Re: [Pharo-users] Jupyter notebooks / Dynabook / JupyterTalk

2018-08-07 Thread Andrew Glynn
Grafoscopio exists due to various limitations of Jupyter, particularly the lack of real support for objects in its core language - Python. JSON is not equivalent to STON even in terms of storing JavaScript, it's mainly a data format. On 8/7/18, 2:14 PM, "Pharo-users on behalf of Sean P.

Re: [Pharo-users] Right repo for TaskIt and features?

2018-04-24 Thread Andrew Glynn
Btw I think you meant "thrashing", not "trashing'.   Trashing is what my team leads do when they read my code.  . AndrewOn Tue, 2018-04-24 at 15:31 +, Santiago Bragagnolo wrote: > > > On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 at 16:18 Holger Freyther > wrote: > > > > > > > On 24. Apr 2018,

Re: [Pharo-users] Right repo for TaskIt and features?

2018-04-24 Thread Andrew Glynn
Generally to avoid this I've used the Synapse micro service bus.  It also allows the creation of an unlimited number of queues, allowing higher priority tasks to "jump the queue".  ' Backpressure' is precisely what message buses avoid in distributed computing. One of my never-have-time-for

Re: [Pharo-users] Right repo for TaskIt and features?

2018-04-24 Thread Andrew Glynn
What about using VertStix for remote execution? Andrew On Tue, 2018-04-24 at 15:31 +, Santiago Bragagnolo wrote: > > > On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 at 16:18 Holger Freyther > wrote: > > > > > > > On 24. Apr 2018, at 20:16, Santiago Bragagnolo > > o...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 

Re: [Pharo-users] Where do we go now ?

2018-04-13 Thread Andrew Glynn
How many subsystems that do pretty much the same thing exist in Java?  Or Programmable Hyperlinked Pasta?   Try this:  do a set of Moose queries on a largish Pharo subsystem, say GLORP, then do the same on EclipseLink, Toplink or Hibernate, either with or without the JPA interfaces.   Even with

Re: [Pharo-users] Where do we go now ?

2018-04-13 Thread Andrew Glynn
I find NPM as obscure as Pharo, honestly, and VA Smalltalk is worse (wth does abt or sst stand for?).  Grunt, Gulp, etc., how do the names relate to what they do?   Electron is as obscure as Phobos (although a phobia with web pages turned into desktop apps may be appropriate). AndrewOn Fri,

Re: [Pharo-users] Language tools

2018-01-18 Thread Andrew Glynn
Vladimir, I came across these and thought some of them might be useful for Grafoscopio. Particularly the simple ones like clearer, multilingual fonts. Andrew 

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo and ActiveDirectory

2018-01-10 Thread Andrew Glynn
If you make some provision to handle attributes with the 'binary' flag set, which are generally base64 encoded data such as the person's photo, GUID/PUID, and synch options, it should be ok. LDAP uses similar encoding rules to ASN.1, and ASN.1 has better documentation. The only difficult

Re: [Pharo-users] Strange 'Connection closed while waiting for data.' Zinc error

2017-12-24 Thread Andrew Glynn
The only time I've seen that behaviour is with the combination of a slow server and a proxy such as CloudFlare where the sysadmin has set tcp_wait to some ridiculously small number. Have you tried setting the connection reuse timeout to 0, or setting 'beOneShot'? Zinc doesn't support the

Re: [Pharo-users] [Pharo-dev] Things that may be of interest in terms of time zone / geospatial mapping.

2017-11-22 Thread Andrew Glynn
resources, those would be relatively easy to rewrite in Pharo. In any case, there are at least a couple of articles / projects that may be of interest. Apologies for the length of the post – if it’s not of interest just skip it. Andrew Glynn >From the Eclipse Foundation newsletter: Eclipse Newslet

Re: [Pharo-users] Article about PowerPoint and Smalltalk

2017-11-21 Thread Andrew Glynn
https://youtu.be/_JU48-FVqvQ Doug is a fellow I worked with early in my career, writing Lingo in Director for presentations. Andrew Glynn From: askoh Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 10:51 AM To: pharo-users@lists.pharo.org Subject: [Pharo-users] Article about PowerPoint and Smalltalk https

