Re: [Pharo-users] Code of Conduct

2019-09-19 Thread john pfersich
And I don’t intend to abide by it. I’ll cancel my Pharo Association contribution and my contribution to Stephane’s Spec book. I have no interest in supporting a left-wing snowflake “Code of Conduct”. /*—-*/ Sent from my iPhone https://boincstats.com/signature/-1/user/51616339056

Re: [Pharo-users] Code of Conduct

2019-09-18 Thread John Pfersich
+100 // For encrypted mail use jgpfers...@protonmail.com Get a free account at ProtonMail.com Web: www.objectnets.net and www.objectnets.org > On Sep 17, 2019, at 16:29, Ramon Leon wrote: > >> On 2019-09-17 2:34 p.m., Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote: >> as I say the impo

Re: [Pharo-users] Code of Conduct

2019-09-13 Thread John Pfersich
+100 // For encrypted mail use jgpfers...@protonmail.com Get a free account at ProtonMail.com Web: www.objectnets.net and www.objectnets.org > On Sep 12, 2019, at 10:13, Richard O'Keefe wrote: > > There are some aspects of the "Covenant" that rub me up the wrong way. > I not

Re: [Pharo-users] SequenceableCollection>>#allButFirst: inconsistence across subclasses

2019-09-03 Thread John Pfersich
+100. Smalltalk for me is a hobby which comes after the music (guitar and keyboards) and gun habits. I used to code in Smalltalk professionally, but haven’t had a paid job in 26 years. I used to produce code for Squeak back in the early 2000’s, but stopped because my code never made it into the

Re: [Pharo-users] A Canticle for Smalltalk

2019-08-06 Thread John Pfersich
I don’t know if a 10 year lifespan is exceptional. I wrote an application in 1986 that’s still running. Development took 6 weeks. Including testing. // For encrypted mail use jgpfers...@protonmail.com Get a free account at ProtonMail.com Web: www.objectnets.net and www.objectn

Re: [Pharo-users] [Pharo-dev] [OT] (slightly) What makes other dialects "enjoyable" for you? (WAS: difference between double dispatch...)

2019-04-12 Thread john pfersich
get when you > pay into the consortium. Is it that you demand that from the mailing list and > the people that work in their free time? > > Norbert > >> Am 12.04.2019 um 03:06 schrieb john pfersich : >> >> +1 on the long term support idea. Changing an application eve

Re: [Pharo-users] [Pharo-dev] [OT] (slightly) What makes other dialects "enjoyable" for you? (WAS: difference between double dispatch...)

2019-04-11 Thread john pfersich
+1 on the long term support idea. Changing an application every year to support a new version of Pharo is a nonstarter for most of my clients. /*—-*/ Sent from my iPhone https://boincstats.com/signature/-1/user/51616339056/sig.png See https://objectnets.net and https://objectnets

Re: [Pharo-users] Richard Kenneth Eng is NOT Mr. Smalltalk

2019-04-10 Thread john pfersich
+1 /*—-*/ Sent from my iPhone https://boincstats.com/signature/-1/user/51616339056/sig.png See https://objectnets.net and https://objectnets.org > On Apr 10, 2019, at 12:38, Tim Mackinnon wrote: > > How about we just move on? I don’t see much usefulness in arguing over older >

Re: [Pharo-users] What's wrong with latest Pharo?

2019-04-01 Thread john pfersich
be alone. >> > >> > I'm giving a fair warning to everyone. Don't lash back at me – I'm just the >> > canary in the coal mine. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > Tim Mackinnon wrote >> >> Come on, let’s try

Re: [Pharo-users] What's wrong with latest Pharo?

2019-04-01 Thread john pfersich
rd, was this installed with zero conf or Launcher, and as mentioned - >> a Linux distro is going to be helpful. >> >> I’m assuming it worked before at some point for you right? But was that v6 >> and now you’re trying v7? >> >> Tim >>

Re: [Pharo-users] What's wrong with latest Pharo?

2019-03-31 Thread john pfersich
What Linux (distro and version) and which version of Pharo. You couldn’t supply less information if you tried. /*—-*/ Sent from my iPhone https://boincstats.com/signature/-1/user/51616339056/sig.png See https://objectnets.net and https://objectnets.org > On Mar 31, 2019, at 14:

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo Object Serialization

2019-02-21 Thread john pfersich
There’s also STON. See https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/EnterprisePharoBook/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/book-result/STON/STON.html /*—-*/ Sent from my iPhone https://boincstats.com/signature/-1/user/51616339056/sig.png See https://objectnets.net and https://objectnets.o

Re: [Pharo-users] Running test

2019-02-07 Thread john pfersich
Yeah, I’m running DrGeo from Applications. Trying open gives you the same result. Yes, Mojave security is a PITA. But other apps downloaded from the web don’t have this problem. But I don’t develop on the Mac because of Apple’s paranoid behavior. I’ll stick to Unix, thanks. /*

