June 2014 - Pharo-users - lists.pharo.org

Re: [Pharo-users] Coding by sending messages

by Andrew Glynn

The VisualAge series from IBM (Instantiations now owns the Smalltalk variant) used a very visual programming metaphor for Smalltalk, C++ and Java. C++ and Java programmers tended to not like the fact that ENVY was used for code, rather than the file system, and that kind of "if you don't act like it's 1978, you're not a real coder) is a big part of the problem in popularizing decent tools. The Java variant was replaced by Eclipse, which initially had about a quarter of the features and used 10x the memory. The C++ variant is I believe only still available on AIX. All of the versions were themselves written in Smalltalk. -- Andrew Glynn 512-818-3291 Hello, The problem is that in most cases non text editor based IDE are not user- friendly/hard to understand/hard to use. We are moving toward AST based tools software side but it will still be a textEditor for the user interface. I remember there may be something similar to what you are looking for here (Gaucho IDE): http://www.inf.usi.ch/phd/olivero/gaucho/home.html[1] In addition there is the Smart Browser that will be introduced at ESUG (http://vimeo.com/96091089[2]) tht may be related to what you want. People are working on it currently. But perhaps these 2 projects are quite different. 2014-06-11 11:31 GMT+02:00 Matthew Chadwick <post(a)celeriac.net[3]>: hello, It's interesting that in Smalltalk, coding is still done via a text editor, not by sending messages to objects (except in the background, parsing & compiling etc). I've been playing with coding by messaging nodes in the AST with a view to coding this way via Roassal graph visualizations of object dependencies combined with some nice graphical tools. Has any work on this way of coding been done before ? What I have in mind is a keyboard-centric, fast system designed as an alternative to the text editor, with a focus on top-down style coding. -------- [1] http://www.inf.usi.ch/phd/olivero/gaucho/home.html [2] http://vimeo.com/96091089 [3] mailto:post@celeriac.net

June 11, 2014

Re: [Pharo-users] Coding by sending messages

by ClÃ©ment Bera

Hello, The problem is that in most cases non text editor based IDE are not user-friendly/hard to understand/hard to use. We are moving toward AST based tools software side but it will still be a textEditor for the user interface. I remember there may be something similar to what you are looking for here (Gaucho IDE): http://www.inf.usi.ch/phd/olivero/gaucho/home.html In addition there is the Smart Browser that will be introduced at ESUG ( http://vimeo.com/96091089) tht may be related to what you want. People are working on it currently. But perhaps these 2 projects are quite different. 2014-06-11 11:31 GMT+02:00 Matthew Chadwick <post(a)celeriac.net>: > hello, > > It's interesting that in Smalltalk, coding is still done via a text > editor, not by sending messages to objects (except in the background, > parsing & compiling etc). I've been playing with coding by messaging nodes > in the AST with a view to coding this way via Roassal graph visualizations > of object dependencies combined with some nice graphical tools. Has any > work on this way of coding been done before ? What I have in mind is a > keyboard-centric, fast system designed as an alternative to the text > editor, with a focus on top-down style coding. >

June 11, 2014

Coding by sending messages

by Matthew Chadwick

hello, It's interesting that in Smalltalk, coding is still done via a text editor, not by sending messages to objects (except in the background, parsing & compiling etc). I've been playing with coding by messaging nodes in the AST with a view to coding this way via Roassal graph visualizations of object dependencies combined with some nice graphical tools. Has any work on this way of coding been done before ? What I have in mind is a keyboard-centric, fast system designed as an alternative to the text editor, with a focus on top-down style coding.

