Re: [Pharo-users] What is the idiomatic way to store data in pharo?

2020-01-28 Thread HilaireFernandes
Steve Quezadas wrote > Do I connect to some sort mysql database or is there a better "smalltalk" > way to do it? The Pharo way is Fuel, it will let you persist a tree of object. The package is present in Pharo by default. Easy and fast. It is documented in one of the Pharo book. Another way is J

[Pharo-users] [ANN] New Headless VM (Still Alpha, but getting better)

2020-01-28 Thread teso...@gmail.com
A new version of the headless VM is available. It can be downloaded from: https://files.pharo.org/vm/pharo-spur64-headless/win/PharoVM-8.3.0-b612fd5f-win64-bin.zip https://files.pharo.org/vm/pharo-spur64-headless/linux/PharoVM-8.3.0-b612fd5-linux64-bin.zip https://files.pharo.org/vm/pharo-spur64-

Re: [Pharo-users] smalltalk conferences

2020-01-28 Thread Mariano Martinez Peck
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:30 PM tbrunz wrote: > We need to start one. Along with a North American version of ESUG. > > There are a few Camp Smalltalk held in United States. The last one held by Instantiations at Charlotte, NC last year [1] was more like a small conference rather than a Camp and

Re: [Pharo-users] smalltalk conferences

2020-01-28 Thread Steve Quezadas
Yeah, I went to the portland one, it was great. I regretted missing the Charlotte one. On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 4:46 AM Mariano Martinez Peck wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:30 PM tbrunz wrote: > >> We need to start one. Along with a North American version of ESUG. >> >> > There are a f

Re: [Pharo-users] Is Pharo is a good frontend system for a game console?

2020-01-28 Thread tbrunz
What makes Lua a cool programming language? It shares a lot of great characteristics with Pharo... - Can do OOP, functional programming, imperative -- it's your choice. - There are only 8 data types, and all are first-class values. - Multiple return values! Constructs such as x,y = y,x. - All fu

[Pharo-users] Latest PharoJS Success Story

2020-01-28 Thread N. Bouraqadi
The latest PharoJS-powered smartphone app is now live. Development has been made using Pharo. Then, javascript code is generated using PharoJS. Last, the app is built to target both iOS and Android thanks to Apache Cordova. Learn more and Download at https://nootrix.com/projects/brain-treats-app/

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo image processing library

2020-01-28 Thread Pablo Navarro
Hi everyone! after what we talked about the other day, I started to work with the test cases of Form. I don´t know if the best form for share but I load some in my Github: https://github.com/pablo1n7/FormTest. There are still many tests to do but it's a beginning. For the other hand, I created

Re: [Pharo-users] Latest PharoJS Success Story

2020-01-28 Thread Steve Quezadas
Does Apache cordova drain a lot of battery from the phone? On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 10:19 AM N. Bouraqadi wrote: > The latest PharoJS-powered smartphone app is now live. > Development has been made using Pharo. > Then, javascript code is generated using PharoJS. > Last, the app is built to target

Re: [Pharo-users] What is the idiomatic way to store data in pharo?

2020-01-28 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Steve, You could try with NeoJSON[1] and serialize the image as bytecodes (or urls to pictures in the web). Is pretty simple and gives you a plain and portable representation of your Quote of the Day data. Grafoscopio, the prototype I made, uses NeoJSON to store its notebooks. It's also a pretty w

[Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-28 Thread Richard Kenneth Eng
I've added a Resources page to my new blog: https://smalltalk.tech.blog/resources/. It is very much a *curated *list. I felt this was needed because when I visit other Smalltalk resources pages, I get overwhelmed by the number of links and options. It is possible to have *too many* choices. Moreo

Re: [Pharo-users] Latest PharoJS Success Story

2020-01-28 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Hey - that’s really cool. Simple, but certainly inspired me... thanks for pushing on this! Sent from my iPhone Sent from my iPhone > On 28 Jan 2020, at 18:18, N. Bouraqadi wrote: > > The latest PharoJS-powered smartphone app is now live. > Development has been made using Pharo. > Then, java

