[Pharo-users] Writing an IRC bot

2013-12-18 Thread Sergi Reyner
I´ve been writing a bot for a while now, with the purpose of learning proper Smalltalk and OOP idioms/techniques (I´ve been using C-ish languages for a long time now, and I´m trying to cure myself :D). I must say that the process has been quite enlightening so far, I never really understood OOP

Re: [Pharo-users] Writing an IRC bot

2013-12-18 Thread Bernat Romagosa
Im my opinion... messy or not, all code should be shared! :) 2013/12/18 Sergi Reyner sergi.rey...@gmail.com I´ve been writing a bot for a while now, with the purpose of learning proper Smalltalk and OOP idioms/techniques (I´ve been using C-ish languages for a long time now, and I´m trying to

Re: [Pharo-users] Writing an IRC bot

2013-12-18 Thread Esteban A. Maringolo
An IRC bot is basically an REPL interface over a socket. It's a fun project to implement with Smalltalk. I made a couple of bots circa 2000 (IRC was still a thing) with Perl. If you implement the IRC bot that doesn't integrate as an extension to an existing IRC client, you'll end up implementing

Re: [Pharo-users] Problems with Postmark in Pharo 2.0 with and without Seaside

2013-12-18 Thread Dave
Hi, I solved a couple of issues: 1) I didn't see PMEmail is a JsonObject. Now I understand why selector textBody: is not known by the system but it's valid. 2) The NameLookupFailure: cannot resolve 'api.postmark.com' is because PMInterface class defaultApiUrl ^

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] JetStorm

2013-12-18 Thread Johan Fabry
That's really cool! I'd love to try it with my EV3 … Now if I only had some free time to play with it … :-( On Dec 18, 2013, at 6:09 AM, jannik.laval jannik.la...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Another announcement for Christmas. Do you know Lego MindStorms ? The last one is the Ev3 serie

Re: [Pharo-users] Writing an IRC bot

2013-12-18 Thread btc
Sergi Reyner wrote: Ive been writing a bot for a while now, with the purpose of learning proper Smalltalk and OOP idioms/techniques (Ive been using C-ish languages for a long time now, and Im trying to cure myself :D). I must say that the process has been quite enlightening so far, I never

Re: [Pharo-users] Writing an IRC bot

2013-12-18 Thread Sergi Reyner
2013/12/18 b...@openinworld.com I would say just ensure that it is packaged to load cleanly on a fresh image. Yes, as I mention on the description, I´m wrapping my head around Metacello trying to put together a decent ConfigurationOfChromia. Cheers, Sergi

Re: [Pharo-users] Writing an IRC bot

2013-12-18 Thread Bernat Romagosa
Sergi, you're too harsh on your code, I'm looking at it and it's nice! :) 2013/12/18 Sergi Reyner sergi.rey...@gmail.com 2013/12/18 b...@openinworld.com I would say just ensure that it is packaged to load cleanly on a fresh image. Yes, as I mention on the description, I´m wrapping my

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Phratch 1.0beta

2013-12-18 Thread Stéphane Ducasse
and add the catalog metadata. What is it ? the idea is that you describe the your configurationOf with 5 class methods, you push you configuration to a central repository and you get added to the official pharo catalog.

Re: [Pharo-users] Writing an IRC bot

2013-12-18 Thread Sergi Reyner
2013/12/18 Sergi Reyner sergi.rey...@gmail.com 2013/12/18 b...@openinworld.com I would say just ensure that it is packaged to load cleanly on a fresh image. Yes, as I mention on the description, I´m wrapping my head around Metacello trying to put together a decent ConfigurationOfChromia.

Re: [Pharo-users] Writing an IRC bot

2013-12-18 Thread Sergi Reyner
2013/12/18 Sergi Reyner sergi.rey...@gmail.com I´ve almost finished writing it. I just need some code to load the minimum amount of code required to use PPCompositeParser and GLMTabulator. Gofer it smalltalkhubUser: 'SergiReyner' project: 'Chromia'; package: 'ConfigurationOfChromia'; load.

Re: [Pharo-users] Writing an IRC bot

2013-12-18 Thread Stéphane Ducasse
Hi sergi publish you code! It sound exciting. Stef I´ve been writing a bot for a while now, with the purpose of learning proper Smalltalk and OOP idioms/techniques (I´ve been using C-ish languages for a long time now, and I´m trying to cure myself :D). I must say that the process has

Re: [Pharo-users] Writing an IRC bot

2013-12-18 Thread Stéphane Ducasse
On 18 Dec 2013, at 18:11, Sergi Reyner sergi.rey...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/12/18 b...@openinworld.com I would say just ensure that it is packaged to load cleanly on a fresh image. Yes, as I mention on the description, I´m wrapping my head around Metacello trying to put together a decent

Re: [Pharo-users] Writing an IRC bot

2013-12-18 Thread Stéphane Ducasse
what would be fun is to see if we can build a little tutorial that show to newbies how to write a simple IRC bot. Would you be interested to work on that? Because I would love that my son is able to build one with Pharo. Stef Sergi, you're too harsh on your code, I'm looking at it and it's

[Pharo-users] gtinspector deconstructed

2013-12-18 Thread Tudor Girba
Hi, I took a bit of time to describe how the GTInspector works, what makes it different, and to provide hints for several usage scenarios. http://www.humane-assessment.com/blog/the-moldable-gtinspector-deconstructed It's a long post, I know :), but please take a look. As you might know, this is