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Re: [Pharo-dev] On Twitter

by horrido

Thank you for your input. It is very helpful. You're right, retweets can be important, too. I need to put in more effort to draw in more followers. Alas, I don't know where I'm going to find the time. I'm so busy managing all the other stuff (eg, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Amber tutorial, etc.) that I'm starting to get overwhelmed. *This is hard work!* Like I said in the OP, I'm new to this Twitter thing and I really didn't know how to use it. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/On-Twitter-tp4797177p4797724.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Jan. 4, 2015

Re: [Pharo-dev] [story] using the inspector to debug a metacello configuration problem

by Dale Henrichs

Tudor, Out of curiosity, did you try using the validator? The validator is supposed to uncover these types of "potential problems" if this is a case that slips through the validator I would like to add a case for it ... Dale On 1/4/15 4:01 AM, Tudor Girba wrote: > Hi, > > Happy New Year! > > The GTInspector reaches its full potential when it is being extended > to meet custom needs. > > I will try to document more scenarios to show how this works in > practice and how programming changes as a result. > > Here is a story that describes a session of debugging a Metacello > configuration problem: > http://www.humane-assessment.com/blog/identifying-a-configuration-problem-w… > > Cheers, > Doru > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com <http://www.tudorgirba.com> > > "Every thing has its own flow"

Jan. 4, 2015

Re: [Pharo-dev] On Twitter

by kilon alios

So nicely said Guillermo , I could not agree more with you. Anyone can create an account with random tweets , but to filter out all the bs of the internet to something really important takes a lot of skill and a lot of time. I have seen some people following thousands while I manage to follow 72. So the real questions is not if you are popular or not but how many people actually bother to notice your tweets. Pharo is already doing a very good job in promoting itself, what matters the most and this where I agree with you and with the other people mentioning this , is to contribute and produce code that is worth tweeting. On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Guillermo Polito <guillermopolito(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 4:47 AM, horrido <horrido.hobbies(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> You want to know something funny? Most of the Twitter accounts listed here >> show that most tweets are actually retweets. If you subtract the retweets, >> the real number of original tweets is quite small, and spread far apart >> over >> time. >> >> The *Smalltalk Renaissance* Twitter account has had 16 original tweets in >> *one week*. And no retweets at all. >> >> By this measure, my Twitter account is far more active than anybody >> else's! >> >> I'm looking at Marissa Mayer's Twitter account (she's the Yahoo CEO). >> She's >> had 17 tweets over the last 3 months, but 12 of them are retweets! Of >> course, she has over 861,000 followers and I only have 11, but I'm a more >> active Twit than she is. >> >> > But she has the same impact with a retweet than with an "original" tweet. > Doesn't she? She touches 861 thousand people... > > I don't want to dispute, but I'd like to understand what is it to learn > from your statement... > > - is a retweet less important than an "original" tweet? I never thought > so... I follow somebody if his/her tweets (retweets or not) are interesting > to me. > > Also, do not understimate retweets as It means activity in another way. > You're reading and following other people and selecting/filtering what is > interesting for your followers. That's a lot of effort and thus activity :). > > - does the amount of followers do not count? I think they do... :/ as > with them you have an idea of the impact of a tweet. > > > I mean, this email looks like you're trying to justify what you're doing > with some random facts :)... You should do it if you actually feel/believe > it, do not look for our approval! This "smalltalk renaissance" thing should > not be for us, but for people from outside the community, isn't it? > > And now I go back to work on my stuff ^^, > Guille > >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://forum.world.st/On-Twitter-tp4797177p4797698.html >> Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at >> Nabble.com. >> >> >

Jan. 4, 2015

[story] using the inspector to debug a metacello configuration problem

by Tudor Girba

Hi, Happy New Year! The GTInspector reaches its full potential when it is being extended to meet custom needs. I will try to document more scenarios to show how this works in practice and how programming changes as a result. Here is a story that describes a session of debugging a Metacello configuration problem: http://www.humane-assessment.com/blog/identifying-a-configuration-problem-w… Cheers, Doru -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing has its own flow"

