Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk Programming Competition

So far, we've raised CA$2,400 from 18 generous contributors. Not bad for the first two weeks of the GoFundMe campaign: https://www.gofundme.com/smalltalk-programming-competition I've lowered the funding goal to $25,000. So we're now about 10% of the way to the target. Meanwhile, I've been busy pr

Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk Programming Competition

le as we can. I will bet dollars to doughnuts that not every Smalltalk fan in the world is aware of this campaign and programming competition. It only takes about 1,000 people giving a paltry $20 each to make this happen. How hard can it be? horrido wrote > So far, we've raised CA$2,400

Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk Programming Competition

Actually, my math is wrong: 800 people x C$20 will make this happen! We're so close, I can smell it! horrido wrote > It's been one full month since the GoFundMe campaign began. We've raised > C$3,080 from 25 generous contributors. It's a good start, but we're sti

[Pharo-users] What are the biggest myths about Smalltalk?

I published What are the biggest myths about Smalltalk? earlier this week. FYI, this person gave an account of his experience with Pharo

[Pharo-users] Voyage

I'm trying to load Voyage for MongoDB and I'm having great difficulty. The docs seem to be out of date. What are the current instructions for doing this? The docs also refer to "Configurations Browser" in World Menu/Tools, but there is no longer any such thing. -- Sent from: http://forum.world

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo on Linux

How do I run pharo? ./pharo Pharo.image & doesn't work. -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo on Linux

. CyrilFerlicot wrote > On Sat 17 Nov 2018 at 22:05, horrido < > horrido.hobbies@ > > wrote: > >> How do I run pharo? >> >> ./pharo Pharo.image & > > > ./pharo-ui Pharo.image > > >> >> doesn't work. >> >> >> >

Re: [Pharo-users] External module not found

That's what I'm trying to determine. This used to work before with Pharo 5. With the latest Pharo setup, it's not clear where I'm supposed to place the libshacrypt.so file. It has to be located where the Pharo VM can find it, I presume. This may be a 32 vs 64 bit issue. I am investigating... v

Re: [Pharo-users] Issue with starting 32-bit Pharo under Linux

I just discovered why! I have to run the bloody thing as root! Why the hell is that??? -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

Re: [Pharo-users] Issue with starting 32-bit Pharo under Linux

Yes, of course. It's $home (/home/richard/pharo). Alistair Grant wrote > On Sun, 18 Nov 2018 at 04:55, horrido < > horrido.hobbies@ > > wrote: >> >> I just discovered why! I have to run the bloody thing as root! Why the >> hell >> is that??? >

Re: [Pharo-users] External module not found

All is good now. I replaced my 64-bit Debian with 32-bit Debian. Then, I installed 32-bit Pharo. It's weird that I must run Pharo (which is installed in /home/richard) as root, though. Must be a Debain thing 'cuz it wasn't necessary in Ubuntu. Stephan Eggermont-3

Re: [Pharo-users] My Keynote at the Salta Conference

That doesn't work for me. First of all, my programming competition has a strong marketing component. I cannot see how to market Smalltalk effectively through AoC. My Salta keynote made this very clear. AoC is unfocussed. It's not language-specific. It's basically all over the place. Second, I env

Re: [Pharo-users] My Keynote at the Salta Conference

No, the money isn't lost. I was merely suggesting that without some help, the marketing opportunity for this competition would be lost. I'm not sure you understand how much work is involved in this project. I will be doing a great deal of the heavy lifting. I have to setup the competition website

Re: [Pharo-users] My Keynote at the Salta Conference

y ideas to work on > and keep hitting walls. > > I'm intrigued but need more direction. Whatcha need - ELI5. > > > >> On Nov 20, 2018, at 5:13 PM, horrido < > horrido.hobbies@ > > wrote: >> >> No, the money isn't lost. I was merely s

Re: [Pharo-users] My Keynote at the Salta Conference

I apologize for my premature reaction. I've observed that posts can get lost or forgotten after a week or two amidst many other posts. I was a bit nervous. My attempt at a "reminder" was clumsy. Ben Coman wrote > Getting no takers within a few days doesn't mean the end of the line. > It means th

Re: [Pharo-users] My Keynote at the Salta Conference

>From the very start of my advocacy four years ago, it has always been about marketing. It has always been about reaching out to as many people as possible to raise public awareness. I cannot be sure, but I believe I've reached out to more than 100,000 people around the world who did not previously

Re: [Pharo-users] My Keynote at the Salta Conference

our guy and the number of people who are on top of > the VM enough to pull this off is likely on the order of ten. > > Maybe a different kind of coding contest? I'd try adapting problems from > some existing competition questions. > >> On Nov 20, 2018, at 6:32 PM,

