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Re: [Pharo-project] Have started an independent developer activity - Thank you

by Vanessa PeÃ±a

Congratulations and best luck! Thank you so much for sharing :) Cheers, Vanessa. On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 4:34 AM, laurent laffont <laurent.laffont(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > I discovered Smalltalk and Pharo almost three years ago and just after read > Chad Fowler book "Passionate Programmer" (1st edition title was "My job went > to India"). These have changed my developer life, how I perceive software > and that great technology is fun, people doing it more. You're a cool > community and I'm proud to be there. > > Now I've started an aside (paid :) independent developer activity thanks to > a cool guy. That would not be possible without all the stuff I learn every > day from the community and the urge to continue you give me. > > Each time I've made a step forward (open a blog, write ProfStef, fix bugs, > create PharoCasts) I've been amazed that the generated effects were those > described in Passionate Programmer (go read it !) The last chapter is "Go > independent" so now I need the sequel ;) > > Special big thank you to StÃ©phane Ducasse - you're crazy :) Long live Pharo > ! > > > PS: nice piece of Passionate Programmer: > > When I was in India weeding through hundreds of candidates for only > tens of jobs, the interview team was exhausting itself and running out > of time because of a poor interview-to-hire hit rate. Heads hurting and > eyes red, we held a late-night meeting to discuss a strategic change in the > way we would go through the candidates. We had to either optimize the > process so we could interview more people or somehow interview better > people (or both). With what little was left of my voice after twelve > straight > hours of trying to drag answers out of dumbstruck programmers, I argued > for adding Smalltalk to the list of keywords our headhunters were using > to search their rÃ©sumÃ© database. But, nobody knows Smalltalk in India, > cried > the human resources director. That was my point. Nobody knew it, and > programming in Smalltalk was a fundamentally different experience than > programming in Java. The varying experience would give candidates a > different level of expectations, and the dynamic nature of the Smalltalk > environment would reshape the way a Java programmer would approach > a problem. My hope was that these factors would encourage a level of > technical maturity that I hadnât been seeing from the candidates Iâd met so > far. > The addition of Smalltalk to the requirements list yielded a candidate pool > that was tiny in contrast to our previous list. These people were diamonds > in the rough. They really understood object-oriented programming. They > were aware that Java isnât the idealistic panacea itâs sometimes made out > to be. Many of them loved to program! Where have you been for the past two > weeks? we thought. > Unfortunately, our ability to attract these developers for the salaries we > were able to pay was limited. They were calling the shots, and most of > them chose to stay where they were or to keep looking for a new job. > Though we failed to recruit many of them, we learned a valuable recruit- > ing lesson: we were more likely to extend offers to candidates with diverse > (and even unorthodox) experience than to those whose experiences were > homogenous. My explanation is that either the good people seek out > diversity, because they love to learn new things, or being forced into > alien > experiences and environments created more mature, well-rounded soft- > ware developers. I suspect itâs a little of both, but regardless of why it > works, we learned that it works. I still use this technique when looking > for developers. > > > Laurent Laffont - @lolgzs <http://twitter.com/#%21/lolgzs> > > Pharo Smalltalk Screencasts: http://www.pharocasts.com/ > Blog: http://magaloma.blogspot.com/ > Developer group: http://cara74.seasidehosting.st > > >

April 10, 2011

Re: [Pharo-project] Issue 3958 in pharo: Remove embedded snapshotting (image level)

by pharo＠googlecode.com

Updates: Status: Closed Comment #2 on issue 3958 by marcus.d...(a)gmail.com: Remove embedded snapshotting (image level) http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=3958 in 13139

April 10, 2011

[Pharo-project] [update 1.3] #13139

by Marcus Denker

13139 ----- Issue 3979: Fixing an undeclare ref in ScriptLoader Issue 3941: Paragraph (deprecated) has lots of refs to undefined temps Issue 3958: Remove embedded snapshotting (image level) -- Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.