Re: [Pharo-users] New Pharo article at The Cohort

2017-11-20 Thread Andrew Glynn
specifying Java 7 or even Java 6 in their tech stacks “because Java 8 is too unreliable”. Until mainstream “software engineers” start acting like engineers, i.e. people who make things work, rather than popularity contestants or fashion victims, that won’t change. Andrew Glynn From: Richard

Re: [Pharo-users] X11 options on Ubuntu VM / Athens renderingproblems

2017-11-18 Thread Andrew Glynn
platforms, it wouldn’t be surprising if Wayland assumed it was a game if it starts full screen, and intel graphics aren’t all that great for gaming (so I’ve heard – I have an Xbox with one game – FIFA, lol). Andrew Glynn From: J.F. Rick Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2017 3:06 PM To: Any question

Re: [Pharo-users] Which dbf does GADM need?

2017-11-18 Thread Andrew Glynn
Thanks, for some reason the version I have is trying to pull it from http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/103833630/gadm28_dbf.zip Andrew Glynn From: Hernán Morales Durand Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2017 2:40 PM To: Any question about pharo is welcome Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] Which dbf does

Re: [Pharo-users] New Pharo article at The Cohort

2017-11-18 Thread Andrew Glynn
Here’s a list of the articles @ https://medium.com/@dasein42/latest, in case any catch your eye: Latest Go to the profile of Andrew Glynn Andrew Glynn Nov 14 “Dynamics Trumps Semantics”: Why Java is Easy to Learn, but Difficult to be Good at. Read more… Go to the profile of Andrew Glynn

Re: [Pharo-users] New Pharo article at The Cohort

2017-11-18 Thread Andrew Glynn
, while not standing still itself. Some of the less journalistic pieces are also on academia.edu. https://medium.com/@dasein42 cheers Andrew Glynn Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Dimitris Chloupis Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2017 5:10 AM To: Any question about pharo is welcome Subject: Re

Re: [Pharo-users] New Pharo article at The Cohort

2017-11-18 Thread Andrew Glynn
It is, according to various citations (CiteSeer) etc., being used to fight measles. Maybe not as flashy, but at least it’s true. Andrew Glynn From: Dimitris Chloupis Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2017 5:10 AM To: Any question about pharo is welcome Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] New Pharo article

Re: [Pharo-users] Which dbf does GADM need?

2017-11-18 Thread Andrew Glynn
The dropbox URL for the dbf for GADM is no longer there. I can upload the file to my Google drive and share it publicly, but there’s two dbf files, one a single layer and one a 6 layer file. Which does GADM actually use (yes, I’m being lazy). Andrew Glynn

Re: [Pharo-users] Stream API

2017-11-13 Thread Andrew Glynn
Xtreams has very good performance, but the API’s are messy. I haven’t compared the performance of ZnStreams, but it shouldn’t be radically different. From: Stephane Ducasse Sent: Monday, November 13, 2017 1:59 PM To: Any question about pharo is welcome Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] Stream API Hi

Re: [Pharo-users] I18n in pharo

2017-11-11 Thread Andrew Glynn
for, but it might be a quick way to get key applications’ text translated and be used by a relatively simple Pharo / Seaside tool. It’s even possible that a decent modification of Mojito might allow semi-automated translations using LingoHub. Andrew Glynn From: Andrew Glynn Sent: Friday

Re: [Pharo-users] I18n in pharo

2017-11-10 Thread Andrew Glynn
/xliff/xliff-core/xliff-core.html It would also likely be easier and more reliable, since the XML support in Pharo is already quite good. Andrew Glynn Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Torsten Bergmann Sent: Thursday, November 9, 2017 4:59 PM To: pharo-users@lists.pharo.org Subject: Re

Re: [Pharo-users] Why does the test runner show red when I correct atest?

2017-11-10 Thread Andrew Glynn
Love this: “Many people in our industry, our profession have a disturbing tendency to be vague and practice self-deception. Take the concept of a "bug" as an example. They don't "fly into" our code; we *put* them in it. *We* put them in. That's why they should be called errors or defects.”