Re: [Pharo-users] VPS difficulties

Using zeroconf, I installed 32-bit Pharo under 64-bit Debian. Pharo refused to run – it threw up a bunch of errors. Mariano Martinez Peck wrote > Run Pharo 32 bits and install 32 bit libs... > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018, 21:07 Richard Kenneth Eng < > horrido.hobbies@ > wrote: > > > I'm creating

Re: [Pharo-users] VPS difficulties

#x27;t work with a 64 bit VM. Of course, recompiling the library for 64 bit is an option, too, but probably more complicated. Cheers, Hans-Martin Am 22. November 2018 9:21:47 vorm. schrieb Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@>: > Just use 64 bit Pharo 7 on a 64 bit Linux and be d

Re: [Pharo-users] VPS difficulties

to tell me where it is, or - remove DISPLAY from your environment. ./pharo-ui: line 11: 8131 Aborted "$DIR"/"pharo-vm/pharo" "$@" -- I thought you could always run 32-bit software in a 64-bit OS, but I guess I'm wrong. Sean P. DeNigris wr

Re: [Pharo-users] My Keynote at the Salta Conference

team wins the scholarship prizes. If we do it well, we should be able to get media attention such as local or national news. -- Sounds good to me! No hacking the VM. It looks like it shouldn't be too difficult to implement. horrido wrote > Thank you for your well-considered respon

Re: [Pharo-users] VPS difficulties

n that > isn't there. Are you trying to run pharo-ui in a debian VPS ? > > You should run 'pharo' and 'pharo-ui', something like this: > > $ pharo myApplication.image > > Search on google for 'pharo headless', you should find plenty of exam

Re: [Pharo-users] VPS difficulties

Okay, I've resolved everything. First, the reason why I'm getting the 'pthread_setschedparam failed' error when I run Pharo under Debian is because it must be run as 'root'! Don't ask me why, but that's the reason why Pharo can't set thread priorities. (This wasn't an issue under Ubuntu Server – go

Re: [Pharo-users] Lambda World 2018 - What FP can learn from Smalltalk by Aditya Siram

I didn't like the fact that he said the Pharo community was really, really tiny, even compared to the likes of Clojure. Because the truth hurts. -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

Re: [Pharo-users] My Keynote at the Salta Conference

All of these are good ideas. But they deviate from my vision. At any rate, my competition idea was a big hit in Salta, and I am committed to moving forward with it. Since nobody has stepped up to the plate, David Buck will try to find time to code the competition. However, progress will be slow be

Re: [Pharo-users] My Keynote at the Salta Conference

; Cheers, > > Offray > > On 24/11/18 7:53, horrido wrote: >> All of these are good ideas. But they deviate from my vision. At any >> rate, my >> competition idea was a big hit in Salta, and I am committed to moving >> forward with it. >> >> Since no

Re: [Pharo-users] My Keynote at the Salta Conference

Of course, that's my preference, too, but I have to take whatever I can get. I'm working against the clock and I need the very best help I can find. And, yes, the most important consideration is success. The basic philosophy I work with is this: A rising tide lifts all boats. Richard Sargent wr

Re: [Pharo-users] VPS difficulties

This works! Everything is copacetic. On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 at 04:02, horrido <horrido.hobbies@> wrote: > Okay, I've resolved everything. First, the reason why I'm getting the > 'pthread_setschedparam failed' error when I run Pharo under Debian is > because it

Re: [Pharo-users] VPS difficulties

If you mean by removing the '-m32' flag, it didn't work for me. I can't remember the error messages. -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

Re: [Pharo-users] VPS difficulties

Bizarre. I've created a new VirtualBox image of Debian and now this solution no longer works! I'm still getting the thread priority warning. So this solution appears to be unreliable. On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 at 04:02, horrido <horrido.hobbies@> wrote: > Okay, I've resolve

Re: [Pharo-users] VPS difficulties

-2 wrote >> On 2 Dec 2018, at 18:40, horrido < > horrido.hobbies@ > > wrote: >> >> Bizarre. I've created a new VirtualBox image of Debian and now this >> solution >> no longer works! I'm still getting the thread priority warning. So this >>

Re: [Pharo-users] VPS difficulties

." > You haven't mentioned whether you logged out and back in again? > > cheers -ben > > On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 at 23:17, horrido < > horrido.hobbies@ > > wrote: > >> I've switched over to Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS. I've repeated all the >>

Re: [Pharo-users] VPS difficulties

gt; sven@ubuntu:~/Documents/pharo7$ ./pharo-ui Pharo.image > > [normal UI] > > Do you have a normal user account ? > Are the permissions on /etc/security/limits.d/pharo.conf root:root ? > >> On 3 Dec 2018, at 16:16, horrido < > horrido.hobbies@ > >