Re: [Pharo-users] Running test

2019-02-06 Thread john pfersich
Yes before I tried to start it. /*—-*/ Sent from my iPhone https://boincstats.com/signature/-1/user/51616339056/sig.png See https://objectnets.net and https://objectnets.org > On Feb 6, 2019, at 05:53, Andrei Chis wrote: > > In my case if I download the app using the web brows

Re: [Pharo-users] Running test

2019-02-05 Thread john pfersich
At least on MacOS Mojave, I had moved the app to the Application folder. /*—-*/ Sent from my iPhone https://boincstats.com/signature/-1/user/51616339056/sig.png See https://objectnets.net and https://objectnets.org > On Feb 5, 2019, at 09:50, Hilaire wrote: > > Thanks John and

Re: [Pharo-users] Learn Pharo - Not Working

2019-02-03 Thread john pfersich
On a Win 10 Lenovo laptop with a trackpad with no mouse buttons, the 64-bit version took several clicks on ‘ProfStef go’ to register. I suspect it might be the trackpad which isn’t sending mouse messages correctly because I also have problems with other apps. /*—-*/ Sent from m

Re: [Pharo-users] Learn Pharo - Not Working

2019-02-03 Thread john pfersich
He’s on Windows, so it wold be Ctrl-D and Ctrl-P. /*—-*/ Sent from my iPhone https://boincstats.com/signature/-1/user/51616339056/sig.png See https://objectnets.net and https://objectnets.org > On Feb 3, 2019, at 01:48, ducasse wrote: > > Hi keith > > did you look at the Pharo

Re: [Pharo-users] Learn Pharo - Not Working

2019-02-02 Thread john pfersich
In Pharo, my impression is that the cu /*—-*/ Sent from my iPhone https://boincstats.com/signature/-1/user/51616339056/sig.png See https://objectnets.net and https://objectnets.org > On Feb 2, 2019, at 16:30, magicspeller wrote: > > Richard70NL wrote >> For me it works, but what

Re: [Pharo-users] Learn Pharo - Not Working

2019-02-02 Thread john pfersich
://objectnets.org > On Feb 2, 2019, at 11:59, magicspeller wrote: > > John Pfersich wrote >> Did you use the 32-bit version or the 64-bit version? I just used Pharo >> Launcher to start a 32-bit image. I clicked on ‘ProfStef go’ and got a >> separate window with the tutori

Re: [Pharo-users] Learn Pharo - Not Working

2019-02-02 Thread john pfersich
Did you use the 32-bit version or the 64-bit version? I just used Pharo Launcher to start a 32-bit image. I clicked on ‘ProfStef go’ and got a separate window with the tutorial. I didn’t try the 64-bit version; it’s still beta software. /*—-*/ Sent from my iPhone https://boincs

Re: [Pharo-users] Website is down

2019-01-23 Thread john pfersich
Maybe ask more people to join the Pharo Association to get funds to move the file server to a infrastructure that can handle a higher volume of traffic. I know that I’d be willing to increase my Bountysource contribution to help cover the cost. I don’t use Pharo professionally, but I try to push

Re: [Pharo-users] glamorous toolkit alpha.2

2018-10-31 Thread john pfersich
Incroyable. // Encrypted email at jgpfers...@protonmail.com Web: www.objectnets.net and www.objectnets.org > On Oct 31, 2018, at 13:44, Tudor Girba wrote: > > Hi, > > Glamorous Toolkit has evolved quite a bit over the past months, and we now > would like to announce that

Re: [Pharo-users] a basic hash question

2018-07-31 Thread John Pfersich
This inconsistent naming convention has me wishing for an updated ANSI Standard. There has been much change, wasn’t that standard from the 90s? // For encrypted mail use jgpfers...@protonmail.com Get a free account at ProtonMail.com Web: www.objectnets.net and www.objectnets.o

[Pharo-users] SpecGenerator

2018-07-25 Thread john pfersich
I have a question about SpecGenerator. The video introducing SpecGenerator about 2 years ago says you start it with: MEApplicationList open. There's no open method in version 15 that I loaded from SmalltalkHub. How do you start the app?

Re: [Pharo-users] Naming parameters - conventions?

