Re: [Pharo-users] [IMPORTANT] Starting migration to Spur VM

2016-01-03 Thread EuanM
I'm happy to help with GUI design stuff. (I'm formally trained in HCI and in UI methods, e.g. STUDIO) Simply email me. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/IMPORTANT-Starting-migration-to-Spur-VM-tp4866921p4869102.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive

Re: [Pharo-users] PharoJVM

2015-12-14 Thread EuanM
I think the market for cross-platform apps is large - but the market for apps that you can't sell is small. Being able to sell the cross-platform apps via the iOS and Android app stores is key, imo. As it is, I target Nintendo 2DS & 3DS, and Blackberry tablet and all Windows as well as iPads, iPh

Re: [Pharo-users] PharoJVM

2015-12-13 Thread EuanM
Todd, have you investigated using Squeak/Pharo at the back-end and Amber at the front end? That's where I'm currently targetting my development work. On 14 December 2015 at 01:59, Todd Blanchard wrote: > I've shipped several cordova/phonegap apps. > > It can work for a certain level of simplicit

Re: [Pharo-users] PharoJVM

2015-12-13 Thread EuanM
As a person who has posted video of Squeak and Pharo running on Raspberry Pi, I have to disagree with teh statement "Pharo can already run on ... Raspberry PI and works well.". Squeak works well on the Pi, in my experience. It's about an order-of-magnitude more responsive to user input than Pharo

Re: [Pharo-users] PharoJVM

2015-12-11 Thread EuanM
It's especially important to strategically, it is vital to get Smalltalk/Pharo to tap into the Java ecosystem if Java itself gets deprecated by Oracle. Everyone who has a lot of enterprise Java code will need something that works on the JVM and will easily interoperate with Java libraries. On 12

Re: [Pharo-users] [squeak-dev] Name change: Mushroom ( was Re: evolutions of squeakelib & crypto)

2015-12-08 Thread EuanM
>> I would need to disagree with you as inquiry is possible by description, >> rather than by name, through conversation with those who don't have to >> inquire, due to their knowledge [see Meno's Paradox...]. So, a third >> possibility exists through communal association

Re: [Pharo-users] [squeak-dev] Name change: Mushroom ( was Re: evolutions of squeakelib & crypto)

2015-12-08 Thread EuanM
> Want to know? Pay the dues. > > Phil > > > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 10:20 PM, Robert Withers > wrote: >> >> I would need to disagree with you as inquiry is possible by description, >> rather than by name, through conversation with those who don't h

Re: [Pharo-users] [squeak-dev] Name change: Mushroom ( was Re: evolutions of squeakelib & crypto)

2015-12-08 Thread EuanM
The philosophical issue behind the disutility of project names like these is "Meno's Paradox" On 8 December 2015 at 21:01, EuanM wrote: > "I wish people would choose descriptive names for their projects" - Todd > > I agree. > > I went looking for the curre

Re: [Pharo-users] [squeak-dev] Name change: Mushroom ( was Re: evolutions of squeakelib & crypto)

2015-12-08 Thread EuanM
"I wish people would choose descriptive names for their projects" - Todd I agree. I went looking for the current state of dbxtalk recently. It seemed to ba apackage designed for my needs - to X[-over] from a DB to [small]talk. I went there and the the page started talking about "Glorp" and "Gar

Re: [Pharo-users] Stop Thinking in Terms of Files

2015-12-08 Thread EuanM
I think it's potentially could be provided using Monticello as a basis, rather than "technically already available through Monticello", In many ways, you are describing the Catalog Browser / Configurstion Browser of Pharo, which is built on top of Monticello, Metacello, and Versionner. On 7 Dec

Re: [Pharo-users] Stop Thinking in Terms of Files

2015-12-08 Thread EuanM
Again, you seem to be using "the image" mainly to mean "the .image file", and only occassionally to mean the actual image itself. They are distinct (albeit tightly related) things. On 7 Dec 2015 22:09, "Dimitris Chloupis" wrote: > And this "victory of dead code and date" that files usually promot

Re: [Pharo-users] Stop Thinking in Terms of Files

2015-12-07 Thread EuanM
> Look man you do more harm with these articles than you do good. No. Just... no. > This Smalltalk hype is the worst of its kind and completely misses the point > of why Smalltalk is great. Speaking of "hype(rbole)"... On 6 December 2015 at 19:58, Dimitris Chloupis wrote: > "Files belong

Re: [Pharo-users] Stop Thinking in Terms of Files

2015-12-07 Thread EuanM
>An image IS a file !!! An image *can be stored to* a file. The image is not the file. Ceci n'est pas une pipe. The reason it is image-based is that the image is the primary representation. The copy of the image stored in a file is simply a persisting back-up of the image. Unlike file based s

