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Pillar - bold quote marks versus OSX TextEdit
by Ben Coman May 12, 2014

May 12, 2014

Just a note it might be good to add to Pillar documentation [1] which says... you can make something ""bold"" like that. But I was having trouble getting this to work since the quote marks would just appear in the generated PDF. I found the answer by copy pasting the quote mark from [1] into the Mixed input field of [2] and pressing convert tells me this is UTF-16 code 22. If I type the quote mark " directly into that field, then I get the same result. However if I type the quote mark " into TextMate, then copy that character into [2], it tells me its UTF-16 201C!!! what-the! So I found out how to disable Smart Quotes at [3]. [1] github.com/pillar-markup/pillar-documentation [2] rishida.net/tools/conversion [3] devin.la/blog/disable-smart-quotes-osx-mavericks cheers -ben

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Pillar book-skeleton and more
by Yuriy Tymchuk May 12, 2014

May 12, 2014

Dear everyone, Iâm happy to announce about the Pillar book-skeleton project https://github.com/pillar-markup/book-skeleton, which is essentially a generalised starting point for writing books in Pillar. Pharo for the Enterprise and Updated Pharo by Example are using it now. If you have any suggestions, please contribute, or open issues. Together with that weâve created the GitHub organisation named Pillar-markup https://github.com/pillar-markup, which contains pillar-related projects like editor mods and documentation. If you have any Pillar related projectâs we will be happy to add you and the projects to the organisation. Have a nice week. Uko

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Changed semantics for mongo ObjectID
by Norbert Hartl May 12, 2014

May 12, 2014

I needed to change the way ObjectIds are read from and written to BSON. BSON is a format that encodes its byte contents little endian. In mongo database the format of ObjectIds is different. The way an ObjectId is encoded is big endian. You can see this if you compare the outputs for an object when read from mongo shell and from pharo. The ids wonât match. If you do ânormalâ stuff with mongo it is unlikely you have noticed the effect. An OID is read the wrong way but also written the wrong way which makes it right again from the mongo database perspective. But it wonât work if you use a mixed query setting. Meaning reading an OID and requesting the database using javascript expression. This will fail. Iâm writing this because Iâm not sure the change can break existing software. The change is not included in the stable version, yet. If you want to test then load #bleedingEdge and report any problem that might occur. I will use the new behaviour and will take the freedom to make it stable if it works for some time. FYI, Norbert

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Load Zinc and some packages without UI
by Sebastian Sastre May 12, 2014

May 12, 2014

Hi list and Sven :) Iâd like to load some additional packages about Zinc without human intervention If I use this: Gofer it smalltalkhubUser: 'Pharo' project: 'MetaRepoForPharo30'; package: 'ConfigurationOfZincHTTPComponents'; load. (Smalltalk at:#ConfigurationOfZincHTTPComponents) load. ((Smalltalk at:#ConfigurationOfZincHTTPComponents) project version: #stable) load: #('REST' 'SSO' 'WebSocket' 'Zodiac'). I do get an UI asking for merge or to confirm load What am I doing wrong to make it automation friendly? sebastian o/

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file name case sensitivity
by Eliot Miranda May 11, 2014

May 11, 2014

Hi All, being a control freak I always enable case sensitivity on my Macs. The Mac OS X file system has optional case sensitivity, insensitive by default. I once got burned with a check-out where one directory overwrite another and chose sensitivity from then on. This has caused a few problems over the years, including a Flash update that failed. No matter. Squeak has FileDirectory class>>isCaseSensitive answer a hard-coded boolean. Not good. I see this from stackoverflow<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/430256/how-do-i-determine-whether-the-fi…> : "Keep in mind that you might have multiple file systems with different casing rules. For example, the root filesystem could be case-sensitive, but you can have a case-insensitive filesystem (e.g. an USB stick with a FAT filesystem on it) mounted somewhere. So if you do such checks, make sure that you make them in the directory that you are going to access. Also, what if the user copies the data from say a case-sensitive to a case-insensitive file system? If you have files that differ only by case, one of them will overwrite the other, causing data loss. When copying in the other direction, you might also run into problems, for example, if file A contains a reference to file "b", but the file is actually named "B". This works on the original case-insensitive file system, but not on the case-sensitive system. Thus I would suggest that you avoid depending on whether the file system is case-sensitive or not if you can. Do not generate file names that differ only by case, use the standard file picker dialogs, be prepared that the case might change, etc." Luckily this is only tested in a couple of places. Most of the time the system resolves names by going through primDirectoryEntryFor: which leaves it up to the individual file system to decide (and hence get the answer right). I wonder what does FileSystem do about this? -- best, Eliot

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[OT] free-to-play vs pay-to-play in mobile games
by Eliot Miranda May 11, 2014

May 11, 2014

http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/9/5699058/free-to-play-mobile-candy-crush-the… Interesting. There may be parallels with programming language and software development environment popularity, revenue and success. -- best, Eliot

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[ANN] Phratch 3.0 released
by jannik laval May 11, 2014

May 11, 2014

Phratch 3.0 is out of the box, good news ! Phratch 3.0 is cleaner, faster and more stable. Phratch 3.0 is on top of Pharo 3.0 Thanks to the 30 students of Ecole des Mines de Douai, who use Phratch + Jetstorm, we improved a lot the stability and the rapidity of phratch. Now, we can say that it is usable. There is no new feature in phratch3.0. It is a release for usability. Only one big change: we know that sound does not work on each platform, so we decided to push sound features in an add-on. This makes us thinking about modularity for the next release. Letâs go for phratch4.0 ! Some new things arrived also on the website: new font style, section goodies. In the goodies section, you can support us by buying goodies, or just with a donation. A last thing: Phratch begin to work on RaspberryPi, thanks to JB Arnaud for the VM. As NativeBoost is not yet implemented, some features do not work. For example, when launching phratch on RPi, there is a NativeBoost error due to a file access. There is a lot of things to do with phratch, you are welcome to contribute ! See you on phratch.com Jannik -- ~~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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Font problem: the come back
by Alexandre Bergel May 10, 2014

May 10, 2014

Hi! I am experiencing problem with the font using Athens. Am I the only one? After using a fresh image, the problem appears after a short while. This is frustrating :-( Alexandre -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.

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[Screencast] request for review
by Laurent Laffont May 10, 2014

May 10, 2014

Hi, I've recorded a screencast for Pharo 3.0. Could some of you review the english subtitles ? Project is here: https://github.com/lolgzs/pharo-picasa-screencast , subtitles in picasa_pharo3.en.srt. It's a simple text format, but you can use tools like KDE subtitle composer or Jubler to edit it. You can either send me fix by mail or make merge requests on github (easier for me :). Next the idea is to have subtitles translated into several languages, help appreciated. And if you have courage and time :), it would be nice to have voice recorded (my spoken english sounds, well, ... ). The screencast may be published on new Pharo website for people to get started. Cheers, Laurent

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New Website online
by Marcus Denker May 9, 2014

May 9, 2014

Hi, The new website is online! http://pharo.org For now, pharo-project.org still is the old website. Next: pharo-project.org should forward to pharo.org, it will still be available as old.pharo-project.org for some time. Thanks a lot to Nico http://nicolas-petton.fr, Esteban http://smallworks.eu, Damien http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st and Aurelia http://aurelia.saout.fr Marcus

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