June 11, 2014

Re: [Pharo-users] Another Pharo based solution released

by Thushar G R

Congrats, Keep up the good work!! *G R Thushar* On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 1:39 AM, phil(a)highoctane.be <phil(a)highoctane.be> wrote: > Congratulations! > Le 9 juin 2014 20:35, "Sven Van Caekenberghe" <sven(a)stfx.eu> a Ã©crit : > > Nice to see that things are going well, keep it up ! >> >> On 09 Jun 2014, at 20:22, Esteban A. Maringolo <emaringolo(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > Last Friday my company released a new software solution that involves >> > Pharo in the server side. >> > >> > It consists of a Android based app running on tablets, used for the >> > showcase and sales of products during expos (of retail companies), >> > backed by a Pharo server through a REST API, and with a Seaside based >> > admin/users web. >> > >> > The first expo was during the last weekend (fri-sun), and it involved >> > the sales of a large number of orders and products (I can't disclose >> > the numbers). >> > The scale of the solution/user base is small, far from being "cloud >> > scale", but it is for one of the largest consumer goods manufacturer >> > (and the one who sold the most during the expo). >> > Anyhow, the server handled all the request perfectly, without a single >> glitch. >> > >> > We already have some future expos scheduled. So it will continue to >> > run along the already running Pharo based solution in the same >> > company. >> > >> > Best regards! >> > >> > Esteban A. Maringolo >> > >> >> >> >>

June 11, 2014

CFP - IWST 2014 - Deadline Extension - June, 22

by jannik laval

Dear smalltalkers, we decided to extend the deadline for submitting contributions to IWST. The new deadline is set to *22nd June, 2014*. ************************************************************ ************************************************ [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call] [Please send to interested colleagues / mailing-lists] ************************************************************************************************************ CALL FOR PAPERS IWST14 â International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies Cambridge, England; August 19, 2014 http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2014/IWST14 ************************************************************************************************************ ------------------- Goals and scopes ------------------- The goals of the workshop is to create a forum around advances or experience in Smalltalk and to trigger discussions and exchanges of ideas. The topics of your paper can be on all aspect of Smalltalk, theoretical as well as practical. Participants are invited to submit research articles or industrial papers. This year we want to open two different tracks: one research track and one industrial track with less scientific constraints. We expect papers of three kinds: Short position papers describing emerging ideas Long research papers with deeper description of experiments and of research results. Industrial papers with presentation of real and innovative Smalltalk applications; this kind of paper should enlighten why Smalltalk is really appropriate for your application. We will not enforce any length restriction. -------------------- Important Dates -------------------- Submission deadline: June 15, 2014 Notification deadline: July 15, 2014 Workshop : August 19, 2014 All accepted papers will be published in ACM DL (To be confirmed) ------------------- Topics ------------------- We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk related topics such as: Aspect-oriented programming, Design patterns, Experience reports, Frameworks, Implementation, new dialects or languages implemented in Smalltalk, Interaction with other languages, Meta-programming and Meta-modeling, Tools ------------------- Best Paper Award ------------------- To encourage the submission of high-quality papers, the IWST organizing committee is very proud to announce a Best Paper Award for this edition of IWST. We thank Lam Research Corporation for its financial contribution that makes it possible a price for the three best papers: 1000 USD for first place, 600 USD for second place and 400 USD for third place. The ranking will be decided by the program committee during the review process. The awards will be given during the ESUG conference social event. The Best Paper Award will take place only with a minimum of six submissions. Notice also that to be illegible, a paper must be presented at the workshop by one of the author and that the presenting author must be registered at the ESUG conference. ------------------- Publication ------------------- Both submissions and final papers must be prepared using the ACM SIGPLAN 10 point format. Templates for Word and LaTeX are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm. This site also contains links to useful informations on how to write effective submissions. ------------------- Submission ------------------- All submissions must be sent via easychair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwst2014 ------------------- Program chairs ------------------- Alain Plantec (UMR 6265 Lab-STICC, University of Brest, France) Jannik Laval (Ecole des Mines de Douai, France) -- ~~Jannik Laval~~ Ãcole des Mines de Douai Enseignant-chercheur http://www.jannik-laval.eu http://www.phratch.com http://car.mines-douai.fr/

June 10, 2014

Re: [Pharo-users] How to encrypt a stream?