2018-07-11 Thread john pfersich
+100 // Encrypted email at jgpfers...@protonmail.com Web: www.objectnets.net and www.objectnets.org > On Jul 11, 2018, at 18:20, Richard Sargent > wrote: > > Tim Mackinnon wrote >> Hi everyone, something I’ve meant to ask over the years, as I’ve seen lots >> of variation an

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 10th Anniversary

2018-05-30 Thread john pfersich
I don’t know what others see when they go to https://pharoweekly.wordpress.com/, but I encountered 7 ads on one page. Talk about off putting. A wordpress site without ads costs $3 a month. At least it would put forth a better image. // Encrypted email at jgpfers...@protonma

Re: [Pharo-users] [Pharo-dev] LibFFI/NB Cairo External Module Not Found debugging

2018-05-21 Thread John Pfersich
If you are running a 32 bit Pharo on a 64 bit Ubuntu, there is instructions for additional steps needed at https://pharo.org/gnu-linux-installation under the ‘Prepare 64-bit-Linux for 32bit Pharo’ heading For encrypted mail use jgpfers...@protonmail.com Get a free account at ProtonMail.com Web:

Re: [Pharo-users] How to LAN feature

2018-05-13 Thread john pfersich
Oops, the -s flag doesn't work on Mac OS. On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 7:41 PM, john pfersich wrote: > ​ > ​ > I don’t know if this will help, you can use OSProcess to run the ifconfig > Unix (MAC OS) command, kind of like this: > > ​Use ifconfig -s to get a list of the inter

Re: [Pharo-users] How to LAN feature

2018-05-13 Thread john pfersich
​ ​ I don’t know if this will help, you can use OSProcess to run the ifconfig Unix (MAC OS) command, kind of like this: ​Use ifconfig -s to get a list of the interfaces: ​Iface MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVRTX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg enp2s0 1500 0 0 0 0 0

Re: [Pharo-users] How do I ask the FileSystem to resolve a relative path?

2018-03-11 Thread john pfersich
What OS are you using? My code was executed on Ubuntu 16.04. Sent from my iPhone Encrypted email at jgpfers...@protonmail.com > On Mar 11, 2018, at 10:37, Alistair Grant wrote: > > Hi Hannes, > >> On 11 March 2018 at 17:49, H. Hirzel wrote: >> The first solution given by Sven works fine. >>

Re: [Pharo-users] How do I ask the FileSystem to resolve a relative path?

2018-03-11 Thread john pfersich
or try dir := (FileSystem workingDirectory / '..' / 'public' / 'testing' / 'test2.txt') ensureCreateFile. dir writeStream. On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 1:16 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > > > > On 11 Mar 2018, at 09:42, H. Hirzel wrote: > > > > Hello > > > > This is a follow up question to 'How

Re: [Pharo-users] How do I make sure a directory exists?

2018-03-11 Thread john pfersich
Works on Ubuntu 16.04 Sent from my iPhone Encrypted email at jgpfers...@protonmail.com > On Mar 10, 2018, at 12:38, Cyril Ferlicot wrote: > > >> On sam. 10 mars 2018 at 21:36, H. Hirzel wrote: >> Yes, #ensureCreateDirectory is available. >> >> I'd like to make sure a directory 'public' is av

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo for MacOs 10.6.8?

2018-03-07 Thread john pfersich
+1 Sent from my iPhone Encrypted email at jgpfers...@protonmail.com > On Mar 7, 2018, at 07:14, stefano franchi wrote: > > Dear Marcus, > > thanks for the detailed answer. > > Let me say that my question did not in any ways imply that Pharo should > assume the burden of maintaining current

Re: [Pharo-users] [Pharo-dev] Looking for names for the booklet collection

2018-03-05 Thread John Pfersich
+1 Sent from my iPad For encrypted mail use jgpfers...@protonmail.com Get a free account at ProtonMail.com > On Mar 4, 2018, at 08:49, Peter Uhnák wrote: > > > Pharo Tools & Technologies > > Pharo Language & Environment > > +1 ... simple, obvious, to the point > > please no cryptic/"clever" n

[Pharo-users] UpdatedPharoByExample

2018-02-25 Thread john pfersich
I found a couple of errors in SharingCode.pillar. I couldn't upload a branch. Sorry, I'm a a very infrequent github user, and I just don't get it. Anyways, lines 359 and 360 probably should be changed to this: This excludes Playground snippets, those are stored inside ''/pharo-local/play-cache'' a

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] PI

2018-02-23 Thread john pfersich
Oops, I need to fix that. Sent from my iPhone Encrypted email at jgpfers...@protonmail.com > On Feb 20, 2018, at 23:07, Hernán Morales Durand > wrote: > > Hi John, > > 2018-02-21 2:10 GMT-03:00 john pfersich : >> I tried it, this time with >> >> pi

Re: [Pharo-users] Cleanup of LDAP for Pharo 6/7

2018-02-22 Thread john pfersich
Good to know. Thanks for updating that. Sent from my iPhone Encrypted email at jgpfers...@protonmail.com > On Feb 22, 2018, at 14:18, Torsten Bergmann wrote: > > Just as an info: the LDAP packages from > > http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~PharoExtras/LDAP > > had no method categorization and mis