April 10, 2011

Re: [Pharo-project] Issue 3941 in pharo: Paragraph (deprecated) has lots of refs to undefined temps

by pharo＠googlecode.com

Updates: Status: Closed Comment #2 on issue 3941 by marcus.d...(a)gmail.com: Paragraph (deprecated) has lots of refs to undefined temps http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=3941 in 13139

April 10, 2011

Re: [Pharo-project] Issue 3979 in pharo: Fixing an undeclare ref in ScriptLoader

by pharo＠googlecode.com

Updates: Status: Closed Comment #1 on issue 3979 by marcus.d...(a)gmail.com: Fixing an undeclare ref in ScriptLoader http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=3979 in 13139

April 10, 2011

Re: [Pharo-project] Have started an independent developer activity - Thank you

by GermÃ¡n Arduino

Excellent Laurent! Best of luck to the new company! 2011/4/9 laurent laffont <laurent.laffont(a)gmail.com>: > Hi, > I discovered Smalltalk and Pharo almost three years ago and just after read > Chad Fowler book "Passionate Programmer" (1st edition title was "My job went > to India"). These have changed my developer life, how I perceive software > and that great technology is fun, people doing it more. You're a cool > community and I'm proud to be there. > Now I've started an aside (paid :) independent developer activity thanks to > a cool guy. That would not be possible without all the stuff I learn every > day from the community and the urge to continue you give me. > Each time I've made a step forward (open a blog, write ProfStef, fix bugs, > create PharoCasts) I've been amazed that the generated effects were those > described in Passionate Programmer (go read it !) The last chapter is "Go > independent" so now I need the sequel ;) > Special big thank you to StÃ©phane Ducasse - you're crazy :)Â Long live Pharo > ! > > PS: nice piece of Passionate Programmer: > When I was in India weeding through hundreds of candidates for only > tens of jobs, the interview team was exhausting itself and running out > of time because of a poor interview-to-hire hit rate. Heads hurting and > eyes red, we held a late-night meeting to discuss a strategic change in the > way we would go through the candidates. We had to either optimize the > process so we could interview more people or somehow interview better > people (or both). With what little was left of my voice after twelve > straight > hours of trying to drag answers out of dumbstruck programmers, I argued > for adding Smalltalk to the list of keywords our headhunters were using > to search their rÃ©sumÃ© database. But, nobody knows Smalltalk in India, cried > the human resources director. That was my point. Nobody knew it, and > programming in Smalltalk was a fundamentally different experience than > programming in Java. The varying experience would give candidates a > different level of expectations, and the dynamic nature of the Smalltalk > environment would reshape the way a Java programmer would approach > a problem. My hope was that these factors would encourage a level of > technical maturity that I hadnât been seeing from the candidates Iâd met so > far. > The addition of Smalltalk to the requirements list yielded a candidate pool > that was tiny in contrast to our previous list. These people were diamonds > in the rough. They really understood object-oriented programming. They > were aware that Java isnât the idealistic panacea itâs sometimes made out > to be. Many of them loved to program! Where have you been for the past two > weeks? we thought. > Unfortunately, our ability to attract these developers for the salaries we > were able to pay was limited. They were calling the shots, and most of > them chose to stay where they were or to keep looking for a new job. > Though we failed to recruit many of them, we learned a valuable recruit- > ing lesson: we were more likely to extend offers to candidates with diverse > (and even unorthodox) experience than to those whose experiences were > homogenous. My explanation is that either the good people seek out > diversity, because they love to learn new things, or being forced into alien > experiences and environments created more mature, well-rounded soft- > ware developers. I suspect itâs a little of both, but regardless of why it > works, we learned that it works. I still use this technique when looking > for developers. > > Laurent Laffont -Â @lolgzs > > Pharo Smalltalk Screencasts:Â http://www.pharocasts.com/ > Blog:Â http://magaloma.blogspot.com/ > Developer group:Â http://cara74.seasidehosting.st > >

