Hi,
As I said, I have trying to find my way to keep Pharo relevant in my
computing experience. Most of it happens on IPython/web2py for
practical/aesthetic reasons, but I think that things with Roassal, Moose
and Pharo are falling into place with data Narratives and visualization
(on [1] and [2] I have writing some examples/details).
[1]
http://mutabit.com/offray/static/blog/output/posts/pharo-by-visualization.html
[2]
http://mutabit.com/offray/static/blog/output/posts/borrachos-bochinche-futbol.html
I'm a newbie on Smalltalk/Pharo but I would like to start with practical
examples from my own needs, so I have started with my idea of making an
outliner/tree of playgrounds. For the moment I'm reading/learning with
Deep Into Pharo and the chapter on Glamour (which by the way is a really
good book) and after I finished with the examples in the doc, I would
like to start trying to write my own outliner.
The first idea that comes to mind is using STON for storage nodes and
tree information, so I can interchange it with the flatland files world
and keep it readable. Sounds that reasonable?
The second thing I would like to do is to add pandoc's markdown inside
comments, but I don't like the syntax of comments in Smalltalk because
single quotes are fairly easy to find in light markup language like
markdown. Is difficult to change it to create something more like python
(with """) or Lua (with -[]- )?
The last thing I would like to quick mention that I think that there is
a place for a light/live Open Notebook environment for Open/Garage
Science and Data Visualization made in Pharo Smalltalk and
Trees/Outliners of Playgrounds could be the emergent way to explore that
space and I would like to help with that, even being a newbie. I think
that is a place I can be comfortable and write/teach about in my blog
and local hackerspace, so any idea or guidance about how to proceed
would be greatly appreciated.
I will keep you posted this time (seriously!)
Cheers,
Offray
