December 2011 - Pharo-users

Re: [Pharo-users] Videos Pharo talks ESUG 2010/2011

by Mariano Martinez Peck

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Cameron Sanders <camsanders(a)aol.com> wrote: > Thanks for posting those links. I enjoyed seeing what is happening. Pharo > is great. (Except for 1.3, which crashes out-of-the-box when I load my > packages... -- i am too busy to figure out why right now.) > > Two years ago a friend needed an app to demonstrate capabilities at his > start-up company. The demo app was simple: 2d display (with a map as the > back-drop) with markers on the map illustrating the states & locations of > various in-field devices (data pulled from the db, or added graphically to > inform the db). I spec'd out the demo, generalizing as much as possible for > a quick-n-dirty demo. So maybe I quickly got in to 20 to 30 classes, with > not much code in each. I sat down and laid out the basic functioning *demo > in about 2 weeks in Java*. At the end of that period, I thought: why am I > using Java/Java-beans/Eclipse? I hate having to type in data-type > information all over the place -- and as I get older and my eyes slower, it > just slows me down a lot, visually scanning code during editing. So, I went > ahead and authored the same functionality *in Pharo. It took 2 days.* I > still do not get the appeal of Java. > > I love Pharo and I am willing to contribute. Other than a few tools laying > around (e.g. a Sudoku solver that I wrote a few years back) that were never > polished (e.g. lacking a GUI), cash is actually the easiest thing for me to > contribute. > > I know that Stef, Marcus and the rest are working in a company/consortium arround Pharo (helped by the french INRIA institute). But I will let them speak :) > Question: is this private-public partnership funding situation operational > now, or are you still working out the details? > > I am using Pharo to write a financial analysis & reporting (only html & > csv currently) system that includes a simple (feed-forward) artificial > neural-network subsystem and a portfolio simulation system (that can pull > in historical fundamental data & simulate a portfolio with various trading > rules). > > Looks interesting :) > The chances are high that I will need some additional help in February or > March for a few weeks. Are there any Smalltalk/Pharo consultants here in > New Hampshire, USA? Because this project is going to evolve, and is already > too big for me to maintain progress on in my spare time (and yet the app is > already critical to our in-house stock research), hiring someone would be > our preferred course. > I will be busy with my PhD until the end of the next year :( is remote work possible? (just wondering) > > - > Whatever happened to the GUI builder? (Someone named nullset or > null<something> was working on?) > > In summary, I love Pharo! > > Cheers, > Cam > > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker(a)inria.fr>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> The Pharo talks of ESUG 2011 and ESUG 2010 are online: >> >> ESUG 2011 Pharo RoadMap (missing the a bit at the end, I think) >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJfiNQ8zhIE >> Slides: >> http://www.slideshare.net/MarcusDenker/the-pharo-roadmap >> ESUG 2010: Pharo >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu-w9wX6RwQ >> Smalltalks 2011 >> Slides: >> http://www.slideshare.net/MarcusDenker/pharo-one-year-later >> Video: Not yet. >> >> Marcus >> >> -- >> Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de >> >> >> > -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