Re: [Pharo-users] VPS difficulties

d... > http://forum.world.st/Unix-heartbeat-thread-vs-itimer-td4928943i20.html > > cheers -ben > > >> On 3 Dec 2018, at 17:47, Norbert Hartl < > norbert@ > > wrote: >> > >> > I didn’t read much of this thread but the VPS might give a hint. I

[Pharo-users] Testing User Agent from Zinc

Is there any way I can check the user agent string from Zinc or Teapot so that I can determine whether the user is on a mobile device? I need to modify the HTML accordingly and it's really, really messy trying to do this with JavaScript (navigator.userAgent) and conditionally inserting innerHTML.

Re: [Pharo-users] Testing User Agent from Zinc

After much digging, I finally found the solution... >From the req parameter in GET, I use: (req headers headers at: 'User-Agent') findString: 'Mobile' horrido wrote > Is there any way I can check the user agent string from Zinc or Teapot so > that I can deter

Re: [Pharo-users] Submitting HTML Forms

Okay, I managed to hack together a solution from the example. It's not pretty but it seems to work. I needed to remain within the Teapot framework. However, I have a question regarding the ZnEntityTooLarge exception. How can I capture it and resume execution? The exception seems to occur before my

[Pharo-users] NeoCSV

I'm trying to load NeoCSV and I'm running into all kinds of problems. First, Catalog Browser will not install it – it fails silently. Second, the following fails with "Could not resolve: Neo-CSV-Core in '/home/richard/pharo blah blah blah": Gofer it smalltalkhubUser: 'SvenVanCaekenberghe' proj

[Pharo-users] Teapot installation

/Something/ has recently changed. The following now incurs an error: Gofer it smalltalkhubUser: 'zeroflag' project: 'Teapot'; configuration; loadStable. The error is: "Could not resolve: ConfigurationOfNeoJSON in /home/richard/blah blah blah" What's going on??? -- Sent from: http://f

[Pharo-users] How to log Teapot activity

Is there a way to log server activity (to Transcript?) with Teapot? Without ZnSecureServer. -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

[Pharo-users] Teapot and SSL

I had this working some many months ago, but now I can't get it to work. Really annoying. The entire process is so arcane... My HTTP server starts like this: Teapot stopAll. Teapot on Get: blah blah blah Then I visit http://localhost:1701/. I created a self-signed cert called newcert.pem. My

Re: [Pharo-users] Teapot and SSL

Okay, I will dispense with the self-signed certificate and purchase a commercial one, say, from Comodo (PositiveSSL). I presume once I get it, the code below will work correctly (?). If not, I'll be back. Sven Van Caekenberghe-2 wrote >> On 20 Dec 2018, at 22:09, horrido < >

Re: [Pharo-users] Teapot and SSL

key; ssl on; location / { proxy_pass http://192.99.58.29:1701; } }* BTW, if you're curious about how my website looks, visit https://teams.jrmpc.ca It's still a work in progress. Things will undoubtedly change. Ben Coman wrote > On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 04:4

Re: [Pharo-users] Teapot and SSL

Why does the forum editor add those stupid anchor tags without permission??? horrido wrote > I've had tons of trouble trying to get Letsencrypt working. It was so > frustrating that I decided to go with PositiveSSL from Comodo. It only > cost > me US$15.76 for two years, so I

Re: [Pharo-users] Teapot and SSL

So you're saying that when users sign in with their passwords or otherwise enter sensitive data, they're protected by SSL, even though the web application is still operating through HTTP? Sven Van Caekenberghe-2 wrote >> On 22 Dec 2018, at 16:52, horrido < > horri

Re: [Pharo-users] Teapot and SSL

<http://192.99.58.29:1701;> http://192.99.58.29:1701; } }* <http://192.99.58.29:1701;> Ben Coman wrote > On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 23:57, horrido < > horrido.hobbies@ > > wrote: >> >> Why does the forum editor add those stupid anchor tags without >>

Re: [Pharo-users] Teapot and SSL

Ignore this message. I got confused by my web browser. Everything is A-okay. horrido wrote > So you're saying that when users sign in with their passwords or otherwise > enter sensitive data, they're protected by SSL, even though the web > application is still ope

Re: [Pharo-users] A volunteer is desperately needed

Fantastic! I have your email, so we can begin collaboration. David Buck has offered to give continuing advice and guidance, should you need it. I may start looking into Bloc and Woden, as well. I don't know how helpful I'll be, since I haven't done much programming in the past decade. Much thanks

