Re: [Pharo-users] [gsoc-mentors] GSoC: call for ideas

2014-02-13 Thread Ronie Salgado
I am proposing the following as a student: Project idea Name: Unified Foreign Function Interface Skill level: Advanced Possible Mentors: Igor Stasenko / Esteban Lorenzano Name of the Student: Ronie Salgado Description: Because NativeBoost has problems with portability and cannot be used anywher

Re: [Pharo-users] Streaming API for Pharo?

2014-02-13 Thread Sven Van Caekenberghe
Hello Arturo, On 13 Feb 2014, at 15:00, Arturo Zambrano wrote: > Hi All, > we are playing with Roassal for the visualization of Twitter data. > So far we used Zn-SSO to connect to twitter and call REST API to > get some tweets for playing. > > Now, we would like to use the streaming API. I

Re: [Pharo-users] Slides for "Pharo: A Reflective System"

2014-02-13 Thread Sven Van Caekenberghe
On 13 Feb 2014, at 17:17, Marcus Denker wrote: > Hi, > > Somehow I got myself into giving a 30min “coffee break” talk here at the lab. > > Pharo: A Reflective System > http://www.slideshare.net/MarcusDenker/pharo-a-reflective-system > > http://marcusdenker.de/talks/14Inria30MinSci

[Pharo-users] Slides for "Pharo: A Reflective System"

2014-02-13 Thread Marcus Denker
Hi, Somehow I got myself into giving a 30min “coffee break” talk here at the lab. Pharo: A Reflective System http://www.slideshare.net/MarcusDenker/pharo-a-reflective-system http://marcusdenker.de/talks/14Inria30MinScience/PharoAReflectiveSystem.pdf Nothing new, of course… but i

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Spec documentation in PFTE book finished

2014-02-13 Thread Thomas Worthington
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 15:08:32 -, kilon alios wrote:I think its great that Spec has finally documentation, it makes it far easier for me to use Spec and evaluate its usefulness. Thank you for your effort. Seconded. If the English is at this level all the way through I, as a native English speak

[Pharo-users] [OT] A Little Smalltalk, SmallWorld, SmallWorld 2007, Athena... and now Gossip

2014-02-13 Thread Sergi Reyner
Hello everyone! This is a bit off-topic but I thought it may interest some of you! A few weeks ago I got interested in making simple 'clicky' games that could be played on Android, mostly for my daughter. After looking around, I found LibGDX for Java, which runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iO

Re: [Pharo-users] [gsoc-mentors] GSoC: call for ideas

2014-02-13 Thread teso...@gmail.com
Project idea Description: Enhance refactorings with type information Skill level: Advance Possible Mentors: Guillermo Polito / Esteban Lorenzano / Santiago Bragagnolo Name of the Student: Pablo Tesone Keywords: tools, refactoring, code completion, type inference. Description: During the developm

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Spec documentation in PFTE book finished

2014-02-13 Thread kilon alios
I think its great that Spec has finally documentation, it makes it far easier for me to use Spec and evaluate its usefulness. Thank you for your effort. On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Johan Fabry wrote: > > Ben and I focused on getting a readable text out there that is useful for > people wan

Re: [Pharo-users] [gsoc-mentors] GSoC: call for ideas

2014-02-13 Thread Usman Bhatti
[Anne Etien could not post this msg on the mentors list I m forwarding it on her behalf]. Title: FAST JavaScript model Level: advanced Possible mentor: Anne Etien Possible second mentor: Nicolas Anquetil or Yuriy Tymchuk Description: For in depth source code analysis a support of abstract synt

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Spec documentation in PFTE book finished

2014-02-13 Thread Johan Fabry
Ben and I focused on getting a readable text out there that is useful for people wanting to use Spec. Personally, having experience with writing lots of English, I'm actually quite happy with how it turned out and I think the text is quite readable. This being said, we are nonnative English sp

Re: [Pharo-users] Streaming API for Pharo?

2014-02-13 Thread Sean P. DeNigris
Arturo Zambrano wrote > I would like to know if Zn allows to get data incrementally The Nabble mirror (http://forum.world.st/Pharo-f1294836.html will check both dev and user lists) has a great search feature. "Zinc stream" returned some interesting results... - Cheers, Sean -- View this me

[Pharo-users] Twitter Streaming API for Pharo

2014-02-13 Thread Arturo Zambrano
Just fixing the subject of my post, sorry for the ambiguous previous one. On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Arturo Zambrano wrote: > Hi All, > we are playing with Roassal for the visualization of Twitter data. > So far we used Zn-SSO to connect to twitter and call REST API to > get some twe

[Pharo-users] Streaming API for Pharo?

2014-02-13 Thread Arturo Zambrano
Hi All, we are playing with Roassal for the visualization of Twitter data. So far we used Zn-SSO to connect to twitter and call REST API to get some tweets for playing. Now, we would like to use the streaming API. I could not figure out how to do this with Zn-*. According to Twitter Streaming

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Spec documentation in PFTE book finished

2014-02-13 Thread Thomas Worthington
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:42:59 -, Robert Shiplett wrote:"Creating a specific UI always starts with the subclassing of ""ComposableModel""."The above is passive with 2 gerunds. But is perfectly good and clear English nonetheless.

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Spec documentation in PFTE book finished

2014-02-13 Thread Robert Shiplett
humour: license to practice English humor note; 'subclass' may be a verb at wiktionary.org but not in current standard English (e.g. m-w.org or 2002 10th Ed, hardcover Merriam-Webster) ... so word is being used as a technical term in 2014 ... life was easier when a verb had one spelling and a noun

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Spec documentation in PFTE book finished

2014-02-13 Thread Robert Shiplett
" Creating a specific UI always starts with the subclassing of ""ComposableModel"". " The above is passive with 2 gerunds. No experienced tech editor should let that pass as an English instruction for an action or task to be performed by a reader - especially if the reader may be using English a

Re: [Pharo-users] mathematical models

2014-02-13 Thread Picci Pharo
I forgot to say that i downloaded MOOSE and Kendrick packages. Is there somebody who is currently working with this stuff? Is there any kind of tutorial? Thank you! From: prova...@hotmail.it To: pharo-users@lists.pharo.org Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:50:39 +0100 Subject: [Pharo-users] mathematica

Re: [Pharo-users] Applications, features and unit tests

2014-02-13 Thread Leonardo Silva
Hi Damien, By feature I mean any user-visible functionality that needs to be tested. Like you said, one feature can have many tests. The important thing for me is to know, given a unit test, what feature (high level) is going to be tested. If you name your tests putting the name of the feature as

[Pharo-users] mathematical models

2014-02-13 Thread Picci Pharo
Hi Guys! I'm going to start to teach as assistant professor of Operative Research, and i'd like to teach some stuff of Pharo. I was wondering if there are some Packages about mathematical models as Lotka-Volterra or other models about the dynamics of biological systems already implemented (with

Re: [Pharo-users] Applications, features and unit tests

2014-02-13 Thread Damien Cassou
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Leonardo Silva wrote: > I am looking for real applications in Smalltalk that have a mapping between > its features and the specific unit tests for them. what is a feature for you? Because, typically, I have a feature per test. If I need more tests, they typically