Re: [Pharo-users] Latest PharoJS Success Story

2020-01-28 Thread tbrunz
Indeed. I've already reposted it, on my firm's inside chat tool (Slack), and just got someone new interested in Pharo, from the middle of a discussion on the confusion JavaScript is famous for: "This is my first time hearing of Pharo." followed by (after reading my links to PharoJS and your po

Re: [Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-28 Thread tbrunz
Very good, Richard -- this is helpful, and is a great page to refer people to. The image(?) under "Miscellaneous" is broken (at least in my browser; the other links all work.) You might consider adding a link to "A Terse Guide to Pharo", https://gist.github.com/jdevoo/8e8866cd6087e05790841d0f20b

Re: [Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-28 Thread Richard Sargent
Thank you, Richard. Would you be kind enough to annotate the GemStone link to point out that we have a free license that permits commercial use, not only personal use. Thanks again for all your hard work! On January 28, 2020 2:24:16 PM PST, Richard Kenneth Eng wrote: >I've added a Resources

Re: [Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-28 Thread horrido
tbrunz wrote > Very good, Richard -- this is helpful, and is a great page to refer people > to. > > The image(?) under "Miscellaneous" is broken (at least in my browser; the > other links all work.) Fixed. Thanks. > You might consider adding a link to "A Terse Guide to Pharo", > https://gist.g

Re: [Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-28 Thread horrido
Done. I didn't realize there was a free license for GemStone/S. Too bad VA Smalltalk doesn't offer a free license. Richard Sargent (again) wrote > Thank you, Richard. > > Would you be kind enough to annotate the GemStone link to point out that > we have a free license that permits commercial u

Re: [Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-28 Thread Richard Sargent
Thanks. On Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 17:21 horrido wrote: > Done. I didn't realize there was a free license for GemStone/S. > > Too bad VA Smalltalk doesn't offer a free license. > I believe they do. > > > Richard Sargent (again) wrote > > Thank you, Richard. > > > > Would you be kind enough to ann

Re: [Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-28 Thread Dale Henrichs
I think the free license is contingent upon having contributed to an open source project. Also there appears to be free trial version[1]. Dale [1] https://www.instantiations.com/products/vasmalltalk/download.html On 1/28/20 5:25 PM, Richard Sargent wrote: Thanks. On Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 17:21

Re: [Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-28 Thread horrido
I never consider a trial version as a free product. As far as I'm considered, it's only free (or Community Edition) if I can use it indefinitely. Dale Henrichs-3 wrote > I think the free license is contingent upon having contributed to an > open source project. Also there appears to be free tri

Re: [Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-28 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- I don't know if it's still the case but "trial version" for VAST, in the past, only meant that you could use the product forever but you didn't have the possibility to create an executable iirc. On 2020-01-28 20:37, horrido wrote: I never consider a trial version as a fre

Re: [Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-28 Thread horrido
If someone can confirm that this is still true, I'll update the Resources Page. Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list wrote > I don't know if it's still the case but "trial version" for VAST, in the > past, only meant that you could use the product forever but you didn't > have the possibility to

Re: [Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-28 Thread Mariano Martinez Peck
On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 10:26 PM Richard Sargent < richard.sarg...@gemtalksystems.com> wrote: > Thanks. > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 17:21 horrido wrote: > >> Done. I didn't realize there was a free license for GemStone/S. >> >> Too bad VA Smalltalk doesn't offer a free license. >> > > I believe the

Re: [Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-28 Thread Mariano Martinez Peck
On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 11:35 PM Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users < pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> wrote: > I don't know if it's still the case but "trial version" for VAST, in the > past, only meant that you could use the product forever but you didn't > have the possibility to create an executable i

Re: [Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-28 Thread Vince Refiti
Hi Richard For Dolphin Smalltalk there are youtube videos by Andy Bower (co-creator of Dolphin) showing Dolphin Successfully running in MacOS under Wineskin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9HhHFJn5gg). It should almost certainly run under Wine as well. So maybe you mighlt like to add that it