Read the User Manual [1] to install it and learn the basics of its workings. Once you have created your first document or hit the first bump, ask on this list. I will be around ;-).
[1] http://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/grafoscopio/doc/tip/Docs/En/Books/Manual/manual.pdf Cheers, Offray On 29/10/17 17:00, henry wrote: > How could I get started documenting my components with Grafoscopio? I > am interested in learning. > > I just got ASN.1 lengths right, in Java. I am looking to Pharo and > Java with an encrypted connection between them. > > > - HH > > > On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 16:59, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas > <offray.l...@mutabit.com <%22mailto:offray.l...@mutabit.com%22>> wrote: > > Well is more "build and they will come, if you build also a > community who will come", which is hard, but data storytelling and > visualization as filed and dynamic moldable tools give us a > advantage point to tackle such hard problems. > > Cheers, > > Offray > > > On 29/10/17 13:13, henry wrote: > > I have heard this summarized by the term: "build it and they > will come". I think the data visualization aspect is where > Pharo entering BigData space could really payoff. That comes > down to data manipulation. Can Pharo read Avro? > > - HH > > > On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 14:00, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas < > offray.l...@mutabit.com > <%22mailto:offray.l...@mutabit.com%22>> wrote: > > Thanks a lot Paulo for starting this thread and all the > participants for the clever and enlightening answers. I > just want to add my two cents. On 26/10/17 07:53, Dimitris > Chloupis wrote: > > My personal opinion is that as > pessimistic it may sound, Smalltalk has > very little to > offer in the library front. The language is still > > stellar and live environment is a great concept but from > there on > there is a decline. Sure if your are low demand > kind of person on the > library front and dont mind > implementing stuff by yourself you wont > mind the lack of > libraries but most coders , me included , dont have > this > luxury. Especially making a living with a language is a > > completely different story from learning it as a hobby, > > > I think and that’s a personal opinion, that Smalltalk > goes the wrong > direction. It tries to be a do it all > language, but we already have an > army of do it all > languages. I think it would excel as the backbone in > big > complex projects. Like the Moose project is doing with > code > analysis and visualization. I think this is an > excellent direction to > go with Smalltalk. Reflection is > the big strength of Smalltalk the > ability to communicate > with its code in a direct matter. So I think > that a > Smalltalk implementation that can analyze and visualize > code > written in other languages would have been a pretty > serious reason for > people to learn Smalltalk. > > I am > very happy to see Pharo go towards that direction and yes > I would > definitely recommend it without hesitation for > code analysis and > project management tool. Its no > coincidence that we have seen a > serious growth in our > community. When I joined back in 2011 we all > were > posting at pharo-dev, pharo-users was a dead zone and then > the > community grow larger and larger we soon may need a > third mailing list. > > Code complexity is an issues for > all large projects and tools that > help manage this > without having to convert to another language are > very > popular. About finding niche where you can learn Pharo > and make a living from it, I think that I may be behind a > sweet spot in the field of reproducible research and data > storytelling and visualization, for different fields like > activism, journalism, science and engineering. I’m > "working in my PhD", so I don’t get paid for using Pharo & > friends (well if fact I’m in a loan to finish my PhD), but > using Pharo have allowed my to get more dynamic results > that with previous technologies (mostly Python and Web > ones). By being able to prototype quickly I have improved > my research experience and results, which is a way to > improve research (self) funding. Also, activists, > journalist, researchers and other novices interested in > data storytelling and visualization, care little about > popularity of the language or being able to make apps > (mobile or web). What they care is about being able to > tell the story and Pharo, agile visualization and moldable > tools, have a lot to offer in this front. They’re easy to > learn and to adapt to fit the needs of the problems behind > those stories, as we have done with Grafoscopio[1]. So, is > nice to be part of a "trend", (data science, reproducible > research, data storytelling and data visualization) but > not being part of one that doesn’t give you the freedom to > use tools that matter to you, because of the ideas they > embody and the added value they create for you and your > community. [1] > http://mutabit.com/grafoscopio/index.en.html Also, being > in Latin America, means that we can bootstrap ourselves > into alternative futures by using alternative (digital) > infrastructures and tools, without to much worry about the > deep investments in money and/or expertise on > bloated/popular technologies (we don’t have such > investments here!). We can learn from the experience of > the "Global North", without following that path, but by > taking a critical approach to it (for example regarding > overcomplex, non-dynamic, bloated technologies). On the > community front, I think is important to do something to > break the circular logic of popularity: Smalltalk is > unpopular, so we don’t get developers, so we don’t have > libraries, and this makes such tech unpopular. We’re a > nascent community of data storytellers and activists > learning how to use Pharo to tell our voices and how to > modify the tools to tell them in more potent/fluid ways. > We have done this mostly by ourselves, without any support > from industry or government and mostly none from academy. > Despite of the fragility of our hackerspace[2], this has > been done in a consistent way since almost two years[3] (I > started to learn Pharo, in a sparse way, 3 years ago). So, > there are ways to break the circular logic and bootstrap > communities around the advantages of the Pharo/Smalltalk > environment in places where it can be aligned to the > trends but also take a critical approach to them by > providing added value. [2] http://hackbo.co/ [3] > http://mutabit.com/dataweek/ So finding a niche and > bootstrapping tools and communities in it, seems a way to > deploy the Smalltalk Argument by example into the world, > which is a pretty powerful way to argument against > skeptics. Cheers, Offray > >
