January 2020 - Pharo-users - lists.pharo.org

Re: [Pharo-users] Latest PharoJS Success Story

by tbrunz

Indeed. I've already reposted it, on my firm's inside chat tool (Slack), and just got someone new interested in Pharo, from the middle of a discussion on the confusion JavaScript is famous for: "This is my first time hearing of Pharo." followed by (after reading my links to PharoJS and your post): "Joined. I'd say I'm Smalltalk curious." So, another one has joined my Pharo Slack channel, and is looking forward to some demos and tutoring to get started... Thanks, Nouri! -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

Jan. 29, 2020

Re: [Pharo-users] Latest PharoJS Success Story

by Tim Mackinnon

Hey - thatâs really cool. Simple, but certainly inspired me... thanks for pushing on this! Sent from my iPhone Sent from my iPhone > On 28 Jan 2020, at 18:18, N. Bouraqadi <bouraqadi(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > The latest PharoJS-powered smartphone app is now live. > Development has been made using Pharo. > Then, javascript code is generated using PharoJS. > Last, the app is built to target both iOS and Android thanks to Apache Cordova. > > Learn more and Download at > https://nootrix.com/projects/brain-treats-app/ > > Noury

Jan. 28, 2020

Resources Page

by Richard Kenneth Eng

I've added a Resources page to my new blog: https://smalltalk.tech.blog/resources/. It is very much a *curated *list. I felt this was needed because when I visit other Smalltalk resources pages, I get overwhelmed by the number of links and options. It is possible to have *too many* choices. Moreover, many of those links are either broken, or they point to obscure materials that people may not be interested in. As curator, it is my job to present those links that I believe will be useful. Of course, this is necessarily very subjective. Also, it is likely that I've overlooked some links that others feel are useful. However, I am open-minded. If there are Smalltalk links that you believe I should consider, please let me know.

Jan. 28, 2020

Re: [Pharo-users] What is the idiomatic way to store data in pharo?

by Offray Vladimir Luna CÃ¡rdenas

Steve, You could try with NeoJSON[1] and serialize the image as bytecodes (or urls to pictures in the web). Is pretty simple and gives you a plain and portable representation of your Quote of the Day data. Grafoscopio, the prototype I made, uses NeoJSON to store its notebooks. It's also a pretty well written library that has Sven's quality mark and you can learn a lot from it. [1] https://github.com/svenvc/NeoJSON [2] https://mutabit.com/grafoscopio/en.html Cheers, Offray On 27/01/20 8:15 p.Â m., Steve Quezadas wrote: > I am writing a simple "quote-of-the-day" object for pharo that stores > both quotes and pictures. What is the "idiomatic" way of storing data > in pharo? Do I connect to some sort mysql database or is there a > better "smalltalk" way to do it? > > Forgive the naive question. > > - Steve

Jan. 28, 2020

Re: [Pharo-users] Latest PharoJS Success Story

by Steve Quezadas

Does Apache cordova drain a lot of battery from the phone? On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 10:19 AM N. Bouraqadi <bouraqadi(a)gmail.com> wrote: > The latest PharoJS-powered smartphone app is now live. > Development has been made using Pharo. > Then, javascript code is generated using PharoJS. > Last, the app is built to target both iOS and Android thanks to Apache > Cordova. > > Learn more and Download at > https://nootrix.com/projects/brain-treats-app/ > > Noury >

Jan. 28, 2020

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo image processing library

by Pablo Navarro

Hi everyone! after what we talked about the other day, I started to work with the test cases of Form. I donÂ´t know if the best form for share but I load some in my Github: https://github.com/pablo1n7/FormTest. There are still many tests to do but it's a beginning. For the other hand, I created a repository for ImageForm: https://github.com/pablo1n7/ImageForm (Thanks to Julien Delplanque for the guide). I made tests for all the methods (do this with images is so funny :D) and load some examples. Thanks Pablo. El 27 de ene. de 2020 08:49 -0300, Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org>, escribiÃ³: > > https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Numerics/blob/master/ImageProcessing.pck.…

Jan. 28, 2020

Latest PharoJS Success Story

by N. Bouraqadi

The latest PharoJS-powered smartphone app is now live. Development has been made using Pharo. Then, javascript code is generated using PharoJS. Last, the app is built to target both iOS and Android thanks to Apache Cordova. Learn more and Download at https://nootrix.com/projects/brain-treats-app/ Noury

Jan. 28, 2020

Re: [Pharo-users] Is Pharo is a good frontend system for a game console?

by tbrunz

What makes Lua a cool programming language? It shares a lot of great characteristics with Pharo... - Can do OOP, functional programming, imperative -- it's your choice. - There are only 8 data types, and all are first-class values. - Multiple return values! Constructs such as x,y = y,x. - All functions are unnamed full lexical closures. - Tables! Can be associative, arrays, or both -- simultaneously. - Dynamic typing & dynamic structures; easily polymorphic. - Loops can be controlled via user-defined iterator functions. - Automatic memory management, 'weak' typing, finalizers. - Can execute as a file, interactively in a REPL, or be embedded. - Block comments can encapsulate code that includes comments. - Highly portable, extensible, and has an excellent C API. - Reflective global environment which can be replaced at run-time. - Proper tail call elimination; allows deep recursion. - Coroutines (for co-operative multi-tasking made simple). - Strings are 8-bit clean & support unicode. - You can have apps in other languages call out to Lua code. - You can have Lua apps call out to code in other languages. -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

Jan. 28, 2020

Re: [Pharo-users] smalltalk conferences

by Steve Quezadas

Yeah, I went to the portland one, it was great. I regretted missing the Charlotte one. On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 4:46 AM Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:30 PM tbrunz <wild.ideas(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> We need to start one. Along with a North American version of ESUG. >> >> > There are a few Camp Smalltalk held in United States. The last one held by > Instantiations at Charlotte, NC last year [1] was more like a small > conference rather than a Camp and it a lot of fun as you can see in this > video [2]. Then there was another one at Portland too [3] that was > sponsored by many companies and vendors. > > I guess that's a good start. > > [1] > https://www.eventbrite.com/e/camp-smalltalk-charlotte-2019-tickets-52380940… > [2] https://youtu.be/TLIHjbTipQw > [3] > https://www.eventbrite.com/e/camp-smalltalk-portland-2019-tickets-666397061… > > > > -- > Mariano Martinez Peck > Email: marianopeck(a)gmail.com > Twitter: @MartinezPeck > LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mariano-martinez-peck > <https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariano-mart%C3%ADnez-peck/> > Blog: https://marianopeck.wordpress.com/ >

Jan. 28, 2020

Re: [Pharo-users] smalltalk conferences

by Mariano Martinez Peck

On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:30 PM tbrunz <wild.ideas(a)gmail.com> wrote: > We need to start one. Along with a North American version of ESUG. > > There are a few Camp Smalltalk held in United States. The last one held by Instantiations at Charlotte, NC last year [1] was more like a small conference rather than a Camp and it a lot of fun as you can see in this video [2]. Then there was another one at Portland too [3] that was sponsored by many companies and vendors. I guess that's a good start. [1] https://www.eventbrite.com/e/camp-smalltalk-charlotte-2019-tickets-52380940… [2] https://youtu.be/TLIHjbTipQw [3] https://www.eventbrite.com/e/camp-smalltalk-portland-2019-tickets-666397061… -- Mariano Martinez Peck Email: marianopeck(a)gmail.com Twitter: @MartinezPeck LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mariano-martinez-peck <https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariano-mart%C3%ADnez-peck/> Blog: https://marianopeck.wordpress.com/

Jan. 28, 2020