Re: [Pharo-users] QCMagritte on Github

2017-11-10 Thread Andrew Glynn
YAML is what it says, lol. I still prefer using SGML and outputting whatever markup I need, although I have to use US army software (that only works on Windows) to do it since Adobe gouges for FrameMaker. Probably a long lasting hangover from working for IBM years ago. Sure was a headache,

Re: [Pharo-users] perspective request for thoseearningalivingfromSmalltalk

2017-11-10 Thread Andrew Glynn
’s and a couple of T5120’s – 64 threads and 64GB RAM should be plenty . Right now a bit short of time for just playing though. Andrew Glynn Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Prof. Andrew P. Black Sent: Friday, November 10, 2017 11:57 AM To: Any question about pharo is welcome Subject: Re

Re: [Pharo-users] Writing "powerpoint" like presentations in Pharo?

2017-11-09 Thread Andrew Glynn
People mistake my notion of a platform having a stable core so that it can be built on, with never changing that core one bit. A stable, evolving core is precisely what allows rapid and flexible new product improvement. Wasn’t that the whole point of deprecation rather than replacement? It

Re: [Pharo-users] Writing "powerpoint" like presentations in Pharo?

2017-11-09 Thread Andrew Glynn
sentations. Hopefully, we will have something better, with metamedium capabilities, including embedding other media and make it programmable in Pharo, without going to the "disastrous" slide metaphor. Cheers, Offray On 08/11/17 20:31, Andrew Glynn wrote: I agree with you – on the rare occasion

Re: [Pharo-users] Writing "powerpoint" like presentations in Pharo?

2017-11-08 Thread Andrew Glynn
for Adobe’s pricing. Andrew Glynn Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas Sent: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 7:45 AM To: pharo-users@lists.pharo.org Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] Writing "powerpoint" like presentations in Pharo? On 07/11/17 19:39, Sean P. DeNi

Re: [Pharo-users] Binary Decision Diagram Package in Smalltalk

2017-11-07 Thread Andrew Glynn
A possible way to accomplish it would be to use an object graph with an incremental query engine, such as EMF/CDO with Viatra or something similar. You could then put different character sets in connected objects and query only as far as you need to. Andrew Glynn Sent from Mail for Windows

Re: [Pharo-users] X11 options on Ubuntu VM / Athens renderingproblems

2017-11-06 Thread Andrew Glynn
I don’t have any issues with Linux in full screen mode (Mint 18 KDE and OEL7 UEK KDE) but it sounds like it may be an issue with the Wayland graphics system, and KDE doesn’t use it AFAIK. If so, it may also be driver specific – what graphics card are you using? It is just a guess, but pulling

Re: [Pharo-users] perspective request for those earningalivingfromSmalltalk

2017-11-06 Thread Andrew Glynn
06/11/2017 à 19:59, Andrew Glynn a écrit : > I /suspect/ that a (mostly repressed) underlying sense that a reliable, > inexpensive platform, if popular, would have been more detrimental to > IBM than to its smaller competitors. The same goes for the VisualAge > family -> Smal

Re: [Pharo-users] perspective request for those earningalivingfromSmalltalk

2017-11-06 Thread Andrew Glynn
/11/2017 à 19:59, Andrew Glynn a écrit : > I /suspect/ that a (mostly repressed) underlying sense that a reliable, > inexpensive platform, if popular, would have been more detrimental to > IBM than to its smaller competitors. The same goes for the VisualAge > family -> Smal

Re: [Pharo-users] perspective request for those earning a livingfromSmalltalk

2017-11-06 Thread Andrew Glynn
On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 7:59 PM, Andrew Glynn <aglyn...@gmail.com> wrote: Your history is accurate, but there’s a few things I’d  like to add, due to having been employed by IBM at exactly that period working specifically on VisualAge, not only for Smalltalk, but for Java, C++ and Cobol as well

Re: [Pharo-users] perspective request for those earning alivingfromSmalltalk

2017-11-06 Thread Andrew Glynn
schrieb Andrew Glynn: > They did just release 5.0 in June, lol. > VisualAge Smalltalk 6.01 for OS/2 is still running without any problems ... Marten -- Marten Feldtmann

Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk Argument

2017-11-06 Thread Andrew Glynn
an a super ease elegant language without such big library support. The time when we were relying on our code and our own libraries has passed long time ago.     On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 10:37 AM Andrew Glynn <aglyn...@gmail.com> wrote: Btw, I think we gained pace when JS took over the fro

Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk Argument

2017-11-06 Thread Andrew Glynn
Btw, I think we gained pace when JS took over the front end, but lost visibility. Nothing is slower than coding a client/server app with the front end in JS. The ‘rise’ of JS is a side effect of the fact that the web was designed, built and continues to be built by ‘coders’ who don’t know

Re: [Pharo-users] nice CSS for the Pharo online HTML version?

2017-11-05 Thread Andrew Glynn
Another couple that occurred to me were academia.edu and medium.com. It also occurred to me that I must be fond of a very minimalist look … lol. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Stephane Ducasse Sent: Sunday, November 5, 2017 11:46 AM To: Any question about pharo is welcome; Pharo

Re: [Pharo-users] Embedded PDF viewer?

2017-11-05 Thread Andrew Glynn
Evince is pretty easy to embed. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: teso...@gmail.com Sent: Sunday, November 5, 2017 10:25 AM To: Any question about pharo is welcome Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] Embedded PDF viewer? Hello Ben,     UFFI does not allow you to call static libraries. Static libraries

Re: [Pharo-users] LiteratureResearcher - where graphs, PDFs, andBibTex happily live together

2017-11-05 Thread Andrew Glynn
I’ve used PDFMiner and pypdf2xml previously and both are easier to use now that Atlas is available. Both work well, though XPdf (in C++) is faster. http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/pdfminer/ https://github.com/zejn/pypdf2xml pdf2xml (also Python) is slightly quicker than pypdf2xml but

Re: [Pharo-users] nice CSS for the Pharo online HTML version?

2017-11-05 Thread Andrew Glynn
It looks a bit busy, though not ridiculously so. Of the sites I can think of, parts.com has one of the nicest LaF’s. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Stephane Ducasse Sent: Sunday, November 5, 2017 11:46 AM To: Any question about pharo is welcome; Pharo Development List Subject:

Re: [Pharo-users] Peeking at a stream

2017-11-02 Thread Andrew Glynn
Perhaps #keepStateWhile or something similar might be better than #unchangedDuring ? Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Prof. Andrew P. Black Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2017 5:00 AM To: Any question about pharo is welcome Subject: [Pharo-users] Peeking at a stream I sometimes find, when

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo: Reinventing Smalltalk

2017-11-01 Thread Andrew Glynn
There is a basic difference between debugging compiled code using debug symbols, debugging a live environment that’s represented as if it isn’t, and debugging a live environment that’s represented as if it is. In general Java is represented the same way as C/C++, although Eclipse is somewhat

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo: Reinventing Smalltalk

2017-11-01 Thread Andrew Glynn
How many development environments use single document windows? Off the top of my head, Dolphin and … er, Dolphin. That the person thinks it’s supposed to be an end user application says it al, really. I don’t hate SDI’s. they work ok for word processors. From: Dimitris Chloupis Sent:

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 6.1 - Apple signing

2017-10-31 Thread Andrew Glynn
If it would be a help, I can sign the apps. Cheers Andrew From: Todd Blanchard Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 10:36 AM To: Any question about pharo is welcome Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 6.1 Actually, it is in Applications Sent from the road > On Oct 31, 2017, at 02:34, Esteban

Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk Argument

2017-10-28 Thread Andrew Glynn
esteban because he is writing an objective-C bridge.  Stef On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 2:30 AM, Andrew Glynn <aglyn...@gmail.com> wrote: One thing I’m working on is a bridge between Pharo and F-Script.  F-Script is, basically, a Smalltalk dialect, as is obvious from the screenshot.  However for

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Grafoscopio is now also an indexedpublication

2017-10-28 Thread Andrew Glynn
Grafoscopio improvise it, but also how it increases the capabilities of Grafoscopio. Andrew Glynn Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2017 11:02 AM To: pharo-users@lists.pharo.org Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Grafoscopio is now also