Re: [Pharo-users] Bloc Tutorial

If you're referring to this: Metacello new baseline: 'BlocTutorials'; repository: 'github://pharo-graphics/Tutorials/src'; load It made no difference. Same error message. Andrei Chis wrote > Hi, > > Thanks for the bug report. > Can you try loading the latest version for the code o

Re: [Pharo-users] Bloc Tutorial

pdate the content of the > repository and the code. > > Cheers, > Andrei > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 8:06 PM horrido < > horrido.hobbies@ > > wrote: > >> If you're referring to this: >> >> Metacello new >> baseline: 'BlocTutori

Re: [Pharo-users] Bloc Tutorial

nstruction does not pull new changes from remote > repositories. > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 10:11 PM horrido < > horrido.hobbies@ > > wrote: > >> ??? >> >> I'm not using a cloned repository. I'm using Metacello just like in the >> snippet

Re: [Pharo-users] Bloc Tutorial

, 2019 at 12:29 AM horrido < > horrido.hobbies@ > > wrote: > >> So how do I force Iceberg to reload? >> >> >> Andrei Chis wrote >> > If you use repositories that start with `github://` in Metacello you >> are >> > using Iceberg. Iceberg

[Pharo-users] The Greatest Contributors to Smalltalk since 1980

I’m looking for a list of individuals who have contributed greatly to the advancement of Smalltalk, post Xerox PARC period (1972-1980). By advancement, I don’t only mean on a technical basis but on an educational or public awareness basis (this could include books, podcasts, talk circuit, video

[Pharo-users] Re: The Greatest Contributors to Smalltalk since 1980

Thanks to everyone for some great suggestions. I’m coming around to the notion that I asked the wrong question. In the context of Smalltalk’s 50th anniversary, the reason I asked the question is because I noted that in APL’s 50th anniversary celebration, they gave an award to the one individual

[Pharo-users] Re: R: Re: The Greatest Contributors to Smalltalk since 1980

With very few exceptions, no important programming language ever “dies.” Even APL and Forth are still in use today, if only in a small way (including their derivatives like J and Factor). But from the perspective of the programming community at large, if a programming language no longer has a l

[Pharo-users] How many active Smalltalkers worldwide?

I’m guessing between 10 and 20 thousand. I’m guessing a few thousand for each of GemStone/S, Pharo, Squeak, VAST, and VisualWorks. I’m guessing a few hundred for each of Amber, Cuis, Dolphin, and GNU.

[Pharo-users] How to indent block of text

Has indenting text changed in Pharo? Ctrl-Alt-R and Ctrl-Alt-L don’t work for me anymore. Thanks.

[Pharo-users] Re: How to indent block of text

No. I meant this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13675260/how-to-indent-a-block-of-code-in-pharo-squeak Pierre Misse wrote: > Ctrl+maj+f applies the formatting, which is configurable IIRC. > Is it what you're looking for? > > On 10/22/2021 10:35 PM, horrido.hobb...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Ha

[Pharo-users] Re: How to indent block of text

Thanks. I need to have this engraved on my forehead. Esteban Lorenzano wrote: > hi, > > the command is : ctrl+shift+(l or r) > Esteban > On Oct 23 2021, at 2:44 pm, horrido.hobb...@gmail.com wrote: > > > No. I meant this: > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13675260/how-to-indent-a-block-of-

[Pharo-users] [ANN] Last Day for JRMPC Registration

We only have 10 registrations. This is a major disappointment. Why the low turnout? We believe it’s because of the pandemic. High school students are tired and stressed out. The last thing they’re thinking about is a programming competition. We will make the best of a bad situation. The competi

[Pharo-users] [ANN] Registration Reminder for Camp Smalltalk

Just a reminder to everyone that they should register their presentation at Camp Smalltalk by **March 13**, 2022. Here's the registration link:  . Please spread the word. Thanks.

[Pharo-users] [ANN] When Pigeons Talk: The Evolution of Programming Education

I’d like to give a shout out to David Buck’s latest project: https://richardeng.medium.com/when-pigeons-talk-the-evolution-of-programming-education-6a12790ec5ea I think it’s a very worthy project and it deserves your support. By the way, he’s one of the four keynote speakers at Camp Smalltalk S

[Pharo-users] [ANN] Announcing the Winner of the 2022 JRMPC Competition

I am pleased to announce the winner of this year's JRMPC competition. The judges reviewed all the submissions and came to the extraordinary decision that only **Ana DuCristea** of John G. Diefenbaker High School in Calgary, AB was worthy of an award. Her work was outstanding and constituted enor

[Pharo-users] [ANN] Camp Smalltalk Supreme's Speaker Line-up

Here it is: https://campsmalltalksupreme.wordpress.com/2020/06/28/daily-events/ Looks like a very strong event!

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