Re: [Pharo-users] pharo books as audiobooks
Hi Marek, Thanks for the pointer. This is useful and interesting, but I wasn't clear enough - I need the audio on my mobile phone and it needs to bookmark where I left off, like audio book players and podcast apps do. Pocket has a very nice workflow for this because I can bookmark a web site in Firefox, then play back on mobile later. I've also used http://talkify.net and saved the whole .mp3 file as an audio book to my mobile device, but talkify and Pocket only work with HTML accessible over http via a public URL. But thanks, and I'll probably learn something from this tool as well. Besides - another reason why it would be cool if http://books.pharo.org had supplementary HTML builds with unique anchors for chapters and sections because this makes it very easy to point to specific sections in the books when answering questions on the mailing list. cheers, Siemen On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 12:37 PM niepiekm wrote: > Hi Siemen, all, > > you may listen to PDF files from the Web via 'Read Aloud' Chrome extension > ( > https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/read-aloud-a-text-to-spee/hdhinadidafjejdhmfkjgnolgimiaplp > ) > and use its service at > https://assets.lsdsoftware.com/read-aloud/page-scripts/pdf-upload.html to > open and listen to local PDF files. > > Simply open a local PDF file via the service and click on the extension > button. > > Regards, > Marek > > > > -- > Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html > >
[Pharo-users] how to structure this project
--- Begin Message --- Hello, I want to make my first app with seaside and a database, as database I use Postgres with the P3 driver of Glorp. So I have a class Customer with the instance variables. And I have a Descriptorclass which takes care of the database. And I want to make a class which holds the layout. But now I wonder if I want to make a function that adds a customer from a form. Or a page where I display all customers or details of a customer. Do I have to place them in the database layer and call that function or can I use the customer class for that. Regards, Roelof --- End Message ---
Re: [Pharo-users] [Ann] Workshop: IndieWeb with pocket infrastructures
> On 29 Aug 2020, at 02.07, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas > wrote: > > Hi all, > > Due to the confinement in the pandemic, our forms of telepresence become > more important and many suddenly got even more immersed into an > Oligopoly cyberspace (Zoom, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Amazon, > Microsoft, etc) with opaque algorithms that under extractive logic > commodify our privacy and communications, try to condition our attention > and habits, as well as to shape our current and future behavior. But > this is not the only way to inhabit cyberspace. > > From the Grafoscopio community[1], we would like to invite you to a > series of workshops that we are doing to make visible other ways of > populating and building the web, aligned with the movements of > IndieWeb[1a], from what we have called "pocket infrastructures". This is very cool! Thanks! Siemen > You can > find more information about these topics in [2] and in particular about > the workshops in [3] (in Spanish). > > [1] https://mutabit.com/grafoscopio/en.html > [1a] https://indieweb.org/ > [2] https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/indieweb/ > [3] > https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/indieweb/doc/trunk/docs/es/index.html#talleres > > > The second workshop will be tomorrow, Saturday, Aug. 29 from 3:15 PM to > 7:15PM CO (GMT - 5) -- I will try to share the other workshops earlier, > but the site in [2] will be the consolidated memory of them, for those > who want to join us asynchronously. > > We will see how IndieWeb sites help us to untangle and reweave that > other web and how this help us to reconnect in this stranger times. > > Rethinking the infrastructure is also to rethink the ways in which it > enables and makes visible (or not) certain ways of being and acting. > Infrastructures are embodied discourses. So thank you in advance for > joining us in rethinking this in practice. > > Of course, Pharo is behind scenes, as usual, powering this experience. > But with these IndieWeb workshops I think we have found a sweet spot > that puts coding in front with a practical introduction and motivation > beyond the kind of boring "Hello World". Following a "local first" > approach, documentation will be in Spanish, but source code[5] and > interactive documentation will be in English to bridge our worlds :-), > > [4] https://mutabit.com/offray/blog/en/entry/dumb-hello-world > [5] https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/brea/ > > > See you on cyberspace, > > Offray > > >
Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo at JPL
On Sat, 29 Aug 2020 at 06:27, tbrunz wrote: > Hi Konrad, > > I'm the person at JPL who (somehow) got "The Powers That Be" here to agree > to join the Consortium. > > I'm also the major champion of Pharo at JPL, and am leading an effort to > get > Pharo introduced & infused at JPL. > > I see the initial "market" for Pharo here to be: > > * Scientific & engineering data analysis & visualization, > * Modeling and simulation, > * Internal web servers, > * Custom ground support & test systems, > * Small-to-medium sized scripting to "support applications". > > I'm sure more application areas will open up as I get people to start using > Pharo in their particular areas of expertise. > > I'm doing what I can be promoting Pharo, providing introductions & > training, > and I'm now working on demonstrations that can catch the attention of both > engineers and managers -- to see the potential. > > Dear Ted, We share a lot of common interests with you and Konrad. I'm the main architect of PolyMath: https://github.com/PolyMathOrg/PolyMath for doing scientific computing with Pharo. I'm also involved in Kendrick, a domain-specific language for doing epidemiological modelling: https://github.com/UNU-Macau/kendrick and a multi-agent modelling platform called CORMAS: https://github.com/cormas/cormas Regards, -- Serge Stinckwic h https://twitter.com/SergeStinckwich
Re: [Pharo-users] pharo books as audiobooks
Hi siemen > On 28 Aug 2020, at 09:47, Siemen Baader wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm interested in listening to the pharo books as audiobooks, away from my > desk. I read them to learn higher level concepts and can get back to the code > boxes later to look up the details, so I'm not too worried about how to > exactly convert the code boxes to audio. > > One way to enable this would be if the books were served publicly as static > HTML. One can then use the Pocket App to save them and listen on the go. In > theory this should be something that the CI system could just be set up to > do, right? It is somehow working but it needs love. > (There are apps to convert PDFs to audio too, but those I have been able to > find are inconvenient and / or expensive.) > > Is anyone who is already familiar with the CI system interested in setting > this up? I'd love to help but don't have the time, unfortunately. But I'm > happy to provide feedback. I'v Same here. I want to move all the books to Microdown and I’m flooded of other duties. > > cheers > Siemen Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Aurore Dalle FAX 03 59 57 78 50 TEL 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France
Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo at JPL
Good luck, Ted, and congratulations! -C -- Craig Latta Black Page Digital Berkeley, California blackpagedigital.com https://caffeine.js.org
