September 2013 - Pharo-users

Lets Talk about Pharo Help tool

by Torsten Bergmann

Kilon wrote on "Pharo dev-list" >So my attention came to help tool, I think I get how it works, I started >making the documentation with it, questions is if there is anything more to >it than the functionality I am seeing in the Help docs. Maybe a third party >lib that adds more features ? > >Is there a plan to extend it ? Some time ago I created the "old" in image help tool so one can easily access help directly from the image. It was accepted and integrated into the standard image. It is usable and some projects/packages use it. But since media is (by default) not yet that rich within Pharo and mostly people also would like to see the documentation on the web I created a successor called "PharoOnlineHelp". This also allows you to be more independent with your docu from the help system itself. The new help system: ==================== - is called "Pharo Online Help" - uses only a single "marker" pragma - supports markdown - can be viewed/served online - is not part of the standard image but can be easily loaded How to use it: ============= - take a fresh Pharo 2.0 image from http://files.pharo.org/platform - open the config browser (Tools -> ConfigurationBrowser) - select "PharoOnlineHelp" from the list and easily install it - now in menu "Help" you will find "Help server", click on "Start server" on the control panel - if you are on Windows you can click on "Browse" to open a browser, in any other case go to http://localhost:8080 with your web browser You can now click and browse the available docu that is in the image. It also has an API help and links to most Pharo resources. If you want to extend the "Intro" tutorial section for instance with a "Native Boost" tutorial you can: - create an own class as subclass of Object in your own package - implement a class side message with a pragma #onlineTutorial nativeBoostTutorialOn: aBuilder <onlineTutorial> (aBuilder tutorial: #'Introduction to NativeBoost') description: 'An overview and introduction to the Native boost interface'; addLesson: ... - see class "PharoTutorial" for an example or this picture: http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/pharo-project/attachments/20130224/9… NOTE: the tutorials are written in Markdown, so you can: - write a blog post or website with a tutorial and later aggregate it/link to it in Pharo online help - use and embed rich media like youtube videos, web pages, ... - use Markdown editors like http://dillinger.io/ to write the docu Hope this will answer your questions. You can use the old help but I would rather like people to see jumping to the new online help. Bye Torsten

Sept. 10, 2013

Fwd: ESUG 2013 Started!

by Marcus Denker

Begin forwarded message: > Subject: ESUG 2013 Started! > Date: September 10, 2013 9:45:44 AM GMT+02:00 > To: "esug-list(a)lists.esug.org Members" <esug-list(a)lists.esug.org> > > ESUG 2013 in Annecey started with great success! > > After a productive and fun Camp Smalltalk (with great food), the main conference started Monday. > > Videos > ======= > This year we again record all taks. The talks are uploaded to Youtube as fast as possible. > https://www.youtube.com/user/esugboard > > Slides > ===== > Slides are collected as pdfs and uploaded to SlideShare. > > - PDF: http://esug.org/data/ESUG2013/ > - SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/esug/ > (later) > > Pictures > ======== > - Stephan Eggermont: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/35787002@N03/sets/72157635427445171/ > - Adriaan van Os > http://www.a3aan.st/esug2013/index.php/list/ > > Twitter > ====== > > The twitter hash tag is #esug2013. ESUG has an account > https://twitter.com/esugsmalltalk >

Sept. 10, 2013

How to use a MongoDB account with Voyage

by Olivier Auverlot

Hello, I need to use a login and password to connect my application to a Mongo DB database. The access to the database is restricted by an account. How to use a login and a password with Voyage ? Best regards Olivier ;-)

Sept. 10, 2013

Re: [Pharo-users] Where can I get Pier?

by Sven Van Caekenberghe

James, On 10 Sep 2013, at 01:27, James Foster <Smalltalk(a)JGFoster.net> wrote: > http://www.piercms.com/download contains a couple links, each of which seems to have a very nice install of Seaside but Pier is absent! A month ago I got a nice Pier image from that link. > > Attempting to load ConfigurationOfPier3 gives this error: 'Could not resolve: ConfigurationOfZincHTTPComponents [ConfigurationOfZincHTTPComponents] in /Users/jfoster/cloud2/pier3/Pier.app/Contents/Resources/package-cache http://mc.sftx.eu/ZincHTTPComponents ERROR: ''GoferRepositoryError: Could not resolve the server named: mc.sftx.eu''' The correct URL is http://mc.stfx.eu/ZincHTTPComponents > Attempting to load ConfigurationOfPier2 gives this error: 'MessageNotUnderstood: Form>>capitalized' > > Anyone got a decent Pier image in Pharo that they can share? > > James Regards, Sven

