[Pharo-users] Available to join a project

me LOTS of lessons and made me solve lots of interesting problems with Smalltalk. Let me know if you want to chat to see if I could help with your company/project! You can write me to: sebastianconc...@gmail.com Sebastian Sastre More about my developer story here: http://sebastiansastre.co

[Pharo-users] MongoCursor>>execute raising 'Unexpected responseTo in response'

Hi All, Holger... I’ve seen this today: http://forum.world.st/MongoCursor-gt-gt-execute-and-MongoTalk-changes-td4889293.html After talking with some people in the Pharo chat group at Discord about this erra

[Pharo-users] [ANN] airflowing shut down

Hi guys, TL;DR: it didn’t reached expectations so we’re shutting down and moving on into other business that are doing great. More details in the release available here: http://airflowing.com Including references to the parts we’ve open-sourced The Smalltalk community has a special place in my

Re: [Pharo-users] when iterating over a collection how to determine the current objects index

In such cases I might use a stream and monitor the `stream position` and iterate with [ stream atEnd ] whileFalse: [ item := stream next. stream position even ifTrue: [ self highlight: item ]. ] from mobile > On 10/03/2015, at 09:11, Sanjay Minni wrote: > > Hi > > when iterating

Re: [Pharo-users] Why `aFileReference asString = aFileReference fullName` is false?

> On Mar 10, 2015, at 12:57 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > > the standard string representation of an abstract platform independent > representation of a file should be that: abstract & platform independent (it > would be terrible to mask that behind a platform dependent external > repres

Re: [Pharo-users] Why `aFileReference asString = aFileReference fullName` is false?

> On Mar 10, 2015, at 8:43 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > > OK, both of the following make sense > > /Users/sven/Desktop/foo.txt > file:///Users/sven/Desktop/foo.txt > > But what about native (OS platform) conventions ? > > I don't want to see Windows backslashes, but Windows user might

Re: [Pharo-users] Why `aFileReference asString = aFileReference fullName` is false?

; >> On 09 Mar 2015, at 16:06, Sebastian Sastre >> wrote: >> >> A frequent thing to do is to work with files, so their paths. >> >> Take the image directory for example: >> >> `FileLocator imageDirectory resolve asString` >> >> 1)

[Pharo-users] Why `aFileReference asString = aFileReference fullName` is false?

A frequent thing to do is to work with files, so their paths. Take the image directory for example: `FileLocator imageDirectory resolve asString` 1) What’s the reason to make `aFileReference asString` to be different to what `aFileReference fullName` answers? 2) What’s the practical use of the

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Language Detection API Client

nice one Hernán You are on fire lately! Thanks for sharing from mobile > On 28/02/2015, at 03:48, Hernán Morales Durand > wrote: > > Hello, > > Language Detection API is a service to query the language of a given input > text. You will need to register an API key in the web site > http://

Re: [Pharo-users] Postdoc position at INRIA Chile

Maravilloso, no sabía que había INRIA en Chile Congratulations and hats off to the ones that made that happen > On Feb 27, 2015, at 5:21 PM, Alexandre Bergel wrote: > > Dear All, > > I have just received a announcement for a position at INRIA Chile. > Here is an extract from the call. It is w

Re: [Pharo-users] On GUI design and how to benchmark it

how > to say, intriguing. > > Doesn't bode well for the well researched :( > > Thierry > > Le 15/02/2015 14:08, Sebastian Sastre a écrit : >> Hi guys, >> >> I saw the interest in GUI lately and today I come across this really >> well researched ma

Re: [Pharo-users] GSOC 2015 Call for Ideas

Great! Forked repo, starred and PR sent: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-project-proposals/pull/1 keep up the good work! > On Feb 15, 2015, at 12:23 PM, Serge Stinckwich > wrote: > > Dear pharoers, > > this year Phar

[Pharo-users] On GUI design and how to benchmark it

Hi guys, I saw the interest in GUI lately and today I come across this really well researched master thesis paper that can put some light on how good we can perform in the GUI spectrum in terms of practicality, expressivity and productivity Introduction Even though OOP was born with the SIMU