Jan. 4, 2015

Re: [Pharo-dev] On Twitter

by Guillermo Polito

On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 4:47 AM, horrido <horrido.hobbies(a)gmail.com> wrote: > You want to know something funny? Most of the Twitter accounts listed here > show that most tweets are actually retweets. If you subtract the retweets, > the real number of original tweets is quite small, and spread far apart > over > time. > > The *Smalltalk Renaissance* Twitter account has had 16 original tweets in > *one week*. And no retweets at all. > > By this measure, my Twitter account is far more active than anybody else's! > > I'm looking at Marissa Mayer's Twitter account (she's the Yahoo CEO). She's > had 17 tweets over the last 3 months, but 12 of them are retweets! Of > course, she has over 861,000 followers and I only have 11, but I'm a more > active Twit than she is. > > But she has the same impact with a retweet than with an "original" tweet. Doesn't she? She touches 861 thousand people... I don't want to dispute, but I'd like to understand what is it to learn from your statement... - is a retweet less important than an "original" tweet? I never thought so... I follow somebody if his/her tweets (retweets or not) are interesting to me. Also, do not understimate retweets as It means activity in another way. You're reading and following other people and selecting/filtering what is interesting for your followers. That's a lot of effort and thus activity :). - does the amount of followers do not count? I think they do... :/ as with them you have an idea of the impact of a tweet. I mean, this email looks like you're trying to justify what you're doing with some random facts :)... You should do it if you actually feel/believe it, do not look for our approval! This "smalltalk renaissance" thing should not be for us, but for people from outside the community, isn't it? And now I go back to work on my stuff ^^, Guille > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/On-Twitter-tp4797177p4797698.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > >

Jan. 4, 2015

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Bulk] Can MongoTalk execute plan javascript MongoDB queries?

by Norbert Hartl

> Am 04.01.2015 um 05:12 schrieb Yanni Chiu <yanni(a)rogers.com>: > > > On Dec 30, 2014, at 7:14 AM, Norbert Hartl <norbert(a)hartl.name> wrote: > >> >> In order to execute a javascript query you would need a javascript interpreter. As this is not feasible Mongo provides alternative constructs for the most important things you need. For the regex it would be >> >> aMongoCollection select: { >> 'fieldName' -> { '$regex' -> '.*foo' } asDictionary >> } asDictionary > > What would be the equivalent of: > > db.SomeCollection.find( {$or: [ { name: { $regex: /test/i } }, { description: { $regex: /test/i } } ] } ) > > In other words, how would a query on multiple fields be done in MongoTalk? > > The case-insensitive match can probably done with "$options:â (just tried it, and it works). > MyMongoClass selectMany: { > 'description' -> { '$regex' -> 'YADA'. '$options' -> 'i' } asDictionary > } asDictionary. > > Just as you wrote it. Using $regex and // is not necessary. Slash is the regex operator in javascript. As an alternative you use $regex and the search term in a string. /test/ becomes { '$regex' -> 'test' } asDictionary Every { "key" : "value" } object in javascript you need to convert to { 'key' -> 'value' } asDictionary and every Array [ "val", "val" ] into { 'val' . 'val' }. And regex modifiers go into $options as you found out already. So the complete query would be like. someCollection select: { '$or' -> { { 'name' -> { '$regex' -> 'test' . '$options' -> 'i' } asDictionary } asDictionary. { 'description' -> { '$regex' -> 'test' . '$options' -> 'i' } asDictionary } asDictionary } } asDictionary Norbert

Jan. 4, 2015

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Bulk] Can MongoTalk execute plan javascript MongoDB queries?

by Yanni Chiu

On Dec 30, 2014, at 7:14 AM, Norbert Hartl <norbert(a)hartl.name> wrote: > > In order to execute a javascript query you would need a javascript interpreter. As this is not feasible Mongo provides alternative constructs for the most important things you need. For the regex it would be > > aMongoCollection select: { > 'fieldName' -> { '$regex' -> '.*foo' } asDictionary > } asDictionary What would be the equivalent of: db.SomeCollection.find( {$or: [ { name: { $regex: /test/i } }, { description: { $regex: /test/i } } ] } ) In other words, how would a query on multiple fields be done in MongoTalk? The case-insensitive match can probably done with "$options:â (just tried it, and it works). MyMongoClass selectMany: { 'description' -> { '$regex' -> 'YADA'. '$options' -> 'i' } asDictionary } asDictionary.

