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Ron Teitelbaum | 1 Oct 03:45

Squeak News Team Report Sept 2007 (was: PR Team Follow Up)

Hi all,

FWIW I've tried submitting Weekly Squeak articles to Slashdot a number of
times without success.  Other times articles topics I wrote about but didn't
submit got accepted after being submitted by others, (OLPC related).  I
regularly submit to reddit, and that has worked well.  I just signed up for
digg to help a story someone suggested needed digging but find I don't have
much time to go through many aggregators.  (I'm not even really sure how
digg works, but I like reddit)

If I don't get down voted on reddit it usually brings in 3-4 hundred hits,
and for really good or interesting articles it can easily bring in >5
hundred.  Once reddit pushes us into the top blogs on wordpress, we usually
get a few hundred more hits.  

There are definitely a group of Smalltalk skeptics.  It seems odd to me that
the most hostile Smalltalk critics are Haskell and Lisp programmers.  Seems
odd, like yelling at your own family!  I certainly don't have anything
against Haskell or Lisp, so I usually do not respond.

Thank you again to our new Weekly Squeak contributors, Michael Davies and
Brad Fuller.  The new articles were responsible for increasing our hits for
Sept to 14,474 (from around 10K in July and August).  The articles are
really great, thank you!

We had a total of 9 articles posted in September.

Our best day was 1398 hits.

Our top article was:
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Jason Johnson | 1 Oct 09:33
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Pending fixes for 3.10 (was Re: [ANN][Squeak-dev Mini Image] Version sqMinidev07.09.1)

On 9/21/07, Edgar J. De Cleene <edgardec2001 <at> yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
>
> Once I said MinimalMorphic should start as 7200 , now we are to 7143, not
> many red test but is important we wait the fix of Delay and fonts problems.

What is holding back these fixes?  Just resource time to put them in,
or is there something else like missing tests?

In other words is the ball in your court or are you waiting for some
outside resource that may not be aware they are a bottleneck? :)
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Jason Johnson | 1 Oct 09:40
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Re: Searching the image for text

On 9/22/07, Bert Freudenberg <bert <at> freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> On Sep 22, 2007, at 15:52 , Jimmie Houchin wrote:
>
> Btw, I once closed a valuable workspace with some long series of
> expressions in it. I used the #allSubInstances "trick" to get it back
> before the garbage collector could free it :)

Haha, nice.
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Edgar J. De Cleene | 1 Oct 11:26
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Re: Pending fixes for 3.10 (was Re: [ANN][Squeak-dev Mini Image] Version sqMinidev07.09.1)


El 10/1/07 4:33 AM, "Jason Johnson" <jason.johnson.081 <at> gmail.com> escribió:

> What is holding back these fixes?  Just resource time to put them in,
> or is there something else like missing tests?
> 
> In other words is the ball in your court or are you waiting for some
> outside resource that may not be aware they are a bottleneck? :)

Was too difficult to fix, and should  be fixed by expert in each field.
Only shows now thanks to Ralph high quality requirements, but exist for a
long time.
But I have good news, Ralph send a probable fix to all involved , so maybe
not to long to end this release.

Javier send greets :=)

Edgar
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David Corking | 1 Oct 12:16

Re: PR Team Follow Up

> I wouldn't worry so much about the slashdot crowd.  They're mostly in an echo
> chamber these days.

Echo chambers can be useful, if what you want is an echo.

The editors of Slashdot are still influential - not to the cool kids
but for mass exposure.  Being slashdotted still means lots of hits,
and also the chance of being picked up by mainstream media.

Getting attention from the cool kids is another level of black magic
entirely.  I personally find digg and reddit utterly boring, but then
I am neither cool nor a kid.

David
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John M McIntosh | 1 Oct 19:20

Re: Sophie plugins source code?

I believe this is the only extra plugin shipped with the unix version  
of Sophie
RomePlugin

MCHttpRepository
	location: 'http://source.impara.de/Rome'
	user: ''
	password: ''

Name: Rome-Plugin-be.37
Author: be
Time: 27 April 2007, 12:17:51 pm
UUID: 0e041676-0f56-5e47-8cec-5fdfa944fe65

cairo
	libcairo.so.2
	
I assume libcairo is the cairo library
See for example https://launchpad.net/libcairo

	
Tweak support
TweakPlugin	{check tweak site}

Standard plugins?

