Re: [Pharo-users] Can Pharo meet all your computing needs?

2014-08-25 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi Wilfred and welcome, I have been lurking at the Smalltalk/Squeak community like from ten years when I used Etoys, Bots Inc and Scratch to teach newbies an introductory course on "informatics" (which has a part related with programming) and after a while I got here at the Pharo community, wh

Re: [Pharo-users] Can Pharo meet all your computing needs?

2014-08-25 Thread Wilfred Hughes
Sounds like the Dynabook goal rather overlaps with that of Lisp Machines. The idea of a single system that allows you to modify any part at runtime, inspect any part, or drop into a debugger anywhere is extremely powerful and wonderful to work with. Emacs gets quite close to this, but... it's Emac

Re: [Pharo-users] Workbook, exercises and problems

2014-08-25 Thread Sean P. DeNigris
Sven Van Caekenberghe-2 wrote > the best book is actually Andrés Valloud's "A mentoring course on > Smalltalk" - I can guarantee you it will blow your mind ;-) +1. This book is too good to be written by a human. I think it was channeled from the programming gods :) - Cheers, Sean -- View th

Re: [Pharo-users] Workbook, exercises and problems

2014-08-25 Thread Ignacio Matías Sniechowski
Stef, The project is not abandoned, it is still open to anyone. I simply stopped because it was supposed to be a collaborative effortand there was not even a single contribution beside you and me. But I'm available to work again if there are contributions to add. best reagards Nacho *Lic.

Re: [Pharo-users] Workbook, exercises and problems

2014-08-25 Thread stepharo
Ignaciostarted to write the ST99 problems in the pfte but he stopped after a couple of them. https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/PharoForTheEnterprise/745/artifact/ The problem with little problems is that sometimes you can write them in a single method so there not really exciting. Now i

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Teapot 0.8 micro web framework

2014-08-25 Thread Attila Magyar
Santiago Bragagnolo wrote >> I played a little bit with Teapot last week during ESUG and was wondering >> what is your flow when you are designing/experimenting an API with >> Teapot? >> Do you reset the instance everytime you modify/add a route? I'm not sure i understand it correctly. The routes

Re: [Pharo-users] Workbook, exercises and problems

2014-08-25 Thread kilon alios
"@Kilon Thanks for the link. I will take a look at it. And BTW, thanks for your video tutorials They are very helpful Ichiro" Glad you find them helpful Ichiro, more are coming :) "That is indeed a very good book, a big step above a plain introduction. But the best book is actually Andrés Vallo

[Pharo-users] Problems Pharo 3.0 & Windows 8.1 (64 Bit)

2014-08-25 Thread volk...@nivoba.de
Dear all, i have problems with Pharo 3.0 under Win 8.1 (64 Bit). When i quit Pharo and then restarting the it, Pharo-VM and Windows hangs. After some time (2-3 Minutes), the Pharo VM File Dialog opens. From time to time the Windows Desktop (!) crashes and restarts. No Problems under Windows

Re: [Pharo-users] Workbook, exercises and problems

2014-08-25 Thread Sven Van Caekenberghe
That is indeed a very good book, a big step above a plain introduction. But the best book is actually Andrés Valloud's "A mentoring course on Smalltalk" - I can guarantee you it will blow your mind ;-) The cool thing about Pharo/Smalltalk is that once you get the basics (minimal syntax, new app

Re: [Pharo-users] Workbook, exercises and problems

2014-08-25 Thread Ichiseki
@Kilon Thanks for the link. I will take a look at it. And BTW, thanks for your video tutorials They are very helpful Ichiro -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Workbook-exercises-and-problems-tp4774634p4774656.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive a

Re: [Pharo-users] Workbook, exercises and problems

2014-08-25 Thread kilon alios
I am deeply in love with "Smalltalk Best Practice and Patterns" by Kent Beck. Its the best book I have read on programming , its clear, 100% practical, straight to the point without unnecessary theories , surprisingly small yet so large . I would recommend it to anyone not just introducing to Pharo

Re: [Pharo-users] Workbook, exercises and problems

2014-08-25 Thread Ichiseki
@Sebastian & Sven I've already read and did PBE. Thanks for the suggestion. Ichiro -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Workbook-exercises-and-problems-tp4774634p4774650.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [Pharo-users] Workbook, exercises and problems

2014-08-25 Thread Bernat Romagosa
I solved many exercices in Project Euler a couple years ago. I'll see if I still remember my username and let you know! On Aug 25, 2014 5:48 PM, "Sven Van Caekenberghe" wrote: > Start with Pharo by Example (PBE), > > http://pharo.org/documentation > > Teaching/learning design/style is plain hard

Re: [Pharo-users] Workbook, exercises and problems

2014-08-25 Thread Sven Van Caekenberghe
Start with Pharo by Example (PBE), http://pharo.org/documentation Teaching/learning design/style is plain hard and takes times. On 25 Aug 2014, at 16:40, Ichiseki wrote: > I would love to do that but: > I have neither a good understanding of smalltalk not pharo. I don't have a > good OO style

