Re: [Newbies] Newbie assortment

2008-04-08 Thread Sven Schott
> > > > > service or in some fashion that does not require an account to be logged > in? > > Forgive my ignorance, but I know very little about Squeak in terms of > its > > capabilities. If my question is not relevant, how then is Squeak > deployed in > > enterprise environments? I guess what I'm a

Re: [Newbies] Newbie assortment

2008-04-08 Thread Sven Schott
> > > > > is it alive? > and you was infected... Yep. :) >2) Can Squeak be used as the engine in enterprise with and without Seaside? > > If you company wish pay Microsoft crap, the answer is NO Nah, I can convince people to use other things. The fact that we use Microsoft crap is just somet

Re: [Newbies] Newbie assortment

2008-04-08 Thread johnps11
Hi Sven, Yes, I'm in Oz, on the Gold Coast. I'm not an expert on Squeak by any means, but I'm using it in maths education, and thinking seriously about using it for a PhD in Maths Education in a couple of years. I know of one other guy (a PHP wizard) who was pretty wowed by Seaside and Squeak, I

Re: [Newbies] Newbie assortment

2008-04-08 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "cdrick" == cdrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: cdrick> I'm thinking of Randal cdrick> Schwartz who just got a seaside presentation accepted at OSCON. I'm cdrick> sure this won't come alone :) I'm also going to get a Smalltalk BOF at OSCON so watch for it when you get there. -- Randal L.

Re: [Newbies] Newbie assortment

2008-04-08 Thread cdrick
> P.S. Any Squeakers in Australia? > Where about are you ? I'm french but I spent one year in SA in 2000 :) Really nice country ... See you Cédrick ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailm

Re: [Newbies] Newbie assortment

2008-04-08 Thread cdrick
Hi 2008/4/8, Sven Schott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi > > I've recently become a Squeak lurker (that means I've downloaded the VM, > several books, tutorials and done some basic tests but haven't taken the > plunge...yet). I'm a Ruby user (not programmer) and I recently was > introduced to Squeak via

Re: [Newbies] Newbie assortment

2008-04-08 Thread David Mitchell
> > is it alive? Yes, but with a much smaller community than Ruby/Rails. > >2) Can Squeak be used as the engine in enterprise with and without Seaside? Depends on the enterprise. VisualWorks has more databases and connectivity support. But Ramon Leon has blogged about working with Windows in the

Re: [Newbies] Newbie assortment

2008-04-08 Thread Edgar J. De Cleene
El 4/8/08 7:58 AM, "Sven Schott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > is it alive? and you was infected... >2) Can Squeak be used as the engine in enterprise with and without Seaside? If you company wish pay Microsoft crap, the answer is NO >3) Is the community small? Big? Growing? Shrinking rapi

[Newbies] Newbie assortment

2008-04-08 Thread Sven Schott
Hi I've recently become a Squeak lurker (that means I've downloaded the VM, several books, tutorials and done some basic tests but haven't taken the plunge...yet). I'm a Ruby user (not programmer) and I recently was introduced to Squeak via Croquet (It looked interesting). I was pretty wowed by Squ