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Re: [Pharo-users] Building agents in Pharo
by Andy Burnett Dec. 24, 2014

Dec. 24, 2014

Kish wrote <<< How about this: http://www.wolframalpha.com/ Not really free form text but quite a bit keyword dependent. Closer to what will make good sense on Pharo / every enterprise app also more contextual based on what the app does. >>> Yup, totally agree. I have been playing with Mathematica a lot recently, and there are a number of things I would love to see in Pharo. The ability to pull in data sets in computable form is really useful. Being able to say something like Population London UK, and have the data returned as a collection is great. In theory we could do the same with e.g. DataWiki. Cheers Andy

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[ann] moose 5.0
by Tudor Girba Dec. 24, 2014

Dec. 24, 2014

We are happy to announce Moose 5.0: *http://moosetechnology.org/#install* Description --- This is by far the most extensive Moose release to date. Just take a look at these two trailers. - Spotter: https://vimeo.com/113832673 - Inspector: https://vimeo.com/103463364 The key highlights are: - It is based on Pharo 3.0. - Roassal2 is a complete reimplementation of the core visual engine of Moose. - Roassal2 replaced Roassal, EyeSee and Graph-ET, and it features many new things including smooth animations, new composeable builders and several new layouts. - All built-in Moose visualizations use Roassal2. - Glamour has been extended with a Pager browser and with Rubric as the main text editor. - GTSpotter is a new tool that makes it possible to find objects fast. - GTInspector saw major usability improvements based on the Pager browser, and it now comes with many object specific extensions. - GTPlayground provides a new way to handle scripts and when combined with GTInspector, it can replace the dedicated easels and editors. - Moose Finder has been extended with the ability of handling in place visualizations. - GTDebugger has been strengthen and was made more robust. - PetitParser has been extended with the notion of context which enables elegant island parsing. A list of issues addressed in this release can be found at: http://code.google.com/p/moose-technology/issues/list?can=1&q=status=Fixed%… Installation --- The Moose Suite 5.0 comes for each platform as a separate bundle: - *Moose Suite 5.0 for Mac>http://moosetechnology.org/res/download/ moose_suite_5_0-mac.zip <https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18323746/Moose/moose_suite_5_0-mac.zip> * <https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18323746/Moose/moose_suite_4_8-mac.zip*> - *Moose Suite 5.0 for Windows>http://moosetechnology.org/res/download/ moose_suite_5_0-win.zip <https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18323746/Moose/moose_suite_5_0-win.zip> * <https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18323746/Moose/moose_suite_4_8-win.zip*> - *Moose Suite 5.0 for Linux>http://moosetechnology.org/res/download/ moose_suite_5_0-linux.zip <https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18323746/Moose/moose_suite_5_0-linux.zip> * <https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18323746/Moose/moose_suite_4_8-linux.zi…> The Moose Suite 5.0 can also be loaded in a Pharo 3.0 image either from the Configuration Browser, or by executing the following script: ==Gofer new == smalltalkhubUser: 'Moose' project: 'Moose'; == configuration; == loadStable Happy holidays! The Moose team

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Re: [Pharo-users] Building agents in Pharo
by Andy Burnett Dec. 24, 2014

Dec. 24, 2014

Doru wrote <<< Hi Andy, You can also just hook into GTSpotter. It already provides the infrastructure for handling parallel search and lets you focus only on specifying the search logic. Cheers, Doru >>> Brilliant! I am very impressed with GTSpotter. In fact, I am impressed with the whole GT suite. I think I will build a first prototype with Glamour and GTSpotter. By the way, what really motivated me to do this experiment is the tools - from the 90's - that were presented in this "Story of Siri" video. If you have the time, it is well worth watching. Being able to build this sort of capability into an environment like Pharo would be amazing https://wit.ai/blog/2014/12/18/adam-keynote Cheers Andy

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SODD
by Yuriy Tymchuk Dec. 24, 2014

Dec. 24, 2014

Hi, so this message is about SODD (Stack Overflow Driven Development) and Pharo/Smalltalk. If you look at the last questions of this guy: http://stackoverflow.com/users/1906070/shiran?tab=questions <http://stackoverflow.com/users/1906070/shiran?tab=questions> you can see that they are about smalltalk/squeak and asked in last 2 days :). In fact I think that we should support asking questions on SO, as a lot of people are anxious to register and talk to others on mailing list, and prefer to search for solutions on SO. If weâll build reasonable amount of Q/A data, it can be easier for other people to start with Pharo. Cheers! Uko