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] PI

2018-02-20 Thread john pfersich
I tried it, this time with pi install OSProcess OSProcess-Examples in case there was something wrong with BioSmalltalk but I got the same result. log is at https://objectnets-0001.ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/test2.log On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 8:39 PM, john pfersich wrote: > I tried runn

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] PI

2018-02-20 Thread john pfersich
gt;> > >> > >> 2018-02-18 17:12 GMT-03:00 Hernán Morales Durand < > hernan.mora...@gmail.com>: > >>> Thanks, please let me know issues or ideas for enhacements. > >>> > >>> I just uploaded a new version adding a search packages feature, > &g

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] PI

2018-02-18 Thread john pfersich
Congrats! Looks really useful. Can’t wait to try it out. Sent from my iPhone Encrypted email at jgpfers...@protonmail.com > On Feb 17, 2018, at 23:23, Hernán Morales Durand > wrote: > > Hi, > > PI is a MIT-pip-like command line program for Pharo Smalltalk. PI > stands for Pharo Install. It i

Re: [Pharo-users] [Wanted] Welcome email for Newsletter

2018-02-07 Thread John Pfersich
mininal should be minimal Sent from my iPad For encrypted mail use jgpfers...@protonmail.com Get a free account at ProtonMail.com > On Feb 7, 2018, at 00:32, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > > mininal

Re: [Pharo-users] files.pharo.org downloads => needs testers

2017-11-28 Thread john pfersich
TimeTime Time Current Dload Upload Total SpentLeft Speed 100 17.7M 100 17.7M0 0 1429k 0 0:00:12 0:00:12 --:--:-- 2510k On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 9:38 PM, john pfersich wrote: > Stats from Las Vegas, Nevada, USA > > cur

Re: [Pharo-users] files.pharo.org downloads => needs testers

2017-11-28 Thread john pfersich
Stats from Las Vegas, Nevada, USA curl -o 1.zip http://files2.pharo.org/image/70/Pharo-7.0.0-alpha.build.328.sha.c366633.arch.32bit.zip --next -o 2.zip http://file-pharo.inria.fr/image/70/Pharo-7.0.0-alpha.build.328.sha.c366633.arch.32bit.zip --next -o 3.zip http://files.pharo.org/image/70/Pharo-7

Re: [Pharo-users] Short report about Pharo experience

2017-11-23 Thread john pfersich
+1000 Sent from my iPhone On Nov 22, 2017, at 23:57, Dimitris Chloupis wrote: >> - Deployment: it should be possible to deploy a „single click“ application, >> independet if native GUI or Web App or Shiny like >> - More standard solutions: many libraries have examples, but they are >> sometim

Re: [Pharo-users] Behold Pharo: The Modern Smalltalk

2017-10-16 Thread john pfersich
Look and feel Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 16, 2017, at 10:41, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas > wrote: > > Hi, > > >> On 13/10/17 19:39, Andrew Glynn wrote: >> Pharo is a great OSS Smalltalk, IMHO by the best to date (Squeak >> was/is good, but the LaF was never professional enough for it to

Re: [Pharo-users] Behold Pharo: The Modern Smalltalk

2017-10-10 Thread john pfersich
> On Oct 10, 2017, at 09:58, horrido wrote: > > Interestingly, I'm getting a fair amount of pushback on this. Personally, I > think it would be very helpful to have a live (updatable, so as to keep it > current) reference page for the class library, something that developers can > easily look up

Re: [Pharo-users] [Pharo-dev] ESUG Pharo GIT BOFs

2017-09-05 Thread John Pfersich
Birds of a Feather, sort of an informal get-together. Sent from my iPad > On Sep 5, 2017, at 14:47, Peter Uhnák wrote: > > I don't see Esteban's talk in the conference schedule. > > Also, what is BOF shortcut for? > > P > >> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 9:18 AM, Stéphane Ducasse >> wrote: >> Thu

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 6.0 and 6.1 64 bit freeze on MacMini

2017-08-25 Thread john pfersich
haro uses Open GL) that my graphics > card has Open GL incompatibility? or that Pharo 6.1 uses Open GL > calls not implemented on an Intel HD Graphics 4000 chip as in my mac mini? > > kind regards > TedvG > > > >> On 25. Aug 2017, at 06:56, John Pfersich [via Smallta

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 6.0 and 6.1 64 bit freeze on MacMini

2017-08-24 Thread john pfersich
I don't know if it matters, but on my Retina 5K, 27 inch, Late 2015 iMac, AMD Radeon R9 M395 wirh 2048 MB running MacOS 10.12.6 I don't have a problem resizing or maximizing Pharo 6.1. On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 6:28 AM, Ted F.A.van Gaalen wrote: > > > > Hi, I reverted to 5.0 because Pharo 6.0 and