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo Consortium New Gold Member: Thales

2015-12-03 Thread EuanM
Cool. Ty. On 30 November 2015 at 16:40, stepharo wrote: > > > Le 30/11/15 05:27, EuanM a écrit : >> >> That's great news. >> >> It would be really interesting, and really useful to >> community-enlargement works, to know: >>Which part of Tha

Re: [Pharo-users] New Introductory Tutorial

2015-12-03 Thread EuanM
as people might think. Cheers, EuanM On 14 November 2015 at 07:40, stepharo wrote: > Thanks this is nice effort. > > Now some remarks: > - Do you think that great speakers like doru would be invited to prime > time conference to talk about a language that is from 1980? >

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo Consortium New Gold Member: Thales

2015-12-02 Thread EuanM
Thank you for those videos Norbert. On 2 December 2015 at 12:24, Norbert Hartl wrote: > > Am 02.12.2015 um 10:58 schrieb EuanM : > > It would be really interesting, and really useful to > community-enlargement works, to know: > Which part of Thales drove this? > What is th

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo Consortium New Gold Member: Thales

2015-12-02 Thread EuanM
15, at 10:58, EuanM wrote: >> >> It would be really interesting, and really useful to >> community-enlargement works, to know: >> Which part of Thales drove this? >> What is their specific interest in Pharo? Or what is their current >> (or proposed) use

Re: [Pharo-users] Installation

2015-12-02 Thread EuanM
I've been compiling install instructions for the various Smalltalks on the various platforms at: Beginning to Smalltalk : How to get a Smalltalk installed and running: http://beginningtosmalltalk.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/how-to-get-smalltalk-up-and-running.html Video of the latest production versio

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo Consortium New Gold Member: Thales

2015-12-02 Thread EuanM
the Consortium wanting to keep this information private? On 30 November 2015 at 04:27, EuanM wrote: > That's great news. > > It would be really interesting, and really useful to > community-enlargement works, to know: > Which part of Thales drove this? > What is the

Re: [Pharo-users] Basic versioning of GitHub repositories from within Pharo

2015-11-30 Thread EuanM
requirement. You Ain't Gonna Need it (YAGNI) is often true, but well-factored code is *always* good. On 30 November 2015 at 17:02, EuanM wrote: > Well, personally, I far prefer Mercurial. Which also dethroned SVN. > > Mercurial has all the power of Git, while providing a more us

Re: [Pharo-users] Basic versioning of GitHub repositories from within Pharo

2015-11-30 Thread EuanM
Well, personally, I far prefer Mercurial. Which also dethroned SVN. Mercurial has all the power of Git, while providing a more usable API. My mind works like a Smalltalker's, not like Linus's. It's true, some of the more abstruse functions of git require a longer chain of user actions in Mercuri

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo Consortium New Gold Member: Thales

2015-11-29 Thread EuanM
That's great news. It would be really interesting, and really useful to community-enlargement works, to know: Which part of Thales drove this? What is their specific interest in Pharo? Or what is their current (or proposed) use of Pharo? On 26 November 2015 at 13:42, wrote: > The Pharo

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo RDBMS Support Survey

2015-11-29 Thread EuanM
I completed it. (There was one question that I found hard to understand - so I commented my response heavily. I can't remember what my issue was - but my comments would remind me) On 26 November 2015 at 03:02, Esteban A. Maringolo wrote: > Hello all, > > I just created this survey (https://goo.

Re: [Pharo-users] About profiling code

2015-11-22 Thread EuanM
08, Windows 7, x86 based versions of Mac OS X, Linux operating systems using the 2.6 kernel and FreeBSD. Final Question: === Is this something we should pass on to the VM teams? On 22 November 2015 at 20:23, EuanM wrote: > Because profiling longer loops takes longer. > > Why pr

Re: [Pharo-users] About profiling code

2015-11-22 Thread EuanM
Because profiling longer loops takes longer. Why profile a 32768-cycle loop if a 2048-cycle loop would work? On 22 November 2015 at 20:21, Alexandre Bergel wrote: > Hi! > > Why do you need to profile fast code? You can always put your code in a loop. > > Alexandre > > >> On Nov 22, 2015, at 4:22

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Working with Pharo on the Raspberry Pi

2015-10-31 Thread EuanM
Thanks. My medium-term plan is to run my Smalltalk app from a Pi - this was encouraging! -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/ANN-Working-with-Pharo-on-the-Raspberry-Pi-tp4857895p4858808.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.