Re: [Pharo-users] Is anyone interested in developing a package for Google's Data API?

2014-09-11 Thread Sven Van Caekenberghe
Hi Andy, I think we have all the building blocks to do this (ZnClient from Zinc, HTTPS from Zodiac, OAuth2 from Zinc-SSO, JSON from NeoJSON), so that is good. But there are a large number of Google APIs (https://developers.google.com/gdata/docs/directory), each of them containing lots of funct

Re: [Pharo-users] [Esug-list] How to contribute CP1251TextConverter ?

2014-09-11 Thread Sven Van Caekenberghe
Just for the record, ZnByteEncoder can do any byte encoding based on official Unicode conversion tables. Currently it does CP1250, CP1252 and CP1253 among others (including KOI8R), but not (yet) CP1251. For example, the table for CP1250 is auto generated from http://unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/

Re: [Pharo-users] Fwd: [Esug-list] How to contribute CP1251TextConverter ?

2014-09-11 Thread Denis Kudriashov
Do you see http://www.squeaksource.com/RussianSupport.html CP1251 is already implemented here 2014-09-11 22:55 GMT+04:00 Damien Cassou : > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Юрий Мироненко > Date: Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 8:14 PM > Subject: [Esug-list] How to contribute CP1251TextConve

[Pharo-users] Fwd: [Esug-list] How to contribute CP1251TextConverter ?

2014-09-11 Thread Damien Cassou
-- Forwarded message -- From: Юрий Мироненко Date: Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 8:14 PM Subject: [Esug-list] How to contribute CP1251TextConverter ? To: esug-l...@lists.esug.org As the part of my SmallPOS project I was forced to implement CP1251TextConverter. Question is: how to contribu

Re: [Pharo-users] Is anyone interested in developing a package for Google's Data API?

2014-09-11 Thread stepharo
On 11/9/14 19:11, Andy Burnett wrote: I use Google's spreadsheet and word processor a lot. I would love to be able to access the data through Pharo. I can envisage all sorts of use-cases such as manipulating data collected through the spreadsheet forms, through to generating slide shows by wri

Re: [Pharo-users] Is anyone interested in developing a package for Google's Data API?

2014-09-11 Thread Ben Coman
Andy Burnett wrote: I use Google's spreadsheet and word processor a lot. I would love to be able to access the data through Pharo. I can envisage all sorts of use-cases such as manipulating data collected through the spreadsheet forms, through to generating slide shows by writing to their pr

Re: [Pharo-users] The fourth R

2014-09-11 Thread kilon alios
"If the program is more complex than the user's mental model, the program should be simplified." this where we diverge , my opinion is "no you should not simplify the programm itself unless the programm is doing something it does need or should not do and instead simplify the interface with the use

Re: [Pharo-users] The fourth R

2014-09-11 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, On 09/11/2014 11:10 AM, p...@highoctane.be wrote: "Smalltalk is not a language, it is an object computer" Wow, that nails it quite nicely. Agreed! :-) And it feels a lot like that, especially with tools like GT-Playground. Now, the most complicated bit is for me to get the user to d

[Pharo-users] Is anyone interested in developing a package for Google's Data API?

2014-09-11 Thread Andy Burnett
I use Google's spreadsheet and word processor a lot. I would love to be able to access the data through Pharo. I can envisage all sorts of use-cases such as manipulating data collected through the spreadsheet forms, through to generating slide shows by writing to their presentation app. The thing

Re: [Pharo-users] The fourth R

2014-09-11 Thread Trygve Reenskaug
Hi Phil, Have you tried BabyUML? A horrible hack and not yet portable to other Squeaks, but it is a start. http://fulloo.info/Downloads/BabyIDE.zip This is set up for Windows, but the .image and .changes files should work anywhere (assuming the Squeak VM hasn't been improved so that it has lo

Re: [Pharo-users] The fourth R

2014-09-11 Thread Trygve Reenskaug
On 07.09.2014 12:29, kilon alios wrote: ... Referring to the rest of your post I dont agree that we need to separate Data from Code, I don't know of anybody who wants to separate data and code. May be you are thinking about DCI without having grokked it. Smalltalk sees an object as an enti

Re: [Pharo-users] The fourth R

2014-09-11 Thread p...@highoctane.be
"Smalltalk is not a language, it is an object computer" Wow, that nails it quite nicely. And it feels a lot like that, especially with tools like GT-Playground. Now, the most complicated bit is for me to get the user to discuss with the object computer through the UI in a satisfying way. Getting

Re: [Pharo-users] The fourth R

2014-09-11 Thread Trygve Reenskaug
Hi kilon alios, I want to go deeper than any programming language. "What is a computer?" Almost all programming languages build on the von Neumann architecture with data processing as " The execution of a systematic sequence of operations performed upon data." I believe this is unnecessarily l

Re: [Pharo-users] Strange colour reversal on the Spec site

2014-09-11 Thread Damien Pollet
Issue reported https://github.com/spec-framework/spec-framework.github.io/issues/2 On 11 September 2014 06:07, Alain Busser wrote: > Hi, > > I can confirm that this page looks really strange: > http://spec.st/docs/own-model/ > > At the end, only the word "bindings" appears, the rest is security