April 10, 2011

Re: [Pharo-project] Help (perfect for newcomers) migrating a technical FAQ

by Mariano Martinez Peck

Here is what Max did http://book.pharo-project.org/book/FAQ/ If someone can take a look and update what you know is out-dated.. Cheers Mariano On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck(a)gmail.com > wrote: > Excellent!!! :) > Thanks to all of you for the offer. > > > On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Max Leske <maxleske(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am. >> >> I'll do a very quick migration only because I don't have much time. It can >> be beautified later. If that's ok with everyone I'll do it tonight. >> >> Max >> >> On 09.04.2011, at 14:45, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote: >> >> One year after..... anyone interested ? >> >> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck < >> marianopeck(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi folks. I had a good idea and and it perfect for someone that wants to >>> help and don't know how. It is not the most entertained task, but I promise >>> you will learn a lot. Mostly, if you are newcomer. >>> >>> The idea is basically to migrate the FAQ that is here: >>> >>> http://scg.unibe.ch/wiki/faq/pharofaq >>> >>> to a new section in the collaborative Pharo book: >>> >>> http://book.pharo-project.org/ >>> >>> So....any takers ? Let us know so that we generate a new user in the >>> Book >>> >>> The idea is also to check whether what is says is still correct for pharo >>> or if it needs an update. Or even how to improve it (from the view of a >>> newcomer). >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Mariano >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Mariano >> http://marianopeck.wordpress.com >> >> >> > > > -- > Mariano > http://marianopeck.wordpress.com > > -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

April 10, 2011

Re: [Pharo-project] [Pharo-users] Code Navigation: Navigation History in System Browser?

by Mariano Martinez Peck

Hi nick, I comment above. On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Nick Chen <nchen.dev(a)mac.com> wrote: > Hi > > I was browsing through the draft chapter for Pharo By Example describing > the > Omnibrowser architecture > (https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/27418/Omnibrowser.pdf) One of > the > screenshots (Figure 1.5 in the PDF) shows a browser with Back, Forward and > History Buttons i.e. navigation history features. > > There are several browser for Pharo. PharoCore uses one, and in PharoDev we are using Omnibrowser, a.k.a OB. There is ANOTHER browser called O2 That "history feature" is part of O2, not OB. O2 used to load in Pharo (indeed, it was the defaul at the very beginning of Pharo 1.0). But nowadays, its developr nor nobody maintain it, so it doesn't load/works correctly in Pharo 1.2 anymore. > My specific questions: > > 1) What happened to this version of the browser? Is it possible to load the > navigation history feature into the latest version of Pharo? I am currently > using Pharo 1.2 > No. You need to update O2 and make it work in Pharo 1.2 or try to add such feature to OB. > > 2) The paper "Tackling Software Navigation Issues of the Smalltalk IDE" by > RÃ¶thlisberger et al > (http://www.bergel.eu/download/papers/Berg09d-SmalltalkIDE.pdf) > implemented > several useful features for code navigation in the Smalltalk IDE. > > Was their work ever ported to Pharo? Hopefully the authors of the paper are > reading this list and can comment. The paper was very interesting for me > because it described and proposed solutions for problems that I have > encountered with code navigation in Smalltalk. > > Thanks! > > -- > Nick > > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/Code-Navigation-Navigation-History-in-System-Browser-… > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

April 10, 2011

Re: [Pharo-project] FAQ migration

by Mariano Martinez Peck

Thanks Max, I am reading it now :) For those who doesn't know the link: http://book.pharo-project.org/book/FAQ/ Cheers Mariano On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:19 PM, StÃ©phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr > wrote: > Thanks a lot! > > > On Apr 9, 2011, at 11:10 PM, Max Leske wrote: > > > I migrated the FAQ to the pharo book. > > > > I've added a few comments where corrections / verifications are needed > that I couldn't do myself. > > There are also some formatting issues (tabs are converted to spaces which > are used as indents so some code is indented quite a bit more compared to > other code). > > > > Since the "hard work" is now done, this is a call to everyone to please > take a look at the FAQ and update it. Some of the stuff in there is really > outdated. > > > > I'm calling it a day. Good night. > > > > Max > > > -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

April 10, 2011

Re: [Pharo-project] Issue 330 in pharo: recordLoop has bug that affects recording on macintosh

by pharo＠googlecode.com

Updates: Labels: -Milestone-1.3 Milestone-1.3-DevImage Comment #8 on issue 330 by marcus.d...(a)gmail.com: recordLoop has bug that affects recording on macintosh http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=330 (No comment was entered for this change.)

April 10, 2011