B3DAcceleratorPlugin
FT2Plugin
KedamaPlugin
LocalePlugin.so
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Bert Freudenberg | 1 Oct 21:19
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Re: Sophie plugins source code?

On Oct 1, 2007, at 19:20 , John M McIntosh wrote:

> I believe this is the only extra plugin shipped with the unix  
> version of Sophie
> RomePlugin
>
> MCHttpRepository
> 	location: 'http://source.impara.de/Rome'
> 	user: ''
> 	password: ''

Yes this is the only essential one.

> Tweak support
> TweakPlugin	{check tweak site}

This is optional/experimental and not even used I think.

> On Sep 30, 2007, at 11:54 AM, Martin Kuball wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to get the source code for the sophie plugins? I  
>> would like
>> to compile them for my 64bit Linux system.

Sophie relies on FFI for Quicktime media, so much of the media  
playback functionality is missing under Linux. A very nice community  
project would be adding gstreamer-based Linux media playback.

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John M McIntosh | 1 Oct 21:48

Re: Sophie plugins source code?


On Oct 1, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

>
> Sophie relies on FFI for Quicktime media, so much of the media  
> playback functionality is missing under Linux. A very nice  
> community project would be adding gstreamer-based Linux media  
> playback.
>
> - Bert -

I'll note that the Sophie movie player attempts to resolve which  
technology to use when the video/audio is set up.
The first choice is Quicktime, the second is the older squeak MPEG  
plugin. For audio other choices besides Quicktime, Sophie may involve  
the SampledSoundAudio support (WAV or AIFF)

The Sophie team spent numerous days  trying to setup a gstreamer  
environment but we were defeated by the confused state of the  
gstreamer offering.
I don't recall we were even able to compile and link C code examples,  
so much for easy to use offerings.

However other Linux developers are welcome to try.

For clues please see the SophieMPEGAudio, SophieMPEGMovie, or  
SophieSampledSoundAudio for subclassing suggestions

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Martin Kuball | 1 Oct 21:29
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Re: Sophie plugins source code?

Thanks for the answer. I couldn't load version 37 of the remeo plugin into 
my image (an almost - except for vmmaker - unmodified dev-image version 
07.09.01). I got a index out of bound error. I used version 36 instead 
which loaded without errors.

Am Monday 01 October 2007 schrieb John M McIntosh:
> I believe this is the only extra plugin shipped with the unix version
> of Sophie
> RomePlugin
>
> MCHttpRepository
> 	location: 'http://source.impara.de/Rome'
> 	user: ''
> 	password: ''
>
> Name: Rome-Plugin-be.37
> Author: be
> Time: 27 April 2007, 12:17:51 pm
> UUID: 0e041676-0f56-5e47-8cec-5fdfa944fe65
>
>
> cairo
> 	libcairo.so.2
>
> I assume libcairo is the cairo library
> See for example https://launchpad.net/libcairo
>
>
> Tweak support
> TweakPlugin	{check tweak site}
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Martin Kuball | 1 Oct 21:40
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Freetype plugin was: Re: Sophie plugins source code?

What is the difference between the Freetype plugin on impara and the 
Freetype Plus on squeak source?
Are they interchangeable?

Am Monday 01 October 2007 schrieb John M McIntosh:
> I believe this is the only extra plugin shipped with the unix version
> of Sophie
> RomePlugin
>
> MCHttpRepository
> 	location: 'http://source.impara.de/Rome'
> 	user: ''
> 	password: ''
>
> Name: Rome-Plugin-be.37
> Author: be
> Time: 27 April 2007, 12:17:51 pm
> UUID: 0e041676-0f56-5e47-8cec-5fdfa944fe65
>
>
> cairo
> 	libcairo.so.2
>
> I assume libcairo is the cairo library
> See for example https://launchpad.net/libcairo
>
>
> Tweak support
> TweakPlugin	{check tweak site}
>
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