Dec. 2, 2011

Re: [Pharo-users] Videos Pharo talks ESUG 2010/2011

by Mariano Martinez Peck

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Cameron Sanders <camsanders(a)aol.com> wrote: > Thanks for posting those links. I enjoyed seeing what is happening. Pharo > is great. (Except for 1.3, which crashes out-of-the-box when I load my > packages... -- i am too busy to figure out why right now.) Are you in Linux? > > Two years ago a friend needed an app to demonstrate capabilities at his > start-up company. The demo app was simple: 2d display (with a map as the > back-drop) with markers on the map illustrating the states & locations of > various in-field devices (data pulled from the db, or added graphically to > inform the db). I spec'd out the demo, generalizing as much as possible for > a quick-n-dirty demo. So maybe I quickly got in to 20 to 30 classes, with > not much code in each. I sat down and laid out the basic functioning *demo > in about 2 weeks in Java*. At the end of that period, I thought: why am I > using Java/Java-beans/Eclipse? I hate having to type in data-type > information all over the place -- and as I get older and my eyes slower, it > just slows me down a lot, visually scanning code during editing. So, I went > ahead and authored the same functionality *in Pharo. It took 2 days.* I > still do not get the appeal of Java. > > I love Pharo and I am willing to contribute. Other than a few tools laying > around (e.g. a Sudoku solver that I wrote a few years back) that were never > polished (e.g. lacking a GUI), cash is actually the easiest thing for me to > contribute. > > Question: is this private-public partnership funding situation operational > now, or are you still working out the details? > > I am using Pharo to write a financial analysis & reporting (only html & > csv currently) system that includes a simple (feed-forward) artificial > neural-network subsystem and a portfolio simulation system (that can pull > in historical fundamental data & simulate a portfolio with various trading > rules). > > The chances are high that I will need some additional help in February or > March for a few weeks. Are there any Smalltalk/Pharo consultants here in > New Hampshire, USA? Because this project is going to evolve, and is already > too big for me to maintain progress on in my spare time (and yet the app is > already critical to our in-house stock research), hiring someone would be > our preferred course. > > - > Whatever happened to the GUI builder? (Someone named nullset or > null<something> was working on?) > > In summary, I love Pharo! > > Cheers, > Cam > > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker(a)inria.fr>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> The Pharo talks of ESUG 2011 and ESUG 2010 are online: >> >> ESUG 2011 Pharo RoadMap (missing the a bit at the end, I think) >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJfiNQ8zhIE >> Slides: >> http://www.slideshare.net/MarcusDenker/the-pharo-roadmap >> ESUG 2010: Pharo >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu-w9wX6RwQ >> Smalltalks 2011 >> Slides: >> http://www.slideshare.net/MarcusDenker/pharo-one-year-later >> Video: Not yet. >> >> Marcus >> >> -- >> Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de >> >> >> > -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

Dec. 2, 2011

Re: [Pharo-users] Videos Pharo talks ESUG 2010/2011

by Cameron Sanders

Thanks for posting those links. I enjoyed seeing what is happening. Pharo is great. (Except for 1.3, which crashes out-of-the-box when I load my packages... -- i am too busy to figure out why right now.) Two years ago a friend needed an app to demonstrate capabilities at his start-up company. The demo app was simple: 2d display (with a map as the back-drop) with markers on the map illustrating the states & locations of various in-field devices (data pulled from the db, or added graphically to inform the db). I spec'd out the demo, generalizing as much as possible for a quick-n-dirty demo. So maybe I quickly got in to 20 to 30 classes, with not much code in each. I sat down and laid out the basic functioning *demo in about 2 weeks in Java*. At the end of that period, I thought: why am I using Java/Java-beans/Eclipse? I hate having to type in data-type information all over the place -- and as I get older and my eyes slower, it just slows me down a lot, visually scanning code during editing. So, I went ahead and authored the same functionality *in Pharo. It took 2 days.* I still do not get the appeal of Java. I love Pharo and I am willing to contribute. Other than a few tools laying around (e.g. a Sudoku solver that I wrote a few years back) that were never polished (e.g. lacking a GUI), cash is actually the easiest thing for me to contribute. Question: is this private-public partnership funding situation operational now, or are you still working out the details? I am using Pharo to write a financial analysis & reporting (only html & csv currently) system that includes a simple (feed-forward) artificial neural-network subsystem and a portfolio simulation system (that can pull in historical fundamental data & simulate a portfolio with various trading rules). The chances are high that I will need some additional help in February or March for a few weeks. Are there any Smalltalk/Pharo consultants here in New Hampshire, USA? Because this project is going to evolve, and is already too big for me to maintain progress on in my spare time (and yet the app is already critical to our in-house stock research), hiring someone would be our preferred course. - Whatever happened to the GUI builder? (Someone named nullset or null<something> was working on?) In summary, I love Pharo! Cheers, Cam On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker(a)inria.fr>wrote: > Hi, > > The Pharo talks of ESUG 2011 and ESUG 2010 are online: > > ESUG 2011 Pharo RoadMap (missing the a bit at the end, I think) > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJfiNQ8zhIE > Slides: > http://www.slideshare.net/MarcusDenker/the-pharo-roadmap > ESUG 2010: Pharo > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu-w9wX6RwQ > Smalltalks 2011 > Slides: > http://www.slideshare.net/MarcusDenker/pharo-one-year-later > Video: Not yet. > > Marcus > > -- > Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de > > >