Re: [Pharo-users] voyage and couchDB

CouchDB is an interesting backend, I’m also interested on having this option available looking forward to comments > On Feb 14, 2015, at 10:43 AM, Joachim Tuchel wrote: > > Hi there, > > a few days ago somebody showed me Pharo with Voyage and MongoDB. I must say I > was impressed by how eas

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] PUnQLite NoSQL database project updated

I would really like to have a Pharo client for unQLite I have places that would use it :) > On Feb 14, 2015, at 6:30 AM, Stephan Eggermont wrote: > > If I use the file from > https://github.com/mumez/PunQLite/tree/master/binary/mac > at least the library is found. The db file is not create

Re: [Pharo-users] GSOC 2015 application

t; I will not edit your item but you can do a pull request :) > > https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-project-proposals > > Stef > > Le 11/2/15 19:37, Sebastian Sastre a écrit : >> Okay here comes some notes I’ve compiled: >> >> >> VOSS for P

Re: [Pharo-users] GSOC 2015 application

> On Feb 11, 2015, at 5:08 PM, Esteban A. Maringolo > wrote: > > Syntax extensions (pluggable?): > I know we have many alternatives, which I used and are more than > acceptable , but I'd like to write JSON as close as possible to its > original syntax. +1 except I would not say that "I want to

Re: [Pharo-users] GSOC 2015 application

Okay here comes some notes I’ve compiled: VOSS for Pharo http://voss.logicarts.com/ Implications: a completely object oriented database industry proven would have a legacy and a open sourced release empowering Pharo users and startups to stay object oriented even w

Re: [Pharo-users] GSOC 2015 application

> On Feb 11, 2015, at 12:26 PM, Ben Coman wrote: > > it should be achievable in 12 weeks That’s a great constraint! I’m starting to take notes to share

Re: [Pharo-users] GSOC 2015 application

+1 Can I brainstorm a wishlist? I could get wild on it :D > On Feb 11, 2015, at 9:19 AM, Stephan Eggermont wrote: > > Some project ideas > > 1 Better support for cross-platform co-development > > Glorp is originally maintained in VisualWorks. We now have a version > in Pharo that is forked

Re: [Pharo-users] Externally signalling pharo VM for shutdown

You can do it with kill -15 PID And, this (requires OSProcess): makeStopHook "Answers the process that hooks to the OS signal that makes this worker to shutdown when the VM process receives a TERM signal from the OS." ^ [|semaphore|

[Pharo-users] DateAndTime>>fromJavaScriptTime:

Hi guys, When you have a JavaScript date number like: new Date(1412279266711) for Thu Oct 02 2014 16:47:46 GMT-0300 (BRT) It would be really great to be able to do in Pharo something like: DateAndTime fromJavaScriptTime: 1412279266711 Do we have something that can do that?

Re: [Pharo-users] REST approach?

> On Feb 4, 2015, at 2:05 AM, Cameron Sanders via Pharo-users > wrote: > > > Date: February 4, 2015 at 2:05:21 AM GMT-2 > Subject: REST approach? > From: Cameron Sanders > To: Any question about pharo is welcome > > > > Our app runs on Pharo and Gemstone and must continue to do so. We use

Re: [Pharo-users] Slides from the Pharo Status talk at FOSDEM 2015

> On Feb 3, 2015, at 11:18 AM, kilon alios wrote: > > But the more user it will get the more inflexible will become to change. > That's a big price to pay for abandoning the nomad life. Note that, that statement, is not exactly true. The more users it gets, the more social pressure the commu

[Pharo-users] [OT] Two questions about coding with Amber

Hi there! I hope this not get too off topic here but I consider Amber and Pharo to be kind of best friends and we need more data/input for this to improve the development experience. Did you tried or use Amber ? We want to have some insight and understand better this tw

Re: [Pharo-users] students looking for projects?

