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A thought about the fear of not knowing

by StÃ©phane Ducasse

Hi Pharoers, lurkers, users We repeat all over the same: we welcome you to participate and while we are cool and welcoming, you feel "oh I cannot, I do not know, this is complex..." You look at us like Gurus, but let us be clear, we are not, we are just common people that have a debugger, kids in the bed and good music in the background (for me Cool Jazz or Thrash Metal). Of course some parts of the system are ugly, buggy, britlle, messy... but less and less, more and more good abstractions are taking life AND!!!! First, we are all learners and newbie on something (at least the mortal among us) but to learn we should start somewhere Second, start small - we tag some bug entries as easy, give a try. - put a break point in the code - write a test - do something fun You will not fail, why? because either you do not find anything and there is no problem but you will learn something and you can pass to the next one. Or you find something and you got it :) We did that with marcus when we were squeak harvesters. There were a lot of things we could not get but we pass to the next. :) Now I browse bugs bugs and bugs and I can tell you that 85% of the bugs are terribly stupid. Even more. So focus on these ones :) Pharo is the system we (you and us) will build. Stef

Sept. 8, 2010

Re: [Pharo-users] Vote for the best Smalltalk book of the last 5 years...

by Pierpaolo Bernardi

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 09:59, stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)free.fr> wrote: > I forgot to mention that the deadline is until wednesday 15 september at noon. Not to nag you, but I think you must also specify a timezone, or at least say in which place in the world are you waiting for this noon to happen. Cheers P.

Sept. 7, 2010

Re: [Pharo-users] Vote for the best Smalltalk book of the last 5 years...

by stephane ducasse

I forgot to mention that the deadline is until wednesday 15 september at noon. On Sep 6, 2010, at 5:07 PM, StÃ©phane Ducasse wrote: > Dear Pharoers :) > > this year ESUG would like to reward effort made in book publications. Since we want to push new books but that it takes time to write books we will > take into account a window of 5 years. So you are requested to vote for the best book of the last 5 years. > > http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Q2LKKDT > > Stef on the behalf of the ESUG board.

Sept. 7, 2010

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo sprint Friday 1 of October @ Lille

by Mariano Martinez Peck

You can register here: http://code.google.com/p/pharo/wiki/PharoSprints On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 6:06 PM, StÃ©phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr>wrote: > Hi guys > > we will do a sprint at lille and you are all welcome. Just let us know > > Stef > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-users mailing list > Pharo-users(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-users >

Sept. 6, 2010

Pharo sprint Friday 1 of October @ Lille

by StÃ©phane Ducasse

Hi guys we will do a sprint at lille and you are all welcome. Just let us know Stef

Sept. 6, 2010

Vote for the best Smalltalk book of the last 5 years...

by StÃ©phane Ducasse

Dear Pharoers :) this year ESUG would like to reward effort made in book publications. Since we want to push new books but that it takes time to write books we will take into account a window of 5 years. So you are requested to vote for the best book of the last 5 years. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Q2LKKDT Stef on the behalf of the ESUG board.

Sept. 6, 2010

Pharocasts: Deploy Seaside with Cherokee Web Server

by laurent laffont

Hi, New screencast from Christoph: Learn how to - install Cherokee Web Server on Ubuntu Linux through Launchpad - configure Cherokee to serve static files for a Seaside application - start an headless Seaside image http://pharocasts.blogspot.com/2010/09/deploy-seaside-with-cherokee-web-ser… Note: If you have any suggestions for improvement, Cherokee + Seaside tips and tricks you want to share or saw something that is plain wrong or could be described in more detail to make it easier to understand, feel free to add a comment and we will update the screencast accordingly to improve it. Cheers, Laurent Laffont http://pharocasts.blogspot.com/ http://magaloma.blogspot.com/

Sept. 3, 2010

[ANN] New 1.2 unstable

by StÃ©phane Ducasse

https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/27445/PharoCore-1.2-12123.zip Stef

Sept. 3, 2010

[ANN] SqueakDBX 1.2 release

by Mariano Martinez Peck

Hi folks. We are realeasing SqueakDBX 1.2, just an small release. For those who doesn't know, SqueakDBX is a database driver to connect to most of the existing databases. For more details, please read www.squeakdbx.org The main changes in this release are: - ConfigurationOfSqueakDBX version: 1.2 - Comments: SqueakDBX stable 1.2 - OpenDBX version: 1.5 - New Features - GlorpDBX connection pool for SqueakDBXDriver. Thanks to John Toohey for this contribution. - New support for Firebird 100% green tests in Windows. - New support for MySQL 4. - New tests for PostgreSQL sequences, for bad data settings, large objects, etc. - We now let a platform to set special options ALWAYS before opening the connection. - Packages remodularization and little changes so that to easily support ports, for example to Dolphin. - Start to support large objects. For the moment: Postgresql supports TEXT, MySQL supports TEXT and BLOB, and SQLite CLOB (error with BLOB), Oracle supports CLOB and NCLOB. - Added the possibility to enable or disable automatic release of connections using WeakRegistry. - Notes - Tested with Cog, resulting in an average of 3x increase and 100% green. - Tested in Pharo 1.0 and 1.1. - Updated Metacello configurations To install it: Gofer new squeaksource: 'MetacelloRepository'; package: 'ConfigurationOfSqueakDBX'; load. (ConfigurationOfSqueakDBX project version: '1.2') load. In Pharo 1.1 I recommend to evaluate the following: DBXPlatform disableAutomaticConnectionReleaseOnGC Cheers Mariano

Sept. 3, 2010

Re: [Pharo-users] TestSprinter

by StÃ©phane Ducasse

icons to see which tests failed since last run and a summary previous run: current: 150 green 149 green 2 failure 2 failutres 1 errors could be presented differently On Sep 3, 2010, at 12:31 AM, Benjamin Van Ryseghem wrote: > Hello everybody > > I'm now working on a new Test Runner tool and I wonder which behaviours do you want me to implement. > > For now, I want the Test Sprinter to be able to : > - search through packages and classes thanks to search fields. > - browse the hierarchy from packages to test methods (with icons). > - create groups of tests easily re-runnable. > > If you have any ideas, I'm waiting for them ;) > > > Thank you > > > Ben _______________________________________________ > Pharo-users mailing list > Pharo-users(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-users

Sept. 3, 2010