Re: [Newbies] Which environment?

2009-01-10 Thread Ryan Zerby
I'm doing your tutorial now, with Squeak3.10.2-7179-basic. The only issues I've had with it when I do something wrong, like an infinite loop in the mouse handling routines... .BAM. 7 zillion debuggers. On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Herbert König herbertkoe...@gmx.net wrote: Hello Steve, SW

[Newbies] Accessors for everything?

2009-01-06 Thread Ryan Zerby
I'm going through the laser game example presented on this list a short time ago. I notice that he creates accessors for everything. Can someone explain the reasoning for that? I can understand having a wrapper for those functions for which you want external access. However, doesn't it

[Newbies] Test Driven Development

2009-01-05 Thread Ryan Zerby
I've run through Squeak By Example and have I was curious what kind of TDD would be appropriate on Quinto. It seems so graphic oriented that I'm having a tough time coming up with tests that even begin to feel complete, without feeling like I'm testing the Morphic framework, or a bunch of setters,

[Newbies] Existing Classes?

2008-12-29 Thread Ryan Zerby
I know there are a number of games available in Squeak. Is there a standard/preferred set of classes for things like playing cards or AI for games like chess, or is everything pretty custom built at the moment? The few things that I've poked into were fairly tightly tied to the game they

[Newbies] Squeak Guilt

2008-12-16 Thread Ryan Zerby
I'm in a position where I want to learn Squeak/Smalltalk because it's cool, but I find myself thinking that I should spend my time working on something that might actually advance my career. I used to be a Java Programmer, but am now a Build Engineer, so I don't directly program anymore. I feel

Re: [Newbies] Squeak Guilt

2008-12-16 Thread Ryan Zerby
You've hit on a lot of my exact reasons. When I make an application, it would be nice to be able to show it to my friends, and there is zero chance that they will actually install squeak. I can get away with this for some things by using the webbased squeak app... but not for desktop things. I

Re: [Newbies] scripts

2008-09-26 Thread Ryan Zerby
I'm a beginner myself, but I would think it would be better to have squeak running all the time and let is handle the cron timing, and connecting to the database (kind of like a service of it's own). I would think this would be easier to debug and maintain as well as being more within the paradigm

Re: [Newbies] Bootable Squeak

2008-05-28 Thread Ryan Zerby
for? On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Ryan Zerby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has this project come any closer to reality in the past year? I kind of lost track of it. ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http

[Newbies] Flaps

2008-05-28 Thread Ryan Zerby
I don't like them currently. I turn them off and turn on the mainbar.I find they tend to clutter the real estate and don't really offer me any additional functions that I can't get through the menu or a workspace. Am I missing something? ___