableTextMorph is very big and it does not even have a class comment, though quite a lot of methods are commented, I am really open to advice and suggestions on to how to parse the contents and manipulate the cursor position. I know I could use PettitParser but I dont know if there are better options out there, or maybe I am doing the whole thing wrong. So any advice and suggestion is more than welcomed.

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GetText deleting Pharo classes
by Usman Bhatti May 22, 2014

May 22, 2014

Hi, When GetText package (http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~PharoExtras/Gettext) is loaded in Pharo, it overwrites two Pharo classes with its own in System-Localization package: LocalID and NaturalLangaugeTranslator. Although so far I haven't seen any bugs in GetText because of this anomaly, one of the side-effects is that we get a dirty package in Monticello browser. Does anyone who is knowledge about the history of two packages know the reason to create classes with identical names? A solution would be to rename these classes in one of the packages. I have know a bit about the internals of GetText so I would be biased towards renaming its but I would need your suggestions/confirmation on how to proceed/which one to modify. tx. usman

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JQueryWidgetBox build is green
by Stephan Eggermont May 21, 2014

May 21, 2014

ConfigurationOfJQueryWidgetBox version28 now uses release3.1 of Seaside, which currently refers to 3.1.0.2. It used to be 3.1.0 That makes the Pharo 2 builds green. Please note that this configuration should be in two places: http://www.smalltalkhub.com/mc/Seaside/JQueryWidgetBox/main http://www.smalltalkhub.com/mc/Seaside/MetacelloConfigurations/main' If you change it, please make sure to copy it to the other location. Stephan

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Re: [Pharo-dev] Installing Rubric
by Stephan Eggermont May 21, 2014

May 21, 2014

You'll probably be happier loading #development of ConfigurationOfGlamour, and you might want to add ConfigurationOfPetitParser. I'll take a look at the configuration of Rubric Stephan Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone

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