> On Jan 30, 2015, at 12:35 AM, Sebastian Heidbrink wrote: > > I saw your lab: "implement a REST API server in Smalltalk" > > You may want to have a look at: swagger > https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-spec > > and the additional parts around

Re: [Pharo-users] smalltalk workshops (building a webserver) after code-in

This is awesome We needed this! small feeback: the player didn’t work on Safari OS X and in Chrome the streaming was too poor. YouTube or Vimeo usually removes all those issues for you Thanks for sharing and keep up that excellent work! > On Jan 29, 2015, at 2:52 AM, Martin Bähr > wrote:

Re: [Pharo-users] Supporting Start up around Pharo

<3 Awesome initiative! Looking forward to see what comes from this! > On Jan 28, 2015, at 8:51 AM, stepharo wrote: > > Hi guys > > if you are considering to create a start up around Pharo, we could find one > year financial support > if this is serious and that you would like to come to wo

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Pharo Consortium New Academic Partner: FAST: Fundación Argentina de Smalltalk

This is great news!!! <3 Congratulations to all that helped make it happen! > On Jan 27, 2015, at 10:29 AM, Marcus Denker wrote: > > The Pharo Consortium is very happy to announce that the FAST: Fundación > Argentina de Smalltalk has joined the Consortium as an Academic Partner. > > About

Re: [Pharo-users] improving print-it in playground

thanks for making easy to contribute! Expect PR anytime > On Jan 25, 2015, at 4:54 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > > >> On 25 Jan 2015, at 18:59, Sebastian Sastre >> wrote: >> >> Sure, I’d gladly sent you a merge request to get that improved >>

Re: [Pharo-users] improving print-it in playground

Sure, I’d gladly sent you a merge request to get that improved Let me know how I could take a look > On Jan 25, 2015, at 3:34 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > > >> On 25 Jan 2015, at 18:24, Sebastian Sastre >> wrote: >> >> - the shared snippet page ha

Re: [Pharo-users] improving print-it in playground

It’s really nice to see innovation in this area. I feel grateful for this work. Here comes my UX notes Things I like: - Publish to the cloud - Able to copy-paste the content of the box with feedback - Encourages inspect of that very instance (this one was really good!) - transforms the printed

Re: [Pharo-users] Popular

> On Jan 24, 2015, at 4:22 AM, vfclists . wrote: > > It would help if the Pharo By Example book was integrated into Pharo itself, > so that both using it and updating it would be in the same environment. Is it > like that already? Offering an easy install in one shot would be really nice but

Re: [Pharo-users] Pillar A4 :)

Yes! all that :D The Mapless on Postgres card is getting dusty: https://trello.com/c/KelkWrdk/52-mapless-on-postgres We should pair on that Esteban! Also anyone else interested to pair on it is welcome. Mongo is okay but Postgres JSON got

Re: [Pharo-users] Mea Culpa

> On Jan 22, 2015, at 9:02 PM, off...@riseup.net wrote: > > Trying to listen the community __before__ tracing the goals for SRP is my > main message here. A more "etnographer" approach instead of the "saleman" > one, if I can make the analogy. This is good advice. Also Ben’s. Richard that att

Re: [Pharo-users] Blitzkrieg!

Please don’t take it as self-censorship but as strategy on communication. It’s fine that you have a taste for history but you need to calculate the way you make rapport (or not) with your audience and don’t let it interfere too much with your message. I don’t feel your inner sophisticated handl

Re: [Pharo-users] Blitzkrieg!

Sometimes you want to polarise people but there is nothing interesting as output of this particular one, please consider review that inner joke Richard So I agree, that this particular vocabulary will polarise people in an inconvenient way. > On Jan 18, 2015, at 6:30 AM, jtuc...@objektfabrik

Re: [Pharo-users] InfoWorld on Redline Smalltalk

> On Jan 17, 2015, at 3:18 PM, kilon alios wrote: > > So overall I doubt that Smalltalk will ever be a big hit on JVM or > Javascript. Everybody is a looser if you frame it in that perspective. That game is not interesting, nor strategy wise. An interesting alternative is to create the oppo