Re: [Pharo-users] [Ann] Blog entry about using Pharo / Smalltalk to build a bot

2017-08-17 Thread john pfersich
+1 Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 17, 2017, at 06:11, Dimitris Chloupis wrote: > > there was one claim you made in that post that got me thinking > > ""No one else knows Smalltalk." > > So I wonder how many developers amount to "no one". > > Now my data is questionable to say the least but I

[Pharo-users] Pharo support

2017-07-24 Thread John Pfersich
If you want to support the Pharo project financially, go to https://salt.bountysource.com/teams/pharo or http://association.pharo.org to donate. Sent from my iPad

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] association.pharo.org now on AWS

2017-07-05 Thread john pfersich
Wow, it's a lot quicker from the western US than the old site! Thanks. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 5, 2017, at 00:10, Marcus Denker wrote: > > Hi, > > I just changed the DNS entry for > >https://association.pharo.org > > It now runs on Amazon AWS, this should make it faster and more re

Re: [Pharo-users] Finding files in Pharo

2017-06-18 Thread john pfersich
Why not just use OsProcess or OsSubprocess to run the unix commands (works on Mac OS and Linux)? Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 17, 2017, at 19:59, Hernán Morales Durand > wrote: > > I would like to find files in Pharo like the UNIX find command: > > find . -iname "*.txt" -type f -print > > f

Re: [Pharo-users] Test request

2017-06-13 Thread john pfersich
itten in French but the Dr. Geo's UI should be in English. > > Hilaire > > >> Le 13/06/2017 à 05:21, john pfersich a écrit : >> I followed the steps in your mail and it seems to work fine in Ubuntu >> 16.04 LTS, though I've never tried Dr Geo and the app is

Re: [Pharo-users] Test request

2017-06-12 Thread john pfersich
I followed the steps in your mail and it seems to work fine in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, though I've never tried Dr Geo and the app is mostly in French. It's been 47 years since I've used French extensively, so YMMV. Let you know if I have problems. On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 12:59 PM, Hilaire wrote: > Hi,

Re: [Pharo-users] crash.dmp of OSSubProcess on Pharo 6.0

2017-06-09 Thread john pfersich
ro6.0/bin/lib/pharo/5.0-201705310241/pharo > > So actually yours is not so out of date that first glance at the "5.0" in > your path implies. > @Esteban, can this packaging be corrected? > > cheers -ben > > > > On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 12:21 PM, john pfersich >

Re: [Pharo-users] crash.dmp of OSSubProcess on Pharo 6.0

2017-06-09 Thread john pfersich
because I know OSSubprocess doesn't work on 64 bits yet, but to fix > this I need some pull requets merged in the VM... > > Cheers, > > On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 1:21 AM, john pfersich wrote: > >> I got a seg fault when I tried to execute some OSSubProcess code in Pharo >&g

[Pharo-users] crash.dmp of OSSubProcess on Pharo 6.0

2017-06-08 Thread john pfersich
I got a seg fault when I tried to execute some OSSubProcess code in Pharo 6.0. Namely, | process | process := OSSUnixSubprocess new command: '/bin/cat'; redirectStdin; redirectStdout; run. process stdinStream nextPutAll: 'we

[Pharo-users] Slant question

2017-06-05 Thread john pfersich
Slant has a question/poll out there It's at https://www.slant.co/topics/25/~best-programming-language-to-learn-first?utm_source=Slant&utm_campaign=digest&utm_medium=email&utm_content=questions Let's pile on it! Sent from my iPhone

[Pharo-users] VoyageMongo questions

2017-04-30 Thread john pfersich
Has anyone tried to use VoyageMongo to connect to a MongoDB instance not on the local machine? I used the VoyageMongo from Smalltalkhub like the "Persisting Objects with Voyage" said and it looks like I had the same problem that Sabine mentioned on Discord; "Not enough space for external objects,

Re: [Pharo-users] Dark theme and white vs. green color

2017-04-28 Thread john pfersich
Thanks, I was looking for "color" in an already open settings browser. That doesn't work. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 28, 2017, at 18:15, Ben Coman wrote: > > > >> On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 5:02 AM, john pfersich wrote: >> I agree, that dark theme i

Re: [Pharo-users] Dark theme and white vs. green color

2017-04-28 Thread john pfersich
I agree, that dark theme is harder to read than green on black. I just want the old light theme, how do I get it? Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 28, 2017, at 09:42, Juraj Kubelka wrote: > > it:

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Pharo Association: Join or Renew now!