by Frank

Thanks Alejandro, I gonna try it Cheers Frank Alejandro Infante wrote > My bad, the configuration is called ApplicationSecurity, which includes > Nacl and Cryptography. > > Cheers > > On Jun 8, 2014, at 8:39 PM, Alejandro Infante < > alejandroinfante91@ > > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Have you seen the Cryptography package, you can get it by downloading >> Nacl from Configuration Browser. It implements RC4 which is a Stream >> Cipher, but seems that a little bit of work is needed in order to use it >> on a Stream since it receives a ByteArray. >> >> Cheers, >> Alejandro >> >> On Jun 7, 2014, at 2:54 PM, Frank < > frank.martino.sm@ > > wrote: >> >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> I need to encrypt a stream. >>> >>> I want to write a file like: >>> StandardFileStream fileNamed: 'encryptedfile' do: [:str | str >>> nextPutAll: >>> 'string to be encrypted']. >>> >>> of course the file is in plain text :-) >>> >>> It would be wonderful if I can write something like: >>> EncrypedFileStream fileNamed: 'encryptedfile' do: [:str | str >>> nextPutAll: >>> 'string to be encrypted'] using: 'AES' andPassword: '12345' >>> >>> Can you help me, please? >>> >>> Cheers >>> Frank >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://forum.world.st/How-to-encrypt-a-stream-tp4762022.html >>> Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >> -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/How-to-encrypt-a-stream-tp4762022p4762484.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

June 10, 2014

Typo in RenoirSt configuration

by Stephan Eggermont

Repo is not writable.

June 10, 2014

Grease 1.0.10 build on CI removed

by Stephan Eggermont

I have removed the 1.0.10 version of Grease build on https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/Grease/ Please let me know if it needs to be fixed to work on Pharo 4. Pharo 2, 3 and 4 builds are green. Stephan

June 10, 2014

Re: [Pharo-users] Another Pharo based solution released

by phil＠highoctane.be

Congratulations! Le 9 juin 2014 20:35, "Sven Van Caekenberghe" <sven(a)stfx.eu> a Ã©crit : > Nice to see that things are going well, keep it up ! > > On 09 Jun 2014, at 20:22, Esteban A. Maringolo <emaringolo(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Last Friday my company released a new software solution that involves > > Pharo in the server side. > > > > It consists of a Android based app running on tablets, used for the > > showcase and sales of products during expos (of retail companies), > > backed by a Pharo server through a REST API, and with a Seaside based > > admin/users web. > > > > The first expo was during the last weekend (fri-sun), and it involved > > the sales of a large number of orders and products (I can't disclose > > the numbers). > > The scale of the solution/user base is small, far from being "cloud > > scale", but it is for one of the largest consumer goods manufacturer > > (and the one who sold the most during the expo). > > Anyhow, the server handled all the request perfectly, without a single > glitch. > > > > We already have some future expos scheduled. So it will continue to > > run along the already running Pharo based solution in the same > > company. > > > > Best regards! > > > > Esteban A. Maringolo > > > > > >

June 9, 2014

Re: [Pharo-users] Another Pharo based solution released

by Sven Van Caekenberghe

Nice to see that things are going well, keep it up ! On 09 Jun 2014, at 20:22, Esteban A. Maringolo <emaringolo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Last Friday my company released a new software solution that involves > Pharo in the server side. > > It consists of a Android based app running on tablets, used for the > showcase and sales of products during expos (of retail companies), > backed by a Pharo server through a REST API, and with a Seaside based > admin/users web. > > The first expo was during the last weekend (fri-sun), and it involved > the sales of a large number of orders and products (I can't disclose > the numbers). > The scale of the solution/user base is small, far from being "cloud > scale", but it is for one of the largest consumer goods manufacturer > (and the one who sold the most during the expo). > Anyhow, the server handled all the request perfectly, without a single glitch. > > We already have some future expos scheduled. So it will continue to > run along the already running Pharo based solution in the same > company. > > Best regards! > > Esteban A. Maringolo >

June 9, 2014