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Re: [Pharo-project] Popularity of Smalltalk in Software Industry

by Michael Haupt

Toon, Am 07.05.2011 um 16:56 schrieb Toon Verwaest <toon.verwaest(a)gmail.com>: > >> I do agree that we could do something in this regard. But given that >> we could "do something" almost everywhere, it is hard to say if this >> topic should take priority. Currently my plate is full. So, its not >> about that there are someone says "no we don't want it ", >> its mainly about lack of resources. > And in addition, the whole OOPSLA world is working on it already so ... why bother ;P oh. I had not known the OOPSLA community was devoting so much time to improvements in certain Smalltalk implementations. ;-) Best, Michael

May 7, 2011

[Pharo-project] [update 1.3] #13185

by StÃ©phane Ducasse

13185 ----- - Fix FlatBrowser not to use PluggableTexMorphWithLimits (since this is in nautilus for now). - Issue 4142: Never use a leadingChar for byte char. Thanks levente and Nicolas Cellier. - Issue 4090: Better default template for absent class comment. Stef

May 7, 2011

Re: [Pharo-project] ODBC Connection in Pharo 1.1.1

by Mariano Martinez Peck

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Markus Fritsche < fritsche.markus(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > Hello Sourav, > > SqueakDBX (http://squeakdbx.org/) has an odbc backend. Yep, but in addition you can use directly the database client library instead of ODBC, which most of the times is better. The ODBC backend in SqueakDBX should be mostly used only when there is no database client working. To see supported backedns: http://www.squeakdbx.org/Current%20Support Cheers Mariano > There was a > dedicated ODBC package for squeak once, but I think that has been > deprecated. SqueakDBX (soon to be renamed) is actively maintained and > supported. > > Regards, > Markus > > 2011/5/6 sourav roy <sourav_pharo(a)in.com>: > > > > Hi All, > > > > Can any one explain me how to establish an ODBC connection in > > Pharo-Smalltalk and Database programming (Any document or explanation). > > > > Thanks&Regards > > > > Sourav | Bangalore | India > > > > Dear pharo-project ! Get Yourself a cool, short @in.com Email ID now! > > > > Dear pharo-project ! Get Yourself a cool, short @in.com Email ID now! > > -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

May 7, 2011

Re: [Pharo-project] DBXTalk (SqueakDBX) goes to Pharo 1.3

by Mariano Martinez Peck

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Alain rastoul <Alr.dev(a)free.fr> wrote: > ++ > :) > Will test mssql asap (next week) > > Cool. If you have problem ask because there were a couple of persons working with MSSQL recently so they may help :) You can ask here or in the mailing list http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakdbx For info (useful to get mssql to work): http://www.squeakdbx.org/Compiling%20and%20installing%20OpenDBX http://www.squeakdbx.org/Compiling%20for%20different%20backends -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

May 7, 2011

Re: [Pharo-project] documentation searchability (was "Popularity of Smalltalk in Software Industry")

by StÃ©phane Ducasse

we will ;) Don't worry :) On May 7, 2011, at 3:29 PM, Craig Latta wrote: > >> ...we will convert our lovely books from pdf to html-crap. > > Please do keep the PDFs crawlable by search engines, though. I get > PDF hits in my search results all the time, and I appreciate being able > to see the layout the way the authors intended. My PDF viewer can search > through the text just fine, too. > > > thanks again for the books! > > -C > > -- > Craig Latta > www.netjam.org/resume > +31 06 2757 7177 > + 1 415 287 3547 > > > >

May 7, 2011

Re: [Pharo-project] documentation searchability (was "Popularity of Smalltalk in Software Industry")

by Mariano Martinez Peck

On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Craig Latta <craig(a)netjam.org> wrote: > > > ...we will convert our lovely books from pdf to html-crap. > > Please do keep the PDFs crawlable by search engines, though. I get > PDF hits in my search results all the time, and I appreciate being able > to see the layout the way the authors intended. My PDF viewer can search > through the text just fine, too. > > +1 > > thanks again for the books! > > -C > > -- > Craig Latta > www.netjam.org/resume > +31 06 2757 7177 > + 1 415 287 3547 > > > > > -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