Sept. 10, 2013

Re: [Pharo-users] Benchmark

by btc＠openinworld.com

Natalia Moskovchuk wrote: > Forgot to give the link(. > http://nataliatymchuk.blogspot.com/2013/09/hello.html > > 10.09.13 02:15, Natalia Moskovchuk ???????(??): >> Thank all of you for help. I have successfuly added benchmarks to my >> project. >> And additionaly I wrote simple step by step tutorial about how to write >> benchmarks in Pharo for people like me)). >> Best regards, >> Natalia >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://forum.world.st/Benchmark-tp4705781p4707388.html >> Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > > Thanks Natalia. That was interesting to learn. btw, I followed the link to Camillo's tutorial, and from there to benchmarkgame.com. It was interesting interesting was VW Smalltalk being faster than C for the thread-ring [2] benchmark. I'm guessing that bodes well for web programs handling many many requests each doing a small task, rather than numerical processing like many of the benchmarks. [1] http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=threadring&l… [2] http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=threadring&l… cheers -ben

Sept. 10, 2013

Re: [Pharo-users] Benchmark

by Natalia Moskovchuk

Forgot to give the link(. http://nataliatymchuk.blogspot.com/2013/09/hello.html 10.09.13 02:15, Natalia Moskovchuk ???????(??): > Thank all of you for help. I have successfuly added benchmarks to my project. > And additionaly I wrote simple step by step tutorial about how to write > benchmarks in Pharo for people like me)). > Best regards, > Natalia > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Benchmark-tp4705781p4707388.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >

Sept. 9, 2013

Where can I get Pier?

by James Foster

http://www.piercms.com/download contains a couple links, each of which seems to have a very nice install of Seaside but Pier is absent! A month ago I got a nice Pier image from that link. Attempting to load ConfigurationOfPier3 gives this error: 'Could not resolve: ConfigurationOfZincHTTPComponents [ConfigurationOfZincHTTPComponents] in /Users/jfoster/cloud2/pier3/Pier.app/Contents/Resources/package-cache http://mc.sftx.eu/ZincHTTPComponents ERROR: ''GoferRepositoryError: Could not resolve the server named: mc.sftx.eu''' Attempting to load ConfigurationOfPier2 gives this error: 'MessageNotUnderstood: Form>>capitalized' Anyone got a decent Pier image in Pharo that they can share? James

Sept. 9, 2013

Re: [Pharo-users] Benchmark

by Natalia Moskovchuk

Thank all of you for help. I have successfuly added benchmarks to my project. And additionaly I wrote simple step by step tutorial about how to write benchmarks in Pharo for people like me)). Best regards, Natalia -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Benchmark-tp4705781p4707388.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Sept. 9, 2013

a fix for ConfigurationOfBitmapCharacterSet on smalltalkhub

by Paul DeBruicker

Hi - The current version has an error in the #version100: method. There are spaces that precede the version info for the Collections-BitmapCharacterSet package. A fixed version is: version100: spec <version: '1.0' imports: #('1.0-baseline')> spec for: #common do: [ spec blessing: #release. spec description: 'Latest versions from Squeaksource'. spec package: 'Collections-BitmapCharacterSet' with: 'Collections-BitmapCharacterSet-JAA.5'. spec package: 'Collections-Tests-BitmapCharacterSet' with: 'Collections-Tests-BitmapCharacterSet-JAA.5' ] Thanks Paul

Sept. 9, 2013

Re: [Pharo-users] [Pharo-dev] What is the replacement for CMD-F to find a class in nautilus? [EOM]

by StÃ©phane Ducasse

>> Yes you should have a setting to get the old shortcuts because they do not work everywhere. So implementor in Nautiluys is B+m >> but in the pane it is cmd m and this is disturbing. > > well... first make sure the new ones work everywhere, the old ones are far from productive well it is a question of view on the problem. Some of the them are not even nice to type like when you press shift on the second one. Stef

Sept. 8, 2013