Dec. 2, 2011

Submitting forms with Zinc

by Sean P. DeNigris

Can Zinc do this easily (e.g. automatically handle hidden fields)? If not, is it planned? Where can I find an example? Thanks. Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Submitting-forms-with-Zinc-tp4149396p4149396.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Dec. 2, 2011

Videos Pharo talks ESUG 2010/2011

by Marcus Denker

Hi, The Pharo talks of ESUG 2011 and ESUG 2010 are online: ESUG 2011 Pharo RoadMap (missing the a bit at the end, I think) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJfiNQ8zhIE Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/MarcusDenker/the-pharo-roadmap ESUG 2010: Pharo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu-w9wX6RwQ Smalltalks 2011 Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/MarcusDenker/pharo-one-year-later Video: Not yet. Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

Dec. 2, 2011

Re: [Pharo-users] How can I run my own CI server?

by Pat Maddox

Thank you both! On Dec 2, 2011, at 12:06 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote: > http://marianopeck.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/installing-jenkins-ci-and-confi… > > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Tudor Girba <tudor(a)tudorgirba.com> wrote: > You need the builder from Lucas: > https://github.com/renggli/builder > > The main page also provides a detailed set of instructions. > > Cheers, > Doru > > > On 2 Dec 2011, at 06:30, Pat Maddox wrote: > > > I'd like to set up continuous integration for my own Pharo projects. Does anyone have pointers on setting one up? Some basic pointers on how to build an image and run the tests from scratch (ideally headless) would be very helpful. > > > > Thanks, > > Pat > > > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > > "If you interrupt the barber while he is cutting your hair, > you will end up with a messy haircut." > > > > > > -- > Mariano > http://marianopeck.wordpress.com >

Dec. 2, 2011

Re: [Pharo-users] [COTDC] 88 - TextConstants

by Benjamin

Hahaha I knew that one day or another one of my class will end up here :) So: TextConstants is a shared pool which gather constants used by class which handle text manipulations. It also contained a dictionary to share some constants trough the system ( it was part of the use of TextConstants when it was a Dictionary ) On Dec 2, 2011, at 3:58 PM, DeNigris Sean wrote: > Continuing in Collections... > > Today: TextConstants > > > Comment Of The Day Contest - One Day One Comment > Rules: > #1: Each day a not commented class is elected. Each day the best comment will be integrated with name of the author(s). > #2: If you cannot comment it, deprecate it. > Results: http://code.google.com/p/pharo/wiki/CommentOfTheDayContest

Dec. 2, 2011

[COTDC] 88 - TextConstants

by DeNigris Sean

Continuing in Collections... Today: TextConstants Comment Of The Day Contest - One Day One Comment Rules: #1: Each day a not commented class is elected. Each day the best comment will be integrated with name of the author(s). #2: If you cannot comment it, deprecate it. Results: http://code.google.com/p/pharo/wiki/CommentOfTheDayContest

Dec. 2, 2011

Re: [Pharo-users] Morph added to World event

by Sean P. DeNigris

Igor Stasenko wrote > > to my knowledge, no. > why do you need that? > Thanks. I'm writing an acceptance test for my app. At some point, it's supposed to show a context menu, so I'm doing "World submorphs detect: [ :m | m isKindOf: MenuMorph ]", but it occurred to me that there may be some notification... Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Morph-added-to-World-event-tp4144928p4146998.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Dec. 2, 2011

Re: [Pharo-users] portable smalltalk, how ?

by Janko MivÅ¡ek

S, Davorin Rusevljan piÅ¡e: > 2011/12/2 Janko MivÅ¡ek <janko.mivsek(a)eranova.si>: >> I therefore invite specially network/web guys to write more portable >> code using Sport and therefore spread your work around all Smalltalks. > Janko, I have not looked it in more depth for quite some time, but > where is the best place to look to learn the API that Sport provides? > (especially for someone who does not have in depth knowledge and > access to VW api)? Thanks to Ã¼ber cool browsing feature of forthcoming SmalltalkHub you can look at Sport here: http://smalltalkhub.com/user/janko/Sport/commits/Sport-2.031 Best regards Janko -- Janko MivÅ¡ek Aida/Web Smalltalk Web Application Server http://www.aidaweb.si

Dec. 2, 2011