Hi, I would like, briefly, to introduce myself and my company, Shared Logic Inc. We are a small software development company, my partner and myself, located in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. We've been in business for thirteen years, but I've been writing software professionally since 1989. We have been using Pharo for several production applications since early 2011. Until recently, we've had to invest our time and energy into several other development environments as well, preventing us from participating in the Pharo community as we would have liked. Over time, we've managed to migrate away from most of those other languages, and, today, we rely heavily upon Pharo and its many packages. I still consider myself a relative newcomer to Pharo (and Smalltalk in general), but my years of experience with many platforms, development tools, and problem domains tells me that Pharo is, by far, the best tool for the work we do. Better still, I can see that the Pharo community is smart, friendly, energetic, and committed to improving Pharo and expanding its reach. I hope that we can give something back to this community, to help promote and develop Pharo within the limits of our expertise and finances. I look forward to getting to know each of you better and contributing where I can. Best regards, Mike -- Michael J. Forster, B.Sc. (Hons.), B.Sc. COO, Programmer Shared Logic Inc.
Hi Michael, Welcome ! And thanks for the nice words, looking forward to working together with you. Sven On 30 Jan 2014, at 06:20, Michael J. Forster <mike@sharedlogic.ca> wrote:
Hi,
I would like, briefly, to introduce myself and my company, Shared Logic Inc.
We are a small software development company, my partner and myself, located in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. We've been in business for thirteen years, but I've been writing software professionally since 1989.
We have been using Pharo for several production applications since early 2011. Until recently, we've had to invest our time and energy into several other development environments as well, preventing us from participating in the Pharo community as we would have liked. Over time, we've managed to migrate away from most of those other languages, and, today, we rely heavily upon Pharo and its many packages.
I still consider myself a relative newcomer to Pharo (and Smalltalk in general), but my years of experience with many platforms, development tools, and problem domains tells me that Pharo is, by far, the best tool for the work we do.
Better still, I can see that the Pharo community is smart, friendly, energetic, and committed to improving Pharo and expanding its reach. I hope that we can give something back to this community, to help promote and develop Pharo within the limits of our expertise and finances.
I look forward to getting to know each of you better and contributing where I can.
Best regards,
Mike
-- Michael J. Forster, B.Sc. (Hons.), B.Sc. COO, Programmer Shared Logic Inc.
-- Sven Van Caekenberghe Proudly supporting Pharo http://pharo.org http://association.pharo.org http://consortium.pharo.org
Welcome indeed! What kind of software are you writing? Doru On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Welcome ! > > And thanks for the nice words, looking forward to working together with > you. > > Sven > > On 30 Jan 2014, at 06:20, Michael J. Forster <mike@sharedlogic.ca> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I would like, briefly, to introduce myself and my company, Shared Logic > Inc. > > > > We are a small software development company, my partner and myself, > located in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. We've been in business for thirteen > years, but I've been writing software professionally since 1989. > > > > We have been using Pharo for several production applications since early > 2011. Until recently, we've had to invest our time and energy into several > other development environments as well, preventing us from participating in > the Pharo community as we would have liked. Over time, we've managed to > migrate away from most of those other languages, and, today, we rely > heavily upon Pharo and its many packages. > > > > I still consider myself a relative newcomer to Pharo (and Smalltalk in > general), but my years of experience with many platforms, development > tools, and problem domains tells me that Pharo is, by far, the best tool > for the work we do. > > > > Better still, I can see that the Pharo community is smart, friendly, > energetic, and committed to improving Pharo and expanding its reach. I > hope that we can give something back to this community, to help promote and > develop Pharo within the limits of our expertise and finances. > > > > I look forward to getting to know each of you better and contributing > where I can. > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > Mike > > > > -- > > Michael J. Forster, B.Sc. (Hons.), B.Sc. > > COO, Programmer > > Shared Logic Inc. > > > > > > -- > Sven Van Caekenberghe > Proudly supporting Pharo > http://pharo.org > http://association.pharo.org > http://consortium.pharo.org > > > > > > -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing has its own flow"
On 01/30/2014 12:36 AM, Tudor Girba wrote:
Welcome indeed!
What kind of software are you writing?