2017-02-16 Thread john pfersich
The old site allowed you to put a web site on your profile page. That would be nice to have back. On Feb 16, 2017 01:17, "Marcus Denker" wrote: > We would be very interesting in ideas/improvements wrt. to the > Association/Consortium. > > if you have any ideas —> send me a mail. > > Marcus > >

Re: [Pharo-users] About asSymbol message , some questions in my mind

2017-02-12 Thread john pfersich
BUT There are not compliant below 1.' ' asSymbol no meaning 2. '$%%&' asSymbol no meaning 3. 'sign' asSymbol = 'sign ' asSymbol >>> false because of space. 3. ' one two three ' asSymbol >>>I think It should become three symbols = #one, #two, #

Re: [Pharo-users] WCAG color contrast rules - was: Re: These beautiful tooltips

2017-02-03 Thread John Pfersich
The over button means step over the message highlighted, the through button means step into the message highlighted and single step through the statements in the message. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 3, 2017, at 13:29, Hilaire wrote: > > > >> Le 03/02/2017 à 17:12, Tudor Girba a écrit : >>

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo not opening my image automatically

2017-01-29 Thread John Pfersich
I don't know, on MacOS I always have dragged the image I want to open to the pharo app. That works for me. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 29, 2017, at 04:30, Dimitris Chloupis wrote: > > Did you guys receive my message, or did it go to your spam folder ? None has > an answer for my problem ? >

Re: [Pharo-users] Reverse interval

2017-01-05 Thread John Pfersich
I can see uses for C, but C++ just turns my stomachs, and has since 1986, when I first experienced it 😠. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 5, 2017, at 00:46, Dimitris Chloupis wrote: > > plus I hate C/C++ with a vengeance , so :D

Re: [Pharo-users] Can pharo association web page point to association.pharo.org, like the consortium one?

2016-11-05 Thread John Pfersich
Great! Thanks for all your work. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 5, 2016, at 04:31, Marcus Denker wrote: > > Hi, > > Current Status: > > - SPF record DONE, mails are now send from @association.pharo.org > - DNS setup now uses association.pharo.org for normal viewing, just forms > forward to ht

[Pharo-users] Pharo Association

2016-10-03 Thread John Pfersich
I went to the Pharo Association web site (http://association.pharo.org) to change my profile, but I didn't find any way to alter it. Am I missing something? Sent from my iPad

Re: [Pharo-users] Intro to Microsoft COM for Smalltalkers

2016-10-02 Thread John Pfersich
Hey, all you have to do is reboot your computer (often). Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 1, 2016, at 22:53, Dimitris Chloupis wrote: > > Ah the ugliness of Windoom programming has not changed since the last time I > tried to learn MFC 20 years ago.it melts my eyes. > > COM is an IPC tool, Wind

Re: [Pharo-users] Why is split: implemented in the separator rather than the string?

2016-05-19 Thread John Pfersich
If you want to do it reversed, do it like this: '1969-07-20' splitOn: '-' > On May 19, 2016, at 11:48, Andy Burnett > wrote: > > I keep getting this wrong, which makes me wonder why we send split: to the > separator rather than the thing to be split. Is there a benefit to doing > > $- split

Re: [Pharo-users] Best way to clear the Transcript?

2016-05-02 Thread john pfersich
Transcript clear works for me in Pharo 4 and 5 images. On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 11:52 PM, Peter Uhnák wrote: > What version of Pharo? > > `Transcript clear.` does exactly that. :) > > On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 8:49 AM, p...@highoctane.be > wrote: > >> I am looking for a way to clear the Transcript.

Re: [Pharo-users] Tabular ODS import

2016-04-21 Thread John Pfersich
> On Apr 20, 2016, at 23:55, Alistair Grant wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:43:19PM +0200, Cyril Ferlicot D. wrote: >> Le 20/04/2016 22:47, Alistair Grant a écrit : >>> So, time to learn more about Monticello... Reading the Updated PbE is >>> helpful, however I did notice one thing which

Re: [Pharo-users] final version of pharo syntax cheat page

2016-04-18 Thread John Pfersich
Under Methods, you might want to change it to this: Methods are public and virtual. They are always looked up in the class of the receiver. By default a method returns self. Class methods follow the same dynamic lookup as instance methods. Method factorial defined in class Integer. Sent fro

Re: [Pharo-users] Trapping the Pharo window close event

2016-04-16 Thread John Pfersich
> On Apr 16, 2016, at 03:30, Damien Pollet > wrote: > >> On 16 April 2016 at 11:33, kmo wrote: >> /Pharo is yours, so you can add it. :)/ >> >> Yes, but I don't want to add it. I expect it to be there out of the box. > > If you expect a perfect system out of the box, you will never get it.