Jan. 4, 2015

Re: [Pharo-dev] On Twitter

by horrido

You want to know something funny? Most of the Twitter accounts listed here show that most tweets are actually retweets. If you subtract the retweets, the real number of original tweets is quite small, and spread far apart over time. The *Smalltalk Renaissance* Twitter account has had 16 original tweets in *one week*. And no retweets at all. By this measure, my Twitter account is far more active than anybody else's! I'm looking at Marissa Mayer's Twitter account (she's the Yahoo CEO). She's had 17 tweets over the last 3 months, but 12 of them are retweets! Of course, she has over 861,000 followers and I only have 11, but I'm a more active Twit than she is. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/On-Twitter-tp4797177p4797698.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Jan. 4, 2015

Re: [Pharo-dev] The Smalltalk Renaissance Program

by horrido

Proposed full-page ad for placement in IT magazines: My Tumblr page <https://38.media.tumblr.com/a4ffd41e778c244391d6fce9b0b3f332/tumblr_nhmm4cy…> It's a teaser. It's branding. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/The-Smalltalk-Renaissance-Program-tp4797112p4797696.h… Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Jan. 4, 2015

Re: [Pharo-dev] The Smalltalk Renaissance Program

by Sebastian Sastre

Yes Richard youâre doing something that helps to expand the Smalltalk ecosystem, thatâs great! Just have in mind that you need to manage all as campaign, including internal communication Keep telling us what communication opportunities you think we have and Iâm sure more than one will be interested in them. BTW podcasts are a great thing Iâve been listening to Dave and Craigâs podcasts and they are making a great job at that Also Phil who recently interviewed Herby the current Amber lead maintainer I love radio, here is my favourite radio program <http://www.radiolab.org/>, like Seth GodinÂ <http://sethgodin.typepad.com/>said, is like a theatre for the mind, and radio is hard to do. But saving distances, those podcasts are kind of creating the radio experience around Smalltalk. It feels they can print some humane touch that we wonât have in forums or mail lists or IRC. I think we are having a great 2015 start > On Jan 3, 2015, at 12:18 PM, horrido <horrido.hobbies(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > I've learned that mounting a PR campaign is *a full-time job*. I'm dealing > with Twitter and Facebook and Google+ and LinkedIn and Tumblr. I'm writing > letters to a CEO and the Smalltalk Foundation and others. I'm struggling to > complete and publish my Amber tutorial article. I'm *constantly* thinking of > ways to improve the campaign, our websites, and my message. I burn more > calories in the cranium that I do at the gym! I put in 6-8 hours a day, > *every day*, on the computer working on this. And I don't get paid a single > penny. > > Moreover, I have to do all this while *working around my commitments* to my > wife! > > Now, I understand why such a PR campaign has never before been attempted. > /Who among you has the time???/ Only a retiree, perhaps. Who has the drive > and motivation to go through all this sh*t? Only someone who truly > understands the value of PR, marketing, and branding. > > This is why I don't think the Smalltalk Foundation will succeed in > popularizing Smalltalk. No one there is capable of mounting a PR campaign. > No one there /thinks/ like a marketing person. No one there has the time and > energy. Their organization is not agile enough, not adaptable enough. > > The kind of person you need is exactly the kind you see in Mad Men > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Men> . > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/The-Smalltalk-Renaissance-Program-tp4797112p4797675.h… > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >

Jan. 3, 2015