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Re: [Pharo-users] Building agents in Pharo
by Andy Burnett Dec. 23, 2014

Dec. 23, 2014

Stef wrote << You see this is what the color higlighting is doing. You type and in parallel it is trying to colorize the text. After I'm not sure that you need agents running all the time (reacting to each characters you type). I would be you I would - prototype a hierarchy of classes whose instances have a kind of patterns to know if they should be kick in - at the end of each line, I would send the line to a list of such "agent" and react - then only then, I would consider to fork the behavior of the agents. why? because when you can avoid concurrency this is simpler :) >> Thanks, that sounds like a very good way forward. I will go and try to understand the highlighting code. Cheers Andy

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[ANN] FTP and WebDAV Plugins for Pharo's FileSystem
by Udo Schneider Dec. 23, 2014

Dec. 23, 2014

All, I just finished FTP and WebDAV plugins for Pharo's FileSystem. This means you can now access remote FTP and WebDAV loactions with the exact same FileSystem API you are using to access local disks. The project lives on Smalltalk Hub: http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~UdoSchneider/FileSystemNetwork Details in the project README or in a Blog entry: http://readthesourceluke.blogspot.de/2014/12/ftp-and-webdav-plugins-for-pha… Best Regards, Udo PS: Support for Netware & Rumpus FTP Servers as well as S3 support is next :-)

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Re: [Pharo-users] Building agents in Pharo
by Andy Burnett Dec. 23, 2014

Dec. 23, 2014

> > Stef said > << > > Andy which kind of agents would you like to build? > I was playing with Actalk (I should resurrect it in Pharo 40. > But in essence an object with a thread and a mailbox > > Stef > > >> Hi Stef, In very simple terms I want to build a system that would look at what you are typing in a text box, and have various agents that analyse the text and modify/augment it. Simple Examples: 1. If I enter a web address it could look it up on Delicious.com and extract links that had been similarly tagged. 2. If I enter something that looks like a name, it would search google scholar, or mendeley and include links to any documents 3. If I entered "call david tomorrow" it would be able to add something to my things to do list. My - very early - thoughts are that I need to continually parse the text, as I type, and various agents would look for the things they are interested in. The question is how best to model this, and process the data. Cheers Andy

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Â¿Tagged branch development support in Pharo/Moose?
by Offray Vladimir Luna CÃ¡rdenas Dec. 23, 2014

Dec. 23, 2014

Hi, I wonder if there is something like fossil tagged branches and some visual clues to know to which branch commit and how to do merges. See for example at: http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/timeline?y=ci I have read the PBE2 book on monticello development and is easy to go to a previous version, made some changes and then merge from there, but seems not much "elegant". I would expect something like the possibility to commit to a particular branch with a particular name o create one if none is named like that, in a similar way to fossil. Also I would expect some tree-like visualization of the branches, commits and merges. There is something that can support this development workflow? Thanks, Offray

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Christmas gift: Memory Monitor
by Alexandre Bergel Dec. 22, 2014

Dec. 22, 2014

Hi! Torsten motivated us to upgrade Memory monitor. Here is the script: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Gofer it smalltalkhubUser: 'abergel' project: 'MemoryMonitor'; configurationOf: 'MemoryMonitor'; loadStable. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= In Pharo 3.0, you get something like: In Pharo 4.0, buttons are missing. Any idea whatâs wrong? Memory monitor is accessible from the configuration browser. Kind regards, Alexandre -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.

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Re: [Pharo-users] Building agents in Pharo
by Andy Burnett Dec. 22, 2014

Dec. 22, 2014

Sven wrote << The standard VM is using a single OS process (and thus uses a single core) but manages its own user land threads called Processes. The cool thing is that you can read/understand all this threading code (ProcessorScheduler, Process, Semaphore, Monitor, Delay, ..). There few if any limits to the amount of processes you can have. To answer the second question: I believe SharedQueue is the class you should be looking at (first). >> Great, that sounds very encouraging. Thanks very much. Andy

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