Re: [Pharo-users] First impressions, was About Box

2016-04-12 Thread John Pfersich
> On Apr 12, 2016, at 10:51, Alistair Grant wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 09:02:52PM +0200, Serge Stinckwich wrote: >> Thank you. I was talking about your experience with Pharo :-) >> But your description is nice also. > > Ahh, right, sorry about that. > > Pharo 5.0 first impressions fr

Re: [Pharo-users] Use Shell Command from Pharo

2016-03-19 Thread john pfersich
0. On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 10:35 PM, john pfersich wrote: > if you do something like this: > > | p d | > p := (PipeableOSProcess command: 'touch files.txt'). > p keepInitialStdOutOpen: true. > d := Delay forMilliseconds: 250. > d wait. > [Transcript show: (p nex

Re: [Pharo-users] Use Shell Command from Pharo

2016-03-18 Thread john pfersich
if you do something like this: | p d | p := (PipeableOSProcess command: 'touch files.txt'). p keepInitialStdOutOpen: true. d := Delay forMilliseconds: 250. d wait. [Transcript show: (p next: 300); flush. p atEnd] whileFalse: [d wait]. Transcript show: (p errorUpToEnd). p closeOutput. then you'll

Re: [Pharo-users] Using the new OSProcess still no Stdout string

2016-03-05 Thread john pfersich
I just loaded the latest image and vm using curl get.pharo.org/alpha+vmLatest | bash and OSProcess and CommandShell seem to work OK. On Friday, March 4, 2016, john pfersich wrote: > You want to use waitForCommand: instead of command:, like > > Transcript show: (Pipeable

Re: [Pharo-users] Using the new OSProcess still no Stdout string

2016-03-05 Thread john pfersich
next: 300); flush. p isComplete] whileFalse: [d wait]. Transcript show: 'Error output'; cr; show: (p errorUpToEnd). p closeOutput. The netstat takes forever on a Mac, which is why the delays are so long. The On Friday, March 4, 2016, john pfersich wrote: > You want to use wai

[Pharo-users] (no subject)

2016-03-04 Thread john pfersich
I tried to execute curl get.pharo.org/alpha+vm | bash I executed it 8 times and it terminated after downloading the image. I finally tried curl get.pharo.org/alpha+vmLatest | bash and it worked the first time. Is there a problem with the alpha+vm script? Trying to test OSSubprocess.

Re: [Pharo-users] Using the new OSProcess still no Stdout string

2016-03-04 Thread john pfersich
You want to use waitForCommand: instead of command:, like Transcript show: (PipeableOSProcess waitForCommand: 'whoami') output command: doesn't wait for output and is useful only for commands that don't return anything. It's kind of useless for anything that returns values. I haven't tried this o

Re: [Pharo-users] Library for shell interfacing on Mac

2016-02-29 Thread john pfersich
Forgot add that this info is from http://pharo.gemtalksystems.com/book/PharoTools/OSProcess/ On Monday, February 29, 2016, john pfersich wrote: > I use OSProcess and CommandShell in Pharo 4.0. Works well. Load them by > > Gofer new > squeaksource: 'OSProcess'; > pac

Re: [Pharo-users] Library for shell interfacing on Mac

2016-02-29 Thread john pfersich
I use OSProcess and CommandShell in Pharo 4.0. Works well. Load them by Gofer new squeaksource: 'OSProcess'; package: 'OSProcess'; load. Gofer new squeaksource: 'CommandShell'; package: 'CommandShell-Piping'; load. and then do something like PipeableOSProcess command: 'netstat -a | grep LISTEN |

Re: [Pharo-users] how to import a grammar file into Pharo

2016-02-23 Thread John Pfersich
Personally, l wish for a new ANSI Smalltalk group to convene to extend the standard to more areas of the language. I know it's a pipe dream, but it sure would be nice. Sent from my iPad > On Feb 22, 2016, at 23:36, stepharo wrote: > > pay attention VW code is not Pharo code. > > Le 21/2/16

[Pharo-users] Fwd: [squeak-dev] New Cog VMs available as per VMMaker.oscog-eem.1679/r3602

2016-02-15 Thread John Pfersich
FYI. I noticed that Eliot didn't send to Pharo-users. Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: > From: Eliot Miranda > Date: February 15, 2016 at 11:39:29 PST > To: Squeak Virtual Machine Development Discussion > > Cc: "newspeaklangu...@googlegroups.com" , > Discusses Development of Pharo

Re: [Pharo-users] Bloc Space within a Space

2016-02-15 Thread John Pfersich
+1 - I've been doing TDD commercially since 2003 and as far as I can tell it's a great way to squash bugs. I'd be willing to write tests. Sent from my iPad > On Feb 15, 2016, at 01:36, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > > >> On 15 Feb 2016, at 10:27, stepharo wrote: >> >> Sean I agree that TDD

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo Sound does not work on Pharo 4