Re: [Pharo-users] Binary Decision Diagram Package in Smalltalk

2017-10-28 Thread Andrew Glynn
Part of the reasoning is that by writing JVM bytecode, the differences between the various JVM languages become largely irrelevant, though in some ways it becomes slightly less convenient if calling, for example, Scala or Clojure code from Pharo. The other is inherent JVM limitations and

Re: [Pharo-users] Actual Code to Improve the Pharo environment

2017-10-28 Thread Andrew Glynn
useful in anything else, will hopefully be more use than any article can be, never mind one I wrote, not just to me but also to other Pharo users and to Pharo itself.   Cheers Andrew Glynn     Sent from Mail for Windows 10   From: Stephane Ducasse Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2017 5:09 AM To: Any qu

Re: [Pharo-users] Actual Code to Improve the Pharo environment

2017-10-28 Thread Andrew Glynn
else), and in any case nowhere near as useful in anything else, will hopefully be more use than any article can be, never mind one I wrote, not just to me but also to other Pharo users and to Pharo itself. Cheers Andrew Glynn Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Stephane Ducasse Sent

Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk Argument

2017-10-27 Thread Andrew Glynn
lar language for that particular task and that particular deployment mechanism. Can Pharo be called as a shared library from Java JNA? - HH On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 15:47, Andrew Glynn <aglyn...@gmail.com> wrote: I’m not claiming I don’t or haven’t been affected, only that I no long allow myself to be

Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk Argument

2017-10-27 Thread Andrew Glynn
HH On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 15:47, Andrew Glynn <aglyn...@gmail.com> wrote: I’m not claiming I don’t or haven’t been affected, only that I no long allow myself to be.  Does that cause issues?  Of course.  But I’d rather deal with those than do things I don’t enjoy.  However I only got to t

Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk Argument

2017-10-27 Thread Andrew Glynn
k and that particular deployment mechanism. Can Pharo be called as a shared library from Java JNA? - HH On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 15:47, Andrew Glynn <aglyn...@gmail.com> wrote: I’m not claiming I don’t or haven’t been affected, only that I no long allow myself to be.  Does that cause is

Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk Argument

2017-10-27 Thread Andrew Glynn
I refer to it as “Craptive Directory”, the only reliable way I’ve found to use it is to federate it via WSO2 IS or OpenIDM. You forgot Sun’s implementation, btw, which is cleaner than either. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: p...@highoctane.be Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2017 6:07 PM To:

Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk Argument

2017-10-27 Thread Andrew Glynn
r deployment mechanism. Can Pharo be called as a shared library from Java JNA? - HH On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 15:47, Andrew Glynn <aglyn...@gmail.com> wrote: I’m not claiming I don’t or haven’t been affected, only that I no long allow myself to be.  Does that cause issues?  Of course.  B

Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk Argument

2017-10-27 Thread Andrew Glynn
ot extremely well written in that particular language for that particular task and that particular deployment mechanism. Can Pharo be called as a shared library from Java JNA? - HH On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 15:47, Andrew Glynn <aglyn...@gmail.com> wrote: I’m not claiming I don’t or haven’t b

Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk Argument

2017-10-27 Thread Andrew Glynn
as a shared library from Java JNA? - HH On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 15:47, Andrew Glynn <aglyn...@gmail.com> wrote: I’m not claiming I don’t or haven’t been affected, only that I no long allow myself to be.  Does that cause issues?  Of course.  But I’d rather deal with those than do th

Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk Argument

2017-10-27 Thread Andrew Glynn
anguages? Do not assume that code is not extremely well written in that particular language for that particular task and that particular deployment mechanism. Can Pharo be called as a shared library from Java JNA? - HH On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 15:47, Andrew Glynn <aglyn...@gmail.com> wrote:

Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk Argument

2017-10-27 Thread Andrew Glynn
:14 PM jtuc...@objektfabrik.de <jtuc...@objektfabrik.de> wrote: Andrew, Am 26.10.17 um 00:46 schrieb Andrew Glynn: There’s other questions that are relevant to me: I am glad you opened your words with this sentence. Other peoples' mileages may vary a lot. > Do I give a f*** about coo

Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk Argument

2017-10-27 Thread Andrew Glynn
this without having to convert to another language are very popular.      On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 3:14 PM jtuc...@objektfabrik.de <jtuc...@objektfabrik.de> wrote: Andrew, Am 26.10.17 um 00:46 schrieb Andrew Glynn: There’s other questions that are relevant to me: I am glad you opened your

Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk Argument

2017-10-27 Thread Andrew Glynn
it necessary. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: jtuc...@objektfabrik.de Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2017 8:14 AM To: pharo-users@lists.pharo.org Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk Argument Andrew, Am 26.10.17 um 00:46 schrieb Andrew Glynn: There’s other questions that are relevant to me: I

Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk Argument

2017-10-25 Thread Andrew Glynn
There’s other questions that are relevant to me: Do I give a f*** about cool looking web apps?  No, I don’t use web apps if in any way I can avoid it. Do I give a f*** about mobile apps?  No, the screen’s too small to read anything longer than a twit, or anyone with anything worthwhile

Re: [Pharo-users] Behold Pharo: The Modern Smalltalk

2017-10-13 Thread Andrew Glynn
The first language I played with, I was nearly 5, was a live environment, Forth.  I used it on an old PDP my mother had bought that was being surplused at the company she worked at.  I used Forth until I was in my early teens, it was far superior to the BASIC that most other kids I knew who knew

Re: [Pharo-users] Behold Pharo: The Modern Smalltalk

2017-10-13 Thread Andrew Glynn
t;pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> Reply-to: Any question about pharo is welcome From: Nicolai Hess <nicolaih...@gmail.com> Am 13.10.2017 5:50 PM schrieb "Andrew Glynn" <aglyn...@gmail.com>: I can't remember ever using API docs in any language, dynamic or not.  They give you the m

Re: [Pharo-users] FYI about Pharo MOOC

2017-10-13 Thread Andrew Glynn
Oh good, glad the French version is still there.  I was starting to go through it a couple of weeks ago and plan to continue starting this weekend.  Although my mother tongue is English, at one point I was fluently bilingual (both Quebecois and actual French), and it's a chance to get some of it

Re: [Pharo-users] Behold Pharo: The Modern Smalltalk

2017-10-13 Thread Andrew Glynn
, there's no way a non-lint developer might be right. Andrew Glynn -Original Message- Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 10:01:20 -0500Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] Behold Pharo: The Modern SmalltalkTo: pharo-users@lists.pharo.orgReply-to: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org&g

Re: [Pharo-users] Behold Pharo: The Modern Smalltalk

2017-10-13 Thread Andrew Glynn
I agree with you that difficulty is half the fun, assuming you're a developer - developers solve problems, so if there weren't any we'd be a bit out of luck.  For myself I've somehow never, in a 26+ year career, worked on maintaining code. I've only ever written new code. in fact  I usually wind

Re: [Pharo-users] "Building-With versus Building-on"

2017-10-12 Thread Andrew Glynn
f the state of the software industry that I have seen. On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Andrew Glynn <aglyn...@gmail.com> wrote: https://medium.com/@dasein42/building-with-versus-building-on-c51aa3034c71 This is an article not specifically about Pharo, rather on the state of the i

[Pharo-users] "Building-With versus Building-on"

2017-10-12 Thread Andrew Glynn
https://medium.com/@dasein42/building-with-versus-building-on-c51aa3034 c71 This is an article not specifically about Pharo, rather on the state of the industry in general and how it got that way, but positing Pharo as a way to learn building-on rather than building-with, where in the latter case

Re: [Pharo-users] Deploying on Linux with LibC version < 2.15

2017-10-06 Thread Andrew Glynn
There's a reason it's referred to by numerous developers as R-HELL. Andrew Glynn -Original Message- Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 21:46:20 +0800 Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] Deploying on Linux with LibC version < 2.15 To: bruce.on...@pckswarms.ch, Any question about pharo is welcome Re

Re: [Pharo-users] Deploying on Linux with LibC version < 2.15

2017-10-06 Thread Andrew Glynn
RedHat < 7.0 still uses libc 2.12 as far as I'm aware. Pharo 5 has a downloadable version that works on that OS.  OEL with the UEK has an updated libc. Andrew Glynn openmastery.org -Original Message- Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 11:43:07 +0200 Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] Deploying on Li

