Cheers I restarted with smalltalk in the form of Pharo a few years back, so in a somewhat similar situation. I have done several different things: Contributed to a number of different things in the Pharo community, fixing issues, commented on issues, and been involved in one of the sub-areas of Pharo (markdown support in the system itself) We own a small hobby farm of 30 sheeps with 50-60 lambs a year. I have made a tool to help all the management of this. I am responsible for memberships and fees in our kayakclub. I have made a system which help me keep information consistent across the few platforms we use to make sure all are billed the right amount. My wife and I keep track of our pension stock portefolio ourselves using a system I built (rather specific to the csv files I am able to pull from the bank). So, I believe one can build anything. The learning curve is somewhat steep, and many libraries have odd names, the code quality varies from elegant to over-engineered (in my view). But there is always friendly help on discord which is very nice. Best, Kasper
On 2 Feb 2022, at 08.55, contactme@kathe.in wrote:
I am new to Pharo, so pardon my ignorance.
I used to be a professional developer between 1996 and 2007 during which time I developed personal Management Information Systems for employees at my company's HRD using Microsoft Access, then moved on to leading a team of C++ developers to build a graphical operating environment atop the bare Linux kernel, then took up rapid prototyping using PHP at various Web-related startups.
I have been aware of Smalltalk since 1999 and have only fiddled-around with it, though have failed to learn how to produce software due to the different syntax (as compared to C++ and PHP).
I would like to focus on Smalltalk more seriously and found the cleanness of Pharo to be quite refreshing. My problem is that I can't figure out what I could build using the wonderful tools in the amazing environment that is Pharo.
Project ideas are most welcome, though, I no longer wish to develop for the Web.
Best regards,
~Kathe