Doru
Thank you, Tudor. I've followed the work on Moose for some time. It's a new and interesting aspect of software development for me. I will work on some "success stories" to submit, but, quickly, we've used Pharo to write (and rewrite): - about a dozen web-based internal and customer applications for a client and business partner in the event management and ticketing industry; - an ecommerce site for a seed company is in development; and - several internal web-based applications and system control daemons for a call centre. Cheers, Mike -- Michael J. Forster, B.Sc. (Hons.), B.Sc. COO, Programmer Shared Logic Inc.
On 01/30/2014 12:29 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
Hi Michael,
Welcome !
And thanks for the nice words, looking forward to working together with you.
Sven [...]
Thank you, Sven. I've enjoyed using and studying your Zinc and Neo packages. A great inspiration! Mike -- Michael J. Forster, B.Sc. (Hons.), B.Sc. COO, Programmer Shared Logic Inc.
Hi Michael Welcome! We are proud, happy and feel responsible :). Let us know how we can support your business (in terms of missing libs or other - we cannot promise anything but raising the signal is important). I imagine that you saw that we designed a consortium http://consortium/pharo.org to give a chance to companies to group together to support Pharo. As a first step it would be great if you could give us some information for the Pharo success stories. The world should know that there are smart companies building cool systems with Pharo. Stef On 30 Jan 2014, at 06:20, Michael J. Forster <mike@sharedlogic.ca> wrote:
Hi,
I would like, briefly, to introduce myself and my company, Shared Logic Inc.
We are a small software development company, my partner and myself, located in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. We've been in business for thirteen years, but I've been writing software professionally since 1989.
We have been using Pharo for several production applications since early 2011. Until recently, we've had to invest our time and energy into several other development environments as well, preventing us from participating in the Pharo community as we would have liked. Over time, we've managed to migrate away from most of those other languages, and, today, we rely heavily upon Pharo and its many packages.
I still consider myself a relative newcomer to Pharo (and Smalltalk in general), but my years of experience with many platforms, development tools, and problem domains tells me that Pharo is, by far, the best tool for the work we do.
Better still, I can see that the Pharo community is smart, friendly, energetic, and committed to improving Pharo and expanding its reach. I hope that we can give something back to this community, to help promote and develop Pharo within the limits of our expertise and finances.
I look forward to getting to know each of you better and contributing where I can.
Best regards,
Mike
-- Michael J. Forster, B.Sc. (Hons.), B.Sc. COO, Programmer Shared Logic Inc.
On 01/30/2014 01:50 AM, Pharo4Stef wrote:
Hi Michael
Welcome! We are proud, happy and feel responsible :). Let us know how we can support your business (in terms of missing libs or other - we cannot promise anything but raising the signal is important). I imagine that you saw that we designed a consortium http://consortium/pharo.org to give a chance to companies to group together to support Pharo.
As a first step it would be great if you could give us some information for the Pharo success stories. The world should know that there are smart companies building cool systems with Pharo.
Stef
[...] Hi Stef, Pharo is such a tremendous system compared to anything else we've used (even Common Lisp) that I can't think of what more I would ask for at this point. Rather, I want to support and promote your ongoing efforts. I have followed the inception and growth of your consortium. I am very inspired and encouraged by the progress you've made in such a short time. Smalltalk is definitely not dead! I want our company to join the consortium and contribute. My partner and I are planning our budget for it. In my reply to Tudor, I mentioned some work we've done and are doing with Pharo. It will take some time, but I will flush out better descriptions as "success stories" for you. I hope to obtain permission from our clients to include some of their branding and media. Cheers, Mike -- Michael J. Forster, B.Sc. (Hons.), B.Sc. COO, Programmer Shared Logic Inc.
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 6:20 AM, Michael J. Forster <mike@sharedlogic.ca> wrote:
I look forward to getting to know each of you better and contributing where I can.
thanks for your nice words. Do you plan to come to ESUG 2014 http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2014 ? -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm." Winston Churchill
On 01/30/2014 02:53 AM, Damien Cassou wrote:
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 6:20 AM, Michael J. Forster <mike@sharedlogic.ca> wrote:
I look forward to getting to know each of you better and contributing where I can.
thanks for your nice words. Do you plan to come to ESUG 2014 http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2014 ?
Hi Damien, Thank you. I certainly want to start attending Smalltalk conferences regularly. Unfortunately, I don't think ESUG will fit our budget and work schedule for 2014, but attending is a long-term goal. Cheers, Mike -- Michael J. Forster, B.Sc. (Hons.), B.Sc. COO, Programmer Shared Logic Inc.
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