Re: [Pharo-users] parameters of the virtual machine

2016-06-27 Thread Alexandre Bergel
[sorry for the late reply] Thanks Clément for your information. I have added a slice with your description of the primitive. https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/18632/Virtual-Machine-parameters-need-to-be-documented Can the information about the cache be in the standard image and VM? This would

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo Launcher

2016-06-27 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Hi guys - I finally got some free time to take a look at Pharo-5 and wanted Launcher back as well - I just downloaded it on my mac and I’m wondering if something is wrong? The UI doesn’t look right (compared to the older 4.x version) - the top panel is white, and there is a grey run button

Re: [Pharo-users] If you have to do web data scraping, what tool would you use?

2016-06-27 Thread stepharo
I can imagine that too :) because Soup was often trial and error. Stef Le 27/6/16 à 11:26, PBKResearch a écrit : Hello I have used Soup, but I now prefer XMLHTMLParser, because I find it easier to relate the structure of the XML output to that of the original web page. It is also possible

Re: [Pharo-users] If you have to do web data scraping, what tool would you use?

2016-06-27 Thread PBKResearch
Hello I have used Soup, but I now prefer XMLHTMLParser, because I find it easier to relate the structure of the XML output to that of the original web page. It is also possible to use XPath to locate the target area more quickly. I particularly like Monty’s ‘Smalltalkish’ adaptation of

Re: [Pharo-users] If you have to do web data scraping, what tool would you use?

2016-06-27 Thread stepharo
I scrapped all the magic cards (bad bad practice) using Soup. It could be easier but it worked for me. This is why I maintain it and added tests. Stef Le 26/6/16 à 23:14, Bernardo Ezequiel Contreras a écrit : Hi, Imagine that you have to do some data scraping work, what tool would you

Re: [Pharo-users] If you have to do web data scraping, what tool would you use?

2016-06-27 Thread Pierce Ng
On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 06:14:50PM -0300, Bernardo Ezequiel Contreras wrote: > Imagine that you have to do some data scraping work, what tool would you > use? > I know about ZnClient, Soup, NeoCSV, NeoJSON, is there something else that > i'm not aware of it? I used Todd Blanchard's HTML parser

Re: [Pharo-users] If you have to do web data scraping, what tool would you use?

2016-06-27 Thread Tudor Girba
Hi, Could you provide more details about the use case? Cheers, Doru > On Jun 26, 2016, at 11:14 PM, Bernardo Ezequiel Contreras > wrote: > > Hi, > Imagine that you have to do some data scraping work, what tool would you use? > I know about ZnClient, Soup, NeoCSV,

[Pharo-users] [dtabase] Looking for a report band editor

2016-06-27 Thread sitepublique
Hi, I'm new with pharo and smalltalk and I would like to use it to start a new database application. But I need to find out a report band editor and I can't find anything about this into the pharo projets catalog... A report band exxemple is like : XtraReports :