December 2012 - Pharo-users

inserting special character 'vector angle' symbol
by Ben Coman Dec. 10, 2012

Dec. 10, 2012

I need to display electrical phasors (which are complex numbers in polar notation). This requires a special 'vector angle' symbol as shown http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_2/chpt_2/5.html. What are my options for displaying such a symbol? â My searching only turned up 'Character characterTable' I wondered if I can replace one of those bitmap characters with my own. I also found an online character set converter http://kanjidict.stc.cx/recode.php which converted from the character from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 "∠" but that result doesn't mean a lot to me. Hints would be greatly appreciated. cheers -ben

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Legacy FileDirectory
by Camillo Bruni Dec. 5, 2012

Dec. 5, 2012

I finally found the motivation to properly package my compatibility package. http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~dh83/fisleg/packages/FileSystem-Legacy For people who want to migrate to 2.0 but depend on FileDirectory, they can load this compatibility package for 2.0 which will add a mock FileDirectory. It will mostly forward to FileReference. This is legacy software and should only be used for migration ;) best cami

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What are slices?
by Sebastian Nozzi Dec. 4, 2012

Dec. 4, 2012

Hello all, I have some basic questions regarding "slices". On the pharo-project list I see people collaborating the whole time with "slices" (or uploading them). * What are they? * How are they used? * When to use them, when not? Thanks in advance! Sebastian

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Sinatra-like framework?
by Sebastian Nozzi Dec. 4, 2012

Dec. 4, 2012

Hello, before I roll-out my own solution, I thought I should ask: Are you aware of a Sinatra-like web-framework for Pharo? http://www.sinatrarb.com/ Or can Zinc-HTTP do that more or less out-of-the-box? Thanks! Sebastian P.S. As far as I understood Seaside-REST is not aimed at web-pages.

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(sans objet)
by S Krish Dec. 3, 2012

Dec. 3, 2012

http://www.zdnet.com/dell-xps-13-laptop-the-ubuntu-developer-edition-arrive… I have through last 4 years worked on Ubuntu customizing it for my work.. Never got around to establishing a baseline, I thought of setting up for sharing. Great to hear that Dell has worked on it and brought up a great hardware too to back it. Will get hold of this laptop... Can we rig up Pharo on to this ? Pharo already comes inbuilt with MC repo, Unit Test framework , profiling tools etc.. but eventually will need a lot more towards an enterprise grade deliverable, including Git / SVN, Web dev publishing, etc.. Kind of connected groovier combination of all elements that plays easy to get it going / deliver

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Ubuntu Developer Edition
by S Krish Dec. 3, 2012

Dec. 3, 2012

Sorry forgot to mark a subject and beta Google did not prompt me to add one..! On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 11:03 PM, S Krish <krishnamachari.sudhakar(a)gmail.com>wrote: > > http://www.zdnet.com/dell-xps-13-laptop-the-ubuntu-developer-edition-arrive… > > I have through last 4 years worked on Ubuntu customizing it for my work.. > Never got around to establishing a baseline, I thought of setting up for > sharing. Great to hear that Dell has worked on it and brought up a great > hardware too to back it. > > Will get hold of this laptop... > > Can we rig up Pharo on to this ? Pharo already comes inbuilt with MC repo, > Unit Test framework , profiling tools etc.. but eventually will need a lot > more towards an enterprise grade deliverable, including Git / SVN, Web dev > publishing, etc.. Kind of connected groovier combination of all elements > that plays easy to get it going / deliver >

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Smalltalks Videos
by Marcus Denker Dec. 3, 2012

Dec. 3, 2012

There are now a lot of Videos online from Smalltalks, both last month and 2011. *A lot* of Pharo related videos! Playlist 2012: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCGAAdUizzH31VumrhrK2HHepHu3DBpY0 Playlist 2011: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE90823AFF9C8177B Marcus

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Re: [Pharo-users] [Newbies] Stackoverflow - for raising mindshare?
by Sebastian Nozzi Dec. 3, 2012

Dec. 3, 2012

So far the reactions have been positive. I am (positively) surprised :-) I want to cross-post (squeak/pharo) these in particular. 2012/12/3 Camillo Bruni: > yes!! very important! smalltalk has too little presence in the web! Yes, unfortunately. But we can change that ;-) > mailinglists won't help with that fact, as they act almost as closed communities. > Also it happens way too often that questions are re-asked and reposted, whereas they > could be answered on stackoverflow. 2012/12/3 H. Hirzel: > Yes, I think cross-posting is a good idea. > And I suggest that you post to Stackoverflow first and then invite > people from the Squeak list to contribute. Good idea. > The answers on stackoverflow are indexed in a better way than in this > mailing list. > Note aside: good keywords in mailing lists posts also help to identify > an answer in the archive. Didn't think of that, good point. I tend to write too much rather than too little anyway :-) Thanks all of you for your feedback, Sebastian

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Stackoverflow - for raising mindshare?
by Sebastian Nozzi Dec. 3, 2012

Dec. 3, 2012

Hello fellow Squeak/Pharo users, at work I find stack-overflow a quite valuable resource whenever I get stuck with something (Java, Ruby, Unix, etc.). What do you think about the idea of using it more, so that: - people starting with Smalltalk can find answers there apart from digging in the mailing-lists - raising the awareness/mind-share about open-source Smalltalk in the "outside world"? I for one will try to double-post my questions both in the corresponding mailing lists and stack-overflow, and whenever I find good information that might be helpful for newcomers, I'll try to post it there also. It might help attracting more people to open-source Smalltalk and gain more acceptance in the industry. Best regards, Sebastian

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git support for Monticello?
by Sebastian Nozzi Dec. 3, 2012

Dec. 3, 2012

Hello List, sorry if this was asked before. I think git/github support for Monticello is quite new (?). How to get started? Are there some pointers/documentation somewhere? How to make Monticello git/github aware? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13681510/how-to-get-started-with-git-git… Thanks! Sebastian

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