2016-01-17 Thread john pfersich
No, it's age. I'm 63 and I forget stuff all the time. That's why I cut back the languages I program in to a few. I used to eat up new languages like candy. On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 9:40 AM, stepharo wrote: > > > Le 17/1/16 17:17, Dimitris Chloupis a écrit : > > hehe you forget who translated this

Re: [Pharo-users] (no subject)

2016-01-17 Thread John Pfersich
nt from my iPad > On Jan 17, 2016, at 01:38, Dimitris Chloupis wrote: > > john I had exactly the same problem as you, I think its a hiccup of the > server sometimes it does this , I tried it again and worked fine. > >> On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 11:37 AM john pfersich w

Re: [Pharo-users] (no subject)

2016-01-17 Thread john pfersich
It worked this time. It takes about 5 minutes from Nevada, USA. Thanks. On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 12:46 AM, Tudor Girba wrote: > Hi, > > I just tried and it worked fine. Could you try again? > > Doru > > > > On Jan 17, 2016, at 9:28 AM, john pfersich wrote: > &g

[Pharo-users] (no subject)

2016-01-17 Thread john pfersich
When I try to download the latest stable Pharo 5, I get this: curl get.pharo.org/50+vm | bash % Total% Received % Xferd Average Speed TimeTime Time Current Dload Upload Total SpentLeft Speed 100 2901 100 29010 0 4931 0

Re: [Pharo-users] [ann] gtdebugger in pharo 5.0

2016-01-10 Thread John Pfersich
Sent from my iPad > On Jan 10, 2016, at 06:08, Ben Coman wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 6:24 PM, Tudor Girba wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We are about to integrate in Pharo a new member of the Glamorous Toolkit: >> the GTDebugger. As this is a significant change that might affect your >>

[Pharo-users] Pine64

2016-01-07 Thread John Pfersich
I've pre-ordered a Pine64 SBC. The write up says it's got a "1.2 Ghz Quad-Core ARM Cortex A53 64-Bit Processor. It has 64 and 32 Bit execution states for scalable high performance power – including a NEON Multimedia processing engine." Does anybody have an idea whether the vm for the raspberry

Re: [Pharo-users] Lawsuit Tracker app

2016-01-04 Thread John Pfersich
> On Jan 4, 2016, at 02:23, Saša Janiška wrote: > >> On Ned, 2016-01-03 at 12:49 +0100, Esteban Lorenzano wrote: >> >> you have it: >> >> http://catalog.pharo.org > > That's nice, but there are, imho, too many pkgs with "No description > provided", so maybe that should be made as mandatory?

Re: [Pharo-users] Lawsuit Tracker app

2016-01-03 Thread John Pfersich
Sent from my iPad > On Jan 3, 2016, at 03:49, Esteban Lorenzano wrote: > > >> On 03 Jan 2016, at 10:11, John Pfersich wrote: >> >> >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >>>> On Jan 2, 2016, at 23:57, Saša Janiška wrote: >>>

Re: [Pharo-users] Lawsuit Tracker app

2016-01-03 Thread John Pfersich
that can be found here > > https://github.com/SquareBracketAssociates > >> On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 11:12 AM John Pfersich wrote: >> >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> > On Jan 2, 2016, at 23:57, Saša Janiška wrote: >> > >> >> On

Re: [Pharo-users] Lawsuit Tracker app

2016-01-03 Thread John Pfersich
Sent from my iPad > On Jan 2, 2016, at 23:57, Saša Janiška wrote: > >> On Sub, 2016-01-02 at 23:27 +, Dimitris Chloupis wrote: >> >> there is an an SQlite wrapper for pharo > > I know about it. > > However it would be nice to have some categorized catalog of the > packages available fo

Re: [Pharo-users] Rocket Chat - An open source alternative to Slack

2015-12-17 Thread John Pfersich
Sorry, I set it up on my laptop. Not an ideal place for a chat system, and my isp doesn't support rocket chat. Sent from my iPad > On Dec 16, 2015, at 23:58, Dimitris Chloupis wrote: > > Where ? >> On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 at 08:21, John Pfersich wrote: >> I set up a p

Re: [Pharo-users] Rocket Chat - An open source alternative to Slack

2015-12-16 Thread John Pfersich
I set up a public #pharo channel. Join it! Sent from my iPad > On Dec 16, 2015, at 02:04, Dimitris Chloupis wrote: > > So since Slack has been so successful for our community , far more that IRC > has been in terms of participation and useful discussions (at least the 2 > years I have been ar

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

2015-12-01 Thread John Pfersich
gt; (this sites -association, consortium- need some serious work, I’m afraid… and > no time right now :( ) > > cheers, > Esteban > > >> On 01 Dec 2015, at 01:14, John Pfersich wrote: >> >> I have tried to join the association in the past, but I get an error mes

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