May 7, 2011

[Pharo-project] Fwd: [Esug-list] job opportunity

by Mariano Martinez Peck

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David West <davew(a)transcendencecorporation.com> Date: Sat, May 7, 2011 at 4:35 PM Subject: [Esug-list] job opportunity To: esug-list(a)lists.esug.org My apologies for the short lead time, but I need a person that is very conversant with Squeak-Seaside-Pharo-Pier-GLASS plus an interest and ability to quickly learn and mentor others in web-mobile languages and tools. Will be working with English speakers, so facility in that language is essential. The person must be able to be in New Mexico, US, from May 23 to July 29. You will be working 6-8 hours a day, Monday through Thursday - teaching, mentoring, developing projects (list below) and overseeing my software Studio when I am in London Jun 4-19. Compensation: Approximately $10K USD plus health benefits for the two-months. If you like the work and are good at it, the position can be converted to a one-year, renewable annually, as a visiting professor (at least a Masters degree is required). The annual salary will be approximated $60K USD plus benefits. An ownership interest in the products being developed is also available - as a supplement to the academic salary. Applications we will be working on, priority order -- technology: 1) iPad app for the Bradbury Museum at Los Alamos National Labs -- XCode - cocoa based framework 2) an outcomes assessment app for Highlands University -- Web ecology (HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Javascript) 3) itsYourRep - an achievement profile / portfolio Web App - very similar to #2 -- GLASS 4) confirmOwnership - for paying client, tracks ownership interests in investments, etc. -- Seaside or GLASS 5) ambientAgile -- an app using cameras and projectors to create a distributed 'agile wall' -- not sure, start with Squeak-Seaside 6) Web-based subset of Behavior! Seaside or GLASS 7) Infrastructure for Software Design Studios - content management plus Web presence - Seaside / Pier / GLASS I must find a person very quickly, so if you are interested, please email me and we can arrange a phone call to discuss the opportunity. David West New Mexico Highlands University dmwest(a)nmhu.edu profwest(a)fastmail.fm 01-505-231-7233 _______________________________________________ Esug-list mailing list Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

May 7, 2011

Re: [Pharo-project] Popularity of Smalltalk in Software Industry

by Toon Verwaest

> I do agree that we could do something in this regard. But given that > we could "do something" almost everywhere, it is hard to say if this > topic should take priority. Currently my plate is full. So, its not > about that there are someone says "no we don't want it ", > its mainly about lack of resources. And in addition, the whole OOPSLA world is working on it already so ... why bother ;P

May 7, 2011

Re: [Pharo-project] Popularity of Smalltalk in Software Industry

by Igor Stasenko

On 7 May 2011 14:34, Michael Haupt <mhaupt(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Igor, > > Am 07.05.2011 um 13:37 schrieb Igor Stasenko <siguctua(a)gmail.com>: >>> What market are you talking about? There are lots and lots of customers of >>> certain big database/appliance vendors that would loudly protest had the >>> stuff they bought no inherent support for parallel execution. >> >> So, where those customers to sponsor development of VM(s) they need so much? > > for the market you probably have in mind, I do not know. Perhaps that market is not so interesting after all. > i think that market of 'web-toys' is much wider than market of 'highly-parrallel supercomputing'. And its not my fault that web-toyers know little and usually don't care about parallelism.. until they grow too big to start considering it.. but it happens to 0.001% of them. Everyone prefer cheap and fast solutions. And making own program to exploit massive parallelism is not cheap nor fast :) It is definitely harder than writing program using plain sequential algorithms. >> I am not talking about hardware, i'm talking about software. It is >> largely not using parallelism, >> or using it wrong. > > That is precisely my point. > >> >>> Is it really *that* hard or is this just FUD? >> >> Its not that hard. But if you take the previous paragraph into account... > > So it is about fear. Which in turn means that it would take some fearless individuals (not necessarily leaders). I'm not afraid of parallelism, and think it would be an interesting and worthwhile experiment. Stefan would probably agree, and he has some experience with an older Squeak image. I'm sure you agree. How about it, guys? ;-) > I do agree that we could do something in this regard. But given that we could "do something" almost everywhere, it is hard to say if this topic should take priority. Currently my plate is full. So, its not about that there are someone says "no we don't want it ", its mainly about lack of resources. -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.

May 7, 2011

Re: [Pharo-project] Popularity of Smalltalk in Software Industry

by Igor Stasenko

On 7 May 2011 10:41, StÃ©phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr> wrote: > Too bad. The eclipse license is not for us. > I'm not a lawyer, but reading it, it looks like this license are compatible with MIT. > Now do you imply that Process should use your primitive? > > Stef > >> On 07 May 2011, at 09:19, StÃ©phane Ducasse wrote: >> >>> when and where did you announce that? >>> Where is the code? >> >> http://forum.world.st/RoarVM-The-Manycore-SqueakVM-td3025321.html >> >> And here the MVC compatibility code: >> Â https://github.com/smarr/RoarVM/raw/master/image.st/RVM-multicore-support.m… >> >> And there is even a file for minimal Pharo compatibility: >> Â https://github.com/smarr/RoarVM/raw/master/image.st/RVM-multicore-support.p… >> >> >> -- >> Stefan Marr >> Software Languages Lab >> Vrije Universiteit Brussel >> Pleinlaan 2 / B-1050 Brussels / Belgium >> http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr >> Phone: +32 2 629 2974 >> Fax: Â +32 2 629 3525 >> >> > > > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.

May 7, 2011