Re: [Pharo-users] Workbook, exercises and problems

2014-08-25 Thread Sebastian Tleye
Well, there is a good way to start with Pharo by Example. http://pharobyexample.org/versions/PBE1-2009-10-28.pdf 2014-08-25 16:40 GMT+02:00 Ichiseki : > I would love to do that but: > I have neither a good understanding of smalltalk not pharo. I don't have a > good OO style - I come from a Func

Re: [Pharo-users] Workbook, exercises and problems

2014-08-25 Thread Ichiseki
I would love to do that but: I have neither a good understanding of smalltalk not pharo. I don't have a good OO style - I come from a Functional paradigm- I'm not used to variables Of course I've been trying with some of them. But wanted to know it there was a way to check the answers. Not only i

[Pharo-users] ImageSpecExample open does not work

2014-08-25 Thread Annick Fron
ImageSpecExample open raises many bugs, I was not able to correct them. Annick

Re: [Pharo-users] Workbook, exercises and problems

2014-08-25 Thread Sven Van Caekenberghe
Hi Ichiro, On 25 Aug 2014, at 16:26, Ichiseki wrote: > I'm trying to find examples and problems, exercises to solve in Pharo but it > seems that it is little in that department. > I come from Haskell, there we have 99 problems solved in Haskell and also, > Project Euler. > Also Python, Ruby

Re: [Pharo-users] Workbook, exercises and problems

2014-08-25 Thread Sebastian Tleye
Why not solve those same problems in Pharo? 2014-08-25 16:26 GMT+02:00 Ichiseki : > I'm trying to find examples and problems, exercises to solve in Pharo but > it > seems that it is little in that department. > I come from Haskell, there we have 99 problems solved in Haskell and also, > Project

[Pharo-users] Workbook, exercises and problems

2014-08-25 Thread Ichiseki
I'm trying to find examples and problems, exercises to solve in Pharo but it seems that it is little in that department. I come from Haskell, there we have 99 problems solved in Haskell and also, Project Euler. Also Python, Ruby and other have this. Is there a place where I can find more food?

Re: [Pharo-users] Can Pharo meet all your computing needs?

2014-08-25 Thread S Krish
" The Dynabook SW architecture must be open so that owners can safely install functionality ('apps') that is available in a marketplace. (The i-pad with its hardware and its marketplace for apps is at the back of my mind.)" Can the intent be expanded a bit more. Is this an intent to have a Phar

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Teapot 0.8 micro web framework

2014-08-25 Thread p...@highoctane.be
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 1:37 PM, François Stephany < tulipe.mouta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Phil, > I'm going there as well ;) > Hey, sweet! > The idea is to see what we can do with GTInspector / Roassal (and maybe > https://github.com/fstephany/OSMMaps). > I am more on a webapp / Seaside kind of

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Teapot 0.8 micro web framework

2014-08-25 Thread Santiago Bragagnolo
So beatiful. 2014-08-25 13:37 GMT+02:00 François Stephany : > Phil, > I'm going there as well ;) > The idea is to see what we can do with GTInspector / Roassal (and maybe > https://github.com/fstephany/OSMMaps). > > Attila, > I played a little bit with Teapot last week during ESUG and was wonder

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Teapot 0.8 micro web framework

2014-08-25 Thread François Stephany
Phil, I'm going there as well ;) The idea is to see what we can do with GTInspector / Roassal (and maybe https://github.com/fstephany/OSMMaps). Attila, I played a little bit with Teapot last week during ESUG and was wondering what is your flow when you are designing/experimenting an API with Teapo

Re: [Pharo-users] Phobos: Using open and save dialogs

2014-08-25 Thread kmo
Thanks, that's great. (I'm only thinking of running with client and server on the same machine at the moment). -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Phobos-Using-open-and-save-dialogs-tp4774528p4774580.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: [Pharo-users] Phobos: Using open and save dialogs

2014-08-25 Thread Pavel Krivanek
Hi, I will look at it and add the methods to the Phobos code. You have to take into account that Phobos uses client-server architecture where server can be on a different computer. Then Pharo will not have direct access to the file provided by XULRunner client. Cheers, -- Pavel 2014-08-25 11:10

Re: [Pharo-users] Can Pharo meet all your computing needs?

2014-08-25 Thread Trygve Reenskaug
I don't think the current Smalltalk architecture can meet all your computing needs because security isn't part of its core and because it is inconceivable that all the necessary programs can be developed within its boundaries. Like several people I met at ESUG, my goal is the Dynabook and the

Re: [Pharo-users] Phobos: Using open and save dialogs

2014-08-25 Thread kmo
It's Ok I think I've got it. You can add a method like this to your main.js: function doFileOpen() { /* See: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XUL_Tutorial:Open_and_Save_Dialogs */ var nsIFilePicker = Components.interfaces.nsIFilePicker; var fp = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/filep

[Pharo-users] Phobos: Using open and save dialogs

2014-08-25 Thread kmo
Does anyone know how you use the XULRunner /open/ and/ save/ dialogs from Phobos? I need to get a filename back from the user interface into the pharo/phobos image. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Phobos-Using-open-and-save-dialogs-tp4774528.html Sent from the Pharo Small