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] success story: surgery appointments digitalised

2017-06-24 Thread andrew glynn
Thanks, it had occurred to me to take a look at the other drivers in Garage - been a bit busy though so might not get to it until tomorrow. Andrew Glynn From: Pierce Ng <pie...@samadhiweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2017 8:19 PM To: Any question about

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] success story: surgery appointments digitalised

2017-06-23 Thread andrew glynn
It occurred to me that with the C++ support in Pharo 6 it might be relatively easy to use this driver https://github.com/vrogier/ocilib to connect to Oracle. I will look into it over the weekend. Andrew Glynn From: Norbert Hartl [mailto:norb...@hartl.name] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2017 11:07 AM

Re: [Pharo-users] PharoJS

2017-06-22 Thread andrew glynn
Smalltalk does have a killer web environment, it's called Seaside. I haven't come across any good reason jQuery with Seaside isn't sufficient to do anything a developer might want to - that customers want Angular isn't based on anything that can't be done without it. Unfortunately

Re: [Pharo-users] PharoJS

2017-06-22 Thread andrew glynn
of that it would have to deal with the issues with JS itself that make writing decent tools virtually impossible. Andrew Glynn -Original Message- From: Pharo-users [mailto:pharo-users-boun...@lists.pharo.org] On Behalf Of pharo-users-requ...@lists.pharo.org Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2017 8:41 AM

Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk on Stack Overflow Developers Survey 2017

2017-03-26 Thread Andrew Glynn
Big data, like the ‘cloud’, is mainly a marketing thing to sell big iron in big datacenters. So if you’re going back to big iron anyway, might as well use VisualGen for COBOL. What? VisualGen is written in IBM Smalltalk? Just don’t tell anyone, they’ll never guess. Andrew On 2017-03-26,

Re: [Pharo-users] GitFileTree on Pharo 5.0

2016-12-05 Thread Andrew Glynn
I run Pharo 5.0 with no problems on a Macbook Pro, but it’s running OS X v. 10.12.1.  Any reason your OS is backdated? Andrew Glynn From: Pharo-users <pharo-users-boun...@lists.pharo.org> on behalf of Trussardi Dario Romano <dario.trussa...@tiscali.it> Reply-To: Any question

Re: [Pharo-users] An Implementation of JSON Web Tokens

2016-07-22 Thread andrew glynn
page. The widget also keeps a lease open with the Seaside server and when the user leaves the page and the widget stops requesting the lease, Pharo can recycle the pot. Andrew Glynn On 7/22/2016 6:12 AM, pharo-users-requ...@lists.pharo.org wrote: > An Implementation of JSON Web Tokens -- And

Re: [Pharo-users] A keyboard controlled code editor, how difficult would that be?

2015-09-21 Thread Andrew Glynn
I'm not sure that those developers will ever be happy with Smallltalk. Unless you can do everything in VI and compile on the command line, they feel there's something wrong. On September 21, 2015 08:57:21 PM Stephan Eggermont wrote: > When experienced (non-smalltalk) developers come to Pharo,

Re: [Pharo-users] RESTful API with Pharo with Gemstones

2015-06-23 Thread Andrew Glynn
In the event you need a bit more than the below would buy you (although it sounds like it would be fine) Seaside has a REST add-on - http://book.seaside.st/book/advanced/restful Andrew From: Pharo-users pharo-users-boun...@lists.pharo.org on behalf of Sebastian Heidbrink shei...@yahoo.de

Re: [Pharo-users] Coding by sending messages

2014-06-11 Thread Andrew Glynn
of the versions were themselves written in Smalltalk. -- Andrew Glynn 512-818-3291 Hello, The problem is that in most cases non text editor based IDE are not user- friendly/hard to understand/hard to use. We are moving toward AST based tools software side but it will still be a textEditor

Re: [Pharo-users] Xcode's Swift Playground

2014-06-03 Thread Andrew Glynn
I don't think the claim is that Pharo or any Smalltalk is 'simple', but when someone new to coding has to first learn how to pretend they're using a late 70s terminal and a crappy text editor, then remember 2 arcane commands just to get